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WWF, Mondi Group Partner to Increase Environmental Stewardship in Paper Industry
WWF and international paper and packaging conglomerate Mondi Group announced Wednesday that they have formed a three-year strategic partnership aimed at increasing environmental stewardship in the...
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Testing the 'CVS Effect' on Microbeads: Could L'Oréal & Unilever Be Bolder?
Recent commitments from L'Oréal, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and P&G to phase microbeads out of their products by (or before) 2017 is laudable and a good step forward. This news responds to...
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Palm Oil: From Plantation to Peanut Butter
A couple of years ago, as I waited for my morning coffee to brew and my toast to, er, toast, I was reading the label of my peanut butter jar and had my entire organic, fair trade world thrown for a...
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adidas, M&S, IKEA Among Brands Making Great Strides to Source Slave-Free Cotton
The Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN), a nonprofit dedicated to ending human rights abuses associated with the raw materials found in everyday products, today released a new report, Cotton Sourcing...
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Sustainable Seafood: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Green Fish
One fish, two fishRed fish, green fishSick fish, well fishFrankenfish, farm-raised fishSome fish you should not eatOthers that are a treatFrom fish caught with a dolphinTo fish caught far too oftenA...
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Creating Sustainable Apparel Value Chains, Part III: Improving Conditions and...
This post first appeared on CSRwire's Talkback blog on January 14, 2014.Part III in the Creating Sustainable Apparel Value Chains series; see parts one and two.The building blocks for transforming the...
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LEGO Seeking Sustainable Alternative to Its Trademark Brick Material
LEGO told Plastics News this week that it is looking for a sustainable alternative to Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), the plasticresin used in its signature bricks, by 2030.LEGO’s senior project...
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SAP Crowdsourcing Millennials' Next Big Ideas in Utilities, Connected Car...
SAP today announced the 2013 winners of its Global Connected Car and Utility of Tomorrow Innovation contests. Attracting submissions from university students worldwide, SAP narrowed down the list of...
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Introducing Sustainability Pay: Compensation for Holistic Corporate Performance
When I was a director of a financial institution in the 1990s, we struggled in vain to get top executives to pay attention to the Board’s sustainability priorities. To no avail. Then we stumbled upon...
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Self-Contained Solar-Powered Toilet Could Transform Sanitation in Developing...
A team of Caltech engineers is working on the toilet of tomorrow — a self-cleaning, solar-powered toilet that turns human waste into hydrogen and fertilizer, according to FastCoExist. The low-cost,...
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Food, Clothing and Jobs – Oh, My! 6 More Startups Helping to Resuscitate Detroit
In Detroit, a host of mission-driven entrepreneurs and nonprofits are finding innovative ways to serve the embattled city’s underserved communities, starting by meeting their most basic needs for food,...
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Reimagining Phoenix: A Citywide Campaign to Turn Trash Into Resources
Imagine a future where there is no such thing as trash — there are only resources. Where residents of a large metropolitan region routinely reduce, reuse, recycle and reconsider their consumption...
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Companies Can Now Fight Deforestation Through Crowdsourced Online Forest...
Data from Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring and alert system, is now available on Esri's ArcGIS Online GIS cloud service. By using a portal on Esri's platform to access GFW satellite...
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EU Study Finds Sustainability Understanding, Concern Do Not Affect Food...
A study by the European Food Information Council (EUFIC), published earlier this month in the journal Food Policy, found that while European consumers have a reasonable understanding of sustainability...
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New Levi’s Production Process Uses 100% Recycled Water
Levi Strauss has developed a process for using 100 percent recycled water in parts of its jeans production — an industry first — to reduce its impact on the world's water resources, the Guardian...
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It Just Got Easier for Companies to Invest in Nature
Nature is valuable. But figuring out how valuable has been challenging. By some measures, the services that nature provides business and society — clean water, food and metals, natural defense from...
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Diamondbacks Hosting First Zero-Waste Spring Training Event in Arizona
The city of Phoenix has partnered with the Arizona Diamondbacks, Republic Services and Salt River Fields at Talking Stick to host Arizona’s first zero-waste Spring Training event as part of an effort...
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7UP-Project 7 Partnership Encouraging Soda Drinkers to 'Make Your Bottle Count'
Project 7, a mission-driven company that donates proceeds from the sale of its products (including bottled water, gum, mints and coffee) to one of seven social and environmental causes, has rather...
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The Secret of Game-Changing Leadership? Collaborative Reality Creation
Why do some entrepreneurs manage to defy social gravity and thrive, while most go down in flames? How is it possible to attract a truly passionate following through social media? Why is the marketing...
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SAP, BMW Co-Developing Mobility Services for the 'Connected Car'
SAP AG and BMW Group Research and Technology announced today they have co-developed a personalized technology infrastructure for in-vehicle mobility services as part of a joint innovation project. The...
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