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B the Change: Method’s carbon reduction incentive for suppliers
Posted by: B Lab May 1st, 2010“For every thousand strikes at the branch, one strike at the root.” Method has been offsetting the carbon footprint for both employee travel and the manufacture of our plant-based soaps and personal care products since 2004. But last fall we started to think about a better way to invest that money. Working with carbon offset [...]
hessnatur becomes a B Corp
Posted by: Wolf Luedge hessnatur April 21st, 2010One of the statements from B Corp that I consider especially powerful is, “the absence of transparent standards…makes it difficult for all of us to differentiate between a ‘good company’ and just good marketing”. In the textile industry this is sadly true with the trend toward “green” apparel. Recently, an article in The Financial Times [...]
Bonus Content from The Responsibility Revolution: Q&A with B Corporation Co-Founder Jay Coen Gilbert By Jeffrey Hollender & Bill Breen
Posted by: Jeffrey Hollender Seventh Generation March 15th, 2010Ambiguity is not an option. For any company that seriously intends to harness the power of the marketplace to crack society’s biggest challenges, authenticity—the capacity to do what you say you’ll do—is a core, non-negotiable attribute. And that presents a problem.
Banking Crisis: Part 2 – Obama, American History, and Regional Capital Markets
Posted by: Don Shaffer RSF Social Finance October 10th, 2009I would encourage you to read the recent interview of President Obama in the New York Times magazine. (Full interview, click here.) The first part of the interview is entitled “The Future of Finance.” The President has some encouraging things to say, but I can’t help feeling disappointed in the overall tone and substance of [...]
Greener Grass & Greener Paper
Posted by: Rahul Raj New Leaf Paper October 6th, 2009The sentiment the grass is always greener holds true in my experience leading a national NGO to address local hunger & poverty, as well as working with a socially-minded business to transform the paper industry towards more sustainable practices. From my vantage point in the NGO world, I was envious of my peers employed in [...]
Making the Leap from Product Design to Process Design
Posted by: Drummond Lawson method October 6th, 2009From the start of method’s existence as a company we’ve been focused on how to do good through our business. From both social and environmental perspectives, we’ve tried to ensure that we leave things better than we found them – hopefully radically better. When making our products, we’ve focused the design process on the greenest [...]
An Invitation from President Clinton
Posted by: Jay Coen Gilbert B Lab October 4th, 2009I’m a fan of the Clinton Global Initiative. I’m a fan of former Presidents risking their political capital and I think CGI has been and hopefully will continue to play a significant leadership role engaging the private sector in creating public benefit. CGI recently hosted an event titled ‘Creating Value for Business and Society’. The [...]
Banking Crisis: Part 1 – Too Big to Fail?
Posted by: Don Shaffer RSF Social Finance October 2nd, 2009Recently I read some stimulating pieces that I’d like to share with you, the first of which was written by economist James K. Galbraith as a statement before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services. (Full statement, click here.) I believe Mr. Galbraith really hits his stride in section number three, titled: “The [...]
What Would Local Living Economies Look Like?
Posted by: Don Shaffer RSF Social Finance October 2nd, 2009I recently came across the following article on a de-centralized United States in the Wall Street Journal by author Paul Starobin. First of all, it was fascinating to find this kind of piece in the Journal, though it speaks to the article’s point that the desire for a more distributed, place-based political life is of growing [...]
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