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The Circular Economy, Take 2: Will Europe Fail or Fly?
The European Commission is expected to unveil its revised Circular Economy Package this autumn – an occasion that will mark the first significant piece of policy intervention in this space. The...
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Trending: NGOs Find Creative Ways to Address ‘First World Problems,’ Wasteful...
Motivating the public to participate in a campaign can be challenging, especially when it involves changing behaviors or contemplating a social ill that’s more pleasant to forget. But lest society...
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Trending: Ford Seeks Sustainable Rubber Alternative, While Chevy Lightweights...
Two major American automakers have formed innovative partnerships aimed at producing vehicles with lighter and more sustainable materials.First, Ford is in search of a sustainable alternative to...
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3D Printing: How the Personalized Power of Production Could Lead Us to a More...
We live in an era of such dramatic, technology-enabled change that it’s hard, sometimes, to get a real handle on just how important the latest new platform or digital business trend will be.When it...
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National Association of Manufacturers Slams EPA-Proposed Ozone Rule as...
On Tuesday, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) launched a multimillion-dollar media campaign against the EPA’s proposal to restrict ground-level ozone pollution limits. The new ads...
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Co-operative Bank Upholds ‘Beyond Carbon Neutral’ Commitment, Customer-Led...
The UK-based Co-operative Bank has published its first Values and Ethics report, highlighting its significant environmental achievements, along with progress against its customer-led Ethical Policy,...
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Faith-Based Investors Support National Legislation Mandating Corporate...
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of 300 investors with assets under management of over $100 billion, along with Calvert Investments and Christian Brothers...
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Dave's Killer Bread Launches Foundation, Invites Fans to Support...
Capping a decade of success employing people with criminal backgrounds and upending expectations in the bread category, Dave’s Killer Bread (DKB) this week launched the newly formed Dave’s Killer Bread...
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Carbon Trust Launches Water Footprint Certification Scheme
The Carbon Trust announced Monday it is piloting a new Water Footprint label and certification scheme. It is now inviting businesses to certify their water use assessments with the scheme, using the...
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UPS Halfway to Driving 1 Billion Miles With Clean Fuel Fleet By 2017
UPS logged 154 million miles in 2014 toward its goal of driving 1 billion miles with its alternative fuel and advanced technology fleet by the end of 2017 — an almost threefold increase from 2013,...
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365 Companies, Investors Send Letters Announcing Support for EPA's Clean...
In an unprecedented show of business support for tackling climate change, 365 companies and investor groups sent letters today to more than two dozen governors across the United States voicing their...
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BASF, thinkstep Scaling Collaborative Approach to Sustainable Product...
At SB ’15 San Diego last month, chemical giant BASF and sustainability software and consulting company thinkstepannounced their collaboration in making BASF’s Sustainable Solution SteeringTM method...
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Google Tests Air Pollution Monitoring With Street View Cars
Google and environmental sensor networks firm Aclima announced this week that they have partnered to map and better understand urban air quality.Three Google Street View cars equipped with Aclima’s...
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NRG's 'Power Behind the Plug' Campaign Challenges Americans to Think About...
NRG Energy has launched Power Behind the Plug, an evocative 90-second film and campaign that seeks to illustrate how people react when they actually take a moment to think about where their power comes...
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When It Really Isn't Business as Usual: Can There Be Principle Without...
In Parts I and II of this Series, we gave evidence to support the unlikely hypothesis of an emerging conscience amongst some mainstream companies. For example, while the recent...
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CVS Health Taps IBM's Watson to Develop Care-Management Solutions for Chronic...
CVS Health and IBM have announced they will use predictive analytics and Watson cognitive computing to transform care management services for patients with chronic disease. The partnership will enable...
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OK ... Now What? The Future of Natural Capital Accounting Metrics
Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) is an emerging methodology in the private sector, aimed at measuring the dependency and impact of companies on natural systems. NCA helps in quantifying the value of...
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Stakeholders Applaud Biggest U.S.' Carbon Emission-Reduction Measure in History
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final version of its Clean Power Plan, the nation’s first-ever limits on carbon emissions from power plants — the single largest...
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The Implications of an Emerging Corporate Conscience for Business Metrics:...
In 14 earlier parts of this series, Claire Sommer and I developed 26 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field, based on the experiences of many mostly non-business fields (Find them here.)In...
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16-Year-Old Scientist Finds Scalable Solution to Pharmaceutical Pollution in...
For many of us, our high school science fair likely involved creative experimentation that may have yielded one more baking soda and vinegar volcano. Not so for 16-year-old Maria Elena Grimmett, a...
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