{"id":1294,"date":"2012-11-12T19:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2012-11-12T19:45:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:45:15","slug":"vp-of-social-and-environmental-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"VP of Social and Environmental Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1295\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=1295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1295\" title=\"tn_24020\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tn_24020.png\" alt=\"tn_24020\" width=\"100\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Meet Michael Kobori. He is VP of Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss and Company<a title=\"Levi Strauss and Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.levistrauss.com\/sustainability\/people\" target=\"_blank\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is the person I had in mind when in March of 2011 I wrote a <a title=\"Susainability Advocate\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=525\" target=\"_blank\">blog post <\/a>comparing sustainability to  corporate social responsibility (CSR) and noted &#8220;Up to now the C-level  sustainability officer is generally focused on  environmental concerns,  water and energy being high priorities, and cost  reductions.\u00a0 At the  social and environmental sustainability  intersection is where companies  can begin to examine their role in externalizing risks and costs, a practice and mind set that has greatly harmed the environment and all living beings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So look at how Levi&#8217;s represents sustainability on their <a title=\"Levi Strauss and Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.levistrauss.com\/sustainability\/peoplehttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1296\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?attachment_id=1296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1296\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-11-12 at 11.28.28 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-12-at-11.28.28-AM-300x186.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2012-11-12 at 11.28.28 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-12-at-11.28.28-AM-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-12-at-11.28.28-AM.png 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the leader.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to a<a title=\"Michael Kobori\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthsayers.com\/special_collection\/Leadership_Innovation_and_Sustainability_Initiatives_by_Levis_Michael_Kobori\/63\/24020\" target=\"_blank\"> video interview<\/a> of Michael by 3BL Media at the BSR 2012 conference on EarthSayers.tv, voices of sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Ann Barrett, Sustainability Advocate, November 12, 2012, Portland Oregon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best example I&#8217;v found yet of a manufacturer understanding and adopting sustainability in the person of Michael Kobori, VP of Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss and Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,435,5],"tags":[100,73,490,489,384,118,666,115,291],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-leadership-sustainability","category-sustainability","tag-csr","tag-earthsayers","tag-enviromental","tag-levi-strauss","tag-ruth-ann-barrett","tag-social-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainability-advocate","tag-voices-of-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}