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Ford to Gather Data on Energy Use, Driving Patterns at New Employee EV...
Today, Ford Motor Company announced a partnership with GE through which it will install electric vehicle charging stations at more than 60 of its offices, product development campuses and manufacturing...
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MARS Joins Growing List of Brands Committing to Deforestation-Free Palm Oil
Mars Incorporated has announced a new sustainable palm oil policy, which commits Mars to both industry-leading standards and to developing a fully traceable pipeline back to known palm oil processing...
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B Lab ‘Best for the World’ List Honors Businesses With Positive Impacts
B Lab on Wednesday recognized 92 companies from 15 countries and 31 industries for creating the most positive, overall social and environmental impact.The "B Corp Best for the World" list honors...
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Bottle This: Treeson's Answer to Plastic Bottle Waste
Carlton Solle grew up in Marin County, surrounded by the beauty of the Bay Area. But it wasn’t until he spent time in Costa Rica that he saw natural beauty contaminated — beaches overgrown with garbage...
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Keurig Green Mountain Pledges $11M to NGOs Working to Solve Global Water Crisis
Just a week after the release of its most recent sustainability report— complete with new 2020 targets, including providing access to clean water to a million people worldwide — and just in time for...
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2: With Great Power Comes Great (Environmental)...
Sony Pictures’ upcoming blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man 2 weaves an exciting web of action onscreen, combined with environmental consciousness and responsibility behind the screen. According to the...
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5 Tips On Branding For Good From Successful Social Entrepreneurs
Just because you're doing good work as a social entrepreneur doesn't mean you get to skip on the more commercial parts of running a business. Your good story isn't enough to grab customers and create...
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WWF Unveils Updated Tool for Quantifying Water-Related Risks for All...
Water crises ranked third among 10 global risks of highest concern in 2014, according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Perception Survey, and water risk is on the agendas of business...
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Report: Industry Energy-Efficiency Programs Cut Costs, Improve Productivity
Energy-efficiency programs are helping industry achieve higher energy savings, cost savings and productivity improvements, according to a new report by the SEE Action Network and the Institute for...
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Microsoft, Google, Intel Join Obama’s Climate Data Initiative
Microsoft, Google and several other companies last week joined a new White House program to launch a suite of climate data projects aimed at serving businesses, governments and the public.The Climate...
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General Mills, Colgate-Palmolive Announce No-Deforestation Commitments; NGOs...
Not long after Mars jumped on board earlier this month, this week the deforestation-free consumer products bandwagon got even fuller with new commitments from General Mills and Colgate-Palmolive. Palm...
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It May Sound Counterintuitive, But Can an Awards Scheme Level the Playing Field?
We know that stakeholder engagement is tough. Whether large or small, here at 2degrees we’ve seen businesses around the world sourcing expert opinion from our pool of sustainability professionals to...
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SAP Will Power Data Centers, Facilities With 100 Percent Renewable...
SAP today announced that it will power all its data centers and facilities globally with 100 percent renewable electricity starting in 2014. The shift will help minimize the company’s carbon footprint...
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Latin America Producing Over $1B Worth of Sustainable Food Each Year, But Not...
Latin America has become a large producer of sustainable foods but has yet to become a significant consumer, according to recent research from Organic Monitor. The study finds that while Brazil is now...
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Sea-Tac International Unveils EV Project to Save Airlines Millions in Fuel,...
With most of the focus regarding the carbon footprint of air travel on the planes themselves, little attention is generally paid to that of airports. a new project to convert the rest of the vehicles...
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6 Cool Tools for Driving Behaviour Change and Innovation
When wrestling with the attitude-behaviour gap and grappling with the emotional and often-irrational nature of the human animal (aka any of your business's stakeholders), you’ll need all the help you...
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ASU Partners With Dutch City to Develop First ‘Circular Economy’ Regional Plan
Arizona State University (ASU) and the Dutch Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, along with private partners in the Haarlemmermeer region, have come together to create the world’s first regional plan based...
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ExxonMobil Agrees to Report on Climate Change & Carbon Asset Risk
ExxonMobil for the first time ever has agreed to publish a Carbon Asset Risk report on its website describing how it assesses the risk of stranded assets from climate change. The report will provide...
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Global Team Engagement Key to Success of Microsoft's Carbon Fee Program
Political deadlock in Washington might be stifling any hope of a national carbon program, but it isn’t preventing companies from establishing their own initiatives. Take Microsoft, which has...
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How AkzoNobel Is Using Open Innovation to Drive Change in Transportation
The movement of people and goods is crucial to the world economy. Globally, the transportation sector is expected to continue growing, with a geographic shift of demand and manufacturing to the...
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