Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods (HLH), today announced its accreditation as a certified B Corporation, a status that has been achieved by less than 800 companies worldwide. HLH joins a new class of companies that use the power of business to help to resolve social environmental and economic problems, leading a global movement to redefine success in business.

“Our mission has always been to create a high value, carbon neutral sustainable business model which benefits our clients, empowers our employees, supports our communities and eliminates our environmental impact,” said Jeff Dunster, CEO of HLH. “We sought B Corp accreditation because we share those same values that power the B Corp community, and will provide us with a third party set of standards by which we can assess our progress in meeting those goals”.

About B Lab
B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement to redefine success in business so that all companies compete not only to be the best in the world, but the best for the world. B Lab drives this systemic change through a number of interrelated initiatives: 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 legislation to accelerate growth of social entrepreneurship and impact investing (12 states have already passed benefit corporation legislation); 3) driving capital to high impact investments through the use of GIIRS Ratings and Analytics (more than 60 investors with over $3B in impact assets under management use GIIRS); and 4) providing powerful tools for businesses to measure, compare and improve their social and environmental performance.

Certified B Corporations meet higher standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. B Corp believes that setting these higher standards in a clear and measurable way matters, because, as B Corp co-founder Jay Cohen Gilbert says, “With so many companies marketing themselves as 'good' and 'green', it's important walking the talk.”

One more reason to feel good about this forest—more than one third of all Legacy Tree proceeds goes to charity. The HLH Legacy Tree program currently supports more than 240 charities worldwide—planting roots in the forest while planting roots in the community. Learn more about sponsoring your own legacy tree: www.LegacyTrees.org.

HLH is donating 1000 acres of its sustainable koa project to restoring an entire native Hawaiian forest eco-system on the slopes of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Once the personal property of King Kamehameha The Great, the first king of Hawaii. This old growth koa forest was almost lost to a century of clear-cut harvesting and cattle grazing, but with the help of caring individuals is making a comeback.

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Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods

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