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Soon 30-Minute Delivery Option Won’t Just Be for Pizza Anymore, Says Amazon
Last night on “60 Minutes,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled to Charlie Rose the company’s latest advancement in customer convenience — Amazon Prime Air, which will promise package delivery...
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Scrappy Start-Ups Finding New Options for Crowdfunding
Ryan Kushner and his wife, Amanda Ravenhill, launched their non-profit start-up, Hero Hatchery, whose mission is to “wake society up to the imminent threat of climate change, and illuminate the...
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LEGO Group Partners with WWF, Commits to 100% Renewables by 2016
LEGO Group recently announced a partnership with WWF centered around improving performance on a range of environmental priorities — including greater focus on collaboration with suppliers to reduce...
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CDP: Many Businesses Still Unaware of Supply Chain Risks Due to Deforestation
In a year of extreme weather events, commodity price spikes and supply chain disasters, the latest data from CDP’s forests program reveals that the business community remains largely unaware of the...
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World's First 'Brussels Sprout Battery' Lighting Up UK Christmas Tree
Notoriously hated by children, Brussels sprouts will be doing something a little more exciting this year than lining the edges of plates on Christmas day.A team of scientists and engineers from The Big...
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greenApes Helping Companies Reward Employees, Consumers Alike for Sustainable...
Buying organic tomatoes may not be a big deal. They taste better and they’re better for both your health and the planet; enough reasons to justify paying a price premium. No wonder organic food is...
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UN Global Compact Launches Business Guide Highlighting Rights of Indigenous...
The UN Global Compact (UNGC) on Monday released a new guide aimed at helping businesses understand the rights of indigenous peoples, and recommends practical actions to respect and support these...
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UN, BCtA Urge Japanese Private Sector to Embrace Sustainable Business
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Tokyo and the Business Call to Action (BCtA) last week hosted the first BCtA event in Japan to encourage the Japanese private sector to participate in...
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M&S Funding Clean Cook Stoves in Bangladesh as Part of UNICEF's New Carbon...
As part of its Plan A commitment to become carbon-neutral, Marks & Spencer (M&S) has become the first major company to sign on to UNICEF’s new carbon offset project, which aims to improve the...
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Nike, Inc. Unveils ColorDry Technology and Facility That Eliminate Water,...
Nike, Inc. today celebrated the opening of a water-free dyeing facility featuring high-tech equipment that will eliminate the use of water and process chemicals from fabric dyeing at its Taiwanese...
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How Green Is Your Coffee? New PCR Standardizes GHG Calculation for Coffee...
A new Green Coffee Carbon Footprint Product Category Rule (CFP-PCR) was published this week, providing the first CPR for the calculation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coffee production. The...
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Browns' Food Waste Program Helping Turn Cleveland Into 'a Green City on a...
Waste-to-energy is a trend we’re happy to see growing like wildfire, with new initiatives seeming to pop up weekly that turn waste generated by everything from food and alcohol to heat, humans and read...
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Nestlé, Coke, Pepsi & Unilever Join Forces to Combat Waste in Chile
Nestlé has announced a commitment to helping reduce waste and boost responsible disposal in Chile by supporting a new recycling network.The company has backed the “Collective Recycling Project,” which...
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Fenugreen, Toyota Offering 'Fresh Prize' to Simple Ideas Improving the World
Fenugreen, the company behind the revolutionary FreshPaper— an inexpensive, compostable, recyclable, organic paper insert that reduces food spoilage — this week announced The Fresh Prize, a $15,000...
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Sustainable Business in Asia: 'Like a Flamingo Among Chickens'
“Like a flamingo among chickens” is the cool version of “a crane among chickens” from the Chinese expression: hè lì jī qún 鶴立雞群; an appropriate description of sustainable business practices in the Asia...
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Lucid, Urjanet Partnering to Increase Accessibility of Building Energy Data
Oakland, CA-based software company Lucid and utility data management provider Urjanet today announced they are teaming up to solve one of the largest barriers to deploying energy efficiency: the cost...
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From Behavior Change to Transforming Everyday Practices: The Latest in...
From Unilever’s ‘five levers for change’ to Volkswagen’s ‘fun theory’ and Nike’s Fuelband, behavior change has become a key concern for businesses re-orienting their goals around the promotion of...
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Delta Air Lines Joins Fight Against Biofuel Mandates
Delta Air Lines, through its refinery unit, Monroe Energy, has joined other oil industry trade groups to fight the U.S. biofuel mandate requiring refiners to meet an annual biofuel quota either through...
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New TV Ad in Iowa Enlists Public's Help to Save Renewable Fuel Standard
On the same day the EPA is holding its public hearing on the proposed rule 2014 Standards for the Renewable Fuel Standard Program and the same week that Delta Air Lines takes its stand against it,...
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How to Get People to Reuse Their Hotel Towels
We’ve all faced this great moral dilemma whenever we stay in a nice hotel. The little sign in the bathroom reads, “Please help us protect the environment and conserve water by reusing your towel.” Even...
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