For Us, Environmental Sustainability Includes Social Sustainability
The core of Wild Alaskan has and always will be the pursuit and advocacy of sustainability, a tenet that echoes into every facet of our company. While this word is often viewed in regard to environmental sustainability, we feel it is imperative for the term to also include social sustainability — because what value is a sustainable food system without a sustainable society? How effective could ecological balance be without innate social balance? And how can we even begin to talk about living in concert with nature when humans do not live in concert with one another?
At a fundamental level, we believe that in the same manner that environmental sustainability benefits the whole planet, human rights, equality and racial justice is for the benefit of all humanity.
We understand that the road to this type of holistic sustainability requires ongoing honesty, transparency and an authentic commitment to consistently manifest change. As such, we are committed to constantly refocus these principles through the dynamic social lens in which we all work and live. And we encourage and welcome open conversations with our peers, community and team, with the objective to explore our role in not only denouncing, but actively fighting inequality, racial injustice, and discrimination of any kind.
As a company, we’re dedicated to holding ourselves accountable daily, as we nurture a safe, comfortable and anti-racist workplace and member community. Beyond that, we actively celebrate diversity. We celebrate the bounty that comes with inclusivity, and with the spectrum of possibility that’s innate to a wide range of perspectives. Specifically as digital fishmongers, we celebrate the seafood cuisines of cultures across the globe, which are replete with wonderful culinary nuances from which we learn and evolve our own methods and techniques.
So, it is in the spirit of diversity and inclusivity that we proudly celebrate special cultural heritage months and remembrance days both internally as a team and externally with our members — as a testament to the power of acknowledgement, to holding space for all people, and to uplifting the voices that are often marginalized as we collectively reach toward the critical goal of social sustainability.