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New Data: CVS' No Smokes Decision Decreased Tobacco Sales in Chains Across...
One year after drugstore chain CVS Health stopped selling cigarettes, the company released new data that shows the decision has influenced tobacco sales across many types of retailers and announced a...
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Can't Give Up the Bottle? Try Boxed Water
Plastic bottles are some of the worst offenders in packaging waste, but sales of bottled water continue to grow: U.S. bottled water volume apparently rose 7 percent last year.Of course, some companies...
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To Develop Long-Term Sustainability Plans, Look to Oil Companies
Sustainability conversations are changing. Just look at the National Association for Environmental Management’s (NAEM’s) thorough “Planning for a Sustainable Future” report released this week: EHS and...
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Yes, You Can Learn From a Regulator: The Pitfalls of Sustainable Business...
In 16 earlier parts of this series, Claire Sommer and I developed 29 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field, based on the experiences of many mostly non-business fields. (Find them here.)...
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Report: Climate Impacts Causing Billions in Economic Damage, El Niño Making...
As El Niño continues to intensify in the coming months, it is expected that global drought losses will surpass the current forecast $8 billion in economic damage, according to a new report by Aon...
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Canadian Non-Profits Need Your Help to Feed Hungry Kids with Rescued Fruit
Two Canadian non-profit groups have partnered on a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of producing 50,000 snack bags for hungry children in Edmonton, Alberta.The organizations, Fruits of Sherbrooke and E4C,...
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Beverage Industry Giants Releases True Cost of Water Toolkit
The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) — a technical coalition of leading global beverage companies working to advance environmental sustainability within the beverage sector - has...
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The Nebulous Nexus: Collaboration Is Key to Ensuring Success of COP21
The threats climate change poses to the private sector are significant and the need for international agreements on climate change to keep global warming below 2°C is ever more pressing. The challenge...
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Unilever, Walgreens Teaming Up to Fund Clean Water in Kenya
A remote village in Kenya could have access to 15 million gallons of clean water by the end of the year — funded by Unilever shampoo, deodorant and body wash sales at Walgreens.For the first time, the...
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H&M Film Asserts, 'There Are No Rules in Fashion But One: Recycle Your Clothes'
H&M has released an inspiring film emphasizing that there is only one rule in fashion – to recycle your clothes! Starring and narrated by icon Iggy Pop, and featuring appearances by blogger Pardeep...
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More Than Words: The Book Producing Clean Drinking Water One Page at a Time
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the total number of people without access to clean drinking water now stands at 663 million; each year, more than 840,000 globally die from...
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Sustainability Mythbusters: Are Bio-Based Products Always Preferable to...
The common viewIn times where concerns over depletion of non-renewable resources and climate change are drastically increasing, it seems easy to accept that bio-based products are without a doubt...
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Subaru Campaign Aims to Get Public to Stop Trashing Our National Parks
On Friday, Subarureleased a trailer for “Who We Are Is What We Leave Behind,” a video series documenting the car company’s National Parks zero-landfill initiative. See episode one below:Subaru...
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This Algae Could Help Cut Wastewater Sewage Farms’ Costs By 60%
Arizona State University Professor Peter Lammers and researchers at New Mexico State University are developing an energy-positive wastewater treatment method using a special kind of algae, The...
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Cheap, Possibly Sustainable? Ethics of Fish Farming Questioned as Cargill...
Cargill is casting its line into the aquaculture industry. The U.S. food giant recently announced its $1.5 billion acquisition of Norwegian salmon-feed supplier EWOS and a $30 million joint venture...
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Could Sugar-Embedded Products Help Us Survive in a World Ravaged by Drought?
Climate impacts already cost billions in economic damage each year. Global drought losses are expected to surpass $8 billion in 2015 alone. A 2010 study by the National Centre for Atmospheric Research...
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Jamie Oliver Proposes Tax on Sugary Drinks in UK; Industry Is Not Amused
UK chef and “Food Revolution”-ary Jamie Oliver teamed up with food lobbying organization Sustain to encourage the UK government to consider a tax on sugary drinks and use the proceeds to help curb...
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Report: Lack of Data on Ag Emissions Leaves 10% of Global GHG Unaccounted For
Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle and seventy other major food brands already are engaging suppliers on managing climate change, but much work remains to uncover this specific but significant area of...
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What Is the Payoff from Product Sustainability Investments?
Those of us in the field may share a deep-seated belief that sustainability efforts across the product value chain pay clear dividends— but it’s nice to have proof.Nearly all firms state that they have...
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Klein Asks: What If Confronting the Climate Crisis Is Our Only Chance to...
A documentary based on Naomi Klein’s 2014 book, This Changes Everything, a scathing indictment of capitalism as the driver of our current climate crisis, premieres at the Toronto International Film...
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