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B Corp Certification for Startups: The Complete Guide
Are you a social entrepreneur who wants to make a difference in the world? If so, you have the opportunity to stand out from the crowd by meeting the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.…
Improving Health and Giving Back with Glass Water Bottles
The best part of the work that I do is getting to meet awesome business owners and professionals who are doing really great work. In this ongoing series, I’ll be sharing some of these stories to provide real-life examples of sustainability in…
How To Conduct a Simple (yet Comprehensive) Sustainability Audit
Is your business just starting to have discussions about sustainability? Are you trying to figure out what to do and how to get started? If that’s the case, don’t worry. You’re not alone. For many businesses, sustainability is still relatively…
What You Ought to Know About Certified B Corps
The conventional wisdom when it comes to business is that, as a business owner, you have to make a choice: you can either make money, or you can do good. This is, however, a false dichotomy. You don’t have to…
Benefit Corporations: What You Need to Know
One of the never-ending sources of confusion regarding B Corps is the difference between being a Certified B Corp and becoming a Benefit Corporation. Getting certified as a B Corp involves getting a minimum score of 80 on the B…
3 Steps to Establishing and Maintaining a Business Sustainability Program
Small business can face many challenges when it comes to sustainability. Yet the companies I’ve seen that are most committed to sustainability repeatedly follow a three-step formula, which can serve as a model for establishing and maintaining a sustainability program in a small business.…
How Cardboard Hangers are Remaking an Industry
The best part of the work that I do is getting to meet awesome business owners and professionals who are doing really great work. In this ongoing series, I’ll be sharing some of these stories to provide real-life examples of sustainability in…
How To Manage Natural Capital In Your Business
What is one of the fundamental features of sustainable business? If you said the concept of the triple bottom line, you’re absolutely correct. Rather than just focusing on growing financial profit, a sustainable business will take into consideration its social and environmental…
10 Surprising Areas Missed in Small Business Sustainability Programs
It’s not always easy to define when a company is being “green” or “sustainable,” is it? I often talk to businesses that are doing really well in one area, usually energy efficiency. They have solar panels and LED lights, which…8 Great Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in Sustainability
What can you learn from the CEO of a leading company committed to sustainability about engaging employees? Quite a bit, actually! Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, co-wrote a great article published in the Fall 2016 issue of the Stanford Social…