Dr. Bronner’s COVID Product Donation Program During the first two months of 2020, at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the U.S., demand for Dr. Bronner’s hand sanitizer and soap skyrocketed. As the company scrambled to ramp up production to fill orders, we heard from long-time allies at Urban Justice’s Safety Net Project in New York City.
Category: Advocacy
You Shop, San Diego Youth Benefit!
by Sara Tajik
Your purchase matters. When you participate in our ShoppingGives program, we will donate 10% of sales on drbronner.com to one of the following four organizations serving our home base of San Diego County. You get to choose which organization to support, at no extra cost to you! Alliance San Diego, Boys & Girls Club of Greater San Diego,
Book Sneak Peek: HONOR THY LABEL
by Gero Leson
How do the leaders of our fair trade projects and partnerships approach growth and diversification? This excerpt from my forthcoming book, Honor Thy Label, describes how our Indian supplier of mint oils, Pavitramenthe, has begun to diversify their offerings and customer base. Honor Thy Label is available for pre-order today! Receive a complementary limited-edition 4oz Dr.
Dr. Bronner’s Supports Menstrual Hygiene in Rural India
Imagine being a young girl growing up in rural India. Your family is poor. Your father is a farmer and your mother is a housewife. You want to go to school and break out of the cycle of poverty. But then, you menstruate for the first time, and people tell you that it’s better to stay home during “that time of the month.”
Marking Eight Years of Giving to End the Exploitation and Suffering of Animals
We are proud to mark the eighth year of our philanthropy program to support efforts to end the exploitation and suffering of animals used for food. We make this commitment alongside the company’s other core causes, including regenerative organic agriculture, criminal justice reform, drug policy reform, fair trade & fair pay, and community initiatives in the San Diego area.
Dr. Bronner’s Supports the MORE Act and Descheduling Cannabis as a Controlled Substance
Earlier this year, we posted about the need to address systemic racism in the U.S. and the mass incarceration of people of color through changes in both state and federal drug policy. We have also been vocal advocates of ending cannabis prohibition for more than a decade, and actively encourage best practices in what is projected to be an industry worth billions of dollars in the coming years.
No, You Can’t Smoke This Soap
We could think of no better way to raise awareness about regenerative, organically grown cannabis, than to create this amazing Sun+Earth Cannabis-Scented Bar Soap, only available as part of the 2020 Sun+Earth crowdfunding campaign. Sun+Earth Certified is the first-of-its-kind certification for cannabis products that are grown outdoors in a regenerative organic agriculture model. It’s a guarantee that cannabis is grown in soil in the sun without chemicals by fairly paid farmers and workers.
Why Dr. Bronner’s Supports Sun+Earth Certification
Dr. Bronner’s is firmly committed to regenerative organic agriculture—we were instrumental in getting Regenerative Organic Certification launched and are working on sourcing the majority of our ingredients from Regenerative Organic Certified projects. Why are we so fired up about regenerative organic agriculture? Crucially, we know that regenerative organic agriculture builds soil health and sequesters atmospheric carbon,
Heal Soul! Victories for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Drug Policy Reform
We’re celebrating the successful passage of two ballot initiatives that Dr. Bronner’s funded as part of our Heal Soul campaign, which supports public education efforts, advocacy organizations, and political campaigns around the country working to mainstream psychedelic-assisted therapy and medicines to treat depression, PTSD, addiction, and end-of-life anxiety. Both the Oregon Psilocybin Therapy Initiative Yes on 109 in Oregon,
Dr. Bronner’s Voter Guide
Tuesday, November 3 is Election Day, and this is your last chance to vote in state and federal elections. Did Election Day sneak up on you? You’re not alone! There may still be time to cast a ballot in your state through same-day registration and in-person voting at your local polling location. Click here to learn more about your state: https://www.eac.gov/voters/register-and-vote-in-your-state While we’ve been saturated with news for months about the high-profile races for the White House,