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New Video Highlights adidas' New Attention to Pattern Efficiency
adidas has announced new advances in how it develops key apparel ranges to reduce waste while maintaining performance and style. Both the Running and adidas by Stella McCartney teams have worked to...
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With New Worker-Engagement Technologies, 18 Million Is Just the Beginning
It has the potential to benefit 173 million workers in global supply chains and provide livelihood benefits or savings of US $30 billion annually, according to Vodafone and Accenture.What is the ‘it’?...
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Sustainia Seeking 100 Game-Changing Solutions & Technologies for Third Annual...
What are the 100 solutions that can bring about a sustainable society? Scandinavian think tank Sustainia has launched its third annual global campaign to find the answers. With a worldwide alliance of...
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Calling All Sustainable Businesses: 2degrees Champions Awards 2014 Now Open...
2degrees is calling for organisations with inspiring examples of sustainable practice to shout about their success stories by entering this year’s Champions Awards.The only sustainable business awards...
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Report: Sustainable Sourcing Driving Major Market Growth
Private sector sourcing commitments from companies such as Unilever, Coca Cola, Starbucks and Home Depot are driving major market growth for sustainable commodities, according to the State of...
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Bacardi Aspires to 100% Sustainable Sugarcane Sourcing by 2022
Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately held spirits company, has pledged to obtain 40 percent of the sugarcane-derived products used to make its rums from certified, sustainable sources by 2017...
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Canopy Applauds Cutting-Edge LCA of Materials by Tissue Giant Kimberly-Clark
This week, Canadian forest-conservation NGO Canopy commended the world’s largest tissue manufacturer, Kimberly-Clark Corporation — global producer of Kleenex, Huggies, Kotex and dozens of other paper...
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H&M Trying to Prove 'Ethical Fast Fashion' Is Not an Oxymoron
In the context of the huge market for fast, disposable fashion, H&M’s brand promise to offer quality fashion at the best price might seem like an oxymoron. But the brand is determined to make good...
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Volvo Production Plant Achieves Carbon Neutrality
Volvo Construction Equipment’s Braås site in southern Sweden has become its first carbon-neutral facility and is claimed to be the first construction equipment production plant in the world run...
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CVS to Cut Tobacco Products From All Pharmacy Locations
In a bold yet intuitive move for a pharmacy, CVS Caremark announced Wednesday that it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its more than 7,600 stores across the US by October 1,...
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IKEA Ups Use of Sustainably Sourced Cotton by 72%
IKEA has expanded the use of sustainably sourced cotton in its products to 72 percent, up from 34 percent in 2012, according to a recent announcement.The furniture company uses around 0.6 percent of...
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Driving Sustainability: Lessons from Public Health
Experts in public health have struggled with enabling behaviour change for years. The sustainability sector should learn what it can from their experiences. Consumer behaviour change is the challenge...
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Interface Europe Achieves 90% Carbon Reduction
Interface announced this week it has reached a series of major sustainability milestones at its European manufacturing facility in Scherpenzeel, The Netherlands. As of January 2014 the plant has been...
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Umicore: How Sustainability-Driven Innovation Transformed a Failing Mining...
Umicore’s ranking as #1 on the 2013 Global 100 index of most sustainable companies was met with healthy skepticism by social justice advocates and environmental purists. The company’s history as Union...
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IKEA Selling Sustainable Consumption in New 'Wonderful Everyday' Campaign
IKEA is launching a new marketing campaign in the UK this weekend called “The Wonderful Everyday,” which will explain the brand’s values and sustainability ethos to consumers, according to Marketing...
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Creating Sustainable Apparel Value Chains, Part II: Fostering Total Resource...
This post first appeared on CSRwire's TalkBack blog on January 7, 2014.This is part two of the Creating Sustainable Apparel Value Chains series. Read part one: Transforming the Industry.Myanmar’s...
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Drilling Company Wants to Build Roads From Fracking Waste
In an interesting "band-aid" proposition, oil and gas exploration and production company Range Resources recently announced it would like to start using the waste rock material brought to the surface...
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Brand Leaders Join SB Collaboratory to Address Employee Engagement
Less than a year ago at Sustainable Brands ‘13, leading brand innovators from around the world came together in San Diego for the seventh year to address some of their biggest sustainability...
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Why CVS''No Smokes' Decision Is Big News for Forward-Thinking Brands
On Feb. 5, drugstore chain CVS Caremark announced that it will stop selling tobacco products.It’s a big deal. Here’s why.It signals a step towards more businesses saying, “It’s wrong. So we’re...
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Beyond Omega-3s: How Systems Thinking Helped Organic Valley Yield Host of...
Organic milk comes with a dose of healthful omega-3 fatty acids, which help prevent heart disease and are linked to additional health benefits. Normally associated with seafood or dietary supplements,...
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