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How Can You Transform a Toxic Brand Into One That Is Loved More Than Before?
It was a Sunday of June 1999. I was strolling in a forest of Luxembourg with my children. When the phone rang, I saw a number from the office and fumbled. One my colleagues talked about a small crisis,...
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#SustyGoals 5: The Hardcore Business Case for Setting Science-Based Goals – A...
One of the key messages in the upcoming book The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, More Open World is the “need to set goals in companies based on science, not on what we...
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Burberry Is Latest Apparel Brand to Commit to Eliminate Hazardous Chemicals
… Or, as Greenpeace refers to its apparent victory: “How to Detox a fashion brand in 14 days, 6 cities and 10,000 tweets.”British luxury fashion brand Burberry has responded to recent allegations by...
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P&G Removing Phosphates from All Detergents by End of 2015
Procter & Gamble announced this week that it will eliminate phosphates from all of its laundry detergents — which include brands such as Tide, Ariel, Cheer, Gain, Ace and Bold — by the end of 2015....
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Chevron, Southwest Gas Fined Nearly $1M After Failing to Report GHG Emissions
Chevron and Southwest Gas have been fined close to $1 million for late or inaccurate reporting of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for 2011. This action marks the second time the Air Resources...
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New York Offers $21M to Help Dairy Farms Convert Waste to Energy
New York recently made available $21 million to help the state’s dairy farmers convert farm waste to energy.Most of the funding — $20 million — is available through New York State Energy Research and...
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Storytelling and Data: Using Two Sides of the Brain Is Better Than One
In nine earlier parts of this series, we discussed 19 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field. (Find the first 7 articles here and the last two here.)Claire Sommerread more
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Chemicals in Consumer Products: New Progress in Transparency
The states of Washington and California are breaking new ground by providing consumers with information on potentially harmful chemicals in the products they buy and use on a daily basis. Washington’s...
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American Cleaning Institute Rolls Out Sustainable Products Initiative
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI), the nonprofit trade association representing over 120 companies in the US cleaning products industry — including BASF, Clorox, Dow, Novozymes, Method, Seventh...
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Thai Pulp Company Creating High-Quality Paper from Palm Oil Waste
Pulp Green Tech Holding (PGT), an R&D-focused company that owns Thai Gorilla Pulp Ltd., announced this week that it has successfully achieved a high-grade paper pulp made from empty palm fruit...
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Creating Sustainable Apparel Value Chains, Part I: Transforming the Industry
This post first appeared on CSRwire's TalkBack blog on December 17, 2013.The ubiquity of the apparel industry is staggering. Everyone wears clothes. The manufacturing of apparel triggers national...
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National Council of Chain Restaurants Urges Further Reductions to Corn...
This week, the National Council of Chain Restaurants (NCCR), which represents just about every US quick-service and table-service chain you can think of, submitted comments to the EPA on its proposal...
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Review: Creating Value People to People: Another Way to Craft Brands and Do...
Authors Christophe Fauconnier & Benoit Beaufils, respectively CEO & founding partner of the consultancy Innate Motion, share their vision and the tools they use to develop purposeful brands in...
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CFSI Identifies Conflict-Free Sources for All Four Conflict Minerals
The Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative (CFSI) reports that it has validated conflict-free smelters or refiners of all four conflict minerals for the first time in the initiative’s five-year history, and...
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Beer Store Recycles More Packaging Than It Sells, Saves Ontarians $40M
The Beer Store, a privately owned chain of retail outlets selling beer and other malt beverages across Ontario, Canada has announced that it has saved the province $40 million in the last year, thanks...
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The Power of Three Words: Not-for-Profit
Ever since we started writing and speaking about our current book project, How on Earth: Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit World by 2050, we have been amazed by one phenomenon in particular: When we have...
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How O2's Think Big Program Has Delivered £3.8 Million in Business Benefits
Last year, I posted a blog on 2degrees about the Think Big program, and how we have helped people from across our business (Telefonica UK, O2 and partners) to get involved with Think Big, directly...
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More than 70 Mainstream Brands Now Taking Part in Collaborative Economy
I have been leading a research effort to understand the impacts of the growing Collaborative Economy trend. In case you are new to the collaborative economy, there’s an unstoppable wave of people...
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New Apple Patent Could Yield Solar-Powered Mac Books
Solar-powered Mac Books? Apple recently was granted a patent for an “electronic device display module” that could make the idea a reality.The patent essentially is for a dual-sided laptop display: The...
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EPA Programs Help Companies Reduce Costs, GHGs
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) climate-protection programs prevented 365 million metric tons of US greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2012, according to a new report by the agency.EPA’s...
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