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How Being a Benefit Corporation Can Legally Protect a Company’s Mission
WALKING THE TALK - The rise of the benefit corporation is in direct response to shareholder primacy. Under benefit corporation frameworks governed by state law, corporations that operate according to a “doing well by doing good” ethos may be shielded from a range of acquisition tactics and shareholder suits.
The 3 Pillars of a Conscious Organisation
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - A conscious organisation accepts that there are limits to profit and that it should not be the priority. This change is about future-proofing your organisation. It’s not an ‘if’ question — it’s ‘when.’
What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality
LEADERSHIP - To buy into a new vision of business, CEOs need to connect to it as people and write it into their own personal narrative of how their work fits into the world. They need to ask: What’s my legacy?
Transformational Goals in Corporate Strategy: A Review of the ESG Goals of 50 Global Companies
NEW METRICS - Transformational ESG goals seek to make changes across companies’ entire value chain and even society. But in a recent review of 50 of the Fortune 250 companies, incremental ESG goals are still the norm.
A Sustainable Tobacco Company? Philip Morris International Thinks It’s Possible
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - In its 2018 Sustainability Report, the tobacco giant explains how it is finding success creating a smoke-free future by transforming its business.
Finally! Companies Using the SDGs to Set Their North Star
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - These companies will not only make a social difference — they will become an engine for good, attracting the partners, resources and revenues to put their businesses on a profitable path and scaling their potential for impact. A classic win-win, and a high-water mark for purpose.
Neil Gaught: Turning Aspiration Into Action
LEADERSHIP - With his award-winning book, Core, Gaught has bolstered the case for a radical rethink of the purpose of business by proving change is not only desirable but entirely possible.
Girlapproved: Connecting AI, Human Evolution and the Future of Business Success
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Girlapproved provides deeper causal understanding of not only where we are and how we got here, but how to chart a better course and how to turn the mother ship around, with practical steps to guide us.
Q&A: Simon Mainwaring on Teaching Companies to ‘Live to Serve Life Itself’
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Simon Mainwaring has an “all-hands-on-deck” sense of purpose — and that purpose is to help us find ours.
Sustana Group’s New Sustainability Strategy Highlights Environmental Stewardship, Sets Measurable Goals
PRESS RELEASE - Company Makes New Commitments to Create a Sustainable, Closed-Loop Fiber Future
A Four-Step Cycle for Strengthening Your Company Culture
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - Strengthening a culture is not a one-off project; it is truly never-ending.
Top 5 Companies That Effectively Amplified Their Impact in 2018
MARKETING AND COMMS - As we wrap up work for the year and prepare for 2019, we reflected back on all that occurred this year within our niche realm of sustainability communications — and when looking back, it was apparent that 2018 was the year of brands taking stands.
Utopies: Localizing the Sustainable Economy
COLLABORATION - This is one of a series of interviews by students and alumni from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) with practitioners from the Sustainable Brands community, on a variety of ways organizations can, and are, Redesigning the Good Life.
What the Black Friday Climate Report Means for Companies
THE NEXT ECONOMY - The federal government hoped its Black-Friday release of a landmark report on the regional impacts of climate change might mitigate its media attention. It hasn't really worked: The report is still in the headlines over two weeks later. It’s not just consumers that care. A recent NAEM trends report found that in boardrooms across the country, companies are committing to addressing the climate challenges of our time by setting and meeting ambitious climate goals.
Trending: Regenerative Sourcing, Circular Models Revamping Fashion
COLLABORATION - This week, two fashion giants with extensive brand portfolios announced partnerships that show promise for cleaning up “dirty fashion.”
Q&A: How Social Design Is Creating New Markets, More Engaged Cultures
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - This is one of a series of interviews by students and alumni from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) with practitioners from the Sustainable Brands community, on a variety of ways organizations can, and are, Redesigning the Good Life.
The Art of Failure: Lessons for Brands from the Bottom of the Pyramid
SUPPLY CHAIN - Let me tell you a few things about failure — a subject on which I’m something of an expert.
Q&A: South Pole on Its Next-Gen Climate Neutrality Certification
WALKING THE TALK - With the urgency of reducing our carbon footprint becoming more visible by the day, it’s great to see more and more brands making claims about their carbon reductions.
When it Comes to Climate Change, Holiday Feasts Are Mostly a Mystery
SUPPLY CHAIN - This year’s holiday feasts will feature a bounty of meats, vegetables and other foods, many that people don’t know are big contributors to global warming.