{"id":41537,"date":"2022-11-03T19:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=41537"},"modified":"2022-11-03T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:53:11","slug":"ownership-becomes-responsibility-becomes-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/ownership-becomes-responsibility-becomes-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ownership Becomes Responsibility&nbsp;Becomes Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The founder of the clothing company Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, has converted his company into a foundation committed to climate protection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Annual profits of 100 million dollars are thus available for environmental protection projects. \u00abEarth is now our only shareholder,\u00bb the 81-year-old entrepreneur wrote in an open letter. The mountaineer&#8217;s and environmental activist&#8217;s company is known for its ethos. This is what the five \u2039R&#8217;s\u203a in the stores stand for: Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle, Reimagine. Interestingly, it describes the company&#8217;s and customers&#8217; obligations: \u00abReduce: We produce useful things that last a long time \u2013 you only buy things you need. Repair: We&#8217;ll help fix your Patagonia clothes \u2013 you promise to fix what&#8217;s broken.\u00bb In doing so, Chouinard is following the path suggested by the Conference on Responsible Ownership held on September 5th and 6th in Berlin. According to an Allensbach survey, 72 percent of all medium-sized family businesses are in favor of such a new legal form, according to which, for example, company ownership is converted into a foundation, as in the case of the pharmaceutical company Wala, and thus withdrawn from the laws of capitalism. \u00abThis new way of understanding ownership as responsibility is in the air,\u00bb comments Gerald H\u00e4fner, a participant in the Berlin conference, which was co-initiated by Waldorf Shop founder Armin Steuernagel. In addition to GLS-Gemeinschaftsbank, Weleda, Alnatura, and Sonett, the network of these initiatives also includes the BMW Foundation and politicians from all democratic parties. Yvon Chouinard: \u00abInstead of going public, you could say we\u2019re going purpose.\u00bb Purpose is the name of the start-up that co-organized the Berlin conference. If \u2039crisis\u203a is on the scales today, then it is the word \u2039purpose\u203a that balances it out from the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image<\/strong> Yvon Chouinard, Photo: Campbell Brewer &#8211; Translation: Monika Werner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the clothing company Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, has converted his company into a foundation committed to climate protection. Annual profits of 100 million dollars are thus available for environmental protection projects. \u00abEarth is now our only shareholder,\u00bb the 81-year-old entrepreneur wrote in an open letter. The mountaineer&#8217;s and environmental activist&#8217;s company is known for its ethos. This is what the five \u2039R&#8217;s\u203a in the stores stand for: Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle, Reimagine. Interestingly, it describes the company&#8217;s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":41039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8808,2515,8834],"tags":[11016,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-41537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-nachricht","category-united-states","tag-2022-38-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}