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Trending: America's Pastime, Swedish Ingenuity Spur Proliferation of Recycled...
SustainU, a West Virginia-based leading producer of apparel using fabrics from 100 percent recycled, domestically manufactured materials, this week announced a partnership with Major League Baseball...
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Investors: Apparel Workers in Bangladesh Still at Risk
This Sunday, April 24th will mark the third anniversary of the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh when workplace health and safety failures cost 1,134 people their lives and injured many...
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Is Privatizing National Parks the Solution to Sustaining Them?
2016 is the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS), and in February the agency got a present from the biggest tech company in the world – or, more accurately, the world got a present from Google...
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Industry Giant GAR to Fully Trace Its Palm Oil Supply Chain to the Plantation...
One of the world’s largest palm oil companies, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), has published a 4-year plan to trace its entire supply to the growers’ plantations. Earlier this year, GAR mapped its entire...
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Bioplastic Advancements Show Promise for Biodegradable Milk, Juice, Food...
Food packaging is one of the main generators of packaging waste in developed countries. In 2012, each person in the European Union (EU) countries generated an average of 156.8kg of packaging waste, and...
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Unilever, J&J Campaigns Aim to 'End Bottle Bias,' Boost Bathroom Recycling
When it comes to in-home recycling habits, Unilever and Johnson & Johnson have found the same thing: Not all packaging is treated equally. Unilever reports that only 14 percent of Americans are...
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AP: Americans Favor Low Prices Over American-Made Goods
Price remains one of the biggest draws for American consumers. Results from a recent Associated Press-GfK poll show that the vast majority of Americans say they prefer lower prices instead of paying a...
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How Increasing Transparency Can Help Prevent Further Devastation in Indonesia
Late last year, devastating fires engulfed 2 million hectares of land in Indonesia, impacting the health of 43 million people around Southeast Asia, and emitting as much greenhouse gases into the...
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Food and Drink, Inc: How Big Food Is Aiming to Connect with Conscious Consumers
Food dominates our lives; it influences our health and has becomes a defining theme of 21st-century popular culture. No wonder then that the sustainability issues that influence the things we eat and...
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More Entrepreneurs Waging the Food Waste Fight
Campaigns near and far have been educating people on the – well, wastefulness – of food waste. Bad for both our wallets and the environment, the amount of food that is purchased by consumers only to go...
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How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry
In 2004 I was on my knees scrabbling through the Cameroon rainforest. A keen botanist, I’d signed up as a volunteer with an NGO to help map the forest and search for new species. One day whilst hiking...
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Framing the Climate Conversation: Researchers Investigate Discourse Across...
Climate change has slowly become more of a partisan issue over the last few decades, fuelling heated debates despite the scientific consensus (and, quite often, about whether there is in fact a...
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Timberland Extends Rigorous Environmental Standard Across Entire Product...
Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland prides itself on its commitment to innovate and operate in an accountable and responsible manner — in terms of its products, the communities in which it...
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Dannon, Chobani Bucking Business as Usual to Empower Farmers, Employees
Two of America’s most well-known yogurt brands are taking unconventional approaches create stronger ties with some of their stakeholders. Dannon is implementing a new supply system that allows the...
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SB'16 Barcelona Will Demonstrate 'Sustainability and Business Are Not Only...
The second edition of Sustainable Brands Barcelona is taking place the 22nd-24th of May. Sandra Pina, director of the event and partner of the consultancy firm Quiero salvar el mundo haciendo marketing...
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Why Embracing Profitable Good — Not CSR — Will Help You Stay Ahead
For all the talk about the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the truth of the matter is most executives don’t believe it drives direct bottom line business benefit, or that it...
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Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Finalists Revolutionizing Healthcare,...
The Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, now in its third year, has attracted the highest number of entries to date. The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL),...
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Trending: Dutch Designers, L.L. Bean, Savers Revolt Against Fast Fashion
‘Fast fashion’ holds a prominent position in the apparel industry despite the many problems associated with it, from labor conditions to clothing waste. In the three years since the tragic Rana Plaza...
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Beyond the SEC and Disclosure: Why Materiality Matters
Materiality is murky – especially when it comes to sustainability. Reporting on material issues in the financial context has been legally required for decades and is widely understood. It is less...
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Stakeholder Relations - Invest in It Before You Need to Rely on It
As the world’s leading chemical company, BASF has products in all kinds of industries; it employs 112,000 employees globally, services a variety of customers, and has relationships with shareholders...
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