Which Type of Sustainability Superhero Are You?
(photo credit: Terra Infirma)(3BL Media and Just Means) - It is not often I think Hollywood does much right. But in terms of making money, they know exactly how to capture the 30-something audience...
View ArticleHow Global Trade Agreements Undermine Sustainable Business: The American...
(3BL Media and Just Means) - The Trans-Pacific Agreement (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TIPP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), will “reshape the global economy,”...
View ArticleTimberland Addresses Climate Change at International Scientific Conference
(3BL Media and Just Means)- Last week in Paris, the International Scientific Conference, “Our Common Future under Climate Change,” brought together social enterprises, government agencies and the...
View ArticleB Corp Amavida Runs Across Congo in Support of Gender Equality
(3BL Media and Just Means) - Seven days, seven marathons. The Run Across Congo has created huge awareness for gender equality in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Women runners from around the...
View ArticleOffice Depot Supports Green Business Challenge
(3BL Media and Just Means)- I love when sustainability professionals know their decisions are one part of a much larger story. Office Depot, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida operates with the next...
View ArticleEntrepreneurship is (or Should Be) Gender Neutral
(3BL Media and Just Means)--I hate the term “female entrepreneurship.” We don’t call entrepreneurial endeavors led by men, “male entrepreneurship.” We just call it entrepreneurship. Unintentionally or...
View ArticleThe Secret’s Out: B Corp Consulting is the Coolest Gig
Ryan Honeyman and Conscious Brands Give the DL on How to “B” an All-Star Consultant : Part 1(Just Means and 3BL Media) - I just can’t get enough. In the best sense of the word, I’ve developed a fetish...
View ArticleUsing Candles to Empower Women and End Poverty: A B Corp Story
(3BL Media and Just Means)- It started over cannoli in a small bakery in Northampton, Massachusetts. Ted Barber and his business comrade, Amber Chand, knew they wanted to help put an end to poverty and...
View ArticleAlter Eco Owns a Full Circle of Sustainability via Home Compostable Packaging
(3BL Media and Just Means) - Pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin lattes, pumpkin biscotti. I think I even saw pumpkin Oreos this week. If you’re concerned about climate change, you might want to think again...
View ArticleThe Business Case for B Corps: The Secret’s Out, Part 2
(3BL Media and Just Means) - The movement is growing. Fast. 1,400+ B Corps worldwide. And, the community is partnering together in incredible ways. Sustainable Harvest, for example, a global coffee...
View ArticleBetter Hearing in the Dominican Republic Provided by Hear the World...
(Camil looking at sister Shenoa. Photo Credit: Michael Edmond Isaac)(3BL Media and Just Means)—Sisters Camil and Shenoa bounce around the playground at Centro Cristiano de Servicios Medicos in a busy...
View ArticleThree Champions Create Social Enterprise from Tragedy
(Left: April De Simone speaking. Middle: Frederick Hutson. Right: Britnie Turner)(3BL Media and Just Means) - Frederick Hutson, Co-Founder of Pigeonly; Britnie Turner, Founder and CEO of Aerial...
View ArticleLeading with Love at Work is the Answer
(Photo Credit: Round Table Companies Facebook page.)(3BL Media and Just Means)—I did not expect to consider the meaning of love when I attended the Social Venture Network (SVN) 2015 Conference in...
View ArticleTEAM USA Registry Supports Olympians with Innovative Funding
(3BL Media and Just Means) - Michael Phelps, Mia Hamm, Apolo Ohno: these are household, Olympic champion names. We know their names because they are incredible athletes. We also know their names...
View ArticleWhy The Cat Spring Tea Sisters Value Heritage, Mentorship and Accountability
Photo credit: Texas Monthly (3BL Media and Just Means) - I don’t think most mission-driven innovators grow up thinking, “Someday, I’d like to be a social entrepreneur.” Rather, the initial thought is...
View ArticleJosephine Empowers Home Cooks through Small-Scale Production and Community
(3BL Media and Just Means) - Tapas Tuesday at Patricia’s house. Prahok Khatiss Noodles at Monica and Kelvin’s? Or stop by Kelly’s for Bean Soup with Pancetta? Hungry yet? Sounds better than that...
View ArticleThe Disruption of Local Living, Investing and Cheese
(3BL Media and Just Means) - Peering through the window, San Francisco-based Mission Cheese looks like a cool cheese and wine bar, an intimate and hip place for a date or business meeting. Ask a few...
View ArticleSustainability, Acceleration, & Laughter: How kibikibi Partners Jemma and...
(Photo Credit: Helen Abraham)(3BL Media and Just Means) - Laughter, camaraderie, give and take, vulnerability and synergy: according to a quick Google search, when you meet someone with whom you share...
View ArticleStarvation Alley Shakes the Cosmos with Organic Turbulence: A B Corp Story
(Photo Credit: Giles Clement)(3BL Media and Just Means)--The hot, balmy month of June requires three things: SPF 50, a friend with a pool and refreshing cocktails to offer to your friend in exchange...
View ArticleBusiness as a Force for Awakening: A Dharma Approach
A B Corp Story(3BL Media and Just Means)—Your new credit card arrives in the mail. No more swiping for you. You’ve entered a new era with your chip card and for some reason, you feel more...
View ArticleRelationship First, Business Second: A Community of Innovative Entrepreneurs
(Image: SVN Spring Conference 2016; Creating art via Innovation Entrepreneur Participant, Late Night Art)(3BL Media and Just Means) - Choosing the right sustainability conference…Every year as I budget...
View ArticleHold the Beef. More Broccoli Please: Why Hong Kong’s Green Monday Movement Is...
(3BL Media and Just Means)- After 13 years of pescetarianism, I might be reconsidering prosciutto and fried chicken. Tragic, to my purist, animal-loving friends, yes. But I feel like I don’t see the...
View ArticleIndia’s First B Corp Uses Uber-like Tech Model to Connect Supply Chains and...
(3BL Media and Just Means) - In the same way that the San Francisco Bay area will be read about in North American history books—or history apps, rather—Bangalore is creating historical tech waves in...
View ArticleHarmless Harvest Tracks Every Ounce of Impact in America’s First, Fair Trade...
(3BL Media and Just Means) – October: It’s the month which gives us an excuse to drink an excessive number of pumpkin lattes, indulge in political debate with family and trek up to Vermont for leaf...
View ArticleThe Systems Entrepreneur: Conquering Mount Everest, Together
(Just Means and 3BL Media) — The social entrepreneur: that’s the title in the triple bottom line business world that we use to refer to an innovator with an environmental or social mission. We’ve put...
View ArticleNourishing for the Love of Humanity: Karen Bevels Catering
(3BL Media and Just Means) - The Silicon Valley: we know it for its genius, its startup tech community, its progressive culture and its insane cost-of-living. All true. I also know it for Karen Bevels,...
View ArticleFrom South Beach to Smoked Bacon: Why James Faison Left the Dream to Support...
(3BL Media and Just Means)- Living on South Beach is exactly what you imagine: a never-ending vacation. And oh yeah, you probably make money somehow, some way, but career is secondary to your outdoor...
View ArticleWhere Are You On the Spectrum? (Of Impact, That Is.) Inspiring Capital...
(3BL Media and Just Means)—Corporate social responsibility. Philanthropic giving. B Corps, employee-owned cooperatives, nonprofits, and all the models in between. The world of sustainability boasts...
View ArticleRamblers Way is Sustainable Clothing Made in the USA
(3BL Media/Justmeans) — My father’s mother, Grandma Hazel, was a modest, practical woman. Truth be told, as an adolescent I found her to be obnoxious, opinionated and stuck in her ways. (Twenty-five...
View ArticleIndigenous Apparel: A Love-Making Fashion Company
(3BL Media and Just Means) — This is not just another story about an organic, fair trade clothing line. Yes, Indigenous is a luxury, ethical fashion B Corp that weaves low-impact dyes, organic fibers...
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