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Almond Farmers Explain the Switch to Organic in CLIF's Latest 'Farmers Speak'...
Clif Bar has released the second installment in its Farmers Speak series. Where the first centered on organic oats; the second installment “gives voice” to organic almonds — a key ingredient in 17...
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Nestlé Shares Challenges, Progress, Renews Partnerships in Efforts to Create...
This week, Nestlé released the summary of its 2014 Nestlé in society: Creating Shared Value report, which highlights the company’s progress — and challenges — in meeting its societal commitments. The...
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#ThrowBackThursday: Akwamag Moves Beyond Softening to Become One-Stop Shop...
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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Target Becomes Latest Retailer to Raise Worker Pay
Target plans to increase the pay of all its workers to at least $9 an hour starting next month, following similar moves by rivals Walmart and T.J. Maxx.In February, Walmart announced it would be giving...
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Sprouts Farmers Market: A Case Study in Capturing the Loyalty of...
The financial landscape is rapidly changing thanks to new guests who have recently pulled up a seat at the investment table: Millennials.The generation has come into its own, with well-earned spending...
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Sustainability Comes at a Premium: Creating a Race to the Top Through the...
Is it really possible for both businesses and the planet to thrive while providing people with the luxury goods and experiences they want?Luxury has always been a key component of international trade....
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Amerplast Announces New, Flexible Packaging Made From Sugar Cane
This week, Amerplast, one of Europe's largest flexo printers and bag converters, began a supply partnership with Braskem, a global leader in biopolymers, to market Green Polyethylene (Green PE) made...
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Carbon Fiber Vehicles Could Complicate Circular Economy
The British Metals Recycling Association (BMRA) is calling on car manufacturers to ensure that using lightweight materials to achieve greenhouse gas reductions doesn't impede circular manufacturing...
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BASF Assembles Consortium to Tighten Up Renewable Biotech Production Processes
A consortium of companies in the European process industry including biotechnology, renewable resources, chemistry, process engineering, equipment and research organizations launched project PRODIAS...
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An Unlikely Pair: Farmers and Big Data Team Up to Address Food Security
The United States agriculture industry faces a changing climate, diminishing water supply, and a rapidly growing population. To address these issues, farmers are having to move into the 21st century,...
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Study: More Awareness of Environmental Regulations Needed to Tackle...
A brief released Friday by Sedex Global and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) finds that the majority of environmental non-compliances in global supply chains originate from a lack of understanding of relevant...
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Starbucks''Race Together' Campaign Creates Social Media Firestorm
Companies, especially publicly owned corporations, carefully manage their image and messages. But this age of social media, changes in consumer tastes and demands for increased transparency have caused...
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The Roadmap Series: We All Start at Stage I
OK, I hear you. The change chart is pretty busy, but there’s a lot packed into this infographic. In the first postin the series, I highlight the key curves: The blue value & profitability curve...
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Sustainable Aquaculture Innovations Transform Global Fisheries and Address...
Aquaculture has quickly grown from a minor, niche industry into an industrialized and modern one, and sustainability is at the center of many innovations on how to make this arena a long-term and...
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EILEEN FISHER Says 'No Excuses' in Drive Towards 100% Sustainability by 2020
International fashion brand EILEEN FISHER has announced its new Vision2020 campaign, detailing the strides it plans to take in the next five years to attain 100 percent sustainability in its...
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SAP: Increased Employee Engagement Helping Bottom Line
German software company SAP’s operating profit improves EUR35 million ($38 million) to EUR45 million ($49 million) when its employee engagement index rises one percentage point, according to the...
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Additives to Biodegrade Plastics Offered False Hope, Says Latest Study
The world today has a plastic addiction, a vice that creates major environmental issues by entering waterways and clogging up our landfills and oceans. The problem is that conventional plastics have a...
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Here’s How Satellites are Saving the World’s Forests
The world’s besieged forests have found friends in high places — in this case, very high. Remote-sensing satellites keep constant watch from hundreds of miles above the earth, collecting data that —...
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Seventh Generation and 3,000 Business Partners Call on Congress to Reform...
Seventh Generation, the nation's leading brand of non-toxic and renewable bio-based household, baby and personal care solutions, called on Congress last week to strengthen the country's outdated...
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Hitting the Bull’s-Eye With Your Product Sustainability Program
It can be daunting to ramp up a sustainability program. This is especially the case when moving from an operations focus, where most programs start, to successfully leveraging the many opportunities...
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