Sustainable Brands
Regenerating Local: How Brands Can Bring Tangible Benefits to Communities in Need
At SB’23 San Diego, several discussions and events explored the potential for social impact when we rethink business as usual. ... View More
FootPrint Coalition: Propelling Climate Tech to Create a World of ‘Radical Abundance’
Robert Downey Jr's FootPrint Coalition is taking a three-pronged approach to boosting environmental science and technology — including a science engine that funds non-traditional innovators, a VC fund for scaling promising solutions, and a media pl... View More
Fashion Industry’s 4 Largest Women’s-Empowerment Programs ‘RISE’ to Scale Impact
RISE will build on the proven approaches and expertise of the four founding organizations, delivered through a growing network of local partners in Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Egypt and Pakistan. ... View More
Achieving ‘Mainstream Green’ Is Key in Accelerating Transition to a More Sustainable Economy
New guide by CMO Sustainability Accelerator and BCG highlights ways to link sustainability to broader, related needs and remove barriers to growth for customers for whom sustainability is a concern, but not a primary driver. ... View More
Retailers and the Food Waste Fight: The Journey Continues
Between new approaches to labeling, innovative coatings, redistribution and data-driven solutions, retailers across the Western world continue to fight the good fight against food waste. ... View More
Circularity Is ‘Izzy’: Meet the Clean Beauty Startup Creating a Blueprint for a Waste-Free Industry
New York-based startup Izzy Zero Waste Beauty is out to show the incredibly wasteful beauty industry that it can mend its wicked ways — vastly reducing its footprint through a hyper-local supply chain and 100% refillable, recyclable products. ... View More
Sustainable Brands Welcomes Samuel Monnie to Leadership Team
Monnie comes aboard as VP of Content Strategy, Thought Leadership and Brand Storytelling to help further develop SB’s thought leadership, deepen content-development activities, and build the company’s brand narrative. ... View More
Tony’s Chocolonely: The Advent of More Teachable Brand Moments?
“Tony’s has done a great job of raising awareness of an important issue; and there is a real risk that the overriding message that will be left, once the dust settles, is one of a brand getting it wrong — and that could undermine all of the imp... View More
Conscientious Consumption: The SB 2021 Holiday Gift Guide
With no end in sight to the pandemic and its many ripple effects, we can all use a little bit of brightness in our lives! So, here are some of the many companies, platforms and products aligned with a more intentional approach to consumption, that we... View More
Business ‘First Responders:’ How Can Companies Thrive While Solving for Relentless, Real-Time Crises?
In his new book, “Lead With We,” Simon Mainwaring urges business leaders to adopt a ‘first-responder’ mindset — and provides a blueprint for a proactive, ‘prepare for anything’ approach that enables them to lead with purpose in an incre... View More
Brand Storytelling: A Mechanism for Building a Regenerative Future
On the final day of SB’21 San Diego, a diverse array of keynote speakers explored some of the many ways in which storytelling can be a powerful tool for manifesting the future we need. ... View More
How to Redesign Products, Services, Messaging, Business Models for a Better Future
At SB’21 San Diego, innovators in the apparel, food, plastics, real estate, retail, spirits industries and more shared lessons learned from a variety of initiatives aimed at enabling a circular, regenerative future. ... View More
Circular Solutions Still Promising, But Researchers Say Framework Lacks ‘Substance’
A recent Ellen MacArthur Foundation study examines the myriad ways that scaled circular models can help restore critical biodiversity; but Swedish researchers warn that without more clarity and substance, efforts to scale a circular economy risk beco... View More
