Business Doing Good: Five Takeaways from BLD NW 2024
Five takeaways from BLD NW 2024, where attendees discussed doing business for good.
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Protect Your Health and the Planet: Eat Less Meat
Eating less meat not only improves your health, but it can also protect our precious planet.
Claire Randall, Grand Central Bakery: Bakers serious about making an impact
Claire Randall is CEO of Grand Central Bakery, a B-Corp certified artisan bakery in Oregon and Washington with a community-centered mission.
Joel Makower, GreenBiz: Helping Business move the needle on The world's most pressing challenges
Marie Gettel-Gilmartin and Joel Makower, chair and co-founder of GreenBiz Group, discuss sustainable business.
Elisa Engel, Citizens Architects: Africa and sustainable architecture
Elisa Engel and I talked about her work in Africa, sustainability, ethics, and the challenges of being a woman in architecture.
Kim Malek, Salt & Straw Ice Cream: Building community through handcrafted ice cream
Kim Malek is the visionary behind Salt & Straw Ice Cream and cofounder with cousin Tyler. They build community as a company that cares.
Jon Roesser, Weavers Way Co-op: Growing the cooperative community in Philadelphia
Jon Roesser manages Weavers Way, a consumer-owned food co-op in Philadelphia with 3 stores, 2 farms, a non-profit, and community newspaper.
Aaliyah Nitoto, Free Range Flower Winery: Protecting the planet and giving back to her community by
Aaliyah Nitoto is the visionary founder of Free Range Flower Winery, which makes wine from organically grown flowers, not grapes.
Ross Ching, Mama’s and Hapa’s: Destroying the notion that ecofriendly has to be expensive
Ross Ching, cofounder of Mama & Hapa's Zero Waste Shop, is destroying the notion that ecofriendly has to be expensive.
Mallorie Dunn, Smart Glamour: Creating affordable, inclusive, and size-inclusive clothing for all
Mallorie Dunn founded Smart Fashion in NYC, with ethical, sustainable, size-inclusive, and AFFORDABLE clothing for all!
Taylor Loewen of Ridwell: Giving new life to household trash
Companies that Care highlights business leaders making a difference in the world, like Taylor Loewen, Portland general manager of Ridwell.
Erin Shakespeare of the Macquarie Group Foundation: Employee-driven corporate philanthropy
Acting Global Head of the Macquarie Group Foundation Erin Shakespeare shares about Macquarie’s generous philanthropic efforts
Ousman Touray, Phioneers: Pursuing a vision of sustainable building in Africa
Ousman Touray is an ecopreneur who wants to improve quality of life in Africa through sustainable and eco-friendly design.
Julie Allen: Disrupting the fashion industry at Mary Rose Boutique NW
Julie Allen is CEO of Mary Rose Boutique NW and Mary Rose Foundation. Julie has a mission of helping people feel beautiful and confident.
P3 Consulting: Ozzie Gonzalez, from junkyard dreamer to urban ecologist
Ozzie Gonzalez with P3 Consulting speaks on the Companies That Care Podcast. An urban ecologist, he ran for mayor of Portland in 2020.
CH2M Foundation: Corporate philanthropy that makes a difference in the world
Interview with two of my CSR mentors: Elisa Speranza chaired the CH2M Foundation board, and Ellen Sandberg was the executive director.
Trace Collective: Reimagining Regenerative Fashion
Companies That Care podcast with Aroa Fernandez Alvarez, cofounder of Trace Collective in London, on a mission to make fashion regenerative
Our Table Cooperative: Creating a Resilient and Interdependent Local Food Culture
Companies That Care podcast interview with Narendra Varma, cofounder of Our Table Cooperative in Sherwood, OR
Chuck Bergman and Susan Mann: A Story of Penguins, Hope, and Resilience
If you think about penguins, where they live, and what they go through to conduct their lives, it's pretty astonishing.
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