Majority of Global Seafood Consumers Putting Sustainability Concerns Over...
The largest-ever global analysis of attitudes toward seafood consumption, released today, has found that sustainability is a key driver for seafood purchases: Across 21 countries, sustainability is...
View Article16 Insights Into Successfully Activating Purpose AND Profit
As one of the focal points of the global Sustainable Brands conference network, Sustainable Brands ’16 Copenhagen will explore how brands can succeed by Activating Purpose with next-level...
View ArticleChemists Find New Way to Turn Most Common Plastic Waste into Fuel
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) have found a new way to break down the strong bonds of polyethylene, the most commonly...
View ArticleNatural Capital Protocol Promises to ‘Revolutionize’ Business Value,...
Two years in the making, the first global Natural Capital Protocol was launched today. The standardized framework brings together and builds on a number of approaches that already exist to help...
View ArticleTrending: Yet More Actions to Redistribute, Reduce, Recycle Food Waste in the UK
Found to be the worst-performing European country in terms of food waste in a 2015 study, the United Kingdom (UK) certainly seems to be setting a new course. Over the past year, numerous initiatives...
View ArticleBen & Jerry's and Ford Are Embracing Climate Disruption - and Your Company...
Is your business embracing the disruptive forces of a low-carbon world as Ford and Ben & Jerry’s are? Over the next 10 years, climate change will drive industrial disruption at rates that...
View ArticleProject JUST Platform Expanding to Meet Demand for Ethical Fashion - and It...
Project JUST, an online platform that reviews fashion brands (75 to date) for their supply chain ethics and sustainability to help consumers make more informed choices, is crowdfunding to help expand...
View ArticleTarget Highlights Successes, Shortcomings in Ongoing Sustainability Journey
In 2015, Target wrapped up its five-year goals and built the foundation for the future of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice, which is to make wellness a way of life; pursue...
View ArticleBill to Create Federal GMO Labeling Standard Sails Through House
After passing the Senate last week, a bill proposing a federal labeling standard for foods with genetically modified ingredients - and blocking states from creating their own standards - sailed through...
View ArticleBeer Giants Increasing Transparency Around Ingredients, Nutrition Information
This week, the Beer Institute announced a new initiative to encourage its member companies to display specific consumer information on products, packaging or websites. The Brewers’ Voluntary Disclosure...
View ArticleCalling All Food Waste Fighters: New Funding for Closed-Loop Solutions
The Closed Loop Foundation (CL Foundation) has announced a new grant and loan opportunity for food waste solutions that are applicable in the United States. Hoping to unlock food waste diversion and...
View ArticleAchieving Higher Value Chain Efficiency Through Product Life Cycle Analytics
“What data analytics did for baseball it could do for the environment by shrinking the carbon footprint of thousands of consumer products. With data from each step in a product’s life cycle, companies...
View ArticleCalifornia's RPS Generating Thousands of Clean Energy Blue-Collar Jobs
California’s aggressive climate policies — combined with the sheer size of its economy — have helped it create the most clean energy jobs of any state in the country, according to a new study by the UC...
View ArticleWaste-Make-Retake: How Interface Is Setting Out to Change Industry with...
Carpet might not seem like a major player in the climate change fight, but the process of making it actually is quite impactful on the environment. Most carpets are synthetic — nylon, polyester,...
View ArticleOver 100,000 Sign 16-Year-Old’s Petition Urging Clinton, Trump to End U.S....
16-year-old climate activist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is petitioning the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates to take a strong stance on ending climate change. In a Care2 petition and a corresponding video...
View ArticleAll Innovation Is Not Created Equal
All around today’s business world, there’s a lot of talk about “innovation.” Supply chains, service delivery, formulation, marketing, and countless other areas of business are undergoing rapid change...
View ArticleByFusion: Creating the Building Blocks for Tackling Ocean Waste
“It’s all about timing,” says Gregor Gomory, CEO of ByFusion, a startup he believes is about to take advantage of a “perfect storm” brewing as the world wakes up to the enormous problem of plastic...
View ArticleInnocent Drinks’ App Helps Farmers Cut Water Use by Up to 40%
In the south of Spain, unsustainable water use is threatening Doñana National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of Europe’s most important wetlands. Located southwest of Seville, the Park...
View ArticlePlay Through Heineken’s Sustainability Highlights from Ship to Concert in Its...
Heineken released its 2015 sustainability report back in April, along with a ‘Frank’ distillation video featuring Dutch rapper and vocal artist Kevin “Blaxtar” de Rendamie. This week, Heineken USA...
View ArticleFord, Jose Cuervo Explore the Only Scenario in Which Tequila, Cars Might Be a...
In the latest of a string of innovative partnerships in its quest for more sustainable materials (which so far have yielded CO2-based and tomato-based plastic, and guayule-based rubber, to name a few),...
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