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Engaging Stakeholders in Sustainability: 3 Lessons from UPS
UPS, the world’s largest package delivery company, boasts some of the highest sustainability scores, credentials and rankings brands can earn, including reducing its total GHG emissions while...
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Amazon Announces New Carbon-Neutral Data Center in Frankfurt, But Greenpeace...
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the launch of a new technology infrastructure region in Frankfurt — the 11th such region globally for AWS and the second region in the EU (the...
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Does Monetization Equal Integrated Reporting?
By now, most readers of these pages will have noticed the emergence of social and environmental monetization schemes intended to quantify in financial terms the otherwise non-financial impacts of...
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Report: Chief Sustainability Officers Expanding from Tactical Executors to...
Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) have expanded their responsibilities from internal program managers to strategic lynchpins who guide corporate strategy, identify product innovation opportunities,...
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CVS Health, Direct Relief Donate $1 Million in Flu Shot Vouchers to Uninsured...
CVS Health and Direct Relief have partnered to provide $1 million in flu shot vouchers to community health clinic patients in underserved communities lacking health insurance.Nearly 100 participating...
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World's First Commercial-Scale Carbon Capture and Utilization Facility Opens
Skyonic Corporation has opened the world’s first commercial-scale carbon capture and utilization facility in San Antonio, TX.Located at Capitol Aggregates, an existing cement plant, the $125 million...
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Chevrolet to Buy Carbon Credits from Portland State University
Portland State University will sell Chevrolet carbon credits for two and a half years of energy efficiency projects totaling 1,500 tons of avoided carbon emissions as part of a move to raise funds for...
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Social Sustainability: Integrating Measurements of the Intangible
In part one of this two-part series, I wrote about the complexity of sustainability data and the challenges associated with organizing, analyzing and integrating it into our day-to-day business...
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Sustain Condoms Calling on Young Women to Treat Their Bodies Like Temples
Since launching in 2013, Sustain Condoms, the first Fair Trade-certified brand of condoms, has been cheekily encouraging its target market — women ages 25-35 — to “Do what’s natural.”Now, the company’s...
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Activists Dressed as Bees Protest at Lowe’s Stores in Philadelphia & Brooklyn
Today, activists from SumOfUs.org, joined by concerned citizens in cities around the country are rallying outside Lowe’s Stores in an effort to build awareness of the company’s lack of action to...
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New Patagonia Video Highlights Painful Truth Behind Conventional Down
Call it the veal-calf concern of this decade: The down in many winter coats and other apparel is obtained through oppressive animal-welfare practices, and Patagonia has taken the lead in trying to...
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M&S Replacing Confounding Packaging Ties with Eco- and Consumer-Friendly...
Isn’t it great when a simpler solution makes the most sense? This week, Marks and Spencer (M&S) rolled out a much less aggravating alternative to the dreaded plastic and metal ties traditionally...
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Levi’s, M&S Among Latest Brands Proving Deforestation Is Out of Style
Fashion Loved by Forest, the campaign spearheaded by Canadian forest conservation nonprofit Canopy that is rallying the fashion industry to commit to deforestation-free materials, continues to gain...
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Team at MIT CityFARM Growing Food 3-4x Faster, with 90% Less Water
A team consisting of engineers, architects, urban planners, economists and plant scientists at MIT has set out to shift traditional farming from the distributed, water- and energy-intense practices of...
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The North Face, U.S. Department of the Interior Partner to Promote & Protect...
The North Face President Todd Spaletto and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell have announced a partnership to protect, preserve and celebrate public lands in support of the 21st...
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Waste to Wear: The Pathway to a Global Circular Economy
With global fiber consumption expected to reach 96.4 million tons by 2020, it has become apparent that a linear economy where we produce, consume and dispose of products after a one-time use is not...
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AkzoNobel Develops Nature-Inspired Additive to Improve Road Safety
AkzoNobel has launched an additive for road salt to help protect against frost damage and improve driving safety.Inspired by the ability of certain animals to withstand cold and prevent ice forming in...
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UCLA Creates $15 Million Self-Replenishing Sustainability Fund
UCLA has announced the creation of a $15 million self-replenishing fund to support campus sustainability projects — the largest fund of its kind in the United States.The university says creating the...
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Lead Up to #SB14London: Sky Continues to Explore New Avenues for Showing...
The Bigger Picture is Sky’s approach to building not only a more responsible business for the long term, but contributing to a more sustainable society through inspiring action on the ground.The...
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Nigerian Pedal-Powered Recycling Initiative Takes 2014 Sustainia Award for...
Wecyclers, an initiative that enables low-income communities in Nigeria to make money from waste piling up in their streets, wins the 2014 Sustainia Award, chaired by Arnold Schwarzenegger. By...
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