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What Makes a Board Fit for the Future?
Any regular follower of Sustainable Brands knows that most companies must transform their business models if they are to start helping - rather than hindering - society's transition to a sustainable...
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RSPO Cleans House of Companies Failing to Meet Standards; NGOs Applaud
On Thursday, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) announced it has taken action against members that are not fulfilling basic membership obligations intended to create a more transparent,...
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Stormy Seas, Rising Risks: How Companies Can Better Consider Climate Change...
Ten miles outside New Orleans stands a two-million-barrel per day oil refinery, surrounded by the Meraux, Louisiana community. On low-lying ground along the Gulf coast, an elaborate network of pipes...
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GRI Unveils ‘Fast Track’ For Sustainability Reports
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is introducing a new feature called ‘fast track’, which will give reporting organizations the option to accelerate the review of their draft reports.GRI is fast...
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Just in Time for St. Paddy’s Day, 24 American Brewers Call for Climate Action
Is your favorite beer helping to fight climate change? The chances just improved as, in the lead-up to Saint Patrick's Day — one of America's favorite excuses to drink beer — New Belgium Brewery,...
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Empowering Women, Empowering a Sustainable Society – Working Towards...
On Sunday 8th March, the world celebrated the economic, political and social achievements of women - past, present and future. The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day - Empowering Women,...
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UK Researchers Make Cheap Solar Cells From Shrimp Shells
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have for the first time successfully created electricity-generating solar cells with chemicals found in the shells of shrimps and other crustaceans.The...
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BASF’s Creator Space Hosting Symposium on Smart Energy for a Sustainable Future
At the first of three science symposia hosted by BASF in honor of its 150th anniversary, to be held this week in Ludwigshafen, Germany, more than 600 top ranking scientists from academia and business...
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Trending: NGOs Prompt Sweeping Improvements to Animal Welfare in the Dairy...
Animal welfare NGOs Mercy for Animals (MFA) and The Humane League declared victories this week, having motivated more large food companies to reform their animal treatment policies, this time after...
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Dell Identifies UK as 'Hotspot' for Circular Economy Conversation
Corporate circular economy strategies are starting to mature: A recent survey on this topic found that 28 percent of organizations now consider their own circular strategies to be highly advanced, and...
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New Reports Say Sustainable Investment Can Stabilize Global Water Risk,...
This week, non-profits Ceres and WWF published resources that provide guidelines for how strategic investment at the private and public level can help avert environmental and economic crises felt the...
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Global Stewardship Required to Avoid Silent Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall
It’s been 53 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a shocking exposé of chemical pollutants and their impact on the Earth's ecosystems.As Carson alerted us in the book: "For...
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MIT Climate CoLab Announces 22 Contests to Counter Climate Change
The Climate CoLab has announced twenty-two contests that seek high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change.A project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Collective...
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thinkstep (fka PE International) Launching Comprehensive Platform for...
Sustainability software and consulting company PE International, creators of the industry-leading GaBi life cycle assessment software and providers of a vast array of tools for sustainability...
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Proxy Preview 2015 Examines Record-Breaking Number of Sustainability-Related...
This month, shareholder advocacy organization As You Sowreleased its 10th annual Proxy Preview report, detailing the record-breaking 433 social and environmental shareholder resolutions filed so far...
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#ThrowBackThursday: Amazi Will Not Only Lead You to Water, It Will Tell You...
In the lead-up to this year’s Sustainable Brands Innovation Open— our competition for startups poised to make scalable, sustainable impacts — we’re catching up with some of our favorite game-changing...
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Pee-Powered Toilet Could Help Light Refugee Camps
Sometimes clean technology doesn't need to be sanitary.Students and staff at the University of the West of England in Bristol now have the opportunity to test out a prototype toilet that uses urine to...
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Brands: Why Should It Be Up to Walmart to Tell Us If You Are Sustainable?
Walmart recently launched its Sustainability Leaders online shop. While I commend the company’s efforts over the past six years to elevate sustainability as an important attribute of products and their...
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#BusinessCase: Employee Innovations Help ConAgra Save 97M Gallons of Water,...
A growing number of companies large and small are finding they can save substantial amounts of money by optimizing various aspects of their operations, thereby proving the previously elusive business...
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Fairtrade International Seeking Industry Feedback on New Textile Labor Standard
Fairtrade International— a coalition of 28 organizations working to make trade fairer throughout the world — is welcoming comments from throughout the garment and textile supply chains on the new...
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