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Thread Raises $3.5M to Scale Transformation of Trash Into Dignified Jobs,...
Pittsburgh-based startup Thread announced today it has closed a Series A Round of $2.8M, led by Draper Triangle Ventures, to create upcycled fabric from plastic waste collected in developing countries....
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Reports Show We're Beginning to Understand, Quantify Our Dependence on...
Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) on Monday outlined in a series of reports how governments, organizations and corporations are successfully moving away from short-term exploitation of the...
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Carnival to Build Cruise Industry's First LNG-Powered Ships
Carnival Corporation & plc, the world's largest travel and leisure company, announced Monday it has signed a multibillion-dollar contract with German shipyard Meyer Werft to build four...
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Unilever Convenes Leading Companies to Share Lessons from Achieving Zero Waste
Noted sustainability leaderUnilever is spearheading a movement for industrial waste reduction.Last week the CPG giant hosted an event in partnership with 2Degrees, bringing together over 100...
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FDA Bans Trans Fats: What Does This Mean for Palm Oil Consumption in the US?
This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved to ban the use of partially hydrogenated oils, the main dietary source of artificial trans fats, after determining they are not safe to use...
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Ahoy! Five Global Shippers Collaborate to Drive Sea Freight Sustainability
This week, five major companies from the beverage and chemical industries announced a collaboration on sustainability initiatives in the shipping sector. FrieslandCampina, AB InBev, AkzoNobel, DSM and...
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Water/Energy Nexus Hackathon Seeking Solutions to Critical Drought, Energy...
California is experiencing a significant paradigm shift around water and energy, and the 2015 Water/Energy Nexus Hackathon, coming to San Francisco in mid-August, intends to bring some of the smartest...
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Top Mexican Companies Will Abstain from Fishing Pacific Bluefin Tuna Until 2020
Member companies of the Pacific Alliance for Sustainable Tuna, representing 93 percent of tuna production in Mexico, have announced they will refrain from fishing Pacific Bluefin tuna until 2020. Their...
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Conflict Palm Oil Progress Report Calls Out Major Snack Food Brands for...
Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) released a new progress report, titled Testing Commitments to Cut Conflict Palm Oil, ranking the relative strength of palm oil commitments made since the launch...
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Verb Secures $2.3 Million in Seed Funding to Help Social Entrepreneurs Solve...
Social enterprise Verb has closed $2.3 million in series seed funding — one of the largest rounds ever for an Austin-based social enterprise, according to a recent announcement.The investment capital...
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Pope Francis, Universal Sustainability Values and Brand Value Creation
Pope Francis has been creating news in sustainability circles lately and lots of it.Why? Well, it’s not just because his message of peace, simplicity, and pursuit of the common good resonates with...
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Lego Group Investing $150M in R&D for Sustainable Materials
This week, LEGO Group announced an investment of 1 billion Danish Kroner (~US$152 million) in the research, development and implementation of sustainable raw materials to manufacture LEGO® toys and...
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Ford Leaders Discuss New Sustainability Report, Environmental Achievements,...
On Wednesday, Ford Motor Companyreleased its 16th annual sustainability report, highlighting progress to reduce its environmental impacts and to innovate “smart mobility” models that accommodate...
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Fashion Footprint Tells Shoppers the Story Behind Their Clothing Choices at...
The far-reaching social impacts of the fashion industry were catapulted into the global spotlight with the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh in 2013. Since then, the...
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BASF, Cargill Partnership Helping Filipino Farmers Achieve Sustainable...
For more than three years, BASF, Cargill and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have worked together to promote sustainable coconut oil and improve the living conditions...
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Five Human Aspirations That Hold the Future for Brands
We marketers can be obsessed with generational trends. How many meetings have you had lately on what Millennials think of your brand? Or what Generation Z means for your digital strategy?And yet, while...
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How to Rewire Business: SustainAbility Releases Second 'Model Behavior' Report
Despite bold efforts to make companies’ processes and products more sustainable, many businesses that flourish today are inherently unsustainable. Companies must fundamentally change their modus...
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Ecolab Helped Customers Save 115 Billion Gallons of Water in 2014
Ecolab’s efforts to help customers reduce, reuse, manage and treat water more efficiently led to a savings of 115 billion gallons of water in 2014, according to the company’s 2014 Corporate...
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With 'Too Hot To Handle,' Guardian and Ben & Jerry's Banking on Humor to...
Can humor save us? Today, the Guardian launched a new multimedia series on climate change that aims to drive the public conversation, debate and action on climate change by making its readers laugh....
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Whole Foods' 365 Stores to Offer Whole Foods Quality, Standards at Lower Prices
On Thursday, Whole Foods Market today announced the name of its new streamlined, value-focused brand of stores: 365 by Whole Foods Market. Slated to begin opening in 2016, the new stores promise lower...
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