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McDonald's Reveals CSR/Sustainability Framework and Host of 2020 Goals
This week, McDonald’s unveiled its first Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability Framework. The fast-food giant says the goal of the plan is to position the company for the future, while...
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Bacardi Reusing 2,300 Tons of Concrete Rubble to Build New Warehouses
Spirits giant Bacardi Limited announced it has built three new warehouses at its rum distillery in Cataño, Puerto Rico using recycled concrete. The waste was derived from the demolition of six older...
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Holonomic Brand Values: What Can We Learn from a Brazilian Gym?
Anyone with even a remote interest in design will know how the electronic products of Braun in the 1950s and '60s influenced the design of Apple’s iconic products. Much of these designs are the...
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Coke Invests in Plan to Deliver Safe Drinking Water to 1 Million Children by...
The Coca-Cola Company and WaterHealth International (WHI) have announced a plan to bring safe drinking water to one million school children in 2,000 schools in developing countries by the end of...
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What Kind of Change Agent Are You?
These are heady times for those working at the intersections of business, branding and sustainability. In recent years, we've seen an unprecedented confluence of behavioral sciences, business acumen,...
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Bureo's Upcycled Skateboard Aims to Clean Up Chile's Waters
Last fall, we introduced a startup called Bureo Skateboards, which aimed to build skateboards from the tons of plastic waste littering Chile’s beaches and waters. Founders Ben Kneppers and David Stover...
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Avery Dennison, Rainforest Alliance Partner to Promote Sustainable Forestry...
The Avery Dennison Foundation announced today it has awarded a $200,000 grant to the Rainforest Alliance to foster best practices in forestry management, create jobs and increase access to sustainably...
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Taking a Look Inside: How Are We, the Sustainability People, Doing?
Change agency, as it applies to sustainability, is an increasingly popular subject in prestigious academic institutions, government conversations, NGOs and businesses globally. Permeating the...
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Fashion and Textile Leaders for Forest Conservation Begin Shift to...
The newest trend in social responsibility in the apparel sector emerged in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam on Monday as several of the world’s most influential clothing brands gathered to develop a roadmap to...
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Shareholders Again Ask Abbott Labs to Label GM Ingredients in Baby Formula
Shareholders at Abbott Laboratories’ annual meeting last week sent a message to management and the Board of Directors — for the second year in a row— that they are concerned about the use of...
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Dow's Reverse Osmosis Technology Earns Bronze Edison Award
Last week, not long after Dow designated its FILMTEC™ ECO Reverse Osmosis (RO) Elements as its second Breakthrough to a World Challenge, the technology garnered a prestigious Edison Award.A program...
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8th Sustainable Brands Conference Set to Go - Why Should You Be There?
On Monday, I attended the inaugural Business Sustainability Summit hosted by Stanford University's Wood's Institute for the Environment. The Summit kicked off with Secretary of the Interior Sally...
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INVISTA Unveils Renewable, Bio-Based LYCRA Material
INVISTA, one of the world’s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers, and owner of the LYCRA® brand, today introduces the first commercial offering of a bio-derived spandex — the stretchy...
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Ceres Conference and Report Ask: Is Corporate Sustainability Gaining Ground...
“We're screwed,” agreed authors Andrew Winston and Paul Gilding in the opening plenary of last week's Ceres Conference.“But we've got huge opportunities to solve mega-challenges profitably,” Winston...
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Roundtable: It's 'Time for Action' for the Indian Organic Cotton Sector
Organic cotton has enviable growth potential but trends suggest a supply crunch in the years to come, warns Time for Action: Key Issues and Actions Facing the Cotton Sector in India — a report...
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Turlington to Fashion Industry: 'One Preventable Death Is a Death Too Many'
When over 1,200 garment workers died in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in April 2013, it shined an unflinching light on the untenable conditions that many in the industry have long been forced to...
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Get the Last Drop: New Marketing Opportunities in a Resource-Constrained World
What’s your favorite way to get at that last dollop of Crest? Do you flatten as you go? Slice the neck?What about shampoo or conditioner? Do you add a little water and swirl? Prop the bottle upside...
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Coke Gamifies Recycling in Bangladesh with 'Happiness Arcade'
“What happens when no one is concerned about recycling?”That’s what Coca-Cola asks in a YouTube video detailing its recent effort to engage youth in the Bangladeshi city of Dhaka on the importance of...
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Cisco Taps ‘Internet of Things’ to Make Hamburg a Smart City
Cisco and the City of Hamburg have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that foresees the creation of pilot projects around smart traffic, smart street lighting, infrastructure sensing and remote...
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ASU, Mayo Clinic, City of Phoenix Assisting Local School District with Waste...
As one of the largest school districts in Arizona, Paradise Valley Unified School District (PV Schools) generates nearly 1,500 tons of waste per year. To aid the City of Phoenix’s goal to divert 40...
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