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That’s a wrap on NYC Climate Week! 🌎

EarthX and Ceres brought together corporate leaders, investors, and changemakers for an evening focused on a critical question: **How do we move promising ideas from conversation to action, investment, and scale?**

With perspectives from leaders at Ceres, PepsiCo, CBRE, and General Motors, the conversation explored commercialization, investment, collaboration, and what it takes to turn solutions into real-world impact.

We’re grateful to everyone who joined us and helped make the evening a meaningful exchange of ideas and connections.

The conversation continues in Dallas at the **EarthX Congress of Conferences, April 20–22, 2027**, including the **E-Capital Summit and Family Office Summit.**

🌎 EarthX is headed to NYC for Climate Week!

We’re bringing the EarthX community together for meaningful conversations, new partnerships, and a preview of what’s ahead on the road to Earthx2027.

Follow along as we connect with leaders shaping the future of climate, sustainability, health, and innovation.

NYC, here we come.

Welcome, Katherine Ross – Director of Volunteer and Community Engagement!

Katherine is an environmental science professional dedicated to strengthening community resilience and expanding sustainability initiatives that empower people at every level. She brings a powerful blend of vision and on-the-ground experience to the EarthX team.

At EarthX, Katherine will lead our efforts to:
• Deepen and grow our volunteer community
• Build meaningful, hands-on engagement opportunities
• Support communities in driving local, sustainable change

Please join us in welcoming Katherine to EarthX! If you’re passionate about volunteering, community resilience, or sustainability, what kind of engagement opportunities would you most like to see us create next?

What happens when pioneers of the green building movement come together with the next generation of sustainability leaders? Momentum.🌎

EarthX recently hosted an intimate reception in Dallas honoring global environmental business leader Rick Fedrizzi, bringing together longtime colleagues and emerging leaders from the architecture, engineering, green building, and USGBC communities.

A highlight of the evening was a fireside conversation between Rick Fedrizzi and Gail Vittori, moderated by Jonathan Kraatz, Executive Director of the USGBC Texas Chapter.

As the first Executive Director of USGBC Texas, Jonathan has played an important role in bringing together green building resources and expertise from across the state.

Rick, Chairman and CEO of the International WELL Building Institute, has helped advance the WELL movement and its focus on health and wellness in the built environment.

Gail Vittori, Co-Director of the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems and a longtime USGBC leader, has spent decades advancing sustainable design, policy, education, and research.

Bringing Rick, Gail, and Jonathan together at EarthX reflects a shared commitment across USGBC, IWBI, and EarthX to transform how we build, operate, and experience our built environment.

Yesterday marked an important milestone for our community in Dallas.

The inaugural Dallas Corporate Sustainability Leadership Network (DCSLN) brought together leaders, practitioners, and community members who share a common goal: to build an honest, ongoing conversation about environmental issues and the role business must play.

We created the DCSLN to do more than meet and talk. Our purpose is to amplify diverse voices, share practical solutions, and collaborate across sectors to tackle the critical environmental challenges facing our planet and our local communities.

"We've had conferences for 15 years, we've had 700 exhibitors, 450 speakers, this year we had 21 individual day-long conferences...now we have this, a tight CSO network."- Trammell S. Crow, Founder of EarthX

By working at the intersection of the corporate space and sustainability, EarthX is shaping a more resilient, responsible future, and this is just the beginning.

To learn more about the Dallas Corporate Sustainability Leadership Network (DCSLN), subscribe to our newsletter by visiting Earthx.org

Reflecting on Senator Graham's passing, we remember his role as a key speaker at Earthx2019's Congress of Conferences. He provided important insights into the bipartisan discussions on the economic effects of climate change.

Alongside Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Susan Eisenhower, he took part in this vital dialogue. Senator Graham emphasized the scientific truth of climate change, acknowledging that greenhouse gas emissions play a role in global warming. His remarks highlighted the need to tackle environmental issues urgently and the significance of bipartisan collaboration in developing sustainable solutions.