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Cabot Creamery Cooperative

ABOUT Cabot Creamery Cooperative

Sustainability Cabot CreameryAt Cabot Creamery,we understand Sustainability to beliving within our means and ensuring the means to live.Our fundamental approach to stewardship and social impact is based on the triple bottom line of social, environmental and economic impacts. Our approach is called context-based sustainability. The scope of our sustainability efforts runs from farm-to-fork, but we realize our greatest influence is from the cow to the creamery and from the creamery to our customers. Our cooperatives typical member/owneris a multi-generational dairy farm family, a trend we endeavor to extend for a long time to come.

Cabot Creameryis the first dairy cooperative to achieve B Corporation Certfication,a validation of our attention to environmental and social impacts on stakeholders.We join a growing legion of successful cooperatives, fellow Northeast organizations and forward-thinking national brands that have been certified by the non-profit, B Lab.Certified B Corporations are businesses around the globe that meet rigorous and independent standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.http://www.bcorporation.net/cabot

About Cabot CreameryCabot Creamery Cooperative is owned by dairy farm families throughout New England and upstate New York. Best known for making the Worlds Best Cheddar, we value our cooperative roots, which date back to 1919. Cabot is proud that all profits from sales of Cabots award-winning line of dairy products go to support our dairy farmers.For more information about Cabots Sustainability Program, please contactJed Davis, Director of Sustainability at jdavis@cabotcheese.coop.

Slow Living Summit: 5/30-6/1/12

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Location: , Brattleboro, VT
Summary: 2nd Annual Slow Living Summit in Brattleboro, VT to talk solutions for sustainable living.
Event Date & Time:
May 30, 2012  | -
May 31, 2012  | -
June 1, 2012  | -

Description:

COMMON INTERESTS

COMMON SOLUTIONS

COMMON GOOD


Speakers, Workshops, Discussions, and Open-Space Sessions in a vibrant, small-town environment

 

Sustainabilty means slowing down.

Join us for unique, wide-ranging discussions about:

SLOW ECONOMICS - commerce, investing, management, markets, ownership

SLOW POLICIES - Fixing government, fixing corporations, fixing nonprofits

SLOW COMMUNITIES - Food/land, habitat, health/lifestyle, faith/spirit, arts/culture, education/learning, systems/tech/energy, news/social media

 

 

Speakers and Presenters Incude:

• Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont

• David Orr, Prof. of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College

• Woody Tasch, founder and chair, Slow Money

• Charles Eisenstein, author, Sacred Economics

• Chris Martenson, author, The Crash Course

• John Restakis, author, Humanizing the Economy

• James Howard Kunstler, author, The Long Emergency

 


 

Sustainability means slowing down.
Join us for unique, wide-ranging discussions about:
• SLOW ECONOMICS – commerce, investing, management, markets, ownership
• SLOW POLICIES – Fixing government, fixing corporations, fixing nonprofits
• SLOW COMMUNITIES – Food/land, habitat, health/lifestyle, faith/spirit, arts/
culture, education/ learning, systems/tech/energy, news/social media
Who should come:
• business leaders
• entrepreneurs
• educators, students
• government officials
• foundation and non-profit
leaders
• journalists
• artists
• community leaders
• ...and engaged citizens.
Speakers and Presenters Incude:
• Gov. Peter Shumlin of Vermont
• David Orr, Prof. of Environmental Studies, Oberlin College
• Woody Tasch, founder and chair, Slow Money
• Charles Eisenstein, author, Sacred Economics
• Chris Martenson, author, The Crash Course
• John Restakis, author, Humanizing the Economy

• James Howard Kunstler, author, The Long Emergency

 

 


Website : http://www.slowlivingsummit.org