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Levi’s and Goodwill Are Making It Easier to Donate Clothes This Holiday Season
Only 15 percent of textile waste is donated or recycled in the United States. About 21 billion pounds of clothing, footwear, towels, bedding, drapery, and other textiles end up in American landfills...
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Green Freight for a More Sustainable Supply Chain: Accelerate Performance and...
For great sports teams, the big win marks a beginning, not an end. It whets their appetite for excellence, and more wins.So it is with companies who’ve had success in meeting sustainability targets...
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adidas Kicks Microbeads to the Curb
Athletics brand adidas will end the use of microbeads in its body care products by January 1, 2016. With the help of its license partner Coty, adidas has outpaced body care industry giants in...
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Report: Clear Economic and Environmental Benefits to Phasing Out Fossil Fuel...
After a slow start 6 years ago when the G20 and APEC made commitments to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, about 30 countries have launched or accelerated fossil fuel subsidy reforms,...
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How to Implement Social Innovation in Large Organizations
One the final sessions of the SB '15 London conference on Wednesday saw Mandar Apte, engineer, Social Innovation Expert and GameChanger at Shell, facilitate a workshop about social innovation inside...
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What Really Matters is FiFo – Fish-in, Fish-out
Global food security is all about sourcing enough protein, on a genuinely sustainable basis, for a population in excess of nine billion people in the second half of this century. There’s now an...
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How to Communicate Sustainability at a Brand Level
SB '15 London’s Wednesday afternoon sessions kicked off with a colourful session by Matthew Yeoman, founder Sustainly, a knowledge consultancy and advisory platform based around bringing the worlds of...
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Danone, Nestlé Lead on Zero Deforestation Commitments, But Many Firms Lagging
Danone, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble and Unilever continue to lead the corporate sector in making and living up to zero-deforestation commitments, but many firms have yet to make public sustainability...
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How Partnerships, Disrupting Business Models, Gamifying Energy Became...
The final morning plenary at SB ’15 London brought together a handful of popular household brands with some established and up-and-coming industry innovators, all of which pulled back the curtain on...
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How HR, Sustainability Heads Can Partner to Embed Purpose Throughout an...
There was a lot of discussion last week at SB’15 London around the so-called ‘aspirational generation’ - a rising generation of millennials with higher sustainability expectations of brands whose...
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Towards Corporate Humanities: How To Leverage Purpose To Make Your...
In the past few weeks we talked about what purpose is, how it’s affected the economy, and why it’s so important from a psychological perspective. We ended the last post by beginning to understand the...
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How to Know a Truly Sustainable Company When You See One
“There was an American comedian 100 years ago that said, ‘If we don’t change direction soon, then we’ll end up where we’re going.’ Where we’re going at the moment is not very pretty.”So said Geoff...
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How to *Use* Human Behavior to Change Human Behavior
Joss Tantram of Terrafiniti started the final workshop of SB’15 London by simplifying the title of the session and calling it ‘old challenges, new tools,’ and giving us three change challenges to think...
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“Oscars of Innovation” Award Dow with Most Wins of Any Single Developer
The 2015 winners of the annual R&D 100 Awards were announced on November 13 in Las Vegas. Often referred to as the “Oscars of Innovation,” the awards recognize technology inventions commercialized...
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How Brands Can Leverage the Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been big news in the sustainability community since their launch in September. This session at SB’15 London, opened by Michael Spanos of Global...
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Study: Deforestation Threatens Majority of Amazon Tree Species
At least 36 percent and up to 57 percent of the the tree species in the Amazon Rainforest should qualify as threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the most widely...
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BASF Marks 150th Anniversary With ‘Smart Energy Solutions’ Tour
To mark its 150th anniversary, German firm BASF is hosting a ten-day program in Ludwigshafen focusing on one of the most pressing global challenges: Given the limited resources, how can we secure our...
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Here's What Stands In The Way Of A COP21 Climate Treaty
Despite the recent horrific acts in Paris, next week world leaders will converge on the city for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference — otherwise known as the Conference of the Parties...
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How Lawyers, ESG Experts See the Future of Regulatory Compliance
In the midst (and potentially mist) of the recent Volkswagen emissions scandal, there was no better time to discuss the ESG (environmental, social and governance) regulation space than SB’15 London....
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Study: Developing Countries Face $270 Billion More to Adapt to Climate Change
Developing countries will need to pay an additional $270 billion more each year to adapt to the impacts of climate change if COP21 fails to elicit increased global pledges to cut greenhouse gas...
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