Adding Value, Sustainability to the Supply Chain by Recycling the Unrecyclable
One of the most significant challenges that manufacturers and major brands face today is maintaining high sustainability standards across their entire supply and production chain. It’s no new idea that...
View ArticleTrending: Food, Glorious Food! Startups, New Competition Cook Up Innovative...
In the ongoing fight against food waste, startups continue to innovate to offer solutions: Renewal Mill is turning waste such as olive pits and grape skin into new food products, and apps are springing...
View ArticleDove Real Beauty Campaign ‘Searching’ for Teen Self-Esteem in Australia
Unilever Australia’s latest iteration of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty focuses on the internet search terms used by young girls, which highlight the prevalence of negative body image and eating...
View ArticleSetting the Bar High Enough, Part 4: Making the Internal Business Case for...
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 fourth in the series; find the other parts...
View ArticleHow BASF, Henkel Are Supporting Smallholders to Secure Supply of Sustainable...
In recent years, palm oil has arguably become one of the world’s most ubiquitous and contentious raw materials in the consumer goods industry. When conventionally produced palm oil and palm kernel oil...
View ArticleIf You Build It, They Will Come: Behind the Scenes of Kashi's Certified...
As communications partners, we at Edelman are often asked by clients to help them bring their sustainability stories to life. But despite decades of progress on environmental initiatives, many...
View ArticleTrending: Consumers Want Fewer Phones, More E-Waste Recycling
Each year, a new wave of computers, smartphones and accessories spill onto the market with smaller components made from increasingly complex materials. Even as awareness of e-waste has grown and the...
View ArticleHow to Align Your Purpose With the Truth of Your Business
In our last article, we explained why it’s important to make sure that your purpose is thoroughly grounded in the political, economic, social and technological context in which you operate. We call...
View ArticleMoving Beyond Job Creation: Defining and Measuring the Creation of Quality Jobs
In most parts of the country, we don’t have an unemployment problem anymore. Our problem is a lack of good job opportunities for most Americans. While millions of jobs have been created since the Great...
View ArticleTrending: US Court Approves Social Carbon Price; Canada, Mexico to Test Their...
A unanimous decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals has upheld the government’s right to use a social carbon price to inform policymaking. The verdict rejected an industry-backed litigation that...
View ArticleJaguar 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 –...
View ArticleUnilever Hopes to No Longer Be 'Unique in its Audacious Ambition' to Drive...
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...
View ArticleWhy the Energy Sector Needs a Sharing Economy
These three facts should give pause to anyone who wants to see a resource-efficient clean energy future become a reality:Corporations looking to control their energy destiny and improve sustainability...
View ArticleFood Supply Chain Ethics Increasingly Important to UK Consumers, Studies Find
Two surveys of consumers in the United Kingdom (UK) have highlighted their growing demand for food supply chain ethics.Research from Globescan showed that the vast majority of shoppers believe that...
View ArticleGSK, GE, Nestlé, Nike, Novozymes Among Companies ‘Changing the World’
Fortune has published the second edition of its “Change the World” list of the top 50 companies that are delivering positive social impact. Once again developed in partnership with Mark Kramer and...
View ArticleFord Doubling Team, Partnering with Startups to Offer Fully Autonomous Ride...
Ford has announced a plan to have a ride-sharing service featuring high-volume, fully autonomous, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)-defined level 4-capable vehicles in commercial operation by...
View ArticlePACT | Organic Wants to Help Clean Up Fashion, Starting with Your Underwear
Ethical apparel brand PACT | ORGANIC today launched a new campaign that aims to show how dirty the fashion industry really is.“The Skidmark,” a new digital campaign produced by the creative firm...
View ArticleNonprofit Launches ‘Coollection’ of Vetted, Carbon-Cutting Projects Seeking...
The average American emits 17 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year just by going about their daily life – breathing, blow-drying their hair, cooking, and so on. The figure is similar...
View ArticleUNDP About to School China on Significance of SDGs
With about one-fifth of the world’s population, China has the ability to significantly contribute to the success of the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The country made...
View ArticleSetting the Bar High Enough, Part 5: Why Setting Science-Based Targets Isn't...
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 fifth and final part of the series; find the...
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