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Mayors Get Creative as Competition for 'Coolest City in California' Heats Up
A competition that began in October, the CoolCalifornia Challenge, is motivating Californians in 22 participating cities to reduce their water and energy consumption. The cities are competing for a...
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Calling All Facilitators: Why Stakeholder Collaboration Will Be Key in...
Representatives from almost 200 countries convened in Paris in December to reach the most significant agreement on climate change since the topic initially surfaced as a political priority some decades...
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Vote to Allocate Part of €1M Global Change Award to Your Favorite Circular...
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the US alone generates an estimated 24 billion pounds of post-consumer textile waste (PCTW), which ends up in landfills each year — the equivalent of...
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The Role of the Representative Product in Product Environmental Footprinting
The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) approach is a game-changing initiative in LCA, with effects and ramifications that we are only just beginning to understand. Today in PRé’s PEF series: What is...
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ExxonMobil Amps Up Cleantech Investment While Blocking Shareholder Vote on...
Global fuels giant ExxonMobil seems to be unmoved by the investigations into its climate change lies – first in New York and now in California– and the international Paris Agreement that calls for...
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Global Companies Played Key Role in Precedent-Setting Great Bear Conservation...
It has taken the combined and herculean efforts of countless individuals, but this week, the vision of the landmark Great Bear Rainforest Agreements has finally been realized. Local communities have a...
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Trending: Food, Fashion Providing Employment for Refugees
More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015, and over 50,000 more arrived by boat in January 2016. While most asylum seekers are trying to escape the war in Syria, tens of...
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One Man's Trash: New Technologies, Partnerships Boosting Recycling Around the...
Among the key challenges to the burgeoning recycling market are lack of infrastructure, innovation at scale and funding. But a variety of initiatives — in developed and developing areas alike — are...
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John West Partnering with WWF, MSC to Offer World's Largest Range of...
This week, John West Australia, WWF-Australia (WWF) and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), announced that they have come together to make the single biggest brand commitment to help end...
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Footprints Without Borders: Harmonising Product Carbon Footprinting Schemes...
Product carbon footprinting is not a philanthropic act undertaken by companies to save the world. It has real commercial returns. It helps businesses to understand how to optimise the design and...
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The Need for Integral Thinking and True Materiality
This is part 2 of a 6-part series about integral thinking and true materiality. It proposes a new impetus to develop reporting that is able to serve the idea of a green & inclusive economy. Part 1...
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Satellites, Drones Catching Companies Destroying the Planet
Aerial imaging is emerging as an invaluable resource for collecting information and enforcing the law, especially when it comes to environmental protection. Satellite and drone technologies are getting...
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5 Steps Every Food Retailer Should Take to Eliminate Food Waste
Campaigners for action on food waste have had much to celebrate recently. The Rockefeller Foundation launched YieldWise, a $130 million initiative to tackle loss between farm and market and...
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Study: Companies Prioritizing Supply Chain Sustainability, But the Real Work...
Our recent research suggests that sustainability is gaining some traction in business, yet few organizations have taken meaningful steps toward developing a green supply chain. Furthermore, North...
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UK Sugar, Carbon Taxes Could Produce £3.6B in Revenue, Reduce Emissions by...
Could the health and environmental benefits of taxes on sugary drinks and carbon-intensive foods outweigh the out-of-pocket costs? New research from Oxford University and the University of Reading...
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Singularity University, Amnesty International Turning to Tech to Tackle Human...
Benefit corporationSingularity University (SU) is in ambitious pursuit of solutions for eleven “global grand challenges” that its experts have identified: environment, security, health, learning,...
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Play Your Part: Activating on Purpose Key for Successful Engagement for...
The popularity of team sports in the U.S. — and the idolatry surrounding star players — makes them a perfect platform for reaching fans and encouraging behavior change on a massive scale. With 190...
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Stakeholder Collaboration Enables Accelerated Progress in APP's Peatland...
On Thursday, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) released a progress report on its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), which involves four main corporate commitments that have regulated the company’s resource...
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Mars to Remove All Artificial Colors from Food Portfolio
On Friday, Mars, Incorporatedannounced that it will remove all artificial colors from its human food products. Over the next 5 years, artificial colors will be phased out of the company's chocolate,...
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Mobility as a Service Charting the Course for Customized On-Demand Mobility
To serve people’s urban mobility needs, cities rely on anything from one dominant, mainly private owned means of transport — the personal automobile — to a complex mixture of publicly and privately...
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