Sustainable Industries

About Sustainable Industries

Sustainable Industries is an independent, award-winning media company serving business leaders on the West Coast with its monthly magazine, quarterly business guides, events, and more. Sustainable Industries connects the dots between key sectors such as Clean Energy, Green Building, Technology and Food to raise the stakes in a working definition of Sustainable Industries.

The B Corporation principles have always been an integral part of Sustainable Industries’ fabric. We also joined the ranks of other B Corporations because B Lab is led by the thought leaders and entrepreneurial people Sustainable Industries wants to serve.

We are the business source for leaders of the new economy. We serve a very focused audience that includes “top of the pyramid” business executives, entrepreneurs, MBA students and thought leaders with truly independent analysis, indispensable tools, and a refreshingly authentic voice. These are the senior-level business leaders making decisions that are changing the course of history.

The Change We Seek™

Sustainable Industries’ mission is to create a new B2B media company for a New Economy anchored by environmental innovation and social enterprise.

• Amidst all of the noise and hype surrounding green business, we continue to cut through the fluff and provide useful information, tools and concise analysis of where the region’s sustainable industries are really headed. And unlike most media properties in our space, Sustainable Industries bucks the dirty little industry practice of “pay to play,” where a client buys an ad and the publication either overtly or more sneakily “places” a nice article about the client in the publication. Some competitors may think we are foolish, but we believe the practice doesn’t serve our readers – nor our clients – well over time.

• Media and publishing companies are laggards when it comes to internal environmental practices. Sustainable Industries strives to move the industry forward by maintaining industry-leading printing and recycled paper procurement practices, introducing environmentally innovative products to suppliers, constantly improving energy and resource efficiency throughout all areas of our business, choosing and improving our green office space, encouraging the lowest-impact transportation practices, and hosting the most sustainable events in the business.

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Summary:

Certified: November 2008
  Points Earned % Points Available
Accountability » 12.2 63%
Employees » 34.1 63%
Consumers » 39 80%
Community » 11.4 19%
Environment » 5.1 28%
Composite B Score 101.8 51%
  • >80 out of 200 is eligible for certification
  • >60% points available = Area of excellence

Highlights:

2008 B Impact Report

Environment: >25% recycled office materials; >10% carbon inventory reduced through purchase of certified carbon credits

Employees: all employees paid living wage; 100% individual health insurance premiums covered by company

Community: >40% expenditures directed towards local suppliers

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