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Consumer Collaboration Investment: The Communispace Client Index vs. the S&P 500
Introducing the Communispace Client Index — an index designed to track the stock market performance of our top 25 clients (i.e., those clients investing the most in consumer collaboration) against the...
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Is Your Sustainability Pitch Making Enough Sense to Your CFO?
Many experts have been observing in recent months that innovating for sustainability seems to be approaching mainstream attention, particularly at Fortune 500 companies and among forward-looking social...
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EPA Develops Pesticide Label to Protect Bee Populations
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released new pesticide labels that forbid the use of some neonicotinoid pesticide products where bees are present.The EPA says the new labels will have a...
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JTC Corporation Inaugurates ‘CleanTech One’ to Catalyze CleanTech Growth
JTC Corporation (JTC) recently opened Clean Tech One, a six-story, 400,000 square foot business park, laboratory and office space that gathers different companies and institutions engaged in green...
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AT&T And The Nature Conservancy Team Up To Help Oregon Customers ‘Skip the Bag’
AT&T has partnered with The Nature Conservancy to encourage AT&T customers to skip the bag when purchasing items from its retail stores in Oregon by donating 10 cents to the Nature Conservancy...
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Intrinsic Value Exchange: Using Market Forces to Help Heal the Planet
Our economy assigns values to just about everything except for the things that matter most. As far as the current economy is concerned, a tree holds value only if it is cut down, an animal only if it...
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IKEA and Kingfisher Pledge Ambitious “Net Positive” Agendas, But Can They Work?
The world’s most iconic companies and brands are more likely to have a corporate social responsibility agenda than just a few years ago because customers and stakeholders demand they hold themselves...
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So Crafty: New Belgium Shows How Sustainable Brand Innovation Can Be a...
It makes sense that an alliance of craft breweries continues to speak out for the Clean Water Act—you can’t make great beer without great water. But what is it about the culture of craft breweries that...
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Opposites Attract: Five Branding Lessons PrintEco Learned from Our...
Domtar Corporation is one of the largest and most innovative paper companies in the world. Our company, PrintEco, is a two-year-old software startup with a mission to help save paper and ink and...
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Largest Vertical Farm in the US Becomes Zero Organic Waste Facility
Chicago land-based vertical farm FarmedHere, has launched a program to convert all of its organic waste into compost used to feed other urban farms across Chicago.Through a unique soil-free process...
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Customer Behaviour Change: The Holy Grail of Conscious Brands
“If we can’t get the consumer involved, we will always be behind the curve,” Marks & Spencer CEO Marc Bolland said when he launched the retailer’s ‘Plan A’ sustainability stakeholder...
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Avila Develops New Metrics for Sustainable Event Management
When Avila Government Services, Inc. (Avila) decided they wanted to improve the sustainability of their meeting/event planning efforts, they turned to the latest event sustainability guidance....
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First Stewardship Travel Program in U.S. Launches in CA WineCoastCountry
San Luis Obispo's County Business Improvement District (SLO CBID) has commenced the country's first Stewardship Travel program to promote appreciation for place and culture, adventure, enjoyment and...
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AT&T, EDF Toolkit Could Save 28 Billion Gallons of Water in U.S. Commercial...
U.S. commercial buildings can collectively save up to 28 billion gallons of water annually using a new suite of tools co-developed by AT&T and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the organizations...
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Advancing Sustainability: From Revolution to Evolution
Sustainability, like brands, must not be a fight against or a vision outside society, but part of it. It is time to drop the proselytism, quit the “sacrifice for a better world” argument and above all...
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Walmart, Gap Detail Bangladeshi Worker Safety Coalition Plan
Walmart, Gap and several other US retailers met this week in Chicago to implement their independent Bangladesh factory safety plan, which was developed after multiple factory accidents, most notably...
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Colorado Startup Taps Crowd Funding to Develop ‘Leakless’ Hose Washer
Colorado startup Seal Genie has launched a garden hose washer via crowd funding site IndieGoGo that minimizes leakage and could save over 10,000 gallons of water per household each year - enough to...
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Sustainability Innovations Could Generate $156 Billion for UK Firms
UK businesses could secure £100 billion pounds (nearly $156 billion USD) in annual productivity gains generated by innovations designed to address environmental and social challenges, according to a...
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Big Data: The Ultimate Sustainability Job Aid at U.S. Postal Service
Advancement in big data and analytical technologies has opened up many new opportunities to support sustainability advancement in large, complex organizations. The high volume of performance data from...
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Three Freshly Sprouted Startups on the NYC Local Food Scene
While the most hospitable territory for food startups is certainly California, New York is host to its own burgeoning food movement. We spoke with three startups, in different stages of warming up to...
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