Businesses Doing Good

Under the wing of The Nike Foundation, Julia Plowman built a brand for this complex approach of supporting girls to combat intergenerational poverty — with the goal of fueling momentum and sparking action. They called it The Girl Effect.

When food ends up in landfills, it releases methane, a greenhouse gas that is at least 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Because of a lack of available oxygen, food doesn’t break down in landfills in the same way that it would in nature.

In 1989, Phil McCrory, a hair stylist in Huntsville, Alabama, was watching CNN coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska while washing a client’s hair in his salon. He wondered... what if human hair could be used to clean up oil spills?

Here are some ways to make sure your wedding is perfectly you, while also being ethical, environmentally friendly, and serving a greater purpose.

In late April, a patron used the code word for the first time. Staff acted, and the offender was removed from the premises. After the brewery shared news of the incident and its successful outcome on social media, other breweries joined in.

Get a peek behind the curtain of how Moon March created the Good Good Good website — from the goals and dreams for the new platform, to the intentionality behind the colors and functionality of the finished product.

According to the UNHCR, at the end of 2020, there were nearly 26.4 million refugees around the world forced to flee their homes because of war, violence, conflict or persecution.

As we face the reality of the impact of shopping on the environment, companies are catching on to the fact that consumers are willing to make changes to their spending habits if it means helping the planet.

Corporations do make an enormous impact on the climate, and they bear a major responsibility, AND our personal habits impact the environment, too, so we should seek out ways to reduce our environmental impact by altering our lifestyles.

For this issue, you asked us questions about sustainability on Instagram. The Good Answers on this page come from the Good Good Good team and community.

2020 was one for the history books. In a year full of surprises, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges 2020 brought. At Good Good Good, we never want to avoid the reality of the world’s greatest pains. Instead, we look for hopeful stories happening right within them.

"When he sees waste, he said, he begins thinking about ways to use it."