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New UN Framework Leverages Business to Benefit Global Education
A new framework aimed at helping businesses to realize business benefits while advancing global education goals was recently announced by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a CEO...
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Redefining Value: The New Metrics of Sustainable Business - The SB Community...
We believe that nothing can drive faster organizational response to a changing business environment – or facilitate realignment between corporate functions or within value networks — than a shift in...
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Developing a Purposeful Brand: A Practitioner’s Toolbox, Part Two
In this series, Christophe Fauconnier & Benoit Beaufils, respectively CEO & founding partner of brand consultancy Innate Motion, present the tools that the company uses to develop purposeful,...
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Investors Ask General Mills to Step Up Packaging Responsibility
This week, investors are asking General Mills to take responsibility for recycling its post-consumer packaging waste.read more
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Carbon Policy: Inside Microsoft's Efforts to Integrate Sustainability Into...
Originally written for and published on CSRwire's Commentary section, Talkback, on September 12, 2013.On July 1, 2012, Microsoft issued a new corporate policy across 14 business divisions in over 100...
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Reality Check: Climate Counts Launches World's First Science-Based Carbon Rating
On Tuesday at the New Metrics of Sustainable Business Conference, Climate Counts will present initial findings of the first-ever science-based rating of corporate carbon emissions. The study, conducted...
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Starbucks Jumps on the Sustainably Sourced Wagon with New Origins Campaign
Continuing a positive trend of transparency in the food industry, Starbucks' latest campaign focuses on the quality and sourcing of its coffee beans, as sustainability and health concerns continue to...
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Lack of Reliable Metrics Impeding Sustainable Business Growth, Study Says
Less than a third (32 percent) of CEOs believe the global economy is on track to meet the demands of a growing population, while two-thirds (67 percent) report that the private sector is not making...
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E&S Topics Comprised 40% of Shareholder Proposals Filed in 2013
Nearly 40 percent of all shareholder proposals filed in 2013 came from the environmental and social (E&S) category, representing the largest category overall, according to a recent report by Ernst...
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Inspiring the Supply Chain: Sprint's New Supplier Booklet
As the sustainability world places increased focus on supply chain issues, there’s no doubt that any corporation on an authentic CSR journey needs to carefully examine the impacts of its entire supply...
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Putting Sustainability Data into Context
Many companies have been publicly reporting on sustainability metrics for more than 20 years, and others are just getting started. As the practice is maturing and becoming more commonplace,...
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Rubies in the Rubble: Fighting a Culture of Waste One Chutney at a Time
In 2010, Jenny Dawson was a couple of years out of university working at a hedge fund company in London. One day, she found herself at a wholesale market where she saw pallets of edible fruit and...
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Microsoft, Diageo Among Latest Companies Urging Policymakers to Address...
Business calls for strong climate change action are getting louder. A half-dozen more leading global companies including Microsoft, Owens Corning, Diageo, Thornton Tomasetti, and Acer America...
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SNAP Answers: How Can Protecting Nature Help Ensure Food, Energy, Water...
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) today announced the launch of SNAP (Science for Nature and...
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Transforming Desire: What Gets People In and Out of Bed When It Comes to...
There’s nothing sexy about a Materiality Report. Delicately revealing your intimate water stewardship credentials is unlikely to get any one hot under the collar. And no one at your local is going to...
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New Process Developed by GE, Sasol Producing Biogas from Wastewater
Sasol, a South African chemical and energy company, and General Electric’s GE Power & Water have developed technology that will clean wastewater while also producing biogas as a by-product.The...
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Can Universities Lead the Way to Embedding Sustainability Within Organizations?
This was the question that motivated Bruno Sarda, Director of Global Sustainability Operations at Dell and adjunct professor at Arizona State University (ASU), and Dr. George Basile, senior...
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New Social Network Helps Community Projects Find 'neighbourly' Corporate...
Each week leading up to our SB London conference, where the winner of the SB London Innovation Open (SBIOL) will be announced on November 18, we will get to know each of our four finalists. This week,...
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Unilever Pledges 100% Traceable Palm Oil by End of 2014
In a major move towards sustainability for one of the world’s largest purchasers of palm oil, Unilever on Tuesday announced that all of the palm oil it buys globally will be traceable to known sources...
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Getting Over the Sustainability Innovation Hump
I just read an interesting Deloitte study linking sustainability with innovation inside corporations. According to the study, companies engaged in sustainability innovate more than their competitors....
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