Matthew Dillon is Agricultural Policy and Program Manager for Clif Bar & Co and serves as the Cultivator for Clif Bar Family Foundation’s initiative, Seed Matters. From 2003–2010, Dillon served as Founding Director of Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) – the first organization to engage in seed education, research, and advocacy specifically for the organic community.

Today, Clif Bar & Company welcomed California Senator Barbara Boxer as part of her tour to promote the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, bipartisan legislation that would require clear labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods.

The event also featured Jessica Lundberg of the Lundberg Family Farms and Charles Phan of the Slanted Door restaurant. Other attendees included media and thought leaders from the non-profit community, and other food companies who have been leaders in GMO labeling initiatives such as Amy’s Kitchen, Straus Family Creamery and Annie’s. 

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Happy Earth Day! 10 years ago, Clif Bar & Company began using organic ingredients in CLIF Bars. Here’s a special Earth Day infographic with some fun facts about organic.

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By Elysa Hammond, Director of Environmental Stewardship, Clif Bar & Company

We take climate change seriously at Clif Bar & Company. As one part of our climate strategy, we partner with NativeEnergy to help build new sources of renewable energy. Since 2003 we’ve invested in more than 30 renewable energy projects, including the first Native American-owned wind turbines in South Dakota and a large-scale wind farm in Greensburg, Kansas, a town that rebuilt green after being destroyed by a massive tornado. We’re especially excited about our recent support of school-based wind turbines in Indiana. 

This year I visited the Hoosier state’s first school-owned wind turbine—one that our carbon offset investments helped build. I was thrilled to see firsthand the benefit renewable energy projects can have not only on a local school economy but also in making hands-on science education more tangible and relevant.

I visited Union City High School not only to see the wind turbine but to meet John Zakelj, the visionary science teacher who inspired the project.  A few years earlier John built a small-scale solar array and wind turbine at the high school as way of bringing science and math to life for his students. The positive energy from that work moved beyond John’s classroom, generating interest in wind by the Randolph Eastern School Corporation and town of Union City. 

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Jared Criscuolo and Kristian Gustavson like water. I mean, they REALLY like water. They’ve both spent their lives paddling rivers and streams, surfing famous ocean breaks, and educating themselves, both formally and informally, about the earth’s most valuable resource. 

The two met while working for the Surfrider foundation in San Diego, and soon found they had lots in common: Both were tired of getting sick from ingesting ocean water after rainstorms purged local rivers of pollution; both were horrified by the general condition of the nation’s waterways. And they both wanted to do something about it.

In the summer of 2008, Criscuolo and Gustavson formed Below the Surface, a non-profit with a goal of reducing water pollution and the health, economic and environmental hazards posed by it, by working to elevate and sustain those topics in the national dialogue. Since forming BtS, the two friends have worked tirelessly, leading paddling expeditions on our most endangered waterways and mobilizing local groups at both civic and grassroots levels to ensure that our rivers and streams have a voice.

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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of this year’s Meet the Moment. Whether it’s Moments of pushed limits or dumbstruck awe - at CLIF, we live for those Moments of adventure. It’s what feeds our passion for nutrition.

Get out, way out, where Moments happen. Then come share your photos, stories, and spread the stoke. The cool thing is, you’ll be doing something more:

For every Moment you upload, CLIF Bar will donate $5 to your selected environmental non-profit partner. And every time a Moment is shared through your social networks another $1 is donated to the non-profit that Moment creator selected.

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