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Plastic Permanence: Our Litter Is Now Part of the Geologic Record
From a human perspective, the earth’s geography changes pretty slowly — it takes thousands of years for a glacier to carve out a valley, for plate tectonics to form mountains and for volcanic eruptions...
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'Clicking Clean:' The Overlooked Opportunity and Scalable Benefits of...
A few interesting facts:If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth-largest consumer of electricity on the planet, behind Russia, Japan, China, India, and the US.In the US, less than 15...
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APP on Slow Progress of Zero Deforestation Policy: 'We Must Have the Courage...
On Wednesday, the two-year anniversary of the launch of Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), an unprecedented initiative aimed at defining a new standard and business model...
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Independent Evaluation - A Crucial Part of Our Zero-Deforestation Journey
Today marks two years since we launched our Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) and the anniversary is particularly significant as the Rainforest Alliance is publishing its independent evaluation of our...
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Documentary Looks at Innovations, Sustainable Practices in Fashion That Could...
The Next Black, a documentary that explores how out-of-the-box thinking and more conscious design are shaping the future of our clothes, had its first screening in Brooklyn earlier this week. The event...
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Unilever Ice Cream Brands Now a Guilt-Free Indulgence Thanks to New...
Unilever has announced that its Breyers, Fruttare, Magnum and Lipton brand productshave all made significant commitments to responsible sourcing.Beginning this month, Breyers will only use real vanilla...
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Catalyzing Change: Georgia Tech Establishes Hub for Sustainable Business...
Howard Connell, managing director of Georgia Tech’s new Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, points to the panel of presenters at the Center’s inaugural event as an example of how it plans...
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AT&T, GE Developing Next-Gen Smart Energy Solutions for ‘Internet of Things”
AT&T and GE have announced a collaboration to create the next generation of smart energy solutions for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), helping to improve the way the energy industry...
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The Snowball Effect: How Creative Engagement Approaches Can Unleash Generosity
For third-sector organisations, the fundraising environment has rarely seemed so tough. One aspect of this is the prevalent belief that digital media and technology is creating a culture of...
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B Team Calls for Business, World Leaders to Commit to Net-Zero GHG Emissions...
Today, leaders of some of the world’s largest companies — collectively known as The B Team— called upon world leaders to commit to a global goal of net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 — and...
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Multi-Sector Gathering Calls for Harmonized Framework for Shifting to...
Last week, Sustainable Brands participated in and helped support an important meeting in Berlin, hosted by BASF, entitled "Steering a Portfolio Toward Sustainability." A gathering of almost 150...
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Bridgestone's Sustainability Hub: A Dialogue on Solving Survey Fatigue, Part 2
How do companies deal with mushrooming sustainability data requests coming in from all directions – raters, investors, B2B customers? In Part 1 of this dialogue, Bridgestone Americas’ Director of...
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Closing the Loop on Recycling: Unilever, P&G Aim to Give Communities Greater...
Regardless of where we live, we’re neighbors — sharing this grand global space, and thus all of its sustainability challenges and opportunities.Therefore, we believe we also share in the responsibility...
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Global Thermostat Turns Carbon Pollution into Cash
Carbon-capture technology holds much promise for helping the world to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of global warming. It works by trapping the carbon...
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As Stocks of MSC-Certified Fish Rise, Some UK Retailers Falling Behind
The availability of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fish is better than ever with a million tons of MSC certified cod caught last year, but there is a growing gap between supermarkets that...
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IBM, Mars Launch New Data-Driven Effort to Advance Global Food Safety
Scientists from IBM Research and Mars have established a new collaborative food safety platform aimed at leveraging advances in genomics to further the understanding of what makes food safe.The...
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Moving Pieces: UNC's Big-Business Approach to Sustainability Consulting
At the University of North Carolina, sustainability consulting projects have an unique way of taking shape.A marketplace type of approach to teaming up with industry partners has helped UNC’s Center...
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What Can You Do to Create Positive Change in the Fashion Industry?
“What does it mean to be ‘eco’ or ‘green’ today? We need to redefine that. We need to modernize the fashion industry. This is where we need to be in the 21st century — all products need to be created...
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The Social Purpose Continuum: Changing the Lens, the Focus, Everything in Our...
For 25 years, I’ve developed CSR strategies. And now I see that CSR is becoming business as usual.You’d think I’d be celebrating. But I’m not — because CSR has stalled.This struck me in 2012 when I...
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On the Ground: Cornell Center Demonstrates Benefits of Applied Research
To the uninitiated, persuading those living in malarial-prone parts of the world to buy low-cost insecticides seems simple: Explain the benefits and the products will, to use the old phrase, “sell...
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