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Food Forward: The Food Revolution Is Being Televised
A new documentary TV series, “Food Forward,” highlights the range of issues created and affected by our increasingly unsustainable food ecosystem, as well as the “food rebels” helping to transform it....
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What Is Holonomic Thinking and Why Should You Care?
It is no secret that the private sector, for the most part, is failing to tackle today’s evolving social and environmental challenges, caused in large part by the nature of current standard business...
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Independent Study Shows APP Has Enough Plantation for Its Zero Deforestation...
An independent study released Wednesday has confirmed that Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP) has sufficient plantation resources to meet the pulp requirements of its existing mills as well as its future...
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Private and Public Sectors Are Fueling Use of Ecolabels, But Are Consumers...
How can you persuade people to make responsible purchasing decisions? It isn’t an easy question. Vast global industries have been built up around understanding and influencing the tangled web of...
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California Says Goodbye to Plastic Bags
The California State Legislature has passed a bill to ban single-use plastic bags in California, which will now head to the governor’s desk.Last Friday, the California senate voted 22-15 to approve the...
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Why Brand Communication Has a Key Role in Driving Sustainability
I always see images that portray nature with different shades of green. This is totally unfair to nature, which is multicoloured. This shallow portrait of sustainability has made the subject eco-boring...
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SB Vanguard: What Would You Do in Your First 90 Days as Amazon's New...
This is the first in a series of posts in which we will poll our global community of business leaders and practitioners — what we call the “SB Vanguard” — on a variety of issues pertinent to the...
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Governments, Business Invested $9.6 Billion to Protect World’s Drinking Water...
In 2013, governments and companies invested $9.6 billion in initiatives implementing nature-based solutions to sustain the world’s clean water supplies, according to a new report from Forest Trends’...
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First Commercial-Scale Biofuel Facility Opens in US
The first commercial-scale biofuel plant in the United States is now open and will eventually produce more than 25 million gallons of fuel a year from corn waste.Project LIBERTY converts baled corn...
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Anheuser-Busch's New CNG-Powered Truck Fleet Will Save 2,000 Tons of CO2 Per...
Anheuser-Busch has announced it is replacing its 66 diesel tractor fleet in Houston with Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered tractors. This marks the beer company’s first conversion of an entire...
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Recyclebank Celebrates 10 Years, 1.5 Billion Pounds of Waste Recycled in 2013
2014 marks Recyclebank’s 10th year of inspiring and rewarding smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future. Founded in 2004, the company set out with a simple idea: Could education and...
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Apple Voted 'Greenest Gadget' Company in New Greenpeace Report
Apple has topped the electronics sector in addressing its environmental footprint, according to a new report released by Greenpeace. In the same week that Berlin will gather some of the world’s biggest...
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Unsubscribe: Stakeholder Dialogue ... Subscribe: Stakeholder Collaboration
This is the fourth and final installment of a series covering crucial sustainability reporting issues on materiality, sustainability context, comparability and stakeholder inclusiveness.Stakeholder...
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New Rating Helps Apartment Buildings Save Water & Energy
WegoWise, a building intelligence provider, has launched a new rating for apartment building energy efficiency performance.WegoScore is a simple numerical assessment that provides a clear snapshot of a...
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Unilever, WRI Partner to End Tropical Deforestation Through Supply Chain...
Unilever and the World Resources Institute (WRI) this week announced a new partnership that will increase transparency in agricultural commodity supply chains with the goal of ending tropical...
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'Pack It Green' Saves Cisco Nearly 2 Million Pounds of Packaging and Over $6...
The growing amount of solid waste being added to landfills from product packaging is an environmental concern to Cisco. To address this, we strive to design packages that protect against shipping...
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Ford Achieves Zero Waste in Canada
Ford’s Oakville Assembly plant now sends no operational waste-to-landfill, an achievement that gives Ford Motor Company the distinction of becoming landfill-free at all its manufacturing facilities in...
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Airbnb Partners with Nest to Help Users Save Energy
Airbnb has partnered with Nest to provide selected hosts in the US with free Nest Learning Thermostats as part of an effort to help Airbnb's community of hosts and guests to conserve energy.The Nest...
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PepsiCo Reveals New Tool to Manage Water Risks in Latin America
Last week at the Stockholm International Water Institute’s annual World Water Week, PepsiCo unveiled a new data management and modeling tool that estimates the availability of freshwater use in...
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Survey: 81% of Chemical Producers Now Aim to Be Frontrunner in Sustainability
Sustainable chemical technology company Genomatica has published the results of a major survey of sustainability issues in the mainstream chemical industry that shows the topic is now considered a high...
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