Sol Haus Design LLC

Certified B Corporation
Headquarters

California, United States

Certified Since

September 2024

Industry

Architecture design & planning

Sector

Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Operates In

United States

Sol Haus Design is a boutique design firm based in Ojai, California. With a professional degree from University of Southern California (USC) and more than 20 years in high-end corporate architecture, Vina decided to focus her career on smaller-scale projects that could make a positive difference. In 2012, Vina designed and built her off-grid Tiny House in a compact footprint of 140sf.  Vina's Tiny Home has been featured in media publications, books and television. Vina Lustado is a proud recipient of FWN Global 100 Most Influential Women and has been a featured speaker at Yale University on social entrepreneurship. In 2017, Vina was chosen as Innovative Entrepreneur by Social Venture Circle.

Overall B Impact Score

Based on the B Impact assessment, Sol Haus Design LLC earned an overall score of 88.1. The median score for ordinary businesses who complete the assessment is currently 50.9.
88.1
88.1 Overall B Impact Score
80 Qualifies for B Corp Certification
50.9 Median Score for Ordinary Businesses

Governance 19.4

Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.

Mission & Engagement4.5
Ethics & Transparency4.9
+ Mission Locked10

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Community 48.3

Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion16.8
Economic Impact11.6
Civic Engagement & Giving7.9
Supply Chain Management2.7
+ Local Economic Development4.4

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Environment 18.2

Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.

Environmental Management0.0
Air & Climate3.7
Water0.2
Land & Life1.0
+ Training & Collaboration3.6
+ Community6
+ Certification0
+ Materials & Codes0.3

What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.


Customers 2.0

Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.

Customer Stewardship2.0


Previous Overall B Impact Scores

2024 Overall B Impact Score88.1

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