Sustainability Blog
How can we re-design a food system that supports farmers and the land, is truly healthy, and results in a life-supporting local and global economy poised to feed billions? We’re amazed at what we found out researching these questions. Human innovation, ingenuity, and creativity seem to thrive when times are tough, and we finally recognize natures design constraints. Our blog this month shares cool stories of revolutionary food innovations sprouting up across the globe that are beginning to define a sustainable food paradigm by addressing world hunger, climate change, and turn food deserts into abundant nutrient oasis’…it’s happening, people! Growing […]
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Fall is here, and so are our October desktop backgrounds! We hope you find a little joy in this month’s selection, featuring moody colors, playful graphics, and intricate designs. Happy Autumn to our wonderful Live Creative community! Download October Background Download Music Background Download Velvet Wallpaper Background Download Organizer Background Live Creative is a sustainable business, marketing, and shopping hub. Our Creative Studio offers authentic marketing, branding, and sustainable business expertise to ethical, sustainable, and purpose brands. And Sustainable Business Team offers sustainability strategy and goals setting as well as sustainable packaging services. And, our Lifestyle Team curates our global Sustainable Marketplace, the Durango Sustainable […]
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It’s time for all businesses to do their part to change business for good and create a climate positive plan of action. Small business to large corporations all need to play a role in decarbonization (i.e. eliminating Green House Gases (GHG’s) and the use of fossil fuels in their operations, ditto for their suppliers, in shipping, packaging, and product material inputs) over the next 10+ years to thwart catastrophic climate change. The good news is that we have solutions. Business solutions such as, carbon offsets (i.e. tree planting; deforestation investing, etc. solar farms); redesigning fossil fuels out of our product […]
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The truth is, much of the world’s social and environmental problems can be solved by literally redesigning our world. As a marketing and creative agency in Durango, Colorado, with global impact, Live Creative Studio works with both entrepreneurs and established companies to innovate through purpose-driven branding and marketing. Some call it eco-marketing or sustainable marketing, while others call it marketing for conscious, green, or B Corporations. We call it purpose-driven marketing. We design for impact. We design to change the world no matter how you define your company. To explore this idea of re-designing our world, I teamed up with […]
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Marketing Sustainability What’s in a word? Everything. It holds memories, smells, assumptions, beliefs, colors, positions, ideas, right and wrong. A word is loaded; a single word can communicate entire worlds. What does the word ‘Sustainability’ communicate? What kind of world does it hold out as possible? To my mind, even ‘Photosynthesis’ sounds sexier. Who wants to sustain? Stay the same? Who wants to be regulated and or told how to live and what to believe, as if the word Sustainability holds the truth? Who wants a business that does great things for the planet, but fails financially, as is the […]
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Carbon—From Enemy to Resource What does sustainable business have to do with climate change? Our global economy today was built on cheap fossil fuel energy (carbon stored in the ground), which has fueled a never-ending thirst for more and more energy to keep it going and growing. While many point at business as the evil destroyer of the planet, I do not. I believe growing business is natural—everything in nature is growing; it is our natural order and drive. That said, I do believe that business must reinvent itself as a force for environmental and social good and take the […]
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The end of summer has arrived, and with it, our new September desktop graphics. This month’s selection features minimalistic linear designs, pastel colors & retro vibes: marking the transition from lazy summer days to crisp fall evenings. Download September Background Download Good Vibes Only Background Download Calendar Background Download Sunburst Background Live Creative is a sustainable business, marketing, and shopping hub. Our Creative Studio offers authentic marketing, branding, and sustainable business expertise to ethical, sustainable, and purpose brands. And Sustainable Business Team offers sustainability strategy and goals setting as well as sustainable packaging services. And, our Lifestyle Team curates our global Sustainable Marketplace, the Durango […]
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Written by guest blogger Dorothy Parker, Owner + Sustainable Interior Designer at d+b design | Durango, Colorado Many brands, companies and services offer up tag words such as “sustainable”, “environmentally friendly”, and “eco-friendly”. What do these claims mean? Short answer, it varies and unless it’s coming from a certified sustainable business or their product is certified (cradle-to-cradle, circular, fair trade, forest certified, etc.), it’s purely for marketing purposes (aka Greenwashing). Sustainable interior design can mean many different things. For d+b design it means striving for better and healthier products for your home. With a certification as a Green AP from […]
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When it comes to fashion, less is more in terms of sustainability. The fashion & retail industry produces 10% of all carbon emissions, and an excessive amount of unwanted clothing winds up in landfills every year. While we’re excited for all the new warm-weather clothes and bright patterns, we can’t ignore the impact fast fashion is having on our planet. We all have a responsibility to make conscious, informed choices about the brands that we support, and we’re excited to share our list of those that are striving to make sustainable fashion accessible to everyone—and that we proudly support ourselves. […]
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Local Eco-Friendly and Green Business Boom Durango, Colorado is not like other mountain towns; we’re uniquely geographically located where the dessert meets the Rocky Mountains. Half an hour in any direction and you have access to river rafting, mountain biking on world class trails and ebiking along our Animas River or hiking at 10,000+ feet. Our location also brings forth an eclectic mix of ranching, Native American Tribes, and outdoor enthusiasts who call Durango home. The uniting force here in our small rural mountain town is our mutual love of the land. Locals and transplants alike make care for our […]
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