{"id":12552,"date":"2021-06-24T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:28","slug":"how-education-helps-set-a-better-foundation-for-long-term-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/06\/24\/how-education-helps-set-a-better-foundation-for-long-term-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"How Education Helps Set a Better Foundation for Long-Term Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re a brand that cares about the environment or society but doesn\u2019t invest in education, you\u2019re missing an opportunity to expand your impact. This connects to a larger issue \u2014 how CSR and sustainability go far beyond any company\u2019s immediate customer base or market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Education is, in many ways, the foundation of society \u2014 where civic values, core skills and lifelong habits are built. The importance of education is an issue that cuts across partisan, age, race and cultural lines. It can also lead to transformational change, as students and education professionals have played a key role in several of the US\u2019s most influential social movements \u2014 from the fight for women\u2019s suffrage to the civil rights movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For brands, engaging in education can play a key role in achieving their own goals, especially in the long term. Habits learned in school can have impacts years down the line in enabling better decision-making around sustainability, financial literacy and much, much more. <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablebrands.com\/read\/defining-the-next-economy\/how-education-helps-set-a-better-foundation-for-long-term-sustainability\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a brand that cares about the environment or society but doesn\u2019t invest in education, you\u2019re missing an opportunity to expand your impact. This connects to a larger issue&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}