Category Archives: Sustainability

FDA Should Use New FTC Digital Guidelines as Guardrails for Social Media

The Pharmaceutical industry may just have the social media guardrails it has long been waiting for. While the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates the industry, hasn’t yet issued its promised social media guidance, it may just defer to…

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Marketing on Purpose: Brands Embrace Causes to Engage With Customers

Savvy brand marketers have discovered what consumers have long known: that having a purpose behind one’s work leads to greater fulfillment. Brands that have made support of a cause an integral part of their marketing strategy are finding it opens…

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Women and Power Conference Reminds Us of Our Role in Society

Zoe and I attended the “Women & Power” conference this past weekend at the Omega campus in Rhinebeck, NY.  As a women owned business and given Omega is near our office, it seemed only natural that this should be one…

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Hale Celebrates its First Anniversary: Women’s Rights, Health, Education and of Course…Mobile

This month, Beth and Zoe celebrate the official one-year anniversary of Hale Advisors, Inc. – a partnership that stemmed from shared savvy business acumen and a similar vision for company growth and success. As a way to commemorate, it was…

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Healthcare Makes Green Purchasing a Higher Priority

The healthcare industry plays a vital role in both human health and the health of the planet. This message was the focus of this month’s CleanMed conference in Denver, Colorado presented by Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth, the…

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Does Our Health Care Environment Support Healthy Outcomes?

As I look at the work that Practice Greenhealth, HealthCareWithoutHarm, and Kaiser Permanente are doing on the topic of greener medical supplies, it makes me wonder if our health care environment is actually healthy.  Of all the places to ensure…

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A Sustainable Business for Social Good: G3Box

As a socially conscience business, we believe it is important to promote sustainable practices throughout the healthcare and medical field. We were inspired by this story of four engineering students from ASU who turned a class project into a real…

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Letting Food Be Your Medicine – Farmaceuticals

Each year we go through the same cycle regarding our health: we get sick, go to the doctor, he or she prescribes us medicine, and we get better in most cases.  This series of events is our idea of being…

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PharmaCares™: An opportunity to reduce medical waste and do good for the pharmaceutical industry.

Since we have been highlighting the issues around medical waste, we thought it was time to discuss some of the innovation approaches some organizations are taking to deal with the issue.  And the timing was perfect as friend of ours…

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Finally a Sustainability/CSR Ratings Comparison Tool – a look at JustMeans Insights ™ and the Pharmaceutical Industry

Recently 3BLMedia/JustMeans launched JustMeans Insights ™, a data visualization platform for measuring, managing and comparing sustainability performance. The platform provides sustainability practitioners, media and investors with the ability to compare 100+ different environmental, social and governance (ESG) data points among…

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