Businesses Doing Good

Celebrating innovative ways businesses are making a difference in the world

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How Brands Are Avoiding 'Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad' Moments — And Actually Doing Good

We've all seen the cringey misfired ads from brands trying to seem relevant. But some brands are cutting through the noise — and they're doing so by listening to cultural leaders.
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16 Positive Good News Stories from December 2021

As we rounded out the year 2021, we're looking back on the best good news stories from December. While this year or this month have been filled with heartbreak, pain, and injustice — there have still been so many stories worth celebrating.
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Good News: Brewery Is Capturing Carbon by Putting Emissions Back Into Beers

A Rhode Island brewery is capturing carbon and putting it right back into their beer — as an environmentally-friendly alternative to purchasing C02. This technology is now becoming a growing trend.
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How To Help Garment Workers & Ethical Fashion History

Exploring the problem that garment workers in the fashion industry face — and unpacking how we can make a difference (and the good already being done)
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Tab for a Cause: How Does It Work? Is It Legit?

Tab for a Cause helps you raise money for charity for free. Is it legit?
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Rewilding Projects Are Multiplying Across the U.K. – Seeking to Boost Biodiversity

One of the most innovative projects now underway may be WildEast, which ambitiously hopes to rewild an area more than three times the size of New York City, creating interconnecting wild corridors across East Anglia, the country’s most intensely farmed region.
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This Nonprofit Is Helping the East Coast Recycle Clothing Waste

Brooklyn-based Fabscrap hopes to sign up 20 to 25 brands to recycle textile waste in the Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and southern New Jersey areas over the next year.
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These 5 Accounts are Using Social Media For Good

To celebrate how far we’ve come and how folks are using social media to help each other, we’re highlighting five of the people who are using it for compassion and community...
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More Women Are Becoming Entrepreneurs Than Ever

A report commissioned by American Express found that, between 2014 and 2019, the number of women-owned businesses climbed 21 percent to a total of nearly 13 million.
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12 Places To Find Black-Owned Businesses To Support

Your guide on directories of Black-owned businesses to support in your community and around the United States — plus why supporting BIPOC-owned businesses matters
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Global efforts to repurpose wind turbine blades lead to innovative designs

The Danish port city of Aalborg, where the new recyclable blades are being made, has found an innovative new use for old blades, by turning them into bike shelters for the city’s cyclists.
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How an Italian Denim Manufacturer Has Created the World's Most Sustainable Jeans

Candiani's denim operation is sometimes called “the greenest mill in the blue world.” And their denim formula has been awarded Global Organic Textile Standards GOTS approval and won numerous awards.
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