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BMW Offers 'Add-On Mobility' Option to Ease EV Range Anxiety
BMW has introduced its new BMW i3 electric vehicle (EV) with an "add-on mobility" option, which is part of effort to win a “meaningful” portion of the EV market by helping owners bypass the traditional...
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Study: Setting Sustainability Goals Can Improve Financial and Environmental...
Companies that set tangible sustainability goals do a better job of improving both their financial and environmental performance, according to a new white paper by CH2M HILL, a global consulting,...
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Start UK and Virgin Money Looking for Start-Ups That Could 'Be the Start' of...
Many of us have ideas for businesses, products or projects that we think could become something successful —possibly even change the world. But very few of us actually have the guts to actually make...
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GE Brings Big Data to the Masses with Web Series 'Datalandia'
GE’s imagination at work is going Hollywood with Datalandia, a web series created to help consumers understand the cumbersome world of the industrial Internet. Filmed at Miniatur Wunderland, an...
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Sustainable Investing Grows Quickly, Though Measuring ROI Remains a Challenge
As a growing slice of a larger corporate push to develop more creative solutions to sustainability challenges, impact investing encourages financial actors to consider social and environmental issues...
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What Metrics Are You Using to Measure the Success of Sustainability Initiatives?
Calling all innovators & implementers! This month, Sustainable Brands will relaunch an Issue in Focus editorial channel dedicated to showcasing the New Metrics of sustainable business success...
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Johnson & Johnson, P&G to Halt Use of Microbeads in Beauty Products
Johnson & Johnson has started to phase out the use of polyethylene microbeads in beauty products, and is working on an eco-friendly alternative, after activists from environmental group the 5 Gyres...
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Nokia Joins O2 Campaign to Ship Cell Phones Without Chargers
Nokia has joined O2’s “Chargers Out of the Box” campaign, which makes the Nokia 301 the first mass-market handset to ship without a charger. The handset will come with just a USB cable, encouraging...
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Biotech Companies Launch Campaign to Combat Anti-GMO Movement
This week, a group of biotech seed companies including Monsanto, Dow and DuPont launched a website to combat mounting opposition to genetically modified foods among consumer groups and activists,...
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Sustainable People, Part III: Making It Real
Welcome back! Are you ready to leave excellence behind, with all its unsustainable feeders and costs? Ready to make the move to the entirely different and sustainable condition of mastery?You’ve been...
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Report Highlights Cleaning Industry’s Progress in Curbing Energy, Emissions,...
The American Cleaning Institute’s (ACI) just-released 2013 Sustainability Report shows overall decreases by member companies in four environmental data categories: energy use, greenhouse gas (GHG)...
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One World Futbol, Sseko Designs Win 2013 Innovation Awards
Social Venture Network (SVN) has announced that One World Futbol, Sseko Designs, Fenugreen, Sustainable Health Enterprises and MASS Design Group have won its 2013 Innovation Awards, which recognizes...
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Irish Marine Pilot Project Upcycles Abandoned Fishing Nets
A pilot project to manufacture commercially viable products from recycled polyethylene fishing nets has been completed successfully in a collaboration between Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM - the Irish Sea...
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Kraft, General Mills, Monsanto Join Food LCA Database
Kraft Foods, General Mills and Monsanto are among the first to join the World Food LCA Database (WFLDB), which aims to develop a comprehensive database for food and beverage life cycle assessments...
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50% of Global Consumers Willing to Pay More for Socially Responsible Products
Fifty percent of global consumers are willing to pay more for goods and services from companies that have implemented programs to give back to society, according to a new study from Nielsen.The Nielsen...
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Investors Achieve Strong Results on Climate, Supply Chains, Water Issues...
Investors achieved notable victories during this year’s shareholder proxy season, with a near-record 110 shareholder resolutions filed with 94 U.S. companies on corporate sustainability challenges such...
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Crayola's Colorcycle Program Turning Used Markers Into Clean Energy
JBI, Inc., a clean energy company that recycles waste plastic into liquid fuels, has announced it is partnering with Crayola on its "Colorcycle" program, which converts markers into clean energy.The...
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New Global Brewers Survey Shows Industry Making Notable Reductions in Water,...
The Worldwide Brewery Industry Water and Energy Benchmarking Survey, which is carried out by Campden BRI and KWA on behalf of the Dutch Brewers Association every four years, reveals that breweries have...
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LG Electronics, Nokia Tackle Illegal Tin Mining in Indonesia
LG Electronics, Nokia, Sony, Blackberry and Motorola have released statements reaffirming their commitments to tackling illegal tin minding in Indonesia.The move came after British environmental NGO...
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Weyerhaeuser Certifies Nearly 20 Million Acres to Sustainable Forestry...
The Weyerhaeuser Company has acquired Longview Timber’s approximately 645,000 acres of forestland in Washington state and Oregon, meaning it now owns or manages nearly 20.5 million acres of forestland...
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