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Trending: Rio 2016, McDonald’s, Subway Making Strides on Responsible Food...
Among the latest news in responsible food sourcing: The Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games will have the largest sustainable seafood offering to date of any Olympic or Paralympic Games; McDonald’s...
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“C” Is For Cognitive Learning: IBM Watson, Sesame Street Team Up to Advance...
The first five years of a child’s life are a critical window for learning and development, but we have yet to master how best to teach and engage children throughout that time. Hoping to advance...
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Trending: Cow Dung, Kombucha Bio-Textiles Bring ‘Trashion’ to a Whole New Level
You may have heard the term ‘trashion’ in reference to clothing made out of trash, an art form that has grown over the past few years among students, artists and fashionistas alike with passions for...
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Tiffany & Co. Details Progress, Opportunities in Quest for Sustainable Luxury
This week, Tiffany & Co. released its sixth annual Sustainability Report, which outlines the jeweler’s continued progress in corporate social responsibility, commitment to the environment, and...
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Health Charities Campaigning to Ban All Food, Drink Advertising to Kids in...
Canadian health charities are teaming up to battle the problem of childhood obesity in a way that the food and beverage industry is not going to like. More than ten organizations have joined the Stop...
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Setting the Bar High Enough, Part 2: What Exactly Is a Science-Based Target?
In this series of articles, the team at the Carbon Trust outlines the reasons for businesses to adopt science-based targets on climate change. Read part one.To put it simply, a carbon emissions target...
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Decathlon Plans to Use Eco-Design, Labeling to Reduce Product Impact by 20%...
Product-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions represented 74 percent of sports retailer Decathlon’s total emissions in 2015. With a new goal to stabilize its emissions by 2019, the company estimates...
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UK's Largest Food Producers Giving Brits an Inside Look at How Their Favorite...
Growing consumer demand for healthy, responsibly produced food is leading more and more big food companies to embrace transparency, simplify their product formulas and highlight the integrity of their...
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New Documentary Examines Hidden Human Consequences of America's Oil Dependency
Mark Manning, former oil industry insider and director of acclaimed Iraq war documentaries The Road to Fallujah and Caught in the Crossfire, has turned his lens to another battle taking place in the...
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Trending: Food Waste Inspires Visionary Kitchen, New Packaging; Human Waste...
Action on food waste continues to result in innovative new materials and delightful culinary experiences. In this week’s round-up: a chemical firm has developed new packaging solutions to reduce food...
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Four Game-Changing Tech Startups Win HPE's First Living Progress Challenge
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched the Living Progress Challenge (LPC) last year to inspire entrepreneurs across the globe to create software applications and digital services that improve...
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From Roof to Floor, New Cradle to Cradle Certified Building Materials Have...
Two products have earned unprecedented recognition from the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program, raising the bar for building materials. This week, the program awarded its first-ever...
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Tom Cridland: Entrepreneurship Must Be Taught in Schools in Wake of Brexit
The story of fashion startup Tom Cridland is an impressive one. Established with the help of a $9,000 UK government loan just two years ago, the ethical apparel business has quickly become a $1m...
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SABMiller: Developing Supply Chains That Foster Security, Development of the...
Not too long ago, in conversation with a former colleague, I explained SABMiller’s objective to “imbed sustainable development within African Procurement.” Following a slight pause, the response was,...
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Regenerative Business, Part 5: Understanding the Nested Nature of Living Systems
This is the fifth blog in a series on the seven First Principles of regeneration, drawing from living systems sciences. Read parts one, two, three and four.It is clear to most of the folks I talk with...
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Wall-Mounted, Modular Gardening Innovation Wins Student Living Product Prize
A water- and space-efficient gardening system has been announced as the inaugural winner of the student Living Product Prize, a new initiative of the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. The AquaCity...
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Remade in the USA: Latest EILEEN FISHER Collection Closes Clothing Loop
As cool as it is to know a jacket was made with recycled plastic bottles– or even bio-textiles made from cow dung or kombucha– changing the raw materials is only one of the ways to reduce the...
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Setting the Bar High Enough, Part 3: Why Should Companies Set Science-Based...
In this series of articles, the team at the Carbon Trust outlines the reasons for businesses to adopt science-based targets on climate change. This is the third in the series; find the other parts...
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RSPO Recertifies IOI Group, But NGOs Have Yet to See ‘Real Action on the Ground’
Less than five months after the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) suspended Malaysian palm oil producer IOI Group’s certification, that suspension has been lifted – much to the dismay of NGO...
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3 Low-Carbon Transportation Technologies Driving Development in the Global South
Transportation accounts for around one-seventh of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And globally, greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster in...
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