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Diageo Reducing Material Use to Achieve Zero Waste by 2015
Global drinks company Diageo says it is working towards zero waste to landfill targets at all of its sites by 2015, but is looking to make its waste management activities a higher priority via a...
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Democratic Approach to Business Governance Key to Long Term Innovation
The Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED) has published a paper that explores the roots of representative structures and argues that a democratic approach to business governance is crucial to...
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Researchers Discover Process to Absorb Toxic Metals from Water, Using E-Waste
A team of Hong Kong researchers has found a way to use ground-up circuit boards from discarded cell phones, computers and other gadgets to absorb toxic heavy metals found in water, according to...
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Obsession Over 'Natural' Aside, Burt's Bees a Rightful Leader in the Personal...
Burt’s Bees is an incredible American success story. Roxanne Quimby’s venture into beeswax candles took her from New England craft fairs to lip balm and personal care products sold in thousands of...
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The Rise of the Scratch Card Brand
We're living in The Age of Scratch Card Brands — social networks have closed the gap between brands and the businesses that deliver them to the extent that businesses now sit immediately beneath their...
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Back to the Start with Back to the Roots
In their last semester at UC Berkeley, Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora were inspired by a class lecture about the possibilities of growing mushrooms using entirely recycled coffee grounds. The perfect...
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From Invisible to Impact: Value in the Personal Data Economy
There’s been a lot of talk about the power of Big Data in our modern digital economy. But tech experts will be the first to tell you “Big Data” is a marketing term, not a magic bullet. While it’s...
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Unilever Taps Crowdsourcing to Develop Eco-Friendly Shower
Unilever has announced that it will harness the potential of ‘crowdsourcing’ to develop the world’s first sustainable shower.The company is asking creative individuals all over the world to submit at...
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New IBM Modeling Technology Increases Wind and Solar Power Reliability
IBM recently announced that it has developed an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources.The solution combines...
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Sustainability Ideas Must Be 'Made to Stick'
Calls to shake up the sustainability community seem to be becoming increasingly frequent — the latest that I’ve read coming from the State of the World 2013 Report. With a warning that sustainability...
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SEM Founder Lucy Findlay on How to Legitimize Your Social Enterprise
Founded in 2010 in the UK, the Social Enterprise Mark Company (SEM) awards its “Social Enterprise Mark” to organisations that demonstrate their social, environmental and ethical values and behaviours,...
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Google Reduces Carbon Footprint By 9%
Google has announced it emitted 1.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2012, a 9 percent decrease from the year before, according to the company’s latest carbon footprint data.The search giant...
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The Ultimate Interview Question: Social Responsibility in the Hiring Process
The hiring process can be a grueling one — weeding through all those prospects can be a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. It can be frustrating, and it also presents a lot of opportunity for...
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Lux analyzes winners in growing field of energy-use monitoring
As new companies find their niche helping building designers, owners and managers lower energy consumption, the measurement and verification (M&V) industry is rapidly moving toward real-time...
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Total Energy Resource Productivity: Math Not Myth
Open the news in the US and you hear two conflicting messages: “We are on our way to becoming energy independent using fossil fuel” and “The biggest challenge we face is getting off fossil fuel.” The...
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RecycleForce Keeps Electronic Waste Out of Landfills and Ex-Felons Out of Prison
Since 2006, Indianapolis-based RecycleForce has paid over $10 million in wages and employed 650 ex-felons to recycle over 20 million pounds of electronic waste. The non-profit social enterprise has a...
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CH2M Hill Ranked Best Environmental Firm for 8th Year
CH2M Hill, a global consulting, design, construction and operations firm, was ranked the No. 1 U.S. environmental firm by the Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms list.URS and Veolia...
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Investment Group Ranks Sweden ‘Most Sustainable Country in the World’
Swiss investment group RobecoSAM has ranked Sweden the most sustainable country in the world in its recent ranking of 59 countries, which gauges a wide range of environmental and social governance...
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How Sustainable Is Your Supply Chain?
Beginning this month, Sustainable Brands will launch a new Issues in Focus editorial channel examining sustainable supply chain management.The SB editorial team — with the help of guest editors Dave...
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New Era: Can Profit-Seeking Approaches Protect Natural Capital?
Mark Tercek of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has written a new book with Jonathan Adams, Nature's Fortune: How Business & Society Thrive by Investing in Nature. A video interview of him at an Aspen...
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