How Candles — and Everything Else You Order Online — Reach Your Door — As recent investigations show, the relative invisibility of the human and logistical stories behind online shopping is both impressive and worrying. Because we ship thousands of packages a month at Keap Candles, we can talk openly about what it takes for a small business, working hard to do things the…

Highlighting the Power of Seaforestation in the Fight Against Climate Change — Beneath the ocean’s surface, along the floors of shallow coastal waters, exist gardens so lush you can see them from space. These are seagrass meadows, congregations of aquatic flowering plants. They’re a lot like their terrestrial counterparts — except with sea turtles swooping through the stalks. …

Each of Us Has a Role to Play in Creating Sustainable Systems — About 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide are pumped into the atmosphere every year; its impact on the global ecosphere is well documented. Lesser known is the fact that you are responsible for roughly 24 billion of those tons. Well, not you personally of course, but “you” the average consumer…

Indigenous Wisdom Points the Way Toward a Healthier Future for People and the Planet — In a nondescript conference room in Sachs Harbour, 10 or 15 of the tiny Canadian town’s primarily Inuvialuit residents sit on plastic chairs. …

Ownership Model Helps Residents Have a Say in Land Use — In June of 2020, amid the historic nationwide wave of Black Lives Matter protests and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a group of homeless Philadelphians established an encampment at Von Colln Memorial Field, less than a mile from the art museum steps made famous by Rocky. A second encampment was soon…

Rethinking Business with a Stakeholder-Minded Approach — Like most small businesses, Trident Booksellers and Cafe of Boulder, Colorado, took a hit when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. last year. Lockdown orders erased the possibility of foot traffic, and social-distancing rules meant the staff could serve fewer customers when the store was open. So Trident adapted…

Keap Candles Aims to Reclaim Joyful Time — We recently decided to shut down the Keap Candles social media pages for good. This has been a decision long in the making, and we thought others might want to hear more about the reasonings behind it. We started Keap to prioritize connection: to the natural world, to our loved…

These Favorites from Fellow B Corps Make Great Gifts—and Support Companies That Care About Their Impact — Now is the perfect time to remind ourselves how much voting power we hold in our wallets. The dollars we spend allow us to Vote Every Day for companies that align with our values. …

Best For The World Honoree Creates Candle Subscription Community and Builds Its Business for the Long-Term — What follows is the Keap story about making candles and figuring out what to charge for them; the mistakes we made and lessons we learned, and why we’re raising prices next month. Early Days The background to our current price increase begins many moons ago, when Harry Doull and I started Keap…