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Sustainability, Virtuous Cycles and (Gasp!) Brand Self-Actualization
“Intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately of what is the organism itself ... self-actualization is growth-motivated rather than deficiency-motivated.” — Abraham...
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Academic Lag, Advertising Jag & the Task of Socialising the Genome
LAG:A period of time: a noticeable delay between action and reaction – Failing to keep up with another or others in movement or developmentJAG: A short period of overindulgence in an activity: a...
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TruValue Labs Expands ESG Monitoring to NYSE and NASDAQ
Information technology company TruValue Labs has announced a major update to Insight360, a technology-based platform offering real-time environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and sustainability...
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To Till or Not to Till, That Is the Agri-Question
Farmers have tilled the soil - turning it as preparation for planting - for millennia. But that legacy is under scrutiny today as “soil health” has entered the vernacular – at least amongst people...
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How Much Water to Make a Cup of Tea? The Importance of Product Water...
Like most British people, I enjoy a nice cup of tea. And like most practitioners of life cycle assessment (a far smaller group), I’m very interested in understanding the full impact of the products I...
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MadeRight Helping Apparel Designers Customize Sustainable Supply Chains
If you’re a small-scale designer or apparel brand, managing your supply chain efficiently and sustainably can be a challenge. MadeRight, a startup that recently launched out of Y Combinator, wants to...
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Consumers Aren’t Reading CSR Reports – Here's What You Can Do About It
Although 82 percent of Americans expect companies to report on the progress of their social and environmental efforts, only 17 percent say they have read a CSR report in the past 12 months, according...
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New 'Water Deeply' Platform Will Help Public Understand California Water Crisis
Following ongoing campaigns to urge both businesses and citizens to more effectively conserve water, this week saw the launch of Water Deeply, a comprehensive new media platform created to connect the...
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Dear SB Vanguard: Is Competition in Business Inherently Destructive?
This is the latest in a series of posts in which we will poll our global community of business leaders and practitioners — the “SB Vanguard” — on a variety of issues pertinent to the evolving...
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More Than 75% of Consumers Influenced By Eco-Friendly Packaging, Report Says
More than three-quarters of consumers claim that environmentally-sound packaging has an influence on the beverage brand they buy, according to a new global survey of some 6,000 consumers across 12...
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NGOs React to Reports Revealing Modern-Day Slavery in Palm Oil, Seafood...
Today, the US Department of State released its 2015 Global Trafficking in Persons Report, which places countries onto one of three tiers based on the extent of their efforts to comply with “minimum...
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P&G Fabric Care Overhauling Packaging to Make 230M Bottles a Year from...
Procter & Gamble (P&G) Fabric Care has announced a new initiative that will see 230 million bottles of flagship brands such as Ariel, Dash, Lenor and Unstopables made out of Post-Consumer...
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Reformation Partners with Community Recycling to Ignite Fashion Reuse Movement
As only 15 percent of clothes, shoes and accessories are recycled each year — with the remaining 85 percent, 10.5 million tons, ending up in landfills — more and more apparel brands (including H&M,...
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Startup ‘Democratizes’ Sustainability Reporting Software
Sustainability reporting isn’t easy, and it’s rarely cheap. Large companies may have the finances and dedicated staffs to develop custom sustainability software, but small businesses often must make to...
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Hillary Clinton Promises Half a Billion Solar Panels by 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Sunday pledged to construct half a million new solar panels within her first four years of taking office, Reuters reports.Clinton called for a...
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Bank of America Expands Environmental Business Initiative to $125B by 2025
This week, Bank of America (BoA) pledged to expand its $50 billion investment in low-carbon business to $125 billion by 2025, signaling its leadership in environmental finance.BoA’s environmental...
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Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient 'Rain Tunnel' Technology Creates Drinking Water...
A new technology from a Bangalore-based scientist promises a cost-effective way to deliver clean drinking water by harnessing moisture from the atmosphere. The patented ‘Rain Tunnel Technology’ has...
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Study: Almond Industry on Its Way to Carbon Neutrality Through Byproduct...
A new study published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology highlights the progress of the notoriously water-consumptive almond industry in becoming carbon-emission neutral or even carbon negative. The...
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Apple, Google, Walmart Among 13 U.S. Companies Pledging $140B for Climate Action
Yesterday marked the launch of the American Business Act on Climate Pledge, uniting 13 of the largest U.S. companies in pledging a collective $140 billion of low-carbon investments in the global...
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Tronie Foundation Showing Companies How to Face, Eliminate Risks of Supply...
This week, a comprehensive special report in The New York Times detailed the very bottom of a systemic epidemic of human rights violations in global supply chains.There are 35.8 million people enslaved...
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