Brenna Davis:
PCC Community Markets is the nature nation's largest food co-op. We've grown to $383 million in sales, and we have 15 stores across the Puget Sound area. We were founded in 1953 and we've been working on sustainability since the 1970s - so that's over 50 years. In 2018, we rolled out arguably one of the most ambitious set of sustainability goals in grocery, that included carbon negative store operations, reducing emissions associated with refrigerant leaks by 50%, 100% renewable energy, and one really big goal was to eliminate petroleum-based plastic from our deli.
Rebecca Hamilton:
Badger is a much smaller company than my other co-panelists, but as a manufacturer and a smaller company, we have a little bit of a different story. Badger was started around 1995, and in 2011 we became a Certified B Corp and that really kicked us off on a journey of measuring our impact, understanding how to operationalize, looking at goal setting, creating an environmental monitoring system, and focusing internally on how do we mitigate our impact as a business?