Most Innovative Companies

Levi Strauss & Co.

The 140-year-old blue-jean and khaki giant is rolling in the green. Levi's Waste < Less program, launched last spring, uses 20% recycled materials—about eight 12- to 20-ounce plastic bottles—in each garment. In the fall, Levi's Dockers brand debuted Wellthread, designed to recycle old material into new clothing and make sustainable apparel cheaper to produce.

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2014: Top 50, Social Good

Stories about Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi’s new jeans are made from old, worn-out jeans

Levi’s new jeans—a winner of ‘Fast Company’s’ 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards—are made with Circulose, a new material made from recycled denim.

Levi’s new jeans are made from old, worn-out jeans

Your new Levi’s will now be part old, recycled Levi’s

The products use a new material called Circulose, that’s made from reconstituted cotton from old jeans combined with wood pulp.

Your new Levi’s will now be part old, recycled Levi’s

Inside Levi’s stand against gun violence

Since 2016, the clothing company has put its words–and cash–into advocating for stronger gun laws. “I think it’s imperative that companies not be afraid to weigh in on the issues that are really impacting the world,” says CEO Chip Bergh.

Inside Levi’s stand against gun violence

Welcome, LEVI: Denim giant Levi Strauss readies NYSE debut

It’s one of America’s oldest, with a history that goes back to 1853. Now it’s filing for an IPO.

Welcome, LEVI: Denim giant Levi Strauss readies NYSE debut

Lasers! Gas! Waterproof Pants! How Levi Strauss & Co. Keeps Improving Jeans

It’s not easy to innovate a product founded on simplicity. But at a San Francisco lab, the venerable denim company is doing just that.

Lasers! Gas! Waterproof Pants! How Levi Strauss & Co. Keeps Improving Jeans

The History Of Levi’s Advertising In Three Minutes

Memorable moments from the world’s most famous jeans, from the controversial crotch rivet to Michel Gondry’s award-winning (and banned) ad.

The History Of Levi’s Advertising In Three Minutes

What CSR and Nonprofit Leaders Are Reading – Part III

Impact

This new app from Google is designed to preserve the words of fading languages

Watch this flat-pack pasta transform into shapes as it boils

This map shows the climate impacts on every county in the Western U.S.

News

The CDC’s eviction moratorium was overturned: Here’s what that means for renters

When are the Brood X cicadas coming? This map and tracker app will tell you

Want to feel good about gymnastics again? Watch 32-year-old Chellsie Memmel train

Co.Design

Nintendo’s Game Builder Garage teaches your kid to code

This clever iPhone wallpaper ensures your battery will never die again

LEED for the COVID-19 era is here

Work Life

An exhausted founder asks Maynard Webb: Should I throw in the towel?

The myth of multitasking

A CEO’s evolution from hard charger to ‘somebody who believes in human magic’