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This week on Glad Tidings, Ben brings good news from the Hertfordshire countryside. Together, the Glad community has funded the cleanup of 55,903 kilograms of greenhouse gases – roughly the weight of a mature sperm whale. It’s a brilliant milestone that shows what’s possible when everyday savings fuel climate action.

But that’s not all. Three new brand partners have joined the platform:

• Love Tech Hate Waste – 20% off replacement ear pads made from refurbished tech

• Citizens of Soil – 15% off the first month of their regenerative olive oil subscription

• Natural Baby Shower – 10% off sustainable essentials for little ones

Each of these brands shares Glad’s belief that better choices shouldn’t cost the Earth.

Ben also reveals a special offer to help accelerate Glad’s mission: 1,000 free memberships for employees of B Corps. It’s a way to grow the community faster, attract even bigger brands, and multiply climate impact.

So if you work for a B Corp, tell your team. If you know someone who does, share it with them. Together we can clean up the atmosphere one saving at a time.

Stay glad.

Transcript:

Welcome back to Glad Tidings. I'm Ben Wynn and this is your weekly update on the progress we're making as a community towards cleaning up the atmosphere. Coming up for you today, we have not one, not two, but three fantastic savings to tell you about that have been added to the platform. We have of course got our totalizer update to reveal exactly how much as a community cleanup we funded using your membership fees and we've got a special offer, so stay tuned for that one. Let's start with that totalizer update, shall we? Let's get straight into it. As I sit here today in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside, we as a community have funded the cleanup of 55,903 kilograms. A wonderful amount. And if you ask perplexity, as I have, it will tell you that that's roughly the equivalent weight of a mature sperm whale.

So if you can picture a mature sperm whale, the weight of that is the amount of greenhouse gas that we as a community have pulled out of the atmosphere or that we're funding to pull out the atmosphere, it will take time for it actually to take effect. So wonderful progress, but we need more members, we need more progress. So the ask as always is tell people if you're watching this, if you're a member of Glad if you're thinking of becoming a member.

Your membership fees are what fund the cleanup. So tell as many people as you can about what we're doing, get as many people to join as possible and they can take advantage of the wonderful savings from our brand partners. And as I say, we've got three that have added to the platform since we last spoke. Let's start with those. Love Tech Hate Waste. This is a wonderful example of a circular economy brand. They take reused electronic components and tech items, refurbish them and then sell them back out to the community as refurbished tech. And they are looking to start with us by working on replacement ear pads. So for headsets, they're giving you 20 % off replacement ear pads. And I haven't brought them with me today, but my old very tired Bose headphones could definitely do with the replacement. So that's definitely what I'll be taking advantage of.

Next up is Citizens of Soil and they're giving you 15 % off the first month of their subscription. But what I should first explain is what is Citizens for Soil for those that don't necessarily yet know the brand? Well, this is all about olive oil, but olive oil done right by sourcing them products sustainably. They're an award winning extra virgin olive oil and they deliver it straight through your letterbox.

They're sourcing the materials from regenerative farms to bring you nutritious and flavor led olive oil. Now I really like this brand because when they were first pitching for investment at a, I forget what it's called, a startup pitch event, I happened to be there and I saw them from the very early days. So I'm a big fan of the brand. I think their brilliant execution of their brand is, it's been fantastic.

and I can't wait myself to get my hands on the product.

Okay, so then...

So let's talk about those savings. It's a while since we've done one of these updates. And so, as I mentioned, we've got three new savings added to the platform to tell you about. The first of those is from a circular economy brand. It's Love Tech, Hate Waste. So they're taking refurbished technology, iPhones and gadgets and laptops, repurposing them and selling them back out as a circular economy business. And they're offering right now,

20% off for Glad members on replacement ear pads. So if you have a set of headphones where the ear pads have become a little bit tired, and I certainly am in this camp, my old Bose headphones are in desperate need of some replacement ear pads. So I'll definitely be taking advantage of it. And as a Glad saver, you can get 20% off. So that's wonderful to have on the platform. Next up is an olive oil brand. So this is Citizens of Soil.

and they're offering 15 % off your first order as a subscription. Now subscribing to olive oil might not be something that you've done before, it might not be something you've thought about, but it's definitely worth considering. This is a business that's really rethinking olive oil and their whole stance is when you actually do taste tests of olive oil, there's very little that stands them apart because they're often bland and not really put much thought and consideration into it.

But by going back to regenerative farms and bringing you nutritious and flavor-led olive oil, they're really completely rethinking this market and they deliver it straight to your letterbox. So definitely worth checking out and grab your 15 % off. And the final one this week is Natural Baby Shower. Now, Natural Baby Shower have placed sustainability at the heart of what they do. They have over 130 baby brands available within their platform.

and they source their materials in a planet friendly way. They're trying to do everything they can to be sustainable. We think it's a really good fit for our community and they're offering Glad Climate Savers 10% off. So definitely worth going and checking that out. If you are a new parent or perhaps you have a new niece or nephew in your family. Right, so I told you we've got a special offer this week and it's time we should talk about that I think.

So you see the beauty of the model we've got with Glad is that it's a self-reinforcing flywheel. And what I mean by that is the more members that we have, the more attractive we are as a community to brands. And that means more members gets us access to bigger brands and gets them to offer bigger savings.

And the bigger the savings we have and the more brands we have and the bigger, more well-known brands we have, the more attractive Glad becomes to get more members. And of course, as you're probably aware by now, we use the membership fees to fund the climate cleanup. So more members means more impact. To get more members, we need more brands. So we have a flywheel that self reinforces and gets bigger and bigger, but we need to accelerate things. And to do that, we need more members.

So what we've decided to do as an accelerant, as an experiment and an accelerant, we're going to offer a thousand memberships to the employees of B Corp's entirely for free. Now that won't increment our climate impact, but it will get us a thousand more members. And what that does is get us into the next tier of brands that will allow us to unlock new, exciting brands, ones that I'm confident you will have heard of with some fantastic savings. So, do you run a B Corp? If you do, listen to this. If you don't run the B Corp, but you work within a B Corp, this is for you. You need to be telling your boss. And if you don't work for a B Corp, but you know somebody that does, please pass this along to them. What we're looking to do is give a thousand members. So let's say it's a B Corp that has a hundred employees - all 100 employees can get access to all Glad Savings and that won't cost the business a penny. We're doing that exclusively for this 1,000 members and we believe that that will get us the next tier of brands that will really push this platform, this movement on. So the ask is with you guys, who do you know that works in the B Corp that you would like to have completely free access to savings for their team?

So their team can save as of today up to 2,600 pounds a year. So we think it's a fantastic offer. Start by telling them it's free. Tell them that they need to act fast because those memberships, those free memberships are going quite quickly. Tell them that it would normally cost them 250 pounds a season. There are three months in a season, therefore it would be a thousand pounds a year. And they're getting that entirely for free. So share this video with them. Tell them to act fast. And let's see what happens.

Okay, there you go. That's your update for this week, guys. I think that's about all we've got time for. Thank you very much as always. Thank you for being a member, if you are, and thank you for watching. If you're not yet a member, you know what to do.

Stay glad. Join us. Thanks a lot.