what we believe
It’s Time to Flip the Default COVID-19 has helped us all understand that none of us is safe until all of us are safe. That we are each in small ways, beholden to each other. Whether that’s making sure we get vaccinated and encouraging and supporting others to do so, or simply helping our friends and family through difficult times, …
We’ve been doing business upside down. For far too long, we’ve been prioritizing economic success at the expense of societal well-being. The need for business to support equity, justice, and resilience in society has never been clearer than in the past year, when the words Black Lives Matter reached corporate boardrooms and pandemic-related unemployment and isolation sparked a massive mental …
In a year when our sense of community has been shattered—and many gathering places may have permanently shuttered—what might it be like this summer as we return to some semblance of normal, community life? How might you uplift your community and help prioritise well-being? As our communities awaken from their COVID-induced, ‘lockdown’ hibernation, they’ll look and feel very different. Many …
You Should Really Look at Your Ecological Footprint Zero is a number that holds peculiar power in an environmental sustainability context. So often, it is the target we’re aiming for as we hurry to reduce the damage we’re doing – zero carbon footprint, zero species loss. And yet in 2020, zero was the number of UN Convention on Biodiversity (Aichi) …
Taking the B Corp Test, Surviving and Thriving Exam stress! There’s something about voluntarily submitting yourself to an assessment that takes us back to our school days – that feeling just before sitting an exam with our heart in our mouth and butterflies in our stomach. We know that feeling well – we’ve been here many times, not just with …
Today marks International Women’s Day, a date first celebrated over a century ago, in March of 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. It was first celebrated by the United Nations in 1975. As we mark the day, we’re taking pause to celebrate our amazing colleagues at Junxion, to take note of COVID’s impacts on women in particular, and to …
The finance sector is definitely responding to the crises of the anthropocene, leading to unprecedented opportunities for purpose-led businesses. Nudging people towards energy efficient transport options or renewable energy for their homes, creating communities of strangers through collective insurance of sharing economy assets, linking growth financing explicitly to ESG performance targets. The urgency with which we need to transition to …
Ever growing demand for B Corp certification is enabling B Lab to call on its community in a whole new way. In the UK, the number of people signing up to use the B Impact Assessment increased around 40% year on year between 2018 and 2020. B Corp certification is no small undertaking for a business of any size, so …
Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when the next webinar sessions are scheduled. Recordings and slides from the March 2021 sessions are available now. Webinar: Common Foundations of Impact Measurement Part 1 of 2: Clarify Information Needs Next date TBD Introduction to the five essential practices that describe how to do impact measurement well: Plan your change, Use performance …
