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Coca-Cola Replenishes 108.5 Billion Liters of Water Back to Communities
Coca-Cola and its bottling partners are on track to meet their 2020 water replenishment goal by balancing an estimated 68 percent of the water used in their finished beverages based on 2013 sales...
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AB InBev: Lessons Learned from Scaling Up a Sustainable Logistics Operation
Moving goods from raw ingredients to finished products is complex and requires a significant amount of energy. A bottle of Budweiser, for example, starts with transporting barley and other materials to...
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Renewable Energy Can Create Economic Boom, But Better Policies Needed
Implementing the right policies and frameworks can achieve large-scale deployment of renewable energy that creates jobs, increases incomes, improves trade balances, and contributes to industrial...
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Energetic Talk of Partnerships, Continued Momentum of Movement-Building on...
The energy that carried us through an action-packed week at SB ’14 showed no signs of waning as we headed into the final afternoon of breakout sessions. Luciana Villa NovaIn a session titled “On the...
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Ford and Heinz Collaborate on 'Tom-auto'-Based Materials for Car Parts
When most people think of ketchup and cars (if they do at all), they’re probably just hoping to not spill any while they’re driving. But researchers at Ford and Heinz have something much cooler in mind...
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Europe Unleashing Full-Scale Attack on Food Waste
The issue of food waste has rightfully come front and center in the Western world, with staggering figures such as 40 percent waste in the US alone forcing us to find solutions. The problems that lead...
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Kaiser Permanente Commits to Flame-Retardant-Free Furniture
Kaiser Permanente has announced that it will stop purchasing furniture treated with flame retardants. Its new standard specifies that upholstered furniture in new or remodeled buildings should not...
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80 Orgs Call on Apple to Eliminate Dangerous Chemicals From Chinese Supply Chain
80 environmental and human rights organizations, socially responsible investment firms, and occupational health professionals from 27 countries sent a letter today to Apple's VP of Environmental...
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Panasonic, DIRECTV, Microsoft, Sony, Xerox Form New Recycling Coalition
DirecTV, Microsoft, Panasonic, Sony and Xerox are among the founding partners of the R2 Responsible Recycling Leader Program, which encourages companies to responsibly reuse and recycle electronics....
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Feds Release Recommendations to Improve Chemical Facility Safety and Security
The Chemical Facility Safety and Security Working Group, a federal government working group set up after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, in 2013 has released recommendations that...
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adidas Partners with bluesign technologies, Commits to Additional Best...
Today, the adidas Group announced a strategic partnership with bluesign technologies to further drive sustainable solutions in the Group’s global supply chain.bluesign technologies is the...
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Ford, Samsung Developing Fuel-Saving Vehicle Batteries
Ford and Samsung have announced a dual-battery system for gas-powered cars which could offer significant fuel savings in future vehicles.The process combines a lithium-ion battery with a 12-volt...
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Japanese Company Creates Floating Billboard to Clean Polluted River
Shokobutsu Hana, a natural cosmetics sub-brand from Japanese company Lion, has launched a campaign to build awareness of the “healthy beauty brought by the power of nature” by literally cleaning a...
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Will GMO Labeling Muddy the Sustainable Food Waters or Make Things Clearer?
Socially responsible investment themes come to light in a range of industries we touch every day. Agriculture and food is a prime example, and the emergence of GMO labelling is a big part of the...
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Biome Tapping Lignin as Potential Building Block for Bioplastic
Biome Bioplastics, one of the UK’s leading developers of natural plastics, is looking to lignin as a potential new source of organic chemicals for the manufacture of bioplastic, with the help of the...
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From Conflicted to Regenerated in 4 Days: A Reflection on the Activists of SB...
If I had written this last Tuesday, it would have been titled “Environmental activists stoop to new low: Spend money to rent boat to illegally trespass to protest sustainability conference.” However,...
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Ceres: Water and Climate Risks Growing Threat to US Corn Production
Water and climate change risks are rising in the $67 billion U.S. corn sector, contributing to production and price volatility and growing concern by corn buyers that the nation’s largest crop needs to...
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Life-Size Living™: How to Find Meaning Within Our Means Once More
The time when we were happily seduced into reaching far, far beyond our means with a promise of infinite everything and the glittering lure of a‘larger-than-life’ life, seems, to some of us at least,...
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UPS Names New Sustainability Officer, New Diversity and Inclusion Officer
UPS announced today that Rhonda Clark will become the company’s Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) effective immediately. Clark will succeed Scott Wicker, who helped create UPS’s sustainability...
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MillerCoors Reduces Water Usage by 9.1%, Energy Usage 15.6%
MillerCoors now uses an average of 3.48 barrels of water to brew one barrel of beer, a 9.1 percent decrease from 2012, according to the brewer’s latest sustainability report. For comparison, some U.S....
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