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©Copyright 2012 B Lab. All rights reservedAbout Milepost Consulting
Milepost Consulting is a certified woman-owned management consulting firm dedicated to helping business leaders define, measure and achieve their goals. Together with your talent they'll help make phrases like "sustainability" and "green" meaningful to your business, navigating you through the complicated world of climate change and carbon emissions, and communicate with your internal and external stakeholders in a way that will inspire them to action.
Milepost became a B Corporation to help promote an important aspect of the sustainability profession: transparency.
The Change We Seek®
Milepost Consulting's mission is to support companies that offer products or services that will result in reduced emissions and with companies seeking to find ways to reduce their externalities and affect positive social change amongst their internal and external stakeholders.
Milepost also supports their employee volunteer activities that serve to reduce their individual impact in areas such as ecosystem preservation, rural community development and climate change awareness. Collectively, through the work they choose to do both professionally and personally they aim to do good and constantly push themselves to do more.
Milepost Consulting
- Industry: Sustainability Consulting
- Product/Services: Sustainability Consulting
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Ownership: Private
- http://www.milepostconsulting.com
Summary:
Certified: April 2010| Points Earned | % Points Available | |
|---|---|---|
| Accountability » | 8.7 | 87% |
| Employees » | 32.5 | 72% |
| Consumers » | 35 | 100% |
| Community » | 32.6 | 50% |
| Environment » | 13.8 | 69% |
| Composite B Score | 122.6 |
- >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
- >60% points available = Area of excellence
Highlights:
From B Impact AssessmentEnvironment: 100% of office supplies from recycled/sustainable materials; Written policies to reduce corporate travel; Purchases carbon credits to offset travel, commuting, office operations, and shipping; >50% of carbon footprint reduced through purchase of carbon credits
Employees: Living wage paid to all employees; 100% of employees participate in the bonus plan; >80% of health insurance costs covered for all employees and their families; 6+ weeks maternity leave
Community: Women-owned; Company policies support purchasing from women/minority owned suppliers; Employees offered paid time off to volunteer