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Tesco Celebrating Easter With Responsible Cocoa, Exclusive LEGO Toy
British multinational grocer and retailer Tescosourced 100 percent of its own brand Easter eggs from programs that promote responsible cocoa, and teamed up with LEGO to offer a special limited edition...
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UK Announces Tax on Sugary Beverages; Industry May Sue
In a surprise announcement on March 16, the UK government unveiled a tax on sugary drinks amidst its budgetary plans. Companies have 2 years to reformulate their products, but the director general of...
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Companies Face 71% Likelihood of Finding Modern Slavery in Supply Chains
71 percent of companies believe there is a likelihood of modern slavery occurring at some point within their supply chains, according to research conducted by the Ashridge Centre for Business and...
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Mars, ConAgra, Kellogg Jump on Big Food Bandwagon to Label GMOs
The U.S. Senate might be waiting to make a decision regarding the labeling of genetically modified organism (GMO) ingredients, but Big Food companies are not. This week, Mars, Incorporated, ConAgra...
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CDP: 7 Automakers Face Exposure to Up to $4.8B in Emissions Penalties
A new report from CDP, analyzing 15 of the world’s largest automakers with combined market capitalization of US$846 billion, has found that tightening regulations on emissions are having a significant...
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Rockefeller Family, Who Built Fortune on Fossil Fuels, Dumping Oil Stocks —...
The latest generation of descendants of oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller have denounced the industry upon which he built their fortune.The Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) announced this...
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How the World’s Most Wasteful Country Is Leading the Shift to a Circular Economy
John A. Mathews and Hao Tan, both professors based in Australia, believe that the country that consumes the most resources in the world and produces the most waste also has the most advanced solutions....
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An Open Letter to Manufacturers
Do you ever have that Charlie Brown moment? You know, the moment when you’ve done something again for the umpteenth time, hoping for a different result, but you get what you’ve always gotten?That’s my...
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New Tools Benchmark Corporate Efforts to Eliminate Modern Slavery
Modern slavery has been a popular topic in corporate responsibility lately, and with good reason: Forced labor affects roughly 21 million people around the globe, and 71 percent of companies believe...
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Sweetgreen's Uphill Battle to Transform Fast Food
It’s a great time to be a salad on a fast food menu. A generation ago, there was no happy medium between lunch hour at a fast food joint or at a sit-down restaurant — and either option was, and still...
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New Analysis Outlines Progress, Challenges, Next Steps for UK Recovered...
The latest data and in-depth information about UK plastics recycling and reprocessing has been released in an updated Plastics Market Situation Report from resource efficiency experts WRAP.The report...
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Regenerative Business, Phase One: Discerning a Living, Structured Whole and...
How to know if you are doing something else and calling it RegenerationLast month, I began a series of blogs on the concept of Regeneration. The idea of Regeneration has a very long history of...
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South Pole Group: Why Companies Should Care About Renewable Energy
The landmark international climate change nearly 195-nation agreement that came out of COP21 late last year sent a message to the world that a low-carbon future is imminent.The Paris Agreement, for the...
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Avoiding Greenwashing: 10 Principles of Truly Sustainable Packaging Design
As a packaging designer and nature lover, I dream of the day when material science and manufacturing can deliver on the promise of zero environmental impact, high performance, premium finish and low...
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FIRST LEGO Robotics Competition Challenges Kids to Solve the World’s Waste...
The 2016 FIRST® LEGO® League Arabia Open, the largest regional robotics competition in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, took place this past weekend at the American University of Beirut...
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Report Reveals 67% of Cans Contain BPA; Campbell Soup, Del Monte to Switch...
A report released today by six non-profit organizations found that 67 percent of nearly 200 tested food can linings contained Bisphenol A (BPA). The report also identified the replacement materials and...
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Supply Chain Traceability Key to Fulfilling Sustainability Promises
Consumers these days want to know that when a business says that it is producing something ethically and sustainably, that it can back up such claims throughout its entire supply chain. After all, a...
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Utility Companies Turn to ‘PR Guru’ for Help Cleaning Up Their Reputation
The trade organization representing investor-owned electric companies, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), has hired a communications consultant who will help utilities rebrand themselves into...
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Can Diamond-based Semiconductors Solve the Electronic Industry’s CSR Problems?
Diamonds may be forever, but they soon could change the way we power electronics by cutting e-waste, conserving water and fighting climate change.Today, semiconductors usually are made of silicon,...
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Standards and Businesses Coming Together in Washington to Discuss...
Over 200 of the most influential figures in sustainability standards and certification will join business leaders to share their thoughts on today’s most pressing sustainability challenges on May 10 to...
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