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Social Buying: Choosing the Right Cleaner and Caterer Can Help You Unlock...
My last social post explored how living wage employers benefit from higher productivity levels, lower hiring costs, better brand recognition and increased customer satisfaction. In this article, I...
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World Leaders at COP21 Must Act Now to Save Our Forests
Discussion, collaboration and commitment necessary for long-term forest protectionThis week marks a critical moment for climate change. World leaders are gathering in Paris at the COP21 climate...
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“Bikes vs Cars” Wants to Liberate Cities from Traffic Jams and Urban Sprawl
Could the bicycle be the tool for change that our cities need? A new documentary and a related app are hoping to inspire better design, smarter political decisions, and reduced CO2 emissions in the...
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Most Advanced High-End Prefab Smart Home to Be Built in California Wine Country
American Modular Systems (AMS) has started production on River Vine Vineyards, a new Gen7 Concept Home to be sited on a 50-acre working vineyard along the banks of the Mokelumne River Watershed in Lodi...
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Waste, Bioplastics and Edible Packaging Solutions Shine as Carlsberg Green...
In September and October, Carlsberg Group accepted submissions for its "Cheers to Green Ideas" competition, hosted in partnership with think tank Sustainia. The competition asked people and...
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Gates, Branson, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Ma Launch Breakthrough Energy Coalition
“We need innovation that gives us energy that’s cheaper than today’s hydrocarbon energy, that has zero CO2 emissions, and that’s as reliable as today’s overall energy system. And when you put all those...
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Report: Cities Can Help Close COP21 ‘Emissions Gap’
If cities around the world take aggressive climate change action, they can help cut global emissions by 3.7 billion tons a year by 2030 — helping to close the “emissions gap” between what countries...
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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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New Tool Measures Upstream Global Supply Chain GHGs
The international climate negotiations currently underway in Paris at COP21 are focused on commitments by national and subnational governments to gradually reduce emissions, primarily from direct...
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EU Adopts Circular Economy Package, But Is It Good Enough?
Stakeholders are yet again criticizing the European Commission’s new Circular Economy Package. The original policy, released in December of last year, was denounced as insufficiently ambitious,...
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CI, Starbucks Aiming to Make Coffee World's First Sustainably Sourced...
Conservation International (CI), in partnership with Ceres and industry leaders such as Starbucks and Keurig Green Mountain, have announced a call to action to make coffee the first sustainably sourced...
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Economists Say Climate Impacts Will Be Worse Than Previously Believed
Experts on the economics of climate change have revealed concerns that damages from climate change impacts will be larger and more immediate than previously estimated, according to a new survey from...
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Indonesian Paper Giants Commit Over $100M Towards Forest, Peatland Restoration
Amidst the bustle of COP21, Indonesian forests have received some pretty good news. After weeks of devastating fires, APRIL Group and Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), two of the world’s largest pulp and...
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Epson's New In-Office Papermaking System Turns Waste Paper Into New Paper
While so much of our lives have veered toward the digital, many organizations’ operations still rely to some degree on paper. Innovative solutions to help minimize the impact of continued paper use...
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COP21: Challenges from UN, MIT Seek Climate-Resilience Solutions from Around...
Today at the UN Climate Change conference (COP21), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Climate CoLab, in collaboration with the United Nations Secretary-General, announced the launch of a...
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Trending: UK Retailers Fighting Food Waste Through Investment, Redistribution
The United Kingdom wastes more food than any other European country; a 2014 House of Lords report estimated 15 million tonnes of food per year are wasted in the UK, at a cost of £5 billion, and the...
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COP21: adidas, Parley Unveil Latest Innovation, Call on Industry to...
Today, at the “Parley Talks” at COP21, adidas and Parley for the Oceans showcased their latest footwear concept, the 3D-printed Ocean Plastic shoe midsole, to demonstrate how the industry can rethink...
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Campaign: 'Stop Hogging All the Water, Save Some for Wildlife'
Bad news: You might be a water hog. Americans use more water per person than anyone else in the world – 27 billion gallons every day. Unfortunately, it is the river systems, lakes and wetlands and the...
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COP21: A View from Paris
The Conference of the Parties … COP21… the climate conference … or just “Paris,” as in “What’s going to happen in Paris?”The last two weeks in the City of Light have been dedicated to defying the...
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A-B InBev Encouraging Consumers to Celebrate Responsibly with Global Smart...
Anheuser-Busch InBev today announced the launch of four Global Smart Drinking Goals, deepening its commitment to implement effective and collaborative solutions to reduce the harmful use of alcohol....
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