Yes Lab

Bank’s Dodgy Climate Portfolio Revealed

Reveal date: Feb 28 2013 Status: Complete Partners: Counter Balance Tagged: coal, Europe, fossil fuels, investment

Counter Balance, a coalition of NGOs dedicated to holding the European Investment Bank accountable to the EU's clean energy standards, teamed up with the Yes Lab to hijack an EIB press conference and tell them to stop financing coal.

The Dalai Lama Welcoming Committee

Reveal date: Oct 16 2012 Status: Complete Partners: Dalai Lama Welcoming Committee Tagged: college, Dalai Lama, divestment, fossil fuels, Middlebury, students

In honor of a visit from the Dalai Lama, Middlebury College announces that it will divest from industries of violence - with a little prodding from its student body.

Flow of drugs in La Jolla stopped cold

Reveal date: Jul 31 2012 Partners: Americans for Safe Access, Federal Accountability Coalition, Canvass for a Cause Tagged: drugs, Laura Duffy, pot, US Attorney General

In July 2012, U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy announces that pharmacies in La Jolla, San Diego's wealthiest neighborhood, would be shut down because of medication abuse associated with those pharmacies. That was only the start....

Shell's Epic Party Fail

Reveal date: Jun 7 2012 Status: Complete Partners: Greenpeace

To celebrate Shell’s era-defining Arctic drilling program, a gala is announced in Seattle’s historic Space Needle. The event goes haywire (and viral) when a miniature rig-drink-dispenser malfunctions.

Blog

Yes Lab presents 'revolutionary' speaker series at NYU! April 2, 2013

Strategy & Soul: Yes Lab collaborator releases game changing book March 28, 2013

Actipedia Launches! March 6, 2013

EU's bank awarded by activists, denies coal divestment February 28, 2013

Middlebury students call for college to divest from violence November 16, 2012

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