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Dell, UN Partner to Eliminate E-waste in the Developing World
Dell and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have signed an agreement to cooperate on identifying and implementing a sustainable solution model for e-waste management for...
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U.S. Industrial Emissions Up 0.6% Thanks to Coal Use
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from large industrial facilities were 0.6 percent, or 20 million metric tons, higher in 2013 than the previous year, driven primarily by an increase in coal use for power...
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The Answer to Effective Sustainability Marketing? Simple ... But Not Easy
While world leaders were converging in New York last week to debate climate change, I crisscrossed the country to attend three different conferences (thereby adding more carbon to the aforementioned UN...
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Southwest Agrees to Purchase 3 Million Gallons of Biofuels Annually
Southwest Airlines has signed an agreement with Red Rocks Biofuels (RRB) to purchase approximately three million gallons of low carbon renewable jet fuel per year.The biofuels are made using forest...
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Context-Based Metrics Needed to Create Sustainability Value
Recently, DNV GL announced the results of our latest Tomorrow’s ValueTM Rating (TVR), a benchmark of global best practice in sustainability. For the 11th year in a row, we evaluated how well companies...
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MSC to Enact More Rigorous Standard for Sustainable Fisheries
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has launched an updated version of its sustainable fishing standards, to come into effect on April 1, 2015.Developed over the past two years, Version 2.0 of the...
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New Tools Help Companies Better Manage Supply Chains
Outdoor Industry Association Sustainability Working Group (OIA SWG) has announced the launch of two new supply chain tools to help companies proactively manage their supply chain and sourcing...
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New Patagonia Collection Returning 'Truth to Materials'
Patagonia has launched Truth to Materials— a capsule collection for Fall/Winter featuring seven styles of jackets, sweaters and scarves made from raw, reclaimed or alternatively sourced materials. The...
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One Solution Does Not Fit All: Early Insights from the Global Opportunity...
Why is the transition to a sustainable economy going so painfully slow? We have known the challenges for decades. We have the technology needed at hand. Financing has never been much cheaper than now....
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Sustainability Alumni Proving Valuable Assets for Public, Private Sector Alike
As the sustainability field continues to grow, job applicants with a relevant degree are proving to be ever more valuable assets, according to a recent Arizona State University School of Sustainability...
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Avery Dennison RBIS Opens Innovation Center in Los Angeles
Avery Dennison RBIS, a global provider of apparel branding, labeling, packaging, embellishments and RFID solutions, celebrated the opening of its Los Angeles-based Customer Design and Innovation Center...
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Hospital Sustainability Gets Shot in the Arm: 80% Now Expected to Consider...
It’s that time of year: vaccine season — your local hospital is probably already advertising free flu shots. But this fall, something’s different. If your provider is like the 300 global healthcare...
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Convetit Embeds Materiality Mapping Tool Into Virtual Stakeholder Engagement...
Are you daunted by the GRI G4 requirement of engaging stakeholders to determine materiality for sustainability reporting? Convetit, a new online stakeholder engagement platform, is offering a solution:...
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Home-Brew Innovators Prove Simple, Plant-Based Remedies Could Revolutionize...
For most people with skin problems, the solution is to try every possible remedy and product out there until they find one that works. But when the alternatives don’t work, some enterprising patients...
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On Creativity, Ego and Transformational Leadership
I’ve been having some great conversations recently on the theme of transformational leadership with some very amazing people, and these conversations have triggered a few thoughts I would like to...
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Unilever, Coke, M&S, BT Launch Digital Platform to Engage Millennials on Our...
A coalition of the world’s biggest companies has launched a global digital platform to drive conversation and momentum around sustainability — and to help reach the ever-elusive goal of making...
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Boll & Branch Introduces World's First Fair Trade Certified Bedding
Boll & Branch, makers of socially conscious home textiles, has announced that its full line of products — including bed sheet sets, duvets, shams and bed covers — will be the first of their kind to...
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Nature Is Speaking in New, Star-Studded Campaign ... and She Is Not Amused
As Julia Roberts (as “Mother Nature”) chillingly points out at the end of her rant against the human race in Conservation International (CI)’s new Nature Is Speaking campaign: “I am prepared to evolve....
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DuPont, P&G Now Powering Tide Cold Water Laundry Detergent with Agricultural...
DuPont and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have announced a collaboration to use cellulosic ethanol in North American Tide® laundry detergent, an industry first. Tide Cold Water will be the first brand...
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Biome Bioplastics Unveils Plant-Based 3D-Printing Filament to Rival Oil-Based...
One of the UK’s leading bioplastics developers, Biome Bioplastics, has launched a new plant-based material for the 3D printing industry. Biome says its Biome3D, made from plant starches, is a...
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