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UK Brewers Meet 2020 Carbon Target Eight Years Early
The UK brewing sector says it has met its 2020 carbon emissions target eight years early, is on track to achieve its 2020 target for improved water efficiency and is making significant progress in...
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Fashion Revolution Day: A Global Movement to Clean Up an Industry
For those within the fashion industry who have been working for many years to highlight the need for more transparent, traceable and accountable supply chains, the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh was...
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Enough with the Semantics! Let's Get Down to Business
I have a bit of a bone to pick. Over the past couple of years, numerous well-intended articles have attempted to crystallize a moniker and definition for the work that we do. Universal language might...
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Cheese Brine Helping De-Ice Milwaukee Roads, Make Them 'Smell Like Wisconsin'
Turns out there’s a use for the often-stinky liquid used to brine cheese — de-icing roads. Milwaukee is using cheese brine, usually a waste by-product of the cheese-making process, to de-ice the city’s...
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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss
Somehow it’s already year-end, a time to look back and try to make sense of what’s happened. Creating any “top” list of stories from 12 months is nearly impossible. But as I’ve done for the last 4...
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McDonald's Pulls Employee McResource Site After Scrutiny Over Misguided...
As you may remember, McDonald's announced in September a partnership with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, to increase customers' access to fruit and vegetables and promote these healthier...
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Stopping Global Deforestation: How to Turn Around a Giant (Part 2 of 2)
This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Engaging Outraged Stakeholders: A How-To Guide for Uniting the Left, Right, Capitalists and Activists (Affinity Press, 2013), the new book from Future...
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Brands, Palm Oil and the Ugly Face of Beauty
After the recent piece regarding palm oil and the depredations its industrial cultivation rains on the heads of one of our most wonderful simian cousins, if there is anyone in the beauty industry or...
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Top 10 Ways Brands Used Their Power to Create a More Sustainable World in 2013
2013 was a banner year for companies using their muscle to drive transformative change, both internally and globally. Without further ado, here is just a taste of some of the progress we found most...
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Natura Asks: Why Do You Need What You Don't Need?
In December 2011, Patagonia called US consumers to make more considered purchases with its famous “Don’t buy this jacket” ad and this year encouraged customers to value what they already have with its...
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Sustainability as an Emergent Property: What Can We Learn from the...
In the ongoing drive to create and communicate about sustainability in the emerging economy, it can be useful to conceive of sustainability not as a quantifiable end goal, but as an emergent property....
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Ford C-Max Solar Energi Concept Provides Sunny Glimpse of Future for Clean...
Ford Motor Company announced today the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a first-of-its-kind sun-powered vehicle with the potential to deliver the best features of a plug-in hybrid without relying on the...
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IBM's Plastic 'Ninja Polymers' Could Be MRSA Bacteria's First Worthy Opponents
A team of research scientists at IBM and Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have drawn upon years of expertise in semiconductor technology and material discovery to crack...
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Divine Obsolescence, Sustainability & the Silent 'S' in Business Transformation
Mention to a sustainability person that their career trajectory should be hurtling them towards some form of divine obsolescence and the reactions are, suffice to say, mixed.The idea of them passing...
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Consumers, Activists Declare Victory as General Mills Commits to Non-GMO...
GMO Inside, a campaign of national non-profit organization Green America, celebrated a victory yesterday after target General Mills announced that its original Cheerios cereal would now be produced...
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Listen to Your Critics: They Could Be Your Biggest Allies
It was every retailer’s worst nightmare: Days after the Rana Plaza factory collapsed in one of the worst industrial disasters in recorded history, activists began plastering the Internet with pictures...
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Disruptive Conservation: A New Thread to Connect Multi-Sector Values
A Minnesota watershed project is using an ecocommerce framework, a fundamentally different approach to bringing shared value to natural resource management.read more
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Not Magic, Science: Startup Creating Plastic Out of Thin Air
We’re hearing more and more often about inventive new ways companies are turning waste into valuable resources — from turning everything from CO2 and methane gases to human and food waste into fuels,...
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Whole Foods' Brooklyn Flagship Store to Use 60% Less Energy Than Typical U.S....
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has announced the completion of Whole Foods Market’s flagship Brooklyn store, which it is heralding as a model of energy...
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Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions to Broaden Possibilities for Internet...
Bosch has expanded its offering beyond the design of home appliances to form a new company, Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions GmbH, for the Internet of things and services: The company will supply...
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