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5 Simple Tips for Marketing Sustainability [Even to conventional customers]

Ever sit on a one-legged stool? It’s actually possible. But it sure doesn’t support you the way a stool with three legs does. Look at much of the media and marketing messaging around ‘sustainability’, and you might think polar bears are its primary beneficiaries. Look solely at some business sustainability indexes, and you might not realize environment was even included in the definition of sustainability. But like that much-more-stable stool, sustainability has three pillars (or 4, or more, depending on which definition you favor), and failing to market each of those pillars can blunt your reach. At a minimum, sustainable systems, products, or practices should provide benefit not just environmentally…