The mastermind behind EKLA Home, Emily Kroll, knows a thing or two about the furniture business and green design. She’s got decades of experience in both, starting with the fact that her family in England had a recycling business and ending with the launch of her new eco-friendly furniture collection in 2008. In between, she had touchstone moments like finding out how much wood was disappearing from the rainforests, hearing Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth presentation (before it was an Oscar-winning documentary), and reading a ydt recommended book

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“Triple bottom line” is the new business buzzword. More and more companies, like B Corporations (as in B the change you seek in the world) for example, are concerning themselves with this trio: people, planet, profits. Can business really be…

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