Category: Sustainability

Jeff Smith, VP of Sustainability at Six Senses, discusses how the brand approaches operating a luxury hospitality business without compromising the ability of future generations.

Learn how COVID impacted a global business and adapted sustainability in this interview with Nira Jorhi, Director of Global Diversity and Sustainability at Rich Products Corporation.

Learn how sustainability can magnify in this interview with Gretchen Grani, Regeneration & Sustainability Lead at Guayaki Yerba Mate Co.

Get insights from Angela Hultberg, Head of Sustainable Mobility at IKEA, on how to approach sustainability from a mobility lens.

Absolutely every company in business today has the ability to become more sustainable — it’s an undeniable fact. Organizations can implement basic steps like reducing paper use, incentivizing employees to use public transportation, and switching to LED lighting, or they can take a much deeper dive and look into product sourcing, how their manufacturing processes…

More and more consumers today want to feel good about themselves and the products they buy. Since there are so many product choices in every category, shoppers will often buy the one that is made most sustainably. While companies don’t need to enter the marketplace with a 100% sustainable business model, the fact that they…

In corporate boardrooms around the world, there are lively debates about sustainability and how much a company’s investment in more sustainable practices will negatively impact its bottom line. Adopting more sustainable practices is mistakenly viewed as a trade-off — something an organization might be forced to do at some point, but without any type of…

For those who are on a mission to protect people, planet, and profit, there is no quick-fix or single solution to check the box on sustainability. The reality is that sustainability is a marathon and not a sprint; a journey and not a destination. But there are indeed numerous ways in which every company can…

Sustainability impacts all businesses around the globe in some fashion, but when you look at the retail industry in particular, it shares five core environmental sustainability issues: 1) natural resources in the supply chain, 2) environmental impact of products, 3) energy and greenhouse gases, 4) chemicals and toxics, and 5) waste.  While no one company…

Every industry in the world needs to focus on sustainability, but the $2.5 trillion fashion industry is, without doubt, one of the biggest polluters. According to the EPA Office of Solid Waste, Americans throw away more than 68 pounds of clothing and textiles per person, per year, and clothing and other textiles represent about 4%…

Sustainability is no longer that elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about. The reality is companies have to make an investment in sustainability in order to have a chance at maintaining market share in their industry. Every day, the world turns a more finely-tuned lens on what businesses are doing to protect people,…

As an increasingly larger number of multinational organizations begin to place greater emphasis on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability, the roles, responsibilities, and goals of those in charge of the effort continue to evolve. Whereas leaders in supply chain sustainability may have been siloed early on in an organization, today these practitioners are finding…

There is a frequent misconception in business that companies can really only afford to address sustainability issues once they have become profitable. Yet there is a business structure out there, a Certified B Corporation, which actually balances purpose AND profit. Certified B Corporations are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their…