How To Build A Sustainable Business Model

In this video, you'll receive an overview of the key issues surrounding people and the planet and how that relates to the bottom line of an organisation. We’ll also look at vision and opportunity in successful businesses - and how we can turn that into a force for good.

In this 7 minute Lesson, we discuss how to build a brand around you, so that it has longevity. Here we get to grips with understanding your personal values and how they align to your business idea, along with how you can start to build a business strategy with a purpose.

In this 17 minute Lesson we take an in-depth look at factors that will affect your business model and strategies. To effectively build, launch and promote your brand, it’s absolutely essential to understand certain areas first: understand your target customer, determine your start-up costs, and get your assets and capital down into a business plan.

This is a 17 minute Lesson that covers examples of business models you can adopt as an ethical business. There are types here you may not have thought about or come across before, that could really change the course of your business journey and have a huge impact on your growth.

We also cover case studies of businesses successfully implementing sustainable business models, and what competitors are out there too.

This is a downloadable guide on how to write a business model.

Now that you have explored the potential of sustainable business models, you will have a good idea of the impactful business you want to build. It is time to construct the perfect business plan.

Most importantly, a sustainable business model is about defining what success means to you and what you value. Is success offering work to artisan makers who would otherwise be in poverty? Is it sourcing and using materials that may have otherwise gone to landfill? Yes, you need a profit to survive and grow, but what else is important to you in your business plan?

In this Lesson you will be guided through how to write a business plan as a responsible ethical business.

This 19-minute video focuses on the theory of degrowth in business, and how cutting back on resource and energy usage doesn’t have to mean losing profits. In fact, it’s our mindless focus on constant growth that has created the toxic culture of exploitation within “capitalism’s favourite child”: the fashion industry. Director of Offset Warehouse and The Sustainable Fashion Collective, Charlie Bradley Ross, explains how you can – and why you should – start adopting principles of degrowth for your own business.

This 21-minute video explains how fashion businesses can adopt the concept of degrowth, and contribute to a more sustainable industry - and an anti-capitalist society for all.