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Walmart's New Online Shop Will Help Conscientious Shoppers Support...
On Tuesday, Sustainable Brands joined a couple hundred Walmart team members and industry influencers at Walmart’s eCommerce headquarters in San Bruno, CA to learn about the launch of an important...
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Beyond Incremental: Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan Takes Innovation...
Once companies tackle the low-hanging fruit of operational improvement — carbon footprints, energy-efficiency retrofits and waste reduction — they are ready to address deeper sustainability...
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Electronics Giants Partner with CDP on Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Initiative
This week, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of many of the world’s largest leading electronics companies — including Apple, Cisco, Dell, Eastman Kodak, HP,...
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Eat 'Green,' U.S. Dietary Panel Recommends – and That Doesn’t Mean Just...
A draft of the official new U.S. recommendations for Americans’ diets is out, and for the first time the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has advocated for strong consideration of environmental...
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Why Transparency and Collaboration Are Vital to the European Commission’s CSR...
As the European Commission (EC) prepares its new five-year strategy for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), delegates at their Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR on 3rd and 4th February urged the EC to...
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Domtar Encouraging Customers to Ask Themselves: Where Does My Paper Come From?
This month, responsible paper company Domtar launched Paper Made Here— a new program that encourages its stakeholders to ask themselves: “Where does my paper come from?”The Paper Made Here program...
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Report: Global Sustainable Investing Market Surpasses $21 Trillion
The global sustainable investment market has grown “substantially” in the past two years with assets reaching $21.4 trillion by the start of 2014, according to a new report by the Global Sustainable...
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Smart Data at the Heart of Pro-Social Brands
“Big Data” and “Social Good” may be the yin and yang of tomorrow’s most successful brands. Both are recognized as important components of contemporary marketing strategy, yet they are not typically...
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World’s ‘Most Admired’ Companies Also Are Sustainability Stars
Apple, Google and Berkshire Hathaway are the world’s most highly regarded companies, according to a new ranking by Fortune Magazine.Amazon, Starbucks, Disney, Southwest Airlines, American Express,...
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soleRebels: Rising to the Top of the Footwear Industry Through Decent Work
“It was pretty basic. We self-financed. Five workers plus myself working inside a workshop situated on my grandmother’s plot of land inside our village of Zenabwork,” recalls Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu,...
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What Does the Future of Sustainability in Academia Look Like?
This is the final question from a roundtable discussion with the directors of sustainability research centers at six top business schools.Through Georgia Tech’s new QEP (Quality Enhancement Program),...
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New Packaging Concepts Could Cut Food Waste
UK recycled packaging manufacturer Spectra unveiled a number of new concepts emphasizing closure technology this week at an industry event in Birmingham.One of the new closure concepts is a two-piece...
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Multicapitalism and the Two Faces of Integrated Reporting
If ever there was an auspicious moment in performance measurement and reporting, this is surely it. Multicapitalism has arrived! Listen to how author Jane Gleeson-White puts it in her terrific new...
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Newsflash: Some Americans Stumped on Sustainability!
In November, Domtar Corporation— North America’s largest manufacturer of uncoated freesheet paper — conducted a national survey fielded by Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) Global that revealed, perhaps not...
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Waste2Watergy Helping Beverage Companies Brew Power from Wastewater
Waste2Watergy, a Corvallis startup formed at Oregon State University, has secured a $225,000 federal grant to advance technology that cleans organics from brewery wastewater while producing...
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Walmart Raises Hourly Pay for 500,000 Store Employees
Walmart has announced it will give pay raises to 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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HP Setting Industry Standard with Zero-Tolerance Policy on Forced Migrant Labor
Last fall, HP became the first company in the IT industry to require direct employment of foreign migrant workers in its supply chain with the release of the HP Foreign Migrant Worker Standard.Three...
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Starbucks Starting New ‘Social Impact’ Media Company
Starbucks is launching its own media company that will produce long-form documentaries, focusing on social justice issues.The news broke late last week when The Columbia Journalism Review reported that...
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Sustainability Context: The Elephant Is the Room
“How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?”Dwight D. EisenhowerThere is much more to be said on the issues of context-related sustainability,...
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10 Ways to Demystify the Business Case for Net Zero
The energy shift in the world is now inevitable. To sustain life and livelihoods for 9 billion people by 2050, even if we didn’t count on living well (which we do, of course), we have 35 years to...
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