Stand.earth has offices in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada, as well as Bellingham, Washington, and San Francisco, California, in the United States.

In 2013, ForestEthics' Honor the Sacred Headwaters campaign led by the Tahltan Nation resulted in Shell oil company withdrawing its plans for hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," to extract coal-bed methane gas at the convergence of three watersheds in the Klappan Valley of northwest British Columbia Another result of the campaign included the B.C.

The organization has affected the environmental and paper policies of corporations including Staples, Office Depot, Victoria's Secret, Dell, and Williams-Sonoma, Inc.[7] ForestEthics was rebranded as Stand.earth in 2016.

[8] In January 2012, when Stand.earth was still known as ForestEthics, Senior Communications Manager Andrew Frank claimed through an affidavit[9] to The Canadian Press that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) of Canada, under Stephen Harper, had instructed the CEO of funding organization Tides Canada Foundation to remove financial support for ForestEthics or face the "take down" of all of Tides's charitable projects.

Andrew Frank stated that the threats of the PMO's office were a direct result of ForestEthics' role in protesting the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline.