{"id":626,"date":"2017-05-30T02:54:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T06:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=626"},"modified":"2017-05-30T02:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T06:54:06","slug":"from-the-web-heres-how-thousands-of-b-corps-are-making-the-world-a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/30\/from-the-web-heres-how-thousands-of-b-corps-are-making-the-world-a-better-place\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Here\u2019s How Thousands of B Corps are Making the World a Better Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-627\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.39.05-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1552\" height=\"1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.39.05-AM.png 1552w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.39.05-AM-300x209.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.39.05-AM-768x535.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.39.05-AM-1024x714.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-30-at-12.39.05-AM-430x300.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>More than 2,000 B Corps in 50-plus countries\u2014and they\u2019re all making the world a better place. Kim Coupounas, the director of B Lab, has been a part of the B Corporation community since 2007, after she and her husband cofounded an outdoor brand called GoLite. GoLite went on to become a Certified B Corp as it made beautiful outdoor equipment and apparel in an environmentally and socially responsible way.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Coupounas has watched the B Corp world flourish under the nonprofit B Lab, which develops and maintains the standards underpinning the B Impact Assessment companies undergo to pursue B Corp certification. \u201cI\u2019ve spent the past three years engaging and growing the community of B Corporations in Colorado,\u201d Coupounas says. \u201cIn three years, we more than tripled the size of the B Corp community in Colorado and generated a number of truly innovative practices that are being used throughout the global B Corp community now to enhance B Lab\u2019s mission overall. I\u2019m now focused on reaching companies beyond Colorado and getting them on the path to measuring and improving their impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gbdmagazine.com\/2017\/heres-how-thousands-of-b-corps-are-making-the-world-a-better-place\/\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong> <\/a><em>(via gb&amp;d Magazine)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2,000 B Corps in 50-plus countries\u2014and they\u2019re all making the world a better place. Kim Coupounas, the director of B Lab, has been a part of the B Corporation community since 2007, after she and her husband cofounded an outdoor brand called GoLite. GoLite went on to become a Certified B Corp as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/30\/from-the-web-heres-how-thousands-of-b-corps-are-making-the-world-a-better-place\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Here\u2019s How Thousands of B Corps are Making the World a Better Place&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[17503,4433],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-a6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}