Sustainability Code

Overview

We extremely committed to sustainability – environmentally, socially, professionally and personally. It permeates all that we do, and integrity is the backbone of all our initiatives. We assess the change feasibility and potential positive impact outcomes of all projects, event invitations and commissions based on our sustainability criteria.

Environmental

Wherever possible, we prefer to provide knowledge and expertise digitally, as this immediately reduces the environmental and personal impact of traveling to be at a location in person.

Of course, being physically present is always a different experience, and we recognize that it’s sometimes critical to the success of projects programs and often a more impactful outcome. Therefore, we are willing to travel when the act of doing so will enable us to effect positive change in the location.

When we do travel, we take all efforts to reduce the impact of this action by only taking the shortest and most direct flights, as well as by purchasing carbon offsets on all available booking services. We prefer to stay in eco-hotels (there are many!) and eat vegan meals to reduce the impact of factory farming. Each of us has the power to make individual choices that have positive or negative impacts on the world around them, so we make sure, wherever we can, to be the most responsible, sustainable traveler and participant in global systems that we want to see more of.

If we are joining  you in person, please ensure you are also taking action to reduce the environmental impact of your event or program in the areas of packaging, food and transport. We have a sustainable event checklist available for free that we send all speaking clients to support this.

Social Commitment

We are committed to giving away a minimum 20% of our content and time for free, this is across all our organisations and speaking engagements and we ask all our clients to also do this to ensure that knowledge is accessible.

You can find a lot of free resources at the UnSchool. We also publish journal articles, and  write and share on Medium and LinkedIn.

We are deeply committed to equitable access to our programs and projects, and we build a 20% open source clause into all our creative project contracts. It is amazing when forward-thinking collaborators take the opportunity to fund the development of this type of work, and open it up to be accessed by all (such as the Circular Classroom).

We, ourselves, do the same for all our Disrupt Design and UnSchool projects. Every UnSchool program has scholarships and fee-free places for people who meet our equity access criteria, and over the years, we have given away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of programs.