The Coca-Cola Company released its eighth systemwide Sustainability Report, titled Reasons to Believe. In the Company's effort to increase transparency across its broad sustainability platform, this year's Report was created using stakeholder feedback and, for the first time, follows the disclosure and reporting requirements of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to achieve a self-declared grade level "B+." With new digital tools available to more people, the report was also created in a unique format offering easier access from smart phones, tablets and other popular mobile devices. And, for the first time ever, its entire content is available exclusively online.

"Sustainability has been core to our business strategy for nearly 125 years," said Chief Sustainability Officer Beatriz Perez. "After receiving feedback from a variety of stakeholders, we decided to make some significant changes to our sustainability reporting efforts. In addition to increasing transparency within the content, we have taken a digital approach to make the report more user-friendly and accessible on a variety of mobile devices. As we continue to strengthen our sustainability efforts, we also will innovate the means by which we share our progress."

Businesses that look beyond the bottom line to make a lasting impact are gaining in popularity nationwide. Certified “B Corporations,” as many are known, use the power of business to solve challenging social and environmental problems.

And the movement is growing in Georgia.

Social Enterprise @ Goizueta, Better World Books and Stites & Harbison, PLLC are partnering to bring the nonprofit, legal, political, business, investor and academic communities together to discuss the promise of the B Corporation in Georgia.

The organizations will host a forum Feb. 7-8 at various locations in Atlanta highlighted by a keynote address from Jay Coen Gilbert, co-founder of B Lab, at 5 p.m. Feb. 8 in the Goizueta Business School Auditorium. Gilbert also co-founded AND 1, a $250 million footwear and apparel company based outside Philadelphia, and has also worked for McKinsey & Co. and others in the profit and nonprofit space. Media and the community are invited to attend.