47: Pursuing Incremental Milestones with Danielle Jezienicki, Grove Collaborative
In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is from San Francisco, California by Danielle Jezienicki, Senior Director of Sustainability at Grove Collaborative. A certified B Corporation, Grove Collaborative creates and curates 150+ sustainable, high-performing brands. Their products are plastic neutral and carbon neutral, and the company has committed to being 100% plastic-free by 2025. Please note this episode was pre-recorded in July, prior to the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022. Danielle’s final call to action still stands after the passing of this and other climate-related legislation. We encourage you to continue finding ways to move forward by engaging in conversations with your Elected Officials. With net revenue of over $300 million and nearly 500 employees, Grove Collaborative is devoted to more than just profits, and has made public commitments to support a deforestation-free supply chain, remove harmful chemicals from the home, and encourage justice and equity in the workplace and beyond. In fact, they recently exceeded their goal to source an additional $250,000 of products and goods from Black-owned businesses through 2021 by over $100,000. In this episode, Danielle and CB discuss... Grove’s commitment to going completely plastic-free by 2025, How companies can achieve their targets for scopes 1-3 to be net-zero with science-based approaches, Ways to lighten your footprint at home, and more. Sign up to receive bi-weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpodcastemail Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod