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Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Pull Factor Project: Shifting Culture Towards Sustainable Living

BBMG

We unite deep human insight with breakthrough strategy and fearless creative to help organizations re-invent their categories, mobilize movements on issues that matter and commercialize brand purpose to fuel business success with humanity at the center.

We are strategic creatives and creative strategists, culture experts and design thinkers on a mission to build brands that are relevant to a new generation and resilient for the fast, transparent and volatile world we live in today.

We believe humans deserve better brands, purposeful organizations, deeper connections, more empathy, more wonder and loads of honesty. Because when you get right down to it, humans don’t really need brands – brands need humans.

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Brands Are Shaping a Better Future by Designing for How People Live
Brands Are Shaping a Better Future by Designing for How People Live

5 months ago - SB Brand-Led Culture Change featured a host of insights into how brands are engaging customers and changing behaviors through circular design and making energy-efficient choices “normal;” and two new guides aim to equip businesses to meaningfully address social- and climate-justice issues.

Love, Loyalty & Lifestyle: Making Circularity Irresistible
Love, Loyalty & Lifestyle: Making Circularity Irresistible

5 months ago - To unleash the power of circular design at scale, brands require an understanding of the cultural conditions at play. Here are five design principles that we’ve learned from our work with brands helping lead the way.

Brand-Led Culture Change Key to a Flourishing Future
Brand-Led Culture Change Key to a Flourishing Future

1 year ago - By prioritizing bold business imperatives and meeting deep human needs, brands can transform themselves into the leaders of a new, regenerative economy. But these initiatives cannot thrive in a closed system of communication.

For Sustainable Behavior Change, Brands Must Cut Through the Marketing Noise to the Hearts, Values of Consumers
For Sustainable Behavior Change, Brands Must Cut Through the Marketing Noise to the Hearts, Values of Consumers

2 years ago - This week at SB’22 San Diego, over 1K sustainability practitioners have converged to share insights, tools, inspiration and opportunities for collaboration with the goal of building a regenerative future for all. Here, we catch up on the latest insights into enlisting the help of consumers to help brands meet their goals.

Recurate’s Inaugural Resale Report Highlights Goldmine in Brand-Owned Recommerce
Recurate’s Inaugural Resale Report Highlights Goldmine in Brand-Owned Recommerce

2 years ago - Many brands that offer pre-owned merchandise through their own retail channels initially do it for sustainability reasons — to keep useful products out of landfills. While that is an important benefit of recommerce, thinking of it only in those terms is overlooking major business opportunities.

New Report Outlines 5 Principles for Regenerative Brand Leadership
New Report Outlines 5 Principles for Regenerative Brand Leadership

2 years ago - BBMG and GlobeScan’s ‘Leading Regenerative Brands: Five Paradigm Shifts to Thrive in a World in Flux’ is part manifesto on the imperative to build a purpose-driven company and part handbook for how to do it.

A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma: New Insights, Approaches to Brand-Led Culture Change
A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma: New Insights, Approaches to Brand-Led Culture Change

2 years ago - Creating meaningful consumer behavior change remains a ‘white whale’ for Purpose-driven brands. Here, we hear a behavior-first approach to changing culture, needed paradigm shifts for regenerative leadership, and the latest research on meaningfully connecting with dithering consumers.

Brand Storytelling: A Mechanism for Building a Regenerative Future
Brand Storytelling: A Mechanism for Building a Regenerative Future

2 years ago - On the final day of SB’21 San Diego, a diverse array of keynote speakers explored some of the many ways in which storytelling can be a powerful tool for manifesting the future we need.

How to Redesign Products, Services, Messaging, Business Models for a Better Future
How to Redesign Products, Services, Messaging, Business Models for a Better Future

2 years ago - At SB’21 San Diego, innovators in the apparel, food, plastics, real estate, retail, spirits industries and more shared lessons learned from a variety of initiatives aimed at enabling a circular, regenerative future.

Co-Creating Breakthrough Solutions for the Future We Want
Co-Creating Breakthrough Solutions for the Future We Want

3 years ago - To regenerate the system, we have to regenerate how we work together. What if we brought the experience of elders and the courage of the next generation together with the brand leaders tasked with shifting paradigms and making essential decisions?

Consumers Are Hungry for Regenerative Food Brands
Consumers Are Hungry for Regenerative Food Brands

3 years ago - With shifting food habits, supply chains and levels of access to new information, today’s consumers recognize the urgent need to change how they eat. In order to meet the urgency of this moment, the new BBMG/GlobeScan report, “Radically Better Food,” outlines four imperatives for regenerative food brands.

To Be an Anti-Racist Brand: Start by Being Aware, Additive and Alive
To Be an Anti-Racist Brand: Start by Being Aware, Additive and Alive

3 years ago - The next frontier of sustainability is regeneration — building brands that actively restore and renew a system. And that’s as true for our systems that continue to allow racial injustice as for our environmental ecosystems.

Survey: Gen Z Counting on Brands to Help Create a ‘Radically Better Future’
Survey: Gen Z Counting on Brands to Help Create a ‘Radically Better Future’

4 years ago - New BBMG-GlobeScan study finds the next generation of citizens is looking for transformative brand leadership, co-created solutions, and radical change for the future they want.

3 Ways We’ll Change the Game in 2020
3 Ways We’ll Change the Game in 2020

4 years ago - Our global community of innovators is always abuzz with activity, but momentum generated from three initiatives this year have us particularly excited to follow them in the year to come.

#BrandsForGood, #Strawless Laying Groundwork for Sustainable Behavior Change
#BrandsForGood, #Strawless Laying Groundwork for Sustainable Behavior Change

5 years ago - On Wednesday, day three of SB’19 Detroit, the focus was on collective brand efforts to create the significant shifts in consumer behavior necessary for The Good Life to become a reality.

Brands Large and Small on Driving the Change They Wish to See in the World
Brands Large and Small on Driving the Change They Wish to See in the World

5 years ago - SB’19 Detroit was off to an engaging start this week, with powerhouses including Allbirds, Cisco, Eileen Fisher and Timberland comparing notes with rising craft brands and even Little Miss Flint on the most effective ways to continue to drive change toward a healthy, sustainable future.

Sustainable Brands Convenes Global Brand Leaders at SB’19 Detroit
Sustainable Brands Convenes Global Brand Leaders at SB’19 Detroit

5 years ago - Sustainable Brands® kicks off SB’19 Detroit, its largest community gathering of global brand and sustainability leaders dedicated to advancing social and environmental innovation today at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit.

‘We Believe’: Communicators Weigh In on P&G’s Controversial New Ad
‘We Believe’: Communicators Weigh In on P&G’s Controversial New Ad

5 years ago - We reached out to communication leaders in the SB community for their take on P&G’s spotlight on toxic masculinity.

Technology at Its Tipping Point: A Design Manifesto for Humanity
Technology at Its Tipping Point: A Design Manifesto for Humanity

6 years ago - Today, we are at a confluence of three global tipping points.

New Collaboratory Forming to Strengthen Sustainability ‘Pull Factor’
New Collaboratory Forming to Strengthen Sustainability ‘Pull Factor’

6 years ago - For more information or to engage in the collaboratory, contact Sustainable Brands. Sustainability can often feel like a selling point that we push onto consumers; only a small portion of brands are truly sought out for their sustainability attributes alone. Creating lust, craving or desire for sustainability requires a deep understanding of the core human emotions that drive action, and a knowledge of how to reliably elicit these emotions in a market setting.