>> Back to July 2024 Issue Key Points The world has experienced profound changes since many companies established their sustainability commitments for 2025 and 2030; the COVID-19 pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and increased volatility due to inflation and high-interest rates have significantly reshaped operating environments. Intensifying climate impact, explosive growth in AI, the evolving regulatory landscape and increasingly polarized stakeholder demands are all influencing how companies consider and communicate their sustainability goals and targets. In considering what comes n ..read more

Just Ice Tea – Eat the Change co-founders, Seth Goldman and Chef Spike Mendelsohn, visited one of their newest organic, Fair Trade tea suppliers in Mozambique. The tea garden is the largest and one of the most remote in the world. There are no pollution sources within hundreds of miles, making it one of the most pristine places. This is especially important because of the garden’s organic certification, which requires the use of sustainable growing methods such as composting from cow dung and worm farms. Seth and Spike were also equally impressed with the impact Fair Trade premiums have on th ..read more

Rodale Institute – Farmer Jawn Agriculture is making waves in urban farming in the city of Philadelphia. As the nation’s largest black woman owned regenerative organic produce farm, CEO and Founder, Christa Barfield is acutely aware of the impact her farms have on the water supply in the Delaware River watershed. Farmer Jawn Agriculture make conscious decisions about the farming methods they use to provide the best chance for healthy water and food for the community. Visit Grow Clean Water to learn more. The post Growing Food & Clean Water in the Delaware River Watershed appeared first on ..read more

Eat Drink Think Podcast from Edible Communities – Sixteen years after their Food, Inc. film was released, Food, Inc. 2 comes “back for seconds” to reveal how corporate consolidation has gone unchecked, leaving a highly efficient yet shockingly vulnerable food system dedicated to profit over people. In this episode, host Amy O’Neill Houck talks with producer Michael Pollan and co-director Melissa Robledo about how innovative farmers, food producers, workers’ rights activists, and prominent legislators are facing these companies head-on to create a more sustainable, equitable future. Food, Inc ..read more

>> Back to May 2024 Issue For the second consecutive year, Leslie Samuelrich, President of Green Century Funds, was named to the Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance, joining a corps of noteworthy women in government, technology, banking and financial powerhouses.Leslie has been a vocal and active leader, promoting environmentally and sustainable investing for the past 10 years at the helm of Green Century. She and others have taken various paths into leadership roles on Barron’s fifth annual list. From money managers to risk officers, she joins financial leader ..read more

>> Back to May 2024 Issue   At the beginning of May, Collective Action for Just Finance released their new Transformative 25 (T25). The fourth annual list of impact first community informed capital funds, banks, and initiatives transforming the finance sector towards one that enriches people and the planet. “If you care about racial inequality, the climate crisis, and how finance is wrecking our democracy, the Transformative 25 list is a must-follow,” said Leslie Christian, CFA, Senior Investment Advisor, Northstar Asset Management.  T25 funds employ a mix of holistic strategi ..read more

>> Back to May 2024 Issue Cave Pets, the newly launched pet nutrition brand with clinically-studied superfoods formulated to improve the health of pets and heal the planet, announced it has been designated as Regenerative Organic Certified® (ROC) from the Regenerative Organic Alliance. Cave Pets co-founder Jason Dewberry said the certification is significant because it ensures the brand is meeting the highest standards in the world for soil health, animal welfare, and farmworker fairness. “We recognized the need for transparency and accountability in pet food production ..read more

>> Back to May 2024 Issue The state of the natural and organic products industry is strong, according to the latest market research presented in a keynote seminar at Natural Products Expo West in March 2024 and compiled by Nutrition Business Journal (NBJ), SPINS and others. Reporting on figures that show a tripling of consumer sales from $97 billion in 2007 to more than $300 billion in 2023, New Hope Network’s SVP Carlotta Mast had this to say: “The big picture is that we are really becoming a force as an industry. We are no longer niche. We are very mainstream, and we have a lot of powe ..read more

>> Back to May 2024 Issue A new study finds inflation of up to 4% could impact food costs by 2060.  Climate change is likely to cause an increase in food inflation by as much as 4% in some parts of the world by 2060, a new joint study from a climate scientist and the European Central Bank (ECB) found. Looking at monthly price indices across 121 countries along with temperature and precipitation factors since 1996, the analysis found a consistent price increase in food and inflation as temperatures rose. The cost of food could increase by as much as 1.5% to 1.8% annually by 2035 or ..read more

>> Back to May 2024 Issue Above: Short Creek Farm was started by high school friends Jeff Backer and Dave Viola in 2015. The COVID-19 pandemic showed the US the fragility of our national food supply chain, with shocks to the system from farm production to food processing to transportation to store shelves. This was particularly acute for meat and poultry products, with effects that rippled from producers to farmers and consumers alike. There is another major disruption underway: the changing climate. Unlike COVID, whose effect was severe in scope, but limited in time frame, the impacts ..read more