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10 Tips for Stakeholder Engagement with Activists
From toxics to human rights, advocates are increasingly focusing on consumer-facing brands to drive change on environmental and social issues. Corporate campaigns have been going strong for decades,...
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Trending: NGOs, Investors Losing Patience with Lag Between Deforestation...
Despite recent commitments to deforestation-free palm oil by several well-known brands and producers, many companies are delaying implementation of these commitments. Commitments are just the first...
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Solar-Powered UK Microbrewery Launches Kickstarter Campaign
Sustainable-minded beer lovers rejoice because a new UK-based microbrewery called Bucks Star plans to use solar power to make its beer.The startup says the ingredients, the brewing process and the...
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How Do We Create the Sustainable Leaders That We Need? Start by Inspiring...
Survey data indicates that, compared to older generations, younger generations are more supportive of environmental legislation and the notion that global climate change is the result of human...
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Lost in Translation: How to Find a Common Language Between Departments
Despite the progress being made in organizations around the world in the pursuit of sustainability, many still suffer from internal breakdowns in communication on the subject, even when all teams are,...
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Walmart Announces New Animal Welfare Policy, $4M in Savings After Water...
Today, Walmart announced a commitment to improving farmed animal welfare across its global food supply chain with one of the most comprehensive animal welfare policies of its kind. The change in policy...
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Elkington’s Dramatization of ‘The Stretch Agenda’ Aims to Help Execs Move...
“We pan in to a generously proportioned boardroom on the 33rd floor of an iconic skyscraper, soaring above London and the River Thames. … This is an Extraordinary Board Meeting.”So begins the opening...
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Minnesota Twins, Eco-Products Partner to Turn Trash at Target Field into Soil
The Minnesota Twins and Eco-Products have partnered to reduce the waste generated at Target Field through a new effort to divert fans' trash from the landfill by turning it into fertile...
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With G-Star’s RAW for the Oceans Collection, You Can Help Clean Up the Seas —...
The Eco Laundry Company, the world’s first certified B Corp dry cleaner and laundry service franchise, has announced a strategic partnership with famed denim heavyweight G-Star RAW. As part of the...
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Trending: Gold-Plated Onions and 3D-Printed Skin — the Next Wave of Human...
Every day seems to bring new uses for 3D printing – earlier this week, NASA announced a competition to design 3D printing settlements for deep space. Now, L’Oréal has revealed plans to 3D print human...
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Announcing The Product Social Footprinting Programme
During my past five years at PRé, I’ve observed how companies approach different issues. I’m very interested in social impact assessment, and I experienced that companies have wildly different...
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Investments in Life Systems Boosting Green Transition
Earth Day 2015 marked $6.22 trillion invested in the global green transition since 2007, on track to meet the Green Transition Scoreboard® (GTS) goal of $10 trillion privately invested in the green...
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Utility – the Fundamental Metric of Social Impact
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”— John DonneIs the world a better place because we exist?Socially useful business is neither a new...
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Science- vs. Context-Based Metrics – What’s the Difference?
As the importance of measurement and reporting in sustainability continues to grow, it should be helpful, I think, to clarify the distinction between so-called science- and context-based metrics. These...
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Investors Call On ExxonMobil, Chevron to Stop Resisting Transition to Clean...
Shareholders of ExxonMobil and Chevron and members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) say they will focus on climate change at the companies’ annual general meetings (AGMs)...
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12 States, Provinces Driving Nations to Keep Temperature Rise Below 2 Degrees...
Last week, California governor Jerry Brown signed an international agreement with 11 other state and province leaders, collectively representing more than 100 million people, to keep the global average...
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BMW, Google Top Global Corporate Reputation List
BMW, Google and Daimler are the world’s most reputable companies, according to the Reputation Institute’s2015 Global RepTrak® 100.Rolex, LEGO, The Walt Disney Company, Canon, Apple, Sony and Intel...
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France Voting to Forbid Major Supermarkets from Throwing Away Unsold Food
In a landmark move last week, France's parliament voted to forbid major supermarkets from destroying unsold food, encouraging them to donate to charities or to farms for animal feed, as part of a...
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Maine Farmers Feeding Crops, Livestock with Brewery and Coffee Shop Waste
Organic matter produced during brewing and coffee roasting processes is becoming a farming and gardening staple as an effective, low-cost alternative to commercial fertilizer and feed for a growing...
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Why I Don’t Like Beyoncé
I like singing, dancing and snapping like everyone else when it comes to ‘Single Ladies.’ And I totally agree - if you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it. But it still doesn't mean I like...
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