Being “green” is a team effort – at least that’s Milepost Consulting‘s philosophy. The B Corp is all about using teamwork to help companies engage stakeholders, build capacity, and implement higher environmental standards. Milepost’s own team, a group of professional individuals from diverse backgrounds (including a pshycologist, a scientist, an organic farmer and more), works [...]

By Jay Coen Gilbert, Co-Founder, B Lab The New York Times recently published an article by Joe Nocera entitled “What is Business Waiting For?” Nocera argues for businesses’ responsibility to address unemployment and hire more workers. He also references financial risk expert Marc Groz’s proposal of a “contingent commitment facility.” Using this facility, a company [...]

Nine Certified B Corporations have been named by Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek as ‘America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs’ of 2011. Azavea, Change.org, Dimagi, Emory Knoll Farms, Freelancers Insurance Company, Greyston Bakery, Nest Collective, Re:Vision Architecture and World Centric are all recognized this year as leaders in this growing sector of mission-driven businesses. The nine honorees this year [...]

“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him,” quoted Michelle Long of President Abraham Lincoln in her opening address to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) conference in June. Energetic and [...]

The recent events associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill seem to be in need of a bit of explanation. What we the public have been told is at best misleading and at worst an outright lie. We are facing the worst environmental disaster in the history of this country.  Never before have so many [...]

One of our newest additions, B-Line, Sustainable Urban Delivery became a B Corp in February of 2010. This Portland, Oregon based trike-delivery company offers environmentally-responsible delivery and advertising options to local businesses. The substitution of electric-assisted trikes for trucks reduces congestion and CO2 emissions, while providing local jobs. Despite their youth and economic pressure, B-Line [...]

From 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 [...]

I 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 [...]