I-18: Social Co-Benefits – Above Green

Living Products give back to society. Looking beyond strictly environmental metrics to consider social impacts of their actions, manufacturers can create positive social change through their Handprinting actions, known as social co-benefits. Manufacturers must demonstrate that at the time of certification, and for at least the next three years of production, they will work within the broader ecosystem of suppliers, workers, customers and key stakeholders to harness social co-benefits from their environmental Handprint strategies by:

Providing a narrative describing how their environmental Handprinting strategies are designed to also generate social co-benefits.
Creating a plan to measure and assess the social co-benefits over the next three years and creating a process to re-evaluate their results.
Gathering brief narratives from any organizations the manufacturer partners with to bring about social co-benefits.