How
World Centric
Began
How We Started
Aseem Das founded World Centric in 2004 to raise awareness of social and environmental challenges facing our world. We began by hosting documentary screenings, speakers, and courses on sustainability, social inequality, human rights, economics, and wealth disparities. To fund this mission without asking for donations, we began selling Fair Trade and compostable products in 2005.
How We’ve Evolved
By 2009, growing demand for compostable products led us to transition from nonprofit to for-profit social enterprise. Through this structure, we created positive change while ensuring financial self-reliance. Since then, we’ve donated at least 25% of profits to grassroots organizations and offered discounts to schools and nonprofits. We became a Certified B Corp in 2010 and a California Benefit Corporation in 2013.
Where We’re Headed
We’re expanding our R&D capabilities to develop materials that reduce reliance on petroleum-based plastics. We’re deepening partnerships with grassroots organizations addressing climate and poverty on the frontlines. We operate within extractive systems while working to participate differently. Not perfectly. Not with all the answers. But deliberately, consciously, staying true to our founding purpose: shifting consciousness and building systems that prioritize people and planet over profit.
