Study: 81% of Consumers Say They Will Make Personal Sacrifices to Address...
Global consumers feel a personal accountability to address social and environmental issues and look to companies as partners in progress, according to findings from the 2015 Cone...
View ArticleTennaxia-SASB Partnership Simplifies Sustainability Data for Companies,...
A new partnership between data management company Tennaxia and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) may make it easier for companies to measure, manage and report on the sustainability...
View ArticleCFSI Helping Companies Comply with New EU Conflict Minerals Legislation
The Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) today announced it is available to help companies navigate compliance with the pending conflict minerals legislation recently voted on by the European...
View ArticleStartups Poised to Make Scalable, Sustainable Impacts: The 2015 SBIO...
With the SB Innovation Open finals taking place in just one week at SB ’15 San Diego, we wanted to give you a glimpse of some of the amazing sustainable startups competing this year. From saving paper...
View Article‘The True Cost’ Brings Fashion’s Dark Secrets to the Big Screen
Over the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing a range of startup fashion brands doing inspiring work on developing sustainable and socially responsible business models. However, it’s hard...
View ArticleBuilding a Circular Economy: How Ford, Novelis Created a Truly Closed Loop...
With approximately 9 billion people in the world today, society consumes and discards more and more each year, with no signs of slowing down. Culturally, we’ve begun to embrace and adopt recycling as a...
View ArticleLooptworks Working to Replenish the Colorado River — with Your Help
Fresh from its successful collaboration with Southwest Airlines on its LUV Seat collection of bags and accessories upcycled from the airline’s leather seats, Looptworks has launched an email campaign...
View ArticleHow to Avoid the Social Media *Fails* That Hit at the Heart of Sustainability
Reputation, in a world where social media is the mainstream, can no longer be seen as just a “hygiene” issue where corporate comms and PR agencies handle a few annoying but easily identifiable...
View ArticleLevi Strauss, Gap, Autodesk Join 24 Companies Supporting California's...
Today, 24 companies with a substantial footprint in California, including Ben & Jerry’s, eBay, Gap, Levi Strauss, The North Face and Sungevity, announced their support for SB-350, the “Golden...
View ArticleHP ‘Living Progress’ Report Highlights Stakeholder Engagement and...
HP is redoubling its efforts towards improved governance and stakeholder engagement, according to the company’s 2014 Living Progress Report, released Wednesday. The report describes HP’s global...
View ArticleUnilever, WWF, Germany Named Sector Leaders in Driving Sustainability Agenda
Globescan and SustAinability released their 2015 Sustainability Leaders survey today, which asked experts to assess the progress that various institutions have made in advancing sustainable development...
View ArticleGRI: Info Tech Will Lead to Real-Time Sustainability Reporting by 2025
Future improvements in information technology will lead to greater transparency, with sustainability reporting moving fully into the digital realm and occurring in real-time instead of annually,...
View ArticleWant to Make an Impact? Invest in Women
Just 13 of the 200 highest paid CEOs in the U.S. are female, according to data published recently by the New York Times. While gender parity in the workplace is advancing worldwide and many women are...
View ArticleSB’15 Istanbul Kicks Off Sustainable Brands’ ‘How Now’ Theme
This week, Sustainable Brands’ third annual Istanbul conference brought together global and local brands, thought leaders and NGOs to explore how to make the shift to a sustainable future. Through this...
View ArticleFord Continues Development of Smart Mobility Plan with Research Partnerships,...
Earlier this week, Ford’s vision for the future of personal mobility was on display at CES Asia in Shanghai. Presentations included were Ford Smart Mobility experiments, the latest in in-car...
View ArticleBlackRock and Ceres Co-Create Sustainability Guidebook for Investors
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, has joined forces with nonprofit sustainability leader Ceres to provide a guidebook for U.S. institutional investors on engaging with companies and...
View ArticleTrending: Pro Baseball, Public Schools Innovating to Reduce Waste
As concerns over bulging landfills abound, a diverse and growing group of innovators across the country are looking for new ways to transform trash into something less wasteful.The Minnesota Twins and...
View ArticleTrack Your Personal Impacts, Benefit the Greater Good: The 2015 SBIO...
With the SB Innovation Open finals taking place this week at SB ’15 San Diego, we wanted to give you a glimpse of some of the amazing sustainable startups competing this year. From cricket-powered...
View Article'No One Company Has All the Answers': How Exchange of Ideas Has Helped HP...
In its 2014 Living Progress Report last week, HP outlined the human, economic and environmental impacts it has made in its pursuit of Living Progress — the company’s framework for integrating...
View ArticleFord Pushes Sustainability Leadership for Next Era of Driving
William C. Ford II’s best decision as chairman of Ford Motor Co. was to bring in Alan Mulally as CEO in 2007 and watch the former Boeing manufacturing chief transform Ford from an also-ran into a...
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