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You Can't Manage What You Don't Measure
When it comes to water usage, most industries today still pay little attention to managing their most precious raw material.The State of California recently announced 25 percent cuts to water usage to...
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Report: UK Public Sector Embracing Smart Tech, But Financing and...
A majority (87 percent) of public sector sustainability professionals in the UK have begun to embrace smart technologies, but future projects are stymied by lack of finance and poor implementation...
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How Can We Operationalize Business Transparency?
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently voted 3-2 on a proposed rule to link CEO compensation to company financial performance. The rule came from the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, and while the...
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A Meditation on Business Model Innovation for Sustainability
This year, Sustainable Brands San Diego is all about the ‘How.’ Companies want to know how to act on sustainability imperatives in the most effective way, but navigating the jungle of buzzwords and...
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How Can Social Good and Profit Coexist in a Brand?
SB ‘15 San Diego kicked off Monday morning, with Paradise Point in Mission Bay serving as an inspirational backdrop to what promises to be a thought-provoking week of workshops, networking and breakout...
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#SB15sd Workshop Demystifies Range of Tools for Evaluating Chemicals in Products
Kicking off Sustainable Brands ‘15 San Diego this morning was an informative workshop on evaluating product chemicals and the most useful tools for doing so. Consumers have recently become hyper-aware...
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Mars, J&J, P&G and a Dozen Other Consumer Brands Join Investors in Pressing...
Today, institutional investors representing more than $4 trillion in assets are joining Mars, PepsiCo, Kellogg Company and a dozen other giants from the food/beverage and personal care industries to...
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Cities and Corporations: How Do They Intersect on Sustainability?
What can cities do contribute to the sustainability revolution? A whole lot, according to a workshop today, opening morning of SB ’15, featuring Gil Friend, CSO of the City of Palo Alto, and Chris...
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New Business Guide Ranks Printers on Forest Sourcing, Sustainability Performance
Meeting your sustainability goals requires partners whose own policies and practices support you in hitting your targets. Printers are the gatekeepers to the eco-qualities of your paper products — be...
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It’s Time to Change the Dialogue
The good news is, there is good news. The bad news is, very few know about it.Newspapers, news stations, and endless digital posts flash across the screens of our mobile devices bombarding us with...
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Researchers Share Latest Consumer Insights, Strategies for Converting...
“Are you a part of the problem, or are you a part of the solution?” Simon Mainwaring asked attendees of the opening morning workshop at SB ’15 San Diego on Monday, before introducing the seven...
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How to Invest in Municipalities to Increase Recycling in the U.S.: The Case...
How do we make recycling work and be cost-effective? Bridget Croke, Director of Partnerships and Communications at the Closed Loop Fund (CLF), posed this question to a panel of three of CLF’s leading...
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How Can We Get Marketers to See the Value in Sustainability?
Following an energy-filled morning at SB ‘15 San Diego, David Hawksworth of Given London kicked off an afternoon workshop by asking, “How do we combine the skills of marketing and sustainability...
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Ben & Jerry’s Announces Carbon Tax Covering Farm to Landfill Emissions
Ben & Jerry’s has announced that it will institute its own internal carbon tax of $10 for every metric ton of its greenhouse gas emissions, from farm to landfill.Using a recent Lifecycle Analysis...
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41 Factory Owners, Safety Officials Charged with Murder in Rana Plaza Tragedy
On Monday, Bangladeshi police charged 41 people, including the owner of the Rana Plaza complex, with murder over the 2013 factory collapse that killed more than 1,100 people.According to Business...
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The Key to Transformational Change Leadership? Holonomic Thinking
“What happens when you cut a hologram in half?” Maria Moraes Robinson and Simon Robinson asked as a prelude to sharing what holonomic thinking means. When you cut a photograph in half, you get two...
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One Way to Create Sustainability Now? Through New Relationships, Economies
Jerry Michalski, Founder of San Francisco-based REX (the Relationship Economy Expedition), helped to kick off Day 1 of Sustainable Brands 2015 San Diego with a workshop entitled, ‘Leveraging the...
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#SB15sd: How to Design One-click Impact Investment Opportunities for Employees
Tuesday, day two of SB ‘15 San Diego, marked a transition from workshops to breakout sessions and this morning’s session on practical tips and case studies for employee engagement featured a...
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How Can We Assess the Future-Fitness, or True Sustainability, of Our Businesses?
Geoff Kendall, co-founder and CEO of the Future-Fit Foundation, set the stage by calling into question most of the existing sustainability performance metrics, which he believes are sending business...
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#SB15sd Workshop Explores Engaging, Equipping Key Players to Solve Food Waste...
On the opening afternoon of SB ’15 San Diego, a much-anticipated workshop on reducing food waste — featuring Sally Uren, Chief Executive of Forum for the Future, and Raphael Bemporad, Chief Strategy...
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