Author Archives: Jess Oswald

NBCUniversal Teams with BBMG on CSR Strategy

NBCUniversal (NBCU) has tapped brand innovation firm BBMG to help elevate its corporate social responsibility efforts. NBCU—one of the largest media and entertainment companies in the world—will leverage BBMG’s sustainability expertise and extensive consumer research capabilities to explore ways its … Continue reading

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Announcing the Sustainable Food Challenge: $1,000 in Prizes

From local, healthy farming to CSAs and urban beekeeping, the sustainable food movement has gained considerable traction in recent years. But serious challenges remain around scaling sustainable food solutions and providing fair access to them. Please join us in The … Continue reading

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The Making of an Infographic

Creating a flowchart to illustrate our employee engagement booklet, Green the Team, was no easy task. To help guide organizations on their journey, we started with a basic question: “Do you have a green team?” From there, we charted dozens … Continue reading

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Drawing Inspiration from the 90%

The BBMG design team’s most recent field trip? The Design With the Other 90% Cities exhibit at the U.N. Besides feeling really cool and important walking through the building’s fabled doors, we were excited to see projects designed with a … Continue reading

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Re-Imagining Sustainability

Thanks to summer Fridays, I was able to attend the Sustainism as the New Modernism talk, held at the new pop up BMW Guggenheim Lab. A little hard to find, the lab is nothing more than a narrow lot sandwiched … Continue reading

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The High Line, Observing the Observatory

Curiosity got the best of me this past weekend and I finally made it out to the High Line to see firsthand what all the buzz was about. I anticipated it to be hot, crowded and beautiful. And while it … Continue reading

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BBMG’s Sixth Green Room Episode Featuring Recyclebank’s Chief Sustainability Officer Ian Yolles

How do you reward 2 million people for taking everyday green actions? Recyclebank’s Ian Yolles tells us in the Green Room.   In the latest (and sixth!) episode of BBMG’s The Green Room, Ian Yolles, chief sustainability officer of Recyclebank … Continue reading

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BBMG’s Green Room Features gDiapers CEO Jason Graham-Nye

Exclusive interview explores how environmental, community and family values have been key to the company’s success   The latest episode of BBMG’s The Green Room features Jason Graham-Nye, CEO of gDiapers, described by Chief Creative Officer and series host Mitch … Continue reading

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The Triple Value Proposition:
Why Inauthentic Green Brands
Are Doomed to Fail

Are consumers falling out of love with green products? Or just the “inauthentic” ones? In his second blog post for Fast Company, BBMG’s Mitch Baranowski tells us why going forward consumer packaged goods companies will have to embrace a values-driven … Continue reading

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BALLE Taps BBMG for Brand Strategy

BBMG, the brand innovation firm dedicated to creating and promoting sustainable brands, has teamed up with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE): a network of independent, socially minded businesses that use sustainable practices to build healthy, thriving communities.  … Continue reading

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