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Waste Management Phoenix Open Achieves Zero Waste for Second Year
The 2014 Waste Management Phoenix Open has diverted 100 percent of waste away from landfills for the second consecutive year, with a record attendance of 563,008 fans.The golf tournament is part of UL...
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SAP Announces Connected Car Co-Innovation Projects with Toyota, Volkwagen,...
Today at the 14th SAP Automotive Forum, July 1-2 in Leipzig, Germany, SAP announced two co-innovation projects aimed at broadening the potential of connected-car technology.The first is a pilot with...
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Marketing Is from Mars, Sustainability Is from Venus
Most brands are still scarily silent about the difference they want to make in our lives and yet hope we won’t notice them force-feeding us with advertising-as-usual until they produce consumer foie...
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Walmart, Bumble and Bumble Fined for VOC Emissions
Walmart, Bumble and Bumble and 17 other companies have been fined by the California Air Resources Board for air pollution violations. Bumble and Bumble received the highest penalty of $88,000 followed...
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MIT Crowdsourcing Solutions for Host of Issues Related to Climate Change
Some of the most profound recent developments in media, technology, education and science have been the product of crowdsourcing. Think of Wikipedia, Linux, or reCAPTCHA — all are products of...
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Academic Centers Positioned to Lead Major Sustainability Work
Need to solve a sustainability problem?Get the smartest people from industry, government, NGOs and academia. Put them together. And stir.That’s an oversimplification of the recipe for success that...
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LA Entrepreneur Crowdfunding Sustainable Sandals in Brazil
While the World Cup is drawing attention to Brazil from millions of soccer fans across the world, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur is working with Brazilian manufacturers to develop a new line of...
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NASA Launches Satellite to Monitor Earth’s CO2
NASA has successfully launched its first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide.The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) soon will begin a minimum two-year mission to locate...
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GE Generates $28 Billion from Sustainability R&D
GE invested more than $2 billion in research and development for ecomagination and healthymagination innovations in 2013, with ecomagination offerings generating $28 billion in revenue, according to...
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Dow Challenging People to Become Better Recyclers
Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics has launched a campaign called Recycle Rally — A 30-Day Recycling Challenge, to inspire people to cultivate daily recycling behaviors.The latest in a spate of...
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North Carolina's Largest Bioenergy Plant Powered by Pigs
The 600-kW Storms Hog Power plant at Storms Hog Farm near Bladenboro, NC has been operating at full capacity for the past 90 days, according to Renewable Energy Focus. North Carolina’s largest swine...
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New Research Shows Coffee-Farming Communities Experiencing Fewer 'Thin Months'
Keurig Green Mountain has announced the results of a 2013 scientific study, Thin Months Revisited. Conducted in partnership with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the...
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West Elm's Artisan Partnerships Supporting Thousands in Developing Communities
This post is part of a series written by MBA and MPA candidates in Presidio Graduate School’s Managerial Marketing course, examining the role of marketing in advancing sustainability across all...
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Walmart Introducing 'Women-Owned' Labels This Fall
A new “women-owned” label on goods will appear in Walmarts nationwide this fall, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.In recent years, many brands have responded to growing customer trends to purchase...
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Greenpeace to LEGO: 'Shell Is Bad Company'
Greenpeace has launched a campaign urging LEGO to #BlockShell and end its partnership with the oil company, which the watchdog group contends has been using LEGO’s brand to clean up its image as an...
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Whitepaper: Don’t Leave Smallholders Out of the Palm Oil Debate
The public debate on palm oil centers on large corporate entities driving the industry, while ignoring smallholders that make up 40 percent of planted hectares, according to a new whitepaper by CSR...
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Nudie Jeans Showing Customers That 'Repairing Is Caring' (or Why It's Cool to...
Sustainability isn't all about sustainability, as I found out from Nudie Jeans — embedding it into the culture and telling a story is where it’s at.Walking past 29 D'Arblay St in London, a window is...
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USC Scientists Develop Affordable Organic Battery
Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) have developed a new water-based organic battery that is long-lasting and built from inexpensive, eco-friendly components.The new battery uses...
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International Network of NGOs Unveils Global Paper Vision
A network of more than 120 NGOs from six continents announced a new Global Paper Vision that will bring together organizations currently challenging the paper industry to adopt more sustainable...
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New Symantec Initiative Hopes to Close Cybersecurity Workforce Gap
Symantec, one of the world's largest security software companies, has announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind program, the Symantec Cyber Career Connection (SC3), to address the global workforce...
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