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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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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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How Ford, MillerCoors, Hershey Are Helping Suppliers Innovate for Sustainability
In this Tuesday afternoon panel, representatives from Ford, MillerCoors and Hershey described how their companies are leveraging a variety of partnerships to innovate for sustainability across their...
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Keurig, PepsiCo Discuss How Owning Up to Failure Can Lead to Long-Term Success
“Failure is temporary but change is real,” said Sophia Mendelsohn, head of Sustainability at JetBlue Airways, during the Wednesday evening plenary at SB'16 San Diego.While many Silicon Valley tech...
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Purpose as a Filter for Decision-Making
The food industry is in the midst of a revolution that’s reshaping the way we grow food, develop recipes, choose ingredients and even decide what materials go into the packaging of our products. For...
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A World First: Step Inside Heineken's Zero-Carbon Brewery
In the postcard-perfect town of Göss, a two-hour drive south of Vienna, something very interesting is brewing.This is home to the Gösser Brewery, one of more than 165 breweries owned and operated by...
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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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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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New Levels of Connectedness: Applying IoT to Global Sustainability Challenges
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we connect with each other and the world around us. While creating new opportunities for business engagement and new systems for developing data,...
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From Footprint to Handprint: AT&T, Dell, SHINE and More on the Path to Net...
It is an achievement of the sustainability movement that standards for measuring and reducing our societal and planetary footprint have been established and are being tracked. But evolution tells us...
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Report: How Digital Solutions Can Drive Progress Toward the UN SDGs
The information and communication technologies (ICT) sector can play a vital role in helping achieve the objectives of the United Nation’s (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,...
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How Tesla's Stationary Energy Storage Is Makin''Bacon' for Jackson Family Wines
“Facility managers are at a premium these days and are overtaxed,” said Julien Gervreau, director of Sustainability at Jackson Family Wines (JFW) during a Thursday breakout session at SB'16 San...
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Latest C2C Product Design Challenge Spawns Circular Solutions for Packaging,...
Today, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute announced the winners of the third Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge. The series of six global design challenges running from 2015...
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New Track and Trace Tool Enables Transparent, Circular Supply Chains
A new cloud-based platform for supply chain management promises to enhance transparency and help producers transition to circular models, starting with the apparel industry. In collaboration with...
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Less Talk, More Action: How Brands Are Effectively Communicating Around Purpose
“I think in an organization, when you’re trying to do something different, it’s important to take up that shared risk,” said Alex Thompson, VP of Communications & Public Affairs at REI, during the...
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Of Top Cotton Users, Over 75% ‘Appear to Do Virtually Nothing’ on Cotton...
More sustainable cotton has become more widely available thanks to collaborations such as the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and other programs focused on minimizing the use of highly hazardous...
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Apple Quietly Launches ‘Apple Energy’ Subsidiary to Sell Renewable Energy...
Apple seems to be embedding its renewable energy commitments into its corporate structure. The company recently created a new wholly-owned subsidiary known as Apple Energy LLC and filed an application...
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Competitiveness, Reputation Deliver Higher ‘ROI on Purpose’ Than Consumer...
Consumers’ perspectives on corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives have received more research attention than the perspectives of manufacturers and retailers, and yet shopper expectations may...
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