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#NewMetrics '15 Panel Dissects Evolving Green Bond Market
The green bond market is growing exponentially, having seen $36 billion issued in 2015 from only $11billion issued in 2013. It remains a fledgling market, yet with continued investor demand and issuers...
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#NewMetrics ’15: How to Accelerate Climate Solutions through Investing
Think talking about investment is always boring? Think again: This had to have been the most highly charged workshop at New Metrics ’15.At first it appeared that the debate was personal among the...
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#NewMetrics ’15: UN SDGs Prompting Business Collaboration for a Better World
Back in the ballroom for the last afternoon of Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’15, SustainAbility’s research director Chris Guenther hosted a discussion on the new UN Sustainable Development Goals...
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#BusinessCase: Why Renewable Energy Will Make or Break Business Success
World leaders have shaken hands on the new Sustainable Development Goals that will hopefully be shaping global and local agendas and policies over the next 15 years. The UN Sustainable Development...
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The 3 Best Metrics for Effective Employee Engagement
During the last decade or so, human resource management has been essentially flipped on its head. What was once a decidedly employer-centered market has become one driven by the needs and concerns of...
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Target Launches Collaboration with MIT Media Lab, IDEO to Explore the Future...
Today, Target announced a new collaboration with MIT’s Media Lab and global design firm IDEO that will explore the future of food. The work will focus on areas such as urban farming, food transparency...
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Off-Grid Solar Startup Bringing Affordable, Reliable Electricity to Haiti
Haitian off-grid utility startup RE-VOLT is on a mission to bring affordable and reliable electricity to families in rural Haiti and is running a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the expansion of its...
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SB 657 in Review: Why Businesses Have a Stake in Supply Chain Transparency
It’s been five years since California signed a groundbreaking piece of legislation that set a legal precedent around the world. the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act, better known as SB 657,...
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United Upcycles Banners Into Bags to Benefit Re:new Project, Peruvian Forest...
More than 20 large banners that encouraged United Airlines customers to “Fly the Friendly Skies” at Chicago O’Hare found new life; the airline worked with the Columbia College Chicago Department of...
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Xerox, Starwood Hotels, Bigelow Shift Allegiance from SFI to FSC for...
Environmental watchdog ForestEthics announced today that four major US companies — Xerox, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Delta Dental and Bigelow Tea— have expanded their commitment to support and...
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Toyota Sets Goals for Better Cars, Manufacturing and Communities
Toyota recently announced a set of goals to be achieved over the next 35 years, which address key global environmental issues such as climate change, water shortages, resource depletion and degradation...
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Q&A: Gliimpse Wants to Translate Your Medical Records Into Actionable Data
Medical records, electronic or otherwise, might as well be Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics to, well, just about anyone other than a medical professional. This makes it next to impossible for us to make...
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World's Leading Apparel Brands, Industry Groups Join Forces to Transform...
Today, a group of some of the world’s biggest brands, retailers, NGOs and industry groups launch a Social and Labor Convergence Project, with the aim of improving working conditions in apparel...
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Startup Exploring Multibillion-Dollar Opportunity for Coal Ash
Coal ash is the United States’ second-largest waste stream, after household garbage. It needs to be stored safely to prevent arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxins from leaching into farmlands,...
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Trending: Celebrities Raising Awareness for Environmental Issues Through...
How do video games and virtual reality play into climate change action? Ask Grammy award-winning producer and musician Pharrell Williams and Oscar-winning actor and singer Jared Leto, who are trying to...
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Malala Fund Campaigning Globally for Girls’ Education in Tandem with Film...
Earlier this month, He Named Me Malala, the feature-length documentary on the inspiring story of Nobel Laureate and girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, opened in theatres across the U.S. and...
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General Mills, IKEA Among Latest Global Players to Join White House Climate...
General Mills, IKEA and Best Buy are among the 81 companies to recently join the White House-led American Business Act on Climate Pledge, which sets significant greenhouse gas reduction and renewable...
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Want Your Brand to Survive? View Purpose as an Asset, Not a Cost
Recently, I was invited for a panel discussion on the future in brand communication at the renowned faculty of advertising and marketing, the ESPM, in São Paulo. I shared my view that society nowadays...
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Water for Life Launches Campaign to Bring Sustainable Water Filters to...
A 2010 report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF estimated that four out of every 10 people in the world, particularly those in Africa and Asia, do not have clean water to drink, and according...
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Mars, FAO Partner to Make Food 'Safe and Sustainable' Worldwide
Mars has signed a new partnership agreement with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to help make food safer across the globe, with a specific focus on the developing...
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