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Talk Is Cheap: How Brands Can Move from Table Stakes to Putting a Stake in the Ground for Racial Justice
1 week ago - Two years after George Floyd’s murder galvanized the nation to address systemic racism, corporate progress on advancing racial equity in the workplace and community remains a mixed picture. Smoketown’s Ryan Pintado-Vertner lays out three approaches brands can take to show they’re walking their anti-racism talk.
New Report Outlines 5 Principles for Regenerative Brand Leadership
2 weeks ago - BBMG and GlobeScan’s ‘Leading Regenerative Brands: Five Paradigm Shifts to Thrive in a World in Flux’ is part manifesto on the imperative to build a purpose-driven company and part handbook for how to do it.
A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma: New Insights, Approaches to Brand-Led Culture Change
3 weeks ago - Creating meaningful consumer behavior change remains a ‘white whale’ for Purpose-driven brands. Here, we hear a behavior-first approach to changing culture, needed paradigm shifts for regenerative leadership, and the latest research on meaningfully connecting with dithering consumers.
Ice Cream Giants Innovate to Help Avoid Climate Meltdown
1 month ago - Ben & Jerry’s and its parent company, Unilever, have both launched pilots aimed at drastically cutting their GHG emissions — if successful, both are hoping to drive industry-wide change for truly game-changing impacts.
Build Back Better: The 5 Key Pillars for a Purposeful Post-COVID Reset
11 months ago - Over the past year, we conducted an extensive research project engaging over 100 sustainability leaders from around the world to understand how they thought sustainable business would evolve after the pandemic. Here’s how they think we can build back better brands.
Just Brands ’21: Where the Rubber Meets the Long, Bumpy Road to Truly Equitable Workplaces
1 year ago - At Sustainable Brands’ latest Just Brands event, experts from across the spectrum of business discussed corporate efforts to support diversity, equity, inclusion and justice issues — and how stakeholders will no longer tolerate a gap between commitments and actions.
The Luxury Consumer, Sustainability and Social Responsibility: It’s Complicated
1 year ago - Whether environmental or social, luxury brands *will* have to contend with issues related to corporate social responsibility — it’s in the zeitgeist. “Being your best self” is the essence of luxury. Values and purpose are thus luxury essentials, not just nice-to-haves.
Coalition Aims to Get US Back on Track with Paris Goals, Prove That ‘America Is All In’
1 year ago - As the US formally rejoins the Paris Agreement, a coalition of communities, businesses and institutions will play critical role in supporting an ambitious new US climate target and mobilizing whole-of-society climate action.
The Next Frontier for Fairtrade: Living Incomes in Cocoa
1 year ago - Two forward-thinking brands have deepened their Fairtrade partnerships by making additional financial commitments to cocoa farmers in their supply chains.
2020’s Top 10 Trends in Purpose — and What They Could Mean for You in 2021
1 year ago - In the midst of all the unrest and uncertainty, where did we see innovation, progress and possibility in 2020? Porter Novelli analyzed a year’s worth of Purpose-driven news, activities, campaigns and announcements; and distilled our 10 need-to-know trends for today and tomorrow.
Colliding Work, Personal Values Underscores Need for Purpose-Led Brand Culture
1 year ago - Brands that empower their employees to act with them in their sustainability plan — and let their brand culture guide the creation of that plan — reap benefits. To foster a purpose-led brand culture, brands need to fuse these five elements ...
Are You Making It Easy for Your Employees to Vote This Election Day?
1 year ago - The Time to Vote coalition has grown to nearly 800 companies. The goal is to have more than 1,000 companies — from a diverse set of industries representing every state — join the movement by November 3.
#JustBrands: To Push Cultural Change, Brands Must Unpack Their ‘BAGS’
1 year ago - After a humbling, informative and inspiring first day, day two of Sustainable Brands’ Just Brands virtual event examined case studies of DEI excellence in practice.
Brands Speak Out to Support Black Lives Matter, But Actions Speak Louder
2 years ago - Brands are more willing than ever to take public stands in support of important issues. But while many aren’t much more than social media sound bytes, others go beyond lip service to action.
Welcome to the Global Climate Strike: The Largest-Ever Mobilization to Fight Climate Change
2 years ago - What began as the Youth Climate Strike — organized by Greta Thunberg’s group, Fridays for Future — has rallied people of all ages who feel compelled to rail against sufficient climate action around the world.
Ben & Jerry’s Throws Its Delicious Weight Behind Criminal Justice Reform
2 years ago - The activist brand has added a new cause to its docket: Its latest ice cream flavor, “Justice Remix’d,” aims to spotlight structural racism in the US’ broken criminal legal system.
Energy Building for Sustainable Brands '19 Detroit
3 years ago - Sustainable Brands reveals program, networking and activity highlights for its upcoming global flagship conference: SB’19 Detroit. Danone, Allbirds, EILEEN FISHER, PepsiCo and others to collaborate June 3-6
B Corps Launch Collaborative Climate Change Action Strategy
3 years ago - Some of the world's most climate-progressive businesses shaped short- and long-term plans at B Leadership Summit
Living Incomes for Farmers Key to Ensuring Sustainability of Cocoa
3 years ago - New Fairtrade Foundation campaign calls on the UK government and companies to end ‘shameful’ exploitation of cocoa farmers by 2030, in line with the SDGs.
Financial Services Lead Charge in Linking Financial Performance, Sustainability
3 years ago - Companies increasingly recognize the importance to their bottom line of a comprehensive sustainability strategy, which includes reporting.