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Changing the Culture of Excess [Packaging]
Some time ago I was on a business trip, and an acquaintance presented me with a box of cookies as a welcome gift. It was beautifully presented, featuring a large and beautifully intricate bow. I...
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How USGBC’s Certified Wood Pilot Program Helps Advance Sustainable Buildings
Recently, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the governing body for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard, made a significant announcement. To encourage more...
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With Help of $10M Series A, Back to the Roots Poised to Truly 'Undo Food'
Back to the Roots, an Oakland, California startup pioneering how families reconnect with food, announced today that it has expanded its January crowdfunding campaign on CircleUp into a $10M Series A....
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First-Ever Global Standard Allows Countries, Companies to Measure Food Loss...
A partnership of leading international public and private organizations launched the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard at the Global Green Growth Forum (3GF) 2016 Summit today in...
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FTSE Russell's New Data Model Tracks Ratio of Companies''Green Revenues' to...
Global index and data provider FTSE Russell today announced the launch of its LCE data model, which measures the “green” revenues of 13,400 public companies, representing 98.5 percent of total global...
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BSR, Forum for the Future Partner to Help Companies Quantify, Execute on Net...
This morning at SB’16 San Diego, BSRand Forum for the Future launched the Net Positive Project, a cross-sector coalition that aims to expand the number of companies that go beyond reducing their...
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Wilhelms: Cultural Change Starts With Conversation
“Our goal is to make the intangible tangible, which is what we have to do with culture,” said Pamela Wilhelms, founder of Wilhelms Consulting Group, during a Monday workshop at SB'16 San Diego.The...
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A Controlled Burn: Channeling Your Passion Key to Being an Effective Change...
In our previous post, on supporting your CEO, we discussed some tactics sustainability change agents can employ to help shape their CEO’s decision making on sustainability. We were also curious to know...
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Whole Systems Mapping: How to Design for Innovation and Achieve...
The room was buzzing during design strategist Jeremy Faludi’s Monday afternoon workshop, Whole Systems Mapping: Driving Innovation and Sustainability Through Prioritized Ideation and Value Chain Maps....
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Sustainability Leaders Agree: Integrating Purpose, Brand a Top Driver of...
Integrating purpose through a common brand promise and aligning sustainability strategy with internal culture and values are key drivers of corporate leadership, according to the findings of the...
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Targeting a Trillion-Dollar Impact: Applying the Work of The Sustainability...
As a creative guy sitting between the manager of recycling for a major retailer and a supply chain expert for a large clothing brand, I certainly feel like I am bringing the knife to the metrics...
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Nestlé in the U.S. Continues 'Creating Shared Value' by Improving Product...
Nestlé in the United States (which includes Nestle USA’s people food divisions, as well as Nestle’s other Stateside operations, including Nespresso, Purina and Nestlé Professional) today releases its...
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ThriveAbility: A Framework for Improving Capitalism, Activating Purpose
On the week’s theme of Activating Purpose, ThriveAbility Foundation co-founders Robin Wood, Ralph Thurm and Bill Baue led a Monday morning workshop on “thriveability,” their model for a regenerative,...
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Lessons Learned from Buddhism, 10 Years of Sustainable Innovation Set Tone...
KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, founder and CEO of Sustainable Life Media and Sustainable Brands, kicked off the 10th annual Sustainable Brands conference Monday evening by going back to when she first asked...
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SPLC: How to Drive Human Health, Environmental and Social Impacts with...
What could be a dry technical presentation on supply chain metrics is immediately derailed, as presenter Scot Case, Training Developer for the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC), elects...
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#EarthToParis: Designing Global Calls to Action and Engaging Multiple...
“We’re going to change the world - all of us together. I know we will.” – Max SchorrGOOD is a social impact company that creates stories, experiences, and tools to push the world forward. During a...
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What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up? How to Reclaim Purpose in the...
Think back to when you were a child daydreaming about what you wanted to be as an adult. Did you imagine dancing across stages as a ballerina? Flying into space as an astronaut? When I was little, I...
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Welcome to the New Green Giants
At Sustainable Brands ’16 San Diego, I’m announcing an additional eight Green Giants. Find out who the new billion-dollar sustainable business leaders are here.What’s the business case for...
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Thinking Outside the Room: Catalyzing and Speeding Up Purpose-Driven Innovation
The San Diego breeze rustles the palm fronds above the Mission Bay Patio - it's nice to be in an outdoor presentation space enjoying the Southern California climate.The topic for the afternoon is...
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TSC Helping Eliminate Weak Links in Global Product Supply Chains
This dynamic Tuesday afternoon panel dissected Global Supply Chains, taking forward by The Sustainability Consortium's (TSC) newly released impact report, Greening Global Supply Chains: From Blind...
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