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Jaguar Land Rover, Novelis Target Aluminum Waste as New Circular Resource...
A key business driver for today’s vehicle manufacturers is to find cost-effective ways to reduce material impact, and weight, in the cars they build. Lighter vehicles result in less fuel consumption –...
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How JetBlue Is Helping to Fuel a Sustainable Future for Aviation
News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, has produced a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and...
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Sustainable Apparel Coalition Opens Access to Higg Index Tools to SME Brands,...
The industry group Sustainable Apparel Coalition has opened use of its Higg Index suite of tools for measuring and evaluating supply chain impact to non-member small and medium-sized (SME) brands and...
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Earth Overshoot Day Continues to Creep Up the Calendar
While Olympians are desperately competing in Rio for the fastest times and highest scores, humanity has achieved a different world record – we have used up nature’s budget for the entire year in record...
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Not So Fast (Fashion)! African Countries to Ban Secondhand Clothing Imports
In March, the governments of the East African Community, which includes Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, proposed a ban on imports of secondhand clothes to their regional trade bloc. The...
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Panera Bread to Industry: Kids Shouldn't Have to Imagine What's in Their Food
Panera Bread today issued its Kids Meal Promise to express the company’s long-held beliefs about kids’ meals and commitments relative to its Panera Kids™ menu. The promise is meant to be a challenge to...
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Celebrities, Consumers Share Selfies to Donate Fresh Produce to Communities...
The number of Americans with limited access to fruits and vegetables has climbed to nearly 30 million. In other words, the ‘food desert’ crisis affects roughly one in every ten people in the United...
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How the Better Buying Lab Aims to Accelerate Demand for Sustainable Food
The latest food trend isn’t a particular cuisine or exotic ingredient; it’s sustainability. Nearly 75 percent of Americans think sustainability is important when deciding what food to buy. The food...
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Sustainability by Default: Making Doing Good the Easiest Choice
One of the most vexing challenges in the sustainability movement is how to get people to do the right thing. Research by organizations such as GlobeScan suggest that the majority of consumers care...
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5 Ways Entrepreneurs Are Helping to Solve Climate Change
On April 22 – Earth Day 2016 – a record 175 nations agreed to keep this century’s global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius by signing the Paris Agreement, conceived at last year’s Paris Climate...
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Trending: Entries Open for Circulars Awards; New Toolkit Helps Businesses...
With the potential to change how businesses think about their waste, circular economy models could be an effective means of emissions reduction towards the commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement...
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Shared Value: Tough But Timely Medicine
When in hot water, take a bath.To many westerners, this Chinese saying is nonsensical. Yet it accords with a fundamental African way of thinking: when faced with something profoundly troubling, the...
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Cleantech Companies Delivered Triple the Returns of Fossil Fuel Companies...
A report released today from As Yow Sow and Corporate Knights reveals that a list of 200 clean energy companies known as the Carbon Clean 200™ (Clean200™) show a simulated annualized return of 21.82...
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Trending: Latest Circular Innovations Close the Loop on Furniture, Packaging,...
More and more companies are looking for ways to adopt circular models for their products, and some of the latest examples have been provided by industry giants. Furniture company IKEA, chemical firm...
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Advertising: A Social Experiment That, for the Most Part, Has Gone Wrong
As an industry, we’re ignorant at best or utterly demagogic, one-sided and irresponsible at worst. The majority of do-good efforts from brands are little more than a cheeky pick-up line to charm...
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How LinkedIn Is Working to Connect Hard-to-Reach Job Seekers With New...
News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, has produced a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and...
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How Cities Can Become Hubs for a Circular Economy
How many packages have you relied on today? Responsible and innovative packaging is critical to delivering shippable, shelve-able, sellable, product value. Consumers, retailers, and brands count on...
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New LCA Framework Offers Cutting-Edge Transparency for Forest and Paper Products
The environmental impacts that can result from making forest and paper products are impossible to ignore. Millions of acres of forests are logged each year and, as a result, threatened species may be...
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Introducing the Systems View of Life Into Organizations
I recently took part in a Sustainable Brands webinar with Fritjof Capra, in which we discussed how to introduce systems thinking and the systems view of life into organizations. After interviewing...
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Nestlé Waters Sustainability Chief Calls for New Leadership, Collaboration on...
Nelson Switzer, Chief Sustainability Officer for Nestlé Waters North America, has called for ‘aggressive new leadership’ in collective action through partnerships to solve shared water challenges. At...
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