Description
Your go-to shoe, whether stomping on the blacktop or romping on the mountaintop. Flexible, supportive, and astonishingly soft, the Wool Runner is designed with simplicity and serious comfort in mind.
Allbirds shoes are designed without logos, labels or special detailing. They’re constructed from ZQ-certified merino wool (meaning sheep are raised sustainably and humanely according to strict standards).
Washable insoles also are formed from merino wool fabric and green polyurethane made from castor bean oil.
Materials:
Upper – Merino Wool
Recycled Laces – 100% post-consumer recycled polyester.
Padded Insole – Merino Wool
Sole – EVA
B Corporation
Certified B Corporations are a new kind of business that balances purpose and profit. They are legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment. This is a community of leaders, driving a global movement of people using business as a force for good.
B Corporation certification (also known as B Lab certification or B Corp certification) is a private certification issued to for-profit companies by B Lab, a global nonprofit organization with offices in the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a partnership in Latin America with Sistema B. To be granted and to preserve certification, companies must receive a minimum score on an online assessment for “social and environmental performance”, satisfy the requirement that the company integrate B Lab commitments to stakeholders into company governing documents, and pay an annual fee ranging from $500 to $50,000.
The B Lab certification is a third party standard requiring companies to meet social sustainability and environmental performance standards, meet accountability standards, and to be transparent to the public according to the score they receive on the assessment. B Lab certification applies to the whole company across all product lines and issue areas. For-profits of all legal business structures are eligible for certification.
ZQ Merino Fibre
The ZQ Merino programme has been developed to provide customers with certainty that product quality, animal welfare and health, environmental, economic and social values are positively addressed.
ZQ Merino growers pride themselves on best practice, and are accredited to ensure the highest on-farm standards with respect to animal welfare, farming practices, and environmental management.
Compliance with the ZQ Merino standards is assessed and audited by trained and qualified third party auditors, who visually inspect sheep, farms and facilities to ensure these are met.
The maintenance of ZQ Merino accreditation is dependent on ongoing compliance. This is determined through a programme of ongoing auditing, including self assessments and on farm auditing.
All ZQ Merino accredited farms are audited every 3-5 years and in addition a random selection are audited annually to ensure that the integrity of the programme is maintained. Some of these audits are conducted by a veterinarian focusing specifically on the animal welfare and health components of the programme.
