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🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this episode, our first focused on the topic of sustainability, we discuss the path to becoming and supporting sustainable businesses. You’ll learn how B-Corporations focus on building more than profits, with a triple bottom line approach that puts people and profits at the same level of importance with profits. We discuss why more people want to work with B-Corps and how you can seek them out simply by visiting B-Lab’s site and identifying B-Corps in your industry, the area you live, and products that you love to buy and support.
Tools provided in this episode include suggestions on shifts you can make in personal consumption patterns, recycling and composting.
About Our Guest: Eliza Erskine, Green Buoy ConsultingEliza founded Green Buoy Consulting after completing her Master’s in Sustainability Management from the Harvard Extension School. Through her work, she integrates sustainability measures to transform businesses. Working with companies across all sorts of industries, Eliza’s clients see an annual energy savings of 30% on average while adding 38 points to their B Corp assessments. She draws on previous experience in financial services, Environmental, Social and Governance research in her work.
Guest Website: Green Buoy Consulting: https://www.greenbuoyconsulting.com/
Additional Resources: B-Lab: https://bcorporation.net/about-b-lab
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
0:10.0 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
0:15.0 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
0:20.0 | Here's your host, Karina Belizey. |
0:24.2 | Hello, fellow do-gooters and friends. |
0:26.3 | I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, an activist and cause marketer who's passionate about social impact and |
0:31.9 | sustainability. |
0:33.2 | In this episode, we are going to dig into the world of sustainability and how mindful companies are |
0:38.6 | rising to the challenge, creating positive change through their business operations. |
0:43.2 | To guide our journey, I'm joined by Eliza Erskine, who founded Greenbuoy Consulting, |
0:49.7 | after completing her master's in sustainable management from the Harvard Extension School. |
0:54.9 | Through her work, she integrates sustainability measures to transform businesses, working with companies across all |
1:01.6 | sorts of industries. Her clients see an annual energy savings of 30% on average, while adding |
1:08.1 | 38 points to their B-Corp assessments. She draws on previous experience |
1:13.4 | in financial services, environmental, social, and governance research in her work. Welcome to the show, |
1:19.9 | Eliza. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. Now, it's obvious just from a quick review |
1:25.8 | of your bio that you're passionate about sustainability. |
1:29.2 | Can you tell us about your journey, what brought you to focus on this particular path for your career? |
1:35.4 | Sure. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and was raised with the sense of thinking about the environment, |
1:45.2 | checking to see where you were spending money, |
1:47.6 | and being in nature all the time, |
1:50.0 | and just kind of seeing constantly the earth as a stakeholder |
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