Heather Clancy
Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz)
Heather Clancy is an award-winning journalist specializing in transformative technology and innovation. She started her reporting career on the business news desk of United Press International, and her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times.
Clancy was the launch editor for the Fortune Data Sheet, a newsletter dedicated to the business of technology. She co-authored the Amazon best-seller for entrepreneurs, Niche Down, How to Become Legendary By Being Different.
In her role at Trellis, Heather chronicles the role of business model innovation and technology in transitioning to a clean, inclusive and regenerative economy. She serves on the boards of the WSLA Alumnae Group, a mentorship organization that nurtures feminine leadership in the corporate sustainability movement, and EcoAthletes, a collective of collegiate, professional and amateur athletes that advocate for solutions to climate change.
Walmart suppliers join forces to buy renewable electricity
Under Gigaton PPA, a diverse group including Amy’s Kitchen, Great Lakes Cheese, Levi Strauss & Co., The J.M. Smucker Co. and Valvoline is contracting for 250,000 megawatt-hours of power annually. Read More
Digitize your carbon accounting
If your company isn’t marrying its digital strategy with its ESG blueprint, it will find itself at a disadvantage. Read More
These climate tech entrepreneurs are teaming up to scale equity-based solutions
The Upside Tech Alliance is minimizing the individual sales calls its founding climate tech startups need to make to busy mayors and city planners. Read More
What climate adaptation technology looks like
Pano AI is one example of climate tech startups emerging to tackle conditions, such as wildfires, exacerbated by climate change. Read More
Microsoft raises its voice on climate priorities
The technology giant declares energy and carbon policy goals, underscores role of digitization in speeding low-carbon economy transition. Read More
Michael Strahan is embracing ‘nature tech’ — why you should care
The term “nature tech” describes a broad range of applied and information technologies focused on helping scale nature-based solutions to climate change. Read More
The Body Shop is bringing youth perspective to the boardroom. Should you?
Inside the Body Shop's new Youth Collective, which consults individuals under 30 for feedback on decisions about climate action, human rights and more. Read More
The intersection of ESG and reproductive rights
Suzanne Biegel, a longtime respected advocate of “gender-smart” investing, on why corporate sustainability teams should double down on their understanding of gender equality and women’s health issues. Read More
Walmart’s would-be role as circular packaging matchmaker
The retailer plans to open up Circular Connector, a database of packaging innovations, in late 2022. Read More
Surfing a wave of controversy over deep-sea mining
Diving into risk? The ocean depths are rich with metals and minerals critical for the clean economy transition. Read More
