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Launched in 2006, Sustainable Brands has become a global learning, collaboration, and commerce community of forward-thinking business and brand strategy, marketing, innovation and sustainability professionals who are leading the way to a better future. We recognize that brands today have a unique role to play in both focusing corporate energy and also influencing culture. We seek to enable the success of better brands that are helping shift the world to a sustainable economy by helping them embed purpose-driven environmental and social innovation into the DNA of their business so that sustainability becomes a core driver of business and brand value.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row gap=”10″][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1518481426422{background-color: #f9f9f9 !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_toggle title=”We inspire, engage and equip our community to profitably innovate for sustainability.” style=”arrow” color=”blue”]We facilitate community interaction and provide supporting resources including online content, live events, a learning library, a solutions provider directory, and more. Our offerings are designed to help brand and sustainability professionals\u00a0uncover new avenues<\/b>\u00a0for decoupling business growth from increasing drain on eco-system services and\u00a0delivering shared value<\/b>\u00a0to more business stakeholders. Acting as a pointer to\u00a0key trends and emerging best practices<\/b>, Sustainable Brands delivers the inspiration, ideas, community and solutions companies need to position themselves for long term success in a changing global marketplace.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1518481436246{background-color: #f9f9f9 !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\nThe SB Community<\/h3>\n
[\/vc_column_text][vc_toggle title=”SB is home to over 1,000,000 passionate individuals from around the world.” style=”arrow” color=”blue”]The SB community is committed to leveraging environmental and social innovation to\u00a0deliver exceptional business performance AND shared value<\/b>\u00a0to those they impact. Touching over\u00a01,000,000 business change agents<\/b>\u00a0from 86 countries via\u00a0sustainablebrands.com<\/a>\u00a0and our social media channels, the community is raising the bar for how\u00a0brands worldwide<\/b>\u00a0think about creating and delivering value. We\u2019re expecting continued growth this year as the community expands to host a growing list of live events in key global markets.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1518481445740{background-color: #f9f9f9 !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_toggle title=”SB brings creative & technical experts together for \u2018systems thinking\u2019 conversations.” style=”arrow” color=”blue”]Acting as a platform for\u00a0amplifying thought leadership<\/b>\u00a0and success stories and facilitating\u00a0peer-to-peer learning<\/b>, we keep our community abreast of emerging trends and market drivers, help unpack shared challenges, showcase new tools and resources, and encourage and enable collaboration on initiatives that support three key areas of focus:\u00a0\u00a0Measuring the value<\/b>, including ROI, of environmental and social innovation; accelerating the more beyond incremental to heretical innovation; and\u00a0shifting consumer demand and behavior<\/b>\u00a0toward more sustainable lifestyles and consumption patterns.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Replenish the World Through Better Brands Launched in 2006, Sustainable Brands has become a global learning, collaboration, and commerce community of forward-thinking business and brand strategy, marketing, innovation and sustainability professionals who are leading the way to a better future. We recognize that brands today have a unique role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2686,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9tnpw-Hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events.sustainablebrands.com\/conferences\/sb18vancouver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why Sustainable Brands?<\/h3>\n