We are proud to announce that Sustainable Harvest President David Griswold spoke at this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting. He participated in a special session entitled, “Building Partnerships to Empower the World’s Smallholder Famers” along with Tom Vilsack, the US Secretary of Agriculture. Jim Carrey, actor and Founder of Better U Foundation, Safira Gerald Lazaro Gwimo, Coffee [...]

by Randy Paynter, Founder and CEO of Care2.com I just turned down an advertising deal worth well over $100,000.  Did I do the right thing? I’d love to hear your thoughts. The opportunity:  A multi-billion dollar agro-biotech company – let’s call them Monstero – is looking to improve their image.  Their advertising agency knows Care2 [...]

I had heard of B Lab and their certification a few years ago and thought it was a great idea – for businesses bigger than mine. I even started their online ‘Impact Assessment’ but petered out, thinking it wasn’t worth my time since I’d already taken so many steps to be a sustainable company. Not until [...]

One of our great B Corps, the Clarity Project, was recently featured by fellow B Corp, Care2, an online community of over 14 million. After learning more about the Clarity Project’s work with fair diamonds, many readers left interesting comments and soon a great conversation was going. Below are a few highlights, but please visit [...]

As B Corporations, sustainability is at the core of our companies’ beliefs. However, most thinking about sustainability in the corporate world centers around environmental impact. Rightly so, firms large and small have began to seriously view how they impact the living environment around them. Organizations such as ours are helping to lead this important charge. [...]

In his New York Times article, “Banks Grow Weary of Environmental Risks”, Tom Zeller Jr. describes recent trends by a number of global banking conglomerates to reduce their exposure to environmentally destructive borrowers.  While unable to commit to a complete cutting of the umbilical cord with companies that are “blasting off mountaintops to reach coal” [...]

There’s a special joy in finding “it” – the gift that’s perfect, that no one else would find. UncommonGoods knows this all too well. An online marketplace featuring products as unique as its customers, this B Corp has handmade, recycled or up-cycled products from around the world. They have an item to speak to every [...]

Like many entrepreneurs, I began my company with little idea of how difficult it would be to succeed in the industry I set out to work in – in my case, specialty coffee importing. The market was dominated by large multi-national firms, and I saw a need to help farmers benefit by establishing greater transparency [...]

Is your “Conflict Free” diamond really conflict free? If the situation in Zimbabwe is any indication, there’s good cause for doubt. Yet there’s also reason for optimism as mission-driven companies and organizations rally to revolutionize how diamonds are traded in response to consumer demand for fairness and transparency. For years, Human Rights Watch and others [...]