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Africa United Campaign Uses Football Analogy to Help West Africans Tackle Ebola
At the Official Draw for the 2015 OrangeTM Africa Cup of Nations today, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) joined football (soccer) stars, celebrities, international health organizations and...
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Cargill, Kennedy and Coe to Develop Beef Cattle Sustainability Assessment
Cargill Cattle Feeders, the cattle supply arm of the company's U.S. beef business, has entered into an agreement with Wichita-based consultancy Kennedy and Coe, in a joint effort to create a verified...
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VWR Tackling Single-Use Garment Waste with New Recycling Program
VWR, provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, has launched a new recycling initiative that allows U.S. customers to recycle a variety of single-use garments.Through "Gown Up, Give...
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Keurig Green Mountain Founder Invests $10M in Future of Fair Trade
Bob Stiller — long-time Fair Trade enthusiast and founder of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (now Keurig Green Mountain, Inc) — and his wife, Christine Stiller, recently awarded a monumental $10...
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Peers Launches New Suite of Tools to Help Workers Overcome Challenges in...
Peers, an independent community whose mission is to make the rapidly growing sharing economy work for the people who power it, is today adding two new services to support its 250,000 members: Homeshare...
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Can Calorie Counts Change Consumer Eating Habits? Or Will the Lure of a...
Anyone who exercises regularly or watches what they eat already knows that fast food is bad for your health. But due to the continued popularity of fast food, the FDA has stepped in to try and provide...
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Brands That Treat Customers Like Idiots Are Not Sustainable
At SB ‘14 London last month, one thing that really stood out for me was the focus on how storytelling can be used to help brands engage their customers with the theme of sustainability. For example, on...
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Boeing Completes World's First Flight Powered by Green Diesel
Boeing has carried out the world's first flight using "green diesel," a widely available sustainable biofuel already used in ground transportation. The company powered its ecoDemonstrator 787 flight...
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U.K. Researchers Cleaning Mine Water With Algae
The GW4 Alliance—a consortium of four leading research universities in the South West of England and Wales—has announced a new project to clean up water from a Cornish tin mine using algae to harvest...
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Plum Organics Joins GreenBlue's How2Recycle Label Program
GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition announced this week that Plum Organics is the latest company to join its How2Recycle Label program. Plum joins 30 other participating companies — including...
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Sustainable Supply Chains: Can Retailers Be the Rising Tide That Lifts All...
A whopping 97 percent of environmental impacts in the retail sector come from the product itself — from raw materials, transportation and product manufacturing. With impacts so heavily weighted in the...
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VTT Developing Eco-friendly Alternative for Polystyrene
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has announced it is developing an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative for polystyrene from PLA bioplastic, which is derived from organic...
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Changing the Way Non-Financial Performance Is Measured, and Thus Managed, in...
Think of a company, any company. Got one? OK. Now ask yourself this: Is the company truly sustainable, in everything it does and sells? If not, then how must the company change before it is?If you’re...
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New Tool Measures Corporate Progress Towards Safer Chemicals
A group of corporate and NGO leaders today released a new tool for assessing leadership in corporate chemicals management.The Chemical Footprint Project (CFP) provides the first-ever common metric of...
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Amazon's New 'Elements' Line Offers Customers 'Unprecedented' Level of...
Amazon has announced the launch of Amazon Elements, a new line of everyday essentials with transparent origins. Beginning with signature diapers and baby wipes, Amazon Elements offers Prime members an...
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BASF, Schuster Developing Greaseproof, Recyclable Cardboard for Fast Food...
BASF and recycled cardboard company Schuster have announced they are working on a solution for a combined migration and grease barrier on recycled cardboard.The biopolymer ecovio® PS 1606 is applied to...
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Dow, Nestlé UK, Unilever Researching New Options for Recycling Flexible...
Nestlé UK and Unilever are among organizations coming together on a new project aiming to improve the recyclability of flexible packaging products, in the hope of pushing the resource industry closer...
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Chipotle Leads with Sustainability to Maintain Brand Sheen
While the fast-food business in the United States remains sluggish and roiled, eco-conscious burrito chain Chipotle has experienced rapid and relatively smooth growth through the recession and,...
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Obama Administration Selects 26 Communities to Foster Economic Expansion...
On Wednesday, on behalf of the White House Rural Council, six federal agencies came together to announce the 26 communities selected to participate in Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP), a federal...
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Future 500 Presents: The Best of the Best in Stakeholder Engagement in 2014
As this year comes to a close, we at Future 500 wanted to take a step back and reflect on all of the momentum we’ve seen in stakeholder engagement over the past year. While it’s easy to focus on the...
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