INTENT
Manufacturing should recognize its impacts on all species and seek to give back to ecosystems whose materials support the creation of their products and functioning of our day to day lives. This Imperative asks that manufacturers donate a small percentage of their gross profits to approved conservation organizations that support Ecosystem health, conservation and restoration.
REQUIREMENTS
Living Products support habitat restoration to help account for the ecological impacts from the materials used to create the product. For every dollar of gross profit generated by the sale of the certified product for the duration of the certification period, manufacturers must annually donate a quarter cent to an approved conservation or Land Trust organization.
CHANGES FROM LPC 1.1 TO 2.0
This Imperative was adjusted in 2.0 to align with the giving amounts required in Imperative 16 Equitable Investment, and to support adoption of LPC at scale by manufacturers. The percentage required for donation was reduced from ½ cent per dollar of gross profit, to ¼ cent instead. The Imperative also more clearly calls out the need to maintain donations for the duration of the certification period (rather than just for the initial certification year).
Additional pathways that align with giving programs such as 1% for the Planet were also introduced to allow manufacturers flexibility in meeting the donation requirement “either entirely through money, or through a combination of money, volunteer time, or product only to an approved habitat conservation organization.”
