Feronia Forests LLC Honored as 'Best for the Environment', Creating Most Overall Positive Environmental Impact
NEW YORK, April 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, Feronia Forests LLC was recognized for creating the most positive overall environmental impact by the nonprofit B Lab with the release of the fourth annual "B Corp Best for the Environment" list. The B Corp Best for the Environment list honors businesses that earned an environmental score in the top 10% of more than 1,200 Certified B Corporations from over 120 industries on the B Impact Assessment, a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of a company's impact on its workers, community, and the environment. Honorees were recognized among micro, small and mid-sized businesses around the globe. The B Corp Best for the Environment list sets the gold standard for high impact companies and demonstrates that any type of company can use business as a force for good. It is part of the 'Best for the World' series.
Feronia Forests LLC is dedicated to finding innovative ways to conserve valuable forests for future generations and is interested in long-term opportunities that keep forests healthy and standing, combining conservation with education and recreation. Valentina and Paolo Cugnasca, a father-daughter team, are the driving force behind Feronia's unique approach to sustainable forestry.
"Feronia Forests receives this award because of its Sustainable Full Forestry™ strategy which our brands demonstrate. With Vertical Maple Water, we created an innovative beverage using the sap of maple trees that also helps conserve our forests, keeping trees vertical," says Valentina Cugnasca. "Mission:Maple is our maple syrup sourced from FSC-certified forests. Ramblewild, Feronia's first aerial adventure park, provides an exhilarating and challenging tree-to-tree experience. We host wind turbines on one of our properties and are in the process of developing a solar plant. Last, Feronia Forward is a 501c3 non-profit that provides outreach programs for students to teach them the importance of our forests and conservation."
Additional 2015 Best For the Environment Honorees include: Natura, Method Products, Seventh Generation and WasteZero. A complete list can be found at bestfortheworld.bcorporation.net. Each honored company is a Certified B Corporation. These companies use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems and have met rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.
"Today's honorees inspire all companies to compete not only to be best in the world, but best for the world. We hope many will take the first step by using the B Impact Assessment to measure and manage their impact with as much rigor as their profit," said Jay Coen Gilbert, Co-Founder of B Lab, the nonprofit organization that certifies B Corporations and governs the independent third party standard used to generate the comparable assessment of corporate impact.
B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good. Its vision is that one day all companies compete not only to be the best in the world, but the best for the world and society will enjoy prosperity for all for the long term. Today there are over 1,200 Certified B Corporations, across 121 industries and 38 countries, unified by one common goal: to redefine success in business. Any company can measure and manage social and environmental performance at bimpactassessment.net.
B Lab drives this systemic change by: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between "good companies" and good marketing; 2) passing benefit corporation legislation to give business leaders the freedom to create value for society as well as shareholders; 3) helping businesses measure, compare and improve their social and environmental performance with the free B Impact Assessment; 4) driving capital to impact investments through use of its B Analytics and GIIRS Ratings platform. For more information, visit www.bcorporation.net.
Feronia Forests LLC is a certified B Corporation dedicated to conserving American forestland by creating smart, new ways to save our trees. Working with ecosystem specialists, Feronia Forests spent years creating new, versatile forms of conservation that sustainably put trees to work to prevent them from being cut down. The result is a family of sustainable, forest-forward products that keep our trees healthy and our forests standing. Learn more at FeroniaForest.com and find us on Facebook or twitter.
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