{"id":6227,"date":"2014-05-21T03:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6227"},"modified":"2014-06-19T06:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T06:04:36","slug":"2014-06-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit Corporations, Global Consciousness and How You Can Co-Create a Sustainable Economic System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"John Montgomery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-01\/\">Benefit Corporations, Global Consciousness and How You Can Co-Create a Sustainable Economic System<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"John Montgomery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-01\/\">John Montgomery<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"John Montgomery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-01\/\">June 1, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3531\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3531 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-31-John-Montgomery-350-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"John Montgomery\" width=\"226\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-31-John-Montgomery-350-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2013-03-31-John-Montgomery-350.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 85vw, 226px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Montgomery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year, John Montgomery (a corporate attorney, entrepreneur, leadership consultant, speaker and author) introduced the Humanist Community to the latest evolutionary form of the corporation, the benefit corporation, which is the first corporate form that has a social and environmental conscience in addition to the usual profit oriented one. Benefit corporations have now been adopted by 26 states, DC, and British Columbia , and are being considered by countries in Europe and Latin America . John will discuss this shift in global consciousness in business to a triple bottom line approach \u2013 people, planet and profit \u2013 and invite you to help co-create a sustainable economic system.<\/p>\n<p>(See <a title=\"John Link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehumanist.com\/contributor\/john-montgomery\/\">http:\/\/thehumanist.com\/contributor\/john-montgomery\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You can view the slides from the presentation by <a title=\"Montgomery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/John-Montgomery-00089212.pdf\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/98296392\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/98296392\">Humanist Community Forum (2014-06-01): Benefit Corporations and a Sustainable Economic System<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benefit Corporations, Global Consciousness and How You Can Co-Create a Sustainable Economic System John Montgomery June 1, 2014 Last year, John Montgomery (a corporate attorney, entrepreneur, leadership consultant, speaker and author) introduced the Humanist Community to the latest evolutionary form of the corporation, the benefit corporation, which is the first corporate form that has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-06-01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Benefit Corporations, Global Consciousness and How You Can Co-Create a Sustainable Economic System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[142,175,77,208,207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}