Health Wellness Series

Food, health and fitness organizations face increasing expectations to align their internal practices with the implied benefit of their products. Are these businesses ensuring the sustainability of their own operations? What responsibility or role do they have in helping customers lead healthy and active lives, and what barriers must they overcome to assume this role? Join us in tackling these questions through our series, Great Expectations, where we will explore the challenges and successes of companies working to walk the talk in helping us eat, play, and explore in a more sustainable fashion.

Guest Editors:
Dana Ledyard is an avid hiker, explorer, and marathoner, and when not hitting the Bay Area trails she can be found pursuing courses in sustainability and CSR at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Becky Eisen has a background in social enterprise consulting and leading national anti-poverty campaigns. She is currently pursuing her MBA at the University of Maryland, Smith School of Business.

Izabel Loinaz is founder and CEO of Spring Partners Inc., the parent company of Spring Pilates & Yoga in San Francisco. She is a certified GRI sustainability reporter and is developing a sustainable business consultantcy for the sport, fitness and athletic industry. Izabel is currently Sustainable MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School.



The Ark of Taste: Eating Well to Save Species

This post is part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana Ledyard, Izabel Loinaz. Follow along with the series here. Joining good food with sustainability is one organization’s recipe for saving America’s food traditions. By Aaron Kagan Slow Food International reminds us it is possible to [...]

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Healthy Fast Food Entrepreneur Shares Her Secrets for Getting Kids to Love Healthy Food

This post is part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana Ledyard, Izabel Loinaz. Follow along with the series here. Heather StoufferFounder and CEO, Mom Made Foods Over the last few decades, Americans have been feeding their children fried, fat and sodium-laden, white or artificially rainbow-colored, [...]

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Crop Mobs Build Communities and Create Access to Healthy Local Food

This post is part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana Ledyard, Izabel Loinaz. Follow along with the series here. Diane Hatz, Co-Founder and Director of the Glynwood Institute for Sustainable Food and Farming, conceptualizes, develops and implements innovative solutions to problems with food and farming.  Diane shared [...]

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Sustainability at Outward Bound

This post is part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana Ledyard, Izabel Loinaz. Follow along with the series here. I’m Greg Bunn, Director of Facilities for Outward Bound. Although this is my 15th year working for Outward Bound, I am new to this position since [...]

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Op-Ed: Criminal Charges Should be Brought in Peanut Salmonella Cases

This post is part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana Ledyard, Izabel Loinaz. Follow along with the series here. This post originally appeared on Appetite for Profit and is re-posted with permission. By: Michele Simon Last month I spoke at the Government Accountability Project Food [...]

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Greenlight Apparel: Change from Within

This post is part of a series on sustainability in the health and wellness industry, curated by Becky Eisen, Dana Ledyard, Izabel Loinaz. Follow along with the series here. By: Ryan Chamberlain If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em…then beat ‘em. That’s one way of defining the strategy of Greenlight Apparel: Join a traditionally wicked [...]

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Interview: How to Implement a Hospital’s Sustainability Program

Gail Lee, Sustainability Manager at University of California San Francisco medical facility, sat down with Izabel Loinaz to discuss the challenges in greening a major medical hospital.

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Corporations Have the Power to End Hunger in America

As Americans get ever more health conscious, it becomes clear that industry can play as great a role as the government when it comes to impacting behaviors regarding food and nutrition.

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Food Industry Rebates: Choosing Between Corporate Greed and Children’s Health

When I stumbled into an opportunity to observe the kitchen operations at my daughter’s elementary school in the District of Columbia, I naively thought I was going to be watching food cooked from scratch.

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Treading Sustainably in Outdoor Adventuring

While our formal initiative is relatively recent, environmental sustainability is not new to the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

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Collaboration Trumps Competition in One Apparel Initiative

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 marked a major milestone for collaborative, private sector initiatives: the unveiling of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, a group of global apparel and footwear companies committed to reducing the environmental and social impacts of their products.

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