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Meijer Cookbook Helping Food Pantries, Customers Get the Most from Their Food
Meijer was facing three compelling realities as it put together its recently released Simply Cook: Easy, Healthy Meals cookbook.First, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Midwestern grocery and discount...
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Wells Fargo Launches $10 Million Initiative to Support Cleantech Startups
Today, Wells Fargo announced its selection of four clean technology startups for the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a five-year, $10 million program to foster leading-edge environmental...
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Why Urban Homesteading Could Be a Key to More Livable, Resilient Cities
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ...There's been lot of love shown recently to the notion of cities being 'resilient,''good'… or just plain fabulous. Take, for example, The Rockefeller...
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If We’re Going to Push Forward, It’s Time to Embrace Awkwardness
From economists to politicians, from consumers to scientists, plenty of people agree that the current approach of many businesses is not sustainable.We’ve talked about the sheer obviousness of this...
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Hershey Will Source Enough Sustainable Cocoa For Bars, Kisses and Kit Kats By...
The Hershey Company announced on Tuesday that it will source enough certified and sustainable cocoa in 2016 to surpass the amount of cocoa required for the global production of four of its most popular...
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Trending: NGOs, Brands, Suppliers Making Deforestation-Free Plantations,...
Barely a week in and April could very well shape up to be ‘Zero-Deforestation Month’ if the multi-sector momentum around addressing the issue continues. So far, we’ve seen a new commitment from Yum!...
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New Platform Aims to Help Companies Overcome Barriers to Living Wage for...
On Tuesday, the Fair Wear Foundation (FWF) — a Dutch non-profit that works with companies and factories to improve labor conditions for garment workers – launched the Living Wage Portal, a platform...
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H&M's 2014 Sustainability Report Shows Progress With Garment Collective Program
H&M more than doubled the amount of collected garments with its garment collective initiative in 2014, according to its new sustainability report. In total, more than 13,000 tons of textiles have...
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Turning Innovative Financing Into Principled Action: The Case for Safe...
This year’s World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report lists water as the number one risk in terms of impact – it even surpasses failure to adapt to climate change, which currently sits at fifth place....
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Sony Pictures' Screen Gems Label Celebrating 10 Years of Environmental...
Today, Sony Pictures Entertainment— which itself has led the charge in sustainable filmmaking with its carbon-neutral production of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) — is celebrating a decade of...
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New Peer-to-Peer Solar Sharing Network Aims to Make Solar Available to All...
Though the cost of solar panels continues to decline, many homeowners still can’t afford to pay thousands of dollars for a solar energy installation. Short of installing their own system, there aren’t...
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JetBlue Once Again to Offset Carbon Emissions For All Flights During Earth...
This week, JetBlue Airways announced it is once again partnering with the Carbonfund.org Foundation to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (CO2e) generated by all scheduled...
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With Heinz-Kraft Merger, RAN Calls on Food Giant to Step Up Efforts for...
Last month’s announcement that Heinz will acquire Kraft Foods opens a bevy of questions for a company that as a combined force will have annual sales of at least US$28 billion. At a time when consumer...
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Activists Petition Nestlé to Shut Down Water Bottling Operations in California
As California enters its fourth year of drought, more than 135,000 people have signed a petition to the California Water Resources Control Board to shut down Nestlé’s water bottling operations in the...
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Colgate-Palmolive: How a Player with a Global Footprint Is Attempting to...
It’s tough being one of the largest consumer-facing companies as the troika of transparency, sustainability and ethical behavior increasingly challenges a brand’s reputation and social media assures...
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How Superficial Interpretations of Sustainable Business Metrics Can Be...
In 12 earlier parts of this series, Claire Sommer and I developed 22 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field, based on the experiences of many mostly non-business fields. (Find them here.)In...
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Paper: Definition, Focus, Accountability Needed to Turn Deforestation...
In its new position paper published today, Halting Deforestation and Achieving Sustainability, the Rainforest Alliance addresses the recent surge in deforestation-free pledges. Timed to coincide with...
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European Commission Launches Scientific Debate On How to Feed the Planet
The European Commission has launched an online consultation on how science and innovation can help the EU “ensure safe, nutritious, sufficient and sustainable food globally.”The consultation will...
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’10 Million Better’ Campaign Rallying Travel, Tourism Industries Around...
At the World Travel & Tourism Council 2015 Global Summit in Madrid today, Sustainable Travel International (STI) unveiled an industry-wide campaign, entitled “10 Million Better,” to monitor and...
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Report: Sustainability Should Take Priority Over Growth
This week, the WorldWatch Institute, an independent research organization that focuses on energy, resource and environmental issues, released State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to...
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