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For half a century, the Virgin brand has been renowned for providing unique and exceptional customer experiences. From the world class Virgin Atlantic Upper Class lounge and onboarding experience through to pioneering unique group exercise experiences at Virgin Active - the whole business is built around our customers’ needs.
Trending: Virgin, Aspiration Incentivize Sustainable Spending
Virgin Money’s sustainability-linked loans will reduce finance costs for businesses that proactively help the transition to a more sustainable economy; and Aspiration’s new credit card will enable consumers to work toward a ‘zero’ carbon foot... View More
Meet the Organisation Giving the Homeless a Way Out of Poverty, Through Coffee
Change Please is empowering London’s homeless by training them to be baristas — providing full barista training, jobs paying London Living Wage, and support with housing, bank accounts and mental wellbeing. ... View More
CEOs of 30 More Major US Brands Pen Letter to Trump, Urging Adherence to Paris Agreement
Top brands continue to make their voices heard in the days leading up to the G7 Summit in Italy, with the release of yet another letter urging President Trump and the administration to deliver on its climate commitments. ... View More
The Business of Behavior Change: Why Brands Are Motivating Action Through Social Marketing
With Earth Day 2017 quickly fading in the rearview mirror, I’m reminded of the challenge we face every other day of the year: maintaining high awareness and action on sustainability issues. Government agencies and nonprofits have traditionally shou... View More
Trending: UK Grocers Turning Waste into Packaging
British grocery chains Tesco and Waitrose have added a new facet to their waste-mitigation efforts by launching upcycled packaging.Beginning this month, Tesco shoppers could get their groceries in recycled plastic bags made from back-of-store waste p... View More
Virgin Unite's Global Goals Alliance Enlisting 'People Power' to Help Fight for SDGs
The 17 Global Goals (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) launched late last month by the United Nations (UN) aim to achieve three main objectives in the next 15 years: end extreme poverty; fight inequality and injustice; and tack... View More
Business Leaders with Heart: New Top 100 Includes Compassionate Innovators Large and Small
A new publication called Salt, motivated by the hope that businesses will play a key role in shaping a better world, has released its first Top 100 Compassionate Leaders List."We want to shine a spotlight on businesses with a heart; those pionee... View More
Project Everyone Aims to Engage 7 Billion People in the UN Development Goals in 7 Days
In September, The United Nations will launch its post-2015 Development Agenda, which outlines ambitious targets that include ending extreme poverty, promoting equity within and among countries, and addressing climate change on a global scale by 2030.... View More
Over 40 CEOs Urge World Leaders to Take Concrete Climate Action, Just as G7 Ministers Pledge to Do Just That
On Friday, 43 CEOs from some of the world’s largest corporations signed an open letter urging attendants of the upcoming Paris Climate Summit (November 30th-December 11th) to deliver an ambitious climate change agreement, while pledging to reduce t... View More
10 Ways to Demystify the Business Case for Net Zero
The energy shift in the world is now inevitable. To sustain life and livelihoods for 9 billion people by 2050, even if we didn’t count on living well (which we do, of course), we have 35 years to transform the global economy in order to decouple ec... View More
B Team Calls for Business, World Leaders to Commit to Net-Zero GHG Emissions by 2050
Today, leaders of some of the world’s largest companies — collectively known as The B Team — called upon world leaders to commit to a global goal of net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 — and urged business leaders to match this am... View More
Branson, Carbon War Room Call for More Ports Fighting CO2
The number of sea ports using ship evaluation systems to decrease carbon emissions will expand from two to 10 in the next year, according to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Bloomberg reports.Branson is a founder of the Carbon War Room, a nonpro... View More
Effective Sustainability Initiatives Garner Accolades from Cannes, IPA
The word sustainability, first used around 1727, is derived from the Latin sustinere (tenere, to hold; sus, up). By that definition, sustainability just got a boost at the recent Cannes Film Festival as superstar musician/activist Bono was awarded th... View More
Ampersand Nation Rising
“Focus” is having a great run these days. Daniel Goleman’s book on it is excellent. People with focus are able to capture more information, complete tasks sooner, become skilled in a discipline earlier. Malcolm Gladwell has written eloquently a... View More
B Team Meets with One Young World Delegates to Discuss the Future of Business and Leadership
On October 5, the One Young World conference, which convenes young people around the world to create positive change, gathered several leaders in the sustainability world to discuss the future of the integration of the environment and the economy. Kn... View More
Sustainability Ideas Must Be 'Made to Stick'
Calls to shake up the sustainability community seem to be becoming increasingly frequent — the latest that I’ve read coming from the State of the World 2013 Report. With a warning that sustainability is in need of a “dramatic reboot,” it sugg... View More
Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz Launch 'B Team' to Foster Sustainable Business
Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and PUMA Chairman Jochen Zeitz have launched a new non-profit call “The B Team,” which aims to deliver a new way of doing business that prioritizes people and planet alongside profit — a "Plan B&quo... View More
Be a Part of Business in the Community's 'Be the Start' Month
This month, Business in the Community's Start campaign is running Be the Start — a month-long celebration and demonstration of how living sustainably is rewarding and meaningful.Over 31 days, 40+ businesses and organisations — including Marks and... View More
The Next Big Leap: Keys to a More Proactive, Creative and Brand-Branding Sustainability Strategy
No matter how often it happens, when a new idea or insight opens up entirely new pathways and possibilities in our minds, there’s always a sense of exhilaration. ... View More
Virgin Atlantic To Rate In-Flight Meals on Sustainability
UK airline giant Virgin Atlantic has partnered with the Sustainable Restaurant Association, a non-profit that helps UK restaurants improve environmental footprints, to have its entire global catering operation assessed for sustainability. ... View More
