Arts & Entertainment  April 14, 2015

7 area B Corps recognized on B Lab’s Best for the World lists

Seven companies from the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado were honored Tuesday on B Lab’s annual Best for the World lists that recognize the top B Corps as it relates to the environment, community and workers.

B Lab is a nonprofit organization that recognizes companies that use business as a “force for good,” and have an aim of positive social impact in addition to a healthy bottom line.

Of the top 1,200 certified B Corps worldwide, the top 10 percent were recognized on B Lab’s Best for the World overall list. No local companies earned that designation for 2015, the fifth year of the lists. But several were recognized in the individual categories.

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Four area companies made the Best for the Environment List. Those included Boulder-based 1908 Brands, a maker of natural and sustainable home cleaning products; Boulder clean tech company Cool Energy; Boulder-based Ecologic Designs, which makes consumer products like backpacks, messenger bags and wallets from hard-to-recycle waste materials; and Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewing, which was recently named the fourth-largest craft brewery in the nation.

Boulder-based Conscious Coffees, a distributor of organic fair-trade coffees, was honored on B Lab’s Best for the Community List.

Two local companies, meanwhile, made the Best for Workers list. Those companies were Broomfield-based software firm Application Experts and Boulder-based solar installer Namaste Solar.

Seven companies from the Boulder Valley and Northern Colorado were honored Tuesday on B Lab’s annual Best for the World lists that recognize the top B Corps as it relates to the environment, community and workers.

B Lab is a nonprofit organization that recognizes companies that use business as a “force for good,” and have an aim of positive social impact in addition to a healthy bottom line.

Of the top 1,200 certified B Corps worldwide, the top 10 percent were recognized on B Lab’s Best for the World overall list. No local companies earned that designation for 2015, the fifth year of…

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