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Ben Finzel
Mar 31, 20226 min read
The Common Sense Colloquy: Q&A with Erin Burns of Carbon180
Substantively and effectively addressing climate change is a multi-layered challenge. We need to reduce and eventually eliminate...
Ben Finzel
Mar 15, 20222 min read
Thoughts and Thanks On Becoming A Nationally-Ranked Public Affairs Firm
The NCAA Tournament rankings aren’t the only national rankings making news this month (although we are certainly excited to see Texas...
Ben Finzel
Mar 11, 20226 min read
The Common Sense Colloquy Year Four in Review – My Favorite Comments from our Participants
The Common Sense Colloquy requires a good deal of effort, but the opportunity to share the insight and perspective of the smart people we...
Ben Finzel
Mar 9, 20226 min read
The Common Sense Colloquy Year Four in Review – “The Best Advice I’ve Given Others”
Every year at this time for the past three years, we have highlighted the best of the best from our Common Sense Colloquy series: key...
Ben Finzel
Mar 7, 20225 min read
The Common Sense Colloquy Year Four in Review – “The Best Advice I’ve Received”
Four years ago, I had an idea for a series of Q&As with interesting energy and environment leaders. In February 2018, I posted the first...
Ben Finzel
Feb 18, 20223 min read
The Common Sense Colloquy: Q&A with Jessica Lovering of Good Energy Collective
Energy policy is now also climate policy. Decisions about what types of energy sources to build for the future are now inextricably...
Ben Finzel
Jan 31, 20226 min read
The Common Sense Colloquy: Q&A with Bob Keefe of E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs)
Climate change touches everyone, everywhere. As we saw with extreme weather events last year that were likely influenced by a changing...
Ben Finzel
Jan 23, 20224 min read
Seven Years of Good Luck
Today, we are celebrating our seventh anniversary in business. On this day in 2015, I hit “publish” on our website and “send” on an email...
Ben Finzel
Dec 17, 20214 min read
The Common Sense Colloquy: Q&A with Candace Hamana of the Indigenous Peoples Public Relations Assoc.
As a founding member of The Change Agencies, the first (and only) national network of independently owned and operated multicultural and...
Ben Finzel
Dec 10, 20212 min read
Growth is Good: Expanding the RENEWPR Team Again
One of the reasons I founded RENEWPR was my interest in working with good people on good things. Nowhere is that more in evidence than...
