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Institute for Global Sustainability Institute For Global Sustainability The Vermont Business Center

Sustainable Business: Practices in Support of People Profits and Principles

Alliances and Partnerships

Seventh Generation: is the nation's leading brand of non-toxic, environmentally safe household products. With national distribution in thousands of natural product, grocery, and other retail stores, they're the leading authority on consumer products that protect public health and the environment. Seventh Generation is a small but rapidly growing private company with revenues that have increased over 140% and operating income that has increased over 300% over the last few years due to strong sales growth and increased operating efficiencies.

Seventh Generation

Ben & Jerry's: In 1992, Ben & Jerry's signed on to the CERES Principles, affirming its belief that business has a responsibility to the environment and should uphold a set of aspirational principles. Ben & Jerry's is founded on and dedicated to a sustainable corporate concept of linked prosperity. The company's mission consists of three interrelated parts: a product mission, an economic mission and a social mission. Central to the mission of Ben & Jerry' s is the belief that all three parts must thrive equally in a manner that commands deep respect for individuals in and outside the company and supports the communities of which they are a part.

Ben & Jerry's

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, an active supporter and participant in the Businesses for Social Responsibility, promotes public awareness of strong environmental, social and labor principles through support of a range of organizations — Coffee Kids, Heifer International, Grounds for Health, EcoLogic Finance, the United Way, the Salvation Army and the Red Cross — as well as libraries, religious organizations, schools, counseling centers and community food-shelves in coffee-growing communities around the world and in the communities in which its employees and customers live and work.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters

Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility: VBSR is the largest regional socially responsible business organization in the United States. VBSR' s membership has grown from 35 in 1991 to more than 450 current members representing nearly 30,000 employees and over $3 billion in annual sales.

Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility

NRG Systems: Since 1982, NRG Systems has been making products to help their customers measure and understand the wind. For NRG, it's a commitment to developing the best technology, improving our world and protecting the environment.

NRG Systems

University Partners

Continuing Education

Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

School of Business Administration

Vermont Business Center

 

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