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How Brands Can Act Now to Benefit from New Efficiency Standards for Trucking
Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation proposed new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for medium- and heavy-duty...
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#BusinessCase: SABMiller Saves US $17M Through Water, Carbon Reductions
This week, SABMiller released its annual Sustainable Development Report, announcing progress to reduce water use and carbon emissions and achievement of significant financials savings associated with...
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From Theory to Practice: Phase 3 of the Roundtable for Product Social Metrics
Back in 2013, PRé and seven frontrunner companies developed a vision to create a standardised and trusted methodology to assess the social impacts of products. Creating such a methodology together...
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Trending: New Benchmark, Indices Show Continued Momentum Behind Impact Investing
Private impact investment funds — specifically private equity and venture capital funds — that pursue social impact objectives have recorded financial returns in line with a comparative universe of...
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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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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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General Mills Removing Artificial Flavors, Colors from Cereals by End of 2016
General Mills cereals has committed to removing artificial flavors and colors from artificial sources from the rest of its cereals in response to consumers’ changing preferences. The company says more...
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Report: Major Gap in Sustainability Adoption Between Large, Small Office...
More than 60 percent of large buildings qualify as “green,” compared to less than 5 percent of small buildings, according to a new study by CBRE Group and Maastricht University.The 2015 Green Building...
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Consumer Goods Industry Commits to Halving Its Food Waste Globally by 2025
Last week, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) — whose membership includes hundreds of consumer brands from a range of industries around the world, including food giants Campbell Soup, Clif Bar, Hershey,...
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Making a 'Big Pivot' to Sustainability Will Require a Cultural Evolution
Last year, Andrew Winston stood on the main stage at SB ’14 San Diego and called for the business world to make a “Big Pivot” — away from ecologically harmful practices and toward a sustainable...
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Can a Tuktuk Ride Change the World?
If changing the world for the better was easy, we'd all be doing it. But thinking that you can make a difference is audacious. It takes a sort of beneficent arrogance to set out to push humanity in a...
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Crowdsourcing Sustainable Solutions: Unilever Launches Foundry IDEAS Platform
Unilever unveiled a new initiative at the Cannes Lions festival on Friday that aims to put fresh momentum behind its Sustainable Living Plan with public input. The Foundry IDEAS platform will act us a...
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COP21, Global Inequality, Resource Scarcity Among 15 'State of Play'...
Today, think tank SustainAbility released its view of the key sustainability developments during 2015 in a webinar, “Mid-Year ‘State of Play’ Sustainability Trends.” Its latest research identifies 10...
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AT&T, Verizon Pledge to Improve Energy Efficiency of Home Internet Equipment
AT&T, Verizon, and Cisco are among the dozens of internet service providers, equipment suppliers and retail equipment manufacturers to join the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the...
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Meet 'Denise,' a Triple Threat That Just May Help Rid the World of Produce Waste
As we discuss all too often here at SB, food waste around the world is one of our most pressing issues; nearly a third of all food produced — over 1.3 billion tons per year — is wasted, according to...
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Let’s Talk About Love: People Finally Putting Their Money Where Their Hearts Are
One of the a-has from our soon-to-be-released 2015 Eco Pulse study is that, indeed, a company’s sustainability or social responsibility commitment is a reason to love the brand. In fact, when we asked...
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How Big Data Can Enable a Transparent Marketplace for Consumer Goods
Today we can access vast quantities of information from countless sources to help us make better decisions quickly.My cell phone can help me find a restaurant with the type of food I like, at a price I...
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A Lamp That Collects Energy, Sells It Back to the Grid, and Invests Your...
Welcome the latest innovation that might up the ante for “smart” in-home electronics: The Aspirational Lamp is a solar-powered desk lamp that, in addition to shining light, aims to generate its own...
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'Let's Make Air Pollution' Visible Campaign Aims to Improve UK Air Quality
Deliver Change, a UK-based non-profit focused on sustainable technology projects, launched a campaign this week called “Let’s make air pollution visible,” which aims to bring together businesses,...
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Report: Here's How to Engage Employees in Brazil, China
To assist corporate responsibility practitioners as they help international employees give back to their communities, Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has produced a report offering practical...
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