We recognize that our planet’s life support systems and social institutions are now at a breaking point. Unbridled consumption and the importance of bottom-line growth are at the root of the climate crisis, our alienation from nature, and the profound social and economic divisions that have become existential threats to humanity today. Overcoming these challenges will require paradigm shifts in thinking, living, and doing business. Pursuing sustainability that seeks only to do less harm is no longer good enough.

Instead, we need to create symbiotic, mutually beneficial relationships with nature and society that benefit more than just shareholders. Today’s businesses must urgently become a regenerative force that elevates or creates an exponential positive impact on everything they touch—customers, employees, suppliers, contractors, the environment, communities, and investors. We are mindful that we exist within highly diverse and nested systems and must all play unique, reciprocal, and synchronized roles in a world that needs healing.

Our collective success will be measured by how quickly we can decouple economic and social prosperity from the destruction of our planet’s life support systems. We choose this path because it is the only way to a destination where everyone has the opportunity to thrive and prosper on a healthy planet. We choose this path because we believe it is the only way to create lasting value for all stakeholders, not just shareholders. We choose this path because it is inseparable from the Lopez Values that have, and always will, define us.