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We Are Out Here!
2007-09-01 17:17:27 UTC
Just to add to Karen Englesen's observation about individuals making up the corporate monoliths in her note 'Tshirts & Target', yes, we are out here! I am chair of an employee network within Shell Oil Company called SEEDS - Shell Employees Encouraging Development for Sustainability. It is an off shoot of a global employee network called Project Better World. We are a group of like-minded individuals supporting the principles of sustainable development with Shell and the communities in which we operate. We have been around since 2000. We focus on awareness, education and volunteerism. We are independent of Shell in that we are not a corporate mouthpiece and it is recognized that this independence is a significant part of our value & effectiveness. The global group administers a program which sends 45 Shell employees annually on Earthwatch Institute expeditions at company expense. They also have special programs set up with Volunteer Services Overseas and the UN Volunteerism group. In the US, we have over 400 people on our distribution list who receive a weekly SD newsletter. This distribution list includes a broad spectrum of employees including highly placed people in the organization. We recently sponsored a town hall about Shell's position on climate change and how it effects our industry. We had 200 people in attendance (That's a full house in the auditorium we used.) and up to 1500 people listening in on the web cast! We have sponsored a weekend "retreat" to learn about the plight of wetlands in Louisiana and have conducted solar car races at the children's museums both in Houston and New Orleans. We sponsored breakfast for "Bike to Work Day" and are developing education "minutes" to be used in department meetings. Unfortunately, our website is internal to Shell so unavailable to the general public but we are garnering so much positive attention lately that there is talk of us having space on the external Shell website! Yes, Virginia, we are out here! And we are more real than Santa Claus! And some people are paying attention!
Kim Millspaugh
Shell Oil Products US
US Fuels Customer Service Center
- Web Content Administrator
12700 Northborough MFB
110-224B Houston, TX 77067
Tel: +1 281 874-4739
Fax: 1 832 348 8851
Email: [email protected]
Internet: http://www.shell.com/oilproducts
SEEDS - Shell Employees Encouraging Development for Sustainability http://amsdc1-s-840.europe.shell.com/pbw-usa/
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