Prize Programs: Sustainability Market Leaders Forum

The SML Online Forum enables Sustainability Market Leaders (SMLs) to collaborate to grow their organizations' abilities to incorporate sustainability best practices in their policies and operations and market their goods and services in true cost pricing. The SML Online Forum is designed to support SMLs to address key challenges.

In order to grow our movement, SV has designed the SML Online Forum to be open for viewing to all interested visitors. A visitor interested in actively participating as a Sustainability Market Leader in the Online Forum needs to fill out and submit a prospective SML profile. This is the first step in the application process. We will notify you within ten working days of the receipt of your profile.

If you receive an email "Welcome to the SML Online Forum", please proceed with the instructions that will be included in the email for registering as an active user on the Online Forum.

It is important to maintain a balance of participants among the different sectors. Therefore, it is possible that you may not be invited to actively participate at this time. However, your interest in potentially participating is valuable to us.

Living Lens Features support Sustainability Market Leaders in marketing their organizations' products and services by presenting research, presentation formats, language, and images that will assist their consumer clients to lay bare paths that are aligned with their deepest values in their marketplace choices. The process of making choices in alignment with our deepest values is challenging for each of us.

Keeping our critical capacities awake and aware so we know "where am I going? Where am I? How did I get here? What do I need to ask? Whom do I trust to ask? What are the signposts others have left for me to see? How will I recognize the next step? What values do I live while I am finding my path with heart?" are questions many of us ask everyday. If we don't, we could grow very vulnerable to powerful interests not in alignment with our goals.

Each of us has the choice of succumbing to someone else's path or creating sustainable processes of inquiry and creating findings, based on evaluation and intuition that builds collective knowledge. Consider the four featured areas – True Costs of Natural Resources; Impacts of Food Production and Land Use; Job Descriptions and Skill Sets Required for Sustainability Staff; and Growing Good Food Language: True Cost Pricing in Certified Farmers' Markets as paths of bread crumbs that stimulate us to share perspectives and decision making among ourselves. When we know that we are going where we think we want to go and can course correct along the way, we are growing a sustainable world for ourselves and all living beings for many generations to come.