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New Biomimicry Center, Graduate Degree Programs Put ASU at Forefront of...
A new cooperative venture at Arizona State University aims to make ASU a key academic hub for the emerging discipline of biomimicry.Since Janine Benyus first observed and named the field in her 1997...
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Nestlé USA Removing All Artificial Flavors, Colors from Its Chocolate Candy...
This week, Nestlé USA boldly committed to removing all artificial flavors and FDA-certified colors from all of its chocolate candy products by the end of 2015. The change will affect the food giant’s...
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Exit from High Street: Why the Quest for Engagement on Sustainable Fashion Is...
How do we make sustainable fashion … fashionable?That was the question that launched the sustainable fashion consumer research project with Mistra Future Fashion conducted by professors Lucia Reisch,...
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Walmart Raises Hourly Pay for 500,000 Store Employees
Walmart has announced it will give pay raises approximately 500,000 full-time and part-time associates at Walmart U.S. stores and Sam's Clubs in the first half of the current fiscal year.Starting in...
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4 Ways the Sharing Economy Can Change the World
Two years ago at Davos, the sharing economy was a foreign concept. Whenever I asked anyone I met if they had heard of the phrase, I would receive blank stares. Perhaps 5% of people had heard of Airbnb...
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In a Market Stuffed With ‘Super Foods’, Kuli Kuli Shines Through
The term “super food” has become trite in today’s health-crazed dietary marketplace — used to describe everything from kale to blueberries. The word is rarely used by dietitians or nutrition scientists...
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Connecting the Dots: Sustainability Crosses Business Disciplines at Duquesne
If the ideal business has sustainability embedded throughout, why not embed the same lens throughout an MBA program?That’s what faculty members had in mind for the Sustainable MBA program at Duquesne...
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Dell on Mission to Measure Net Positive Impact of IT on Education,...
In Fall of 2013, Dell launched what it called its Legacy of Good plan— a set of 21 ambitious sustainability goals covering everything from its packaging and production materials to reducing the energy...
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Dow Pilot Program Shows Plastic Waste Can Be Turned Into Fuel
The Dow Chemical Company recently completed a pilot program aimed at showing how certain plastics such as juice pouches, candy wrappers and plastic dinnerware — which are not easily recyclable under...
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Unholy Alliance: Why the Solar Industry's Continued Lack of Diversity Is a...
Environmental justice has been a small, but increasingly vocal, component of civil rights activism. After all, many organizations, including the NAACP, have documented the disproportionate health...
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How Does Sustainability Research Fit Within Business Schools?
This is the fifth of six questions from a roundtable discussion with the directors of sustainability research centers at six top business schools.So there are a couple different ways that we support...
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'Soft Sustainability': How Brands Are Successfully Communicating Their...
Back in the late 1980s, Harvard professor Joseph Nye coined the term “soft power” to describe the US’s ability to influence the world through the marketing power of its global consumer brands and...
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Safeway to Sell World’s First Fair Trade Certified Seafood, Improve...
Last week, Safewayand Fair Trade USA announced a partnership to launch Fair Trade Certified™ seafood into the North American market. The program addresses both social and environmental responsibility...
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#BusinessCase: Rapanui Drops Prices After Waste Reduction Saves Money
L-R: Mart and Rob Drake-Knight | Image credit: RapanuiAs more and more brands begin to tout their sustainability credentials, increasingly savvy and conscientious shoppers are looking for companies...
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Startup Develops World’s Thinnest Speaker
A start-up called Soundlazer claims to have developed the world’s thinnest speaker, made from a new class of plastic polymer. With the ability to reproduce a large range of audio frequencies, the...
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Citi Launches $100 Billion Initiative to Combat Climate Change
Citi announced a commitment to lend, invest and facilitate a total of $100 billion within the next 10 years to finance activities that reduce the impacts of climate change and create environmental...
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Past, Present and Future: The Road to a Sustainable Agricultural Sector
Thick clouds of smoke, a suffocating heat. Forests, lush and green and bustling with all types of life, reduced to burned land and ashes. In Indonesia, in the 1997-98 fires, approximately 10 million...
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adidas Group Exceeds 2014 Better Cotton Target
Today, the adidas Group announced that in 2014, it sourced more than 30 percent of all of its cotton as Better Cotton, exceeding the originally planned 25 percent target. This marks the sportswear...
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Unilever Partnering with Greenredeem to Increase Recycling Rates for a Good...
Unilever UK and Greenredeem, which rewards people for everyday conscious actions (similar to the UK equivalent of Recyclebank), have announced a partnership aimed at increasing recycling rates and...
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Mars and Fairtrade Extend Sustainable Cocoa Partnership for UK and Ireland
Mars Chocolate UK and Fairtrade Foundation have extended their partnership to source Fairtrade-certified cocoa for MARS® Bars in the United Kingdom and Ireland by October 2015.Mars is the first UK...
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