This year is especially crucial to our national sustainability efforts, with big decisions to be made in the wake of Covid-19 and COP26 approaching in November. So it was particularly important for…
For decades, the beauty industry has offered wonder products and secret formulas – but when it comes to ingredients and impact, mystery is no longer an option. It’s time to break the…
Over the last decade, brand purpose has become key to business success. Not only does a strong brand purpose boost purchase intent–it also draws the best employees and the smartest investors. And despite…
Transparency expectations are mounting to a pressure point that your business can’t afford to ignore. A few years ago, being ‘cancelled’ was something only producers of TV shows needed to worry about….
Oatly, the popular oat milk, raised $200m in July. However, lifelong fans are now boycotting Oatly, after hearing it had received funds from a “Trump-supporting, anti-sustainability private equity firm.” If you want…
Exposed this week in the New York Times for transparency ambitions that don’t match up with company reality, Everlane are becoming an example of what happens when you don’t follow a robust…
This article was originally posted on City A.M. on the 21st of July 2020 and authored by Provenance founder & CEO, Jessi Baker. Modern slavery is a pandemic. No brand today should…
Sarah Perreard gives a powerful TEDx talk that is deeply aligned with what I set out to tackle when I started Provenance. Sharing why transparency is the key to ending climate change,…
“We are intimately interconnected with nature, whether we like it or not. If we don’t take care of nature, we can’t take care of ourselves.” – Inger Anderson, Director of the UN…
As a part of the panel for “Consumer engagement: Turning negatives into positives and influencing choices” at the Edie Sustainability Leaders Forum in London this week, we led a hands-on workshop around…
Small businesses can now get started on Provenance for free to share what’s great about their business and supply chain with shoppers that want to know more. I set up Provenance for…
This October, we’re promoting our founding SME members including Tideford Organic, The People’s Supermarket, and Farmdrop, in a month-long campaign celebrating open, honest businesses. It’ll be a chance for you to discover the…
Berlin played host to this year’s CE100 Summit, held annually by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. A digest of thoughts during a plane ride back from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation CE100 gathering in…
A great new TED Talk by subject expert Rachel Botsman articulates the future of trust and the great opportunity to redesign systems so they are transparent, inclusive and accountable. As a social…
Business, product and item level transparency for a Cornish smoked haddock. To kick off January, the Provenance team worked with premium fishmonger Jonathan Norris to tell the story and prove the journey…
Growing Social Architecture For the fourth Tools for the Future series, the Proof of Work and Coinscrum Bitcoin Meetup was focused on the socio-economic side of the Blockchain. We at Provenance presented alongside…