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Pantry Pest Could Provide Potential Solution to Plastic Problem
While companies around the world continue to innovate to find solutions to our ‘plastic problem’ — from creating biodegradable plant-based plastics to compete with their conventional counterparts to...
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World's First Solar Road Opens in The Netherlands
The world's first public road that includes embedded solar cells has opened in the town of Krommenie in the Netherlands, NPR reports.The crystalline silicon solar cells are encased in two layers of...
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Field to Market Announces Goals to Advance Sustainability of U.S. Agriculture
Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture has announced goals to advance the sustainability of U.S. agriculture, committing its membership of 66 grower organizations to driving...
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Best Buy Does Better for Canada's Forests by Committing to Sustainable Paper
Today, the world’s largest electronics retailer, Best Buy, announced that it will undertake important improvements to its paper supply chain to better protect Canada’s endangered Boreal Forest. A...
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Survey: 20% of Americans Will Forgo Wrapping Holiday Gifts
One out of five (20 percent) of Americans will forgo wrapping holiday gifts this year to reduce holiday waste, according to a new survey from ecoATM, a nationwide network of device recycling...
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Boeing, South African Airways Prepare for First Tobacco Harvest for...
Boeing and South African Airways (SAA) have announced that South African farmers will soon harvest their first crop of energy-rich tobacco plants, an important step towards using the plants to make...
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Climate Change Performance Index: U.S. Ranks 44th, Canada and Australia Worst...
Global emissions have reached a new peak, but recent developments indicate a new readiness for action on climate protection. This is the message of the 10th edition of the Climate Change Performance...
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Give a Gift, Save the World: The SB 2014 Holiday Gift Guide
Gifts for our loved ones that also help repurpose waste, benefit people in need, get back to basics, and even possibly help to save the planet ... How is that not a win-win? Here are just a few of our...
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COP20: SABMiller Makes Case for Tackling Effects of Water Scarcity, Climate...
There is an immediate need for more businesses to recognize the risks water scarcity poses to their company’s bottom line and the communities in which they operate in Latin America, according to...
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Creating Shared Value Requires Shared Valuation
The key question for every business model is whether the initiative is viable and sustainable over time. We measure that through a conventional cost-benefit analysis, and we do that even in what are...
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Sustainability Reporting in 2014: The State of the Art
For the last three years my firm (Terrafiniti) has had the distinct pleasure of supporting CorporateRegister.com’s annual CR Reporting Awards (CRRA 15), the unique global, non-financial reporting...
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Honda Says Customers Care About Dealership Sustainability – and the Customer...
Honda is counting on a new way to reach sustainability-minded car buyers: through “green” dealerships. A new “Green Dealer Guide” the company is releasing to its dealers today arguably puts Honda at...
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Report: Executives Expecting Increased Resources for CSR
For the first time in over a decade, the majority of executives anticipate resources for every corporate citizenship dimension to increase over the next three years, according to a new report from The...
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Complexity, Simplicity & the Craft of Resilient Brand Story-Making
The story goes that in a recent conversation with a large, multinational client, yet again, at the mention of the ‘S’ word, the brand people did everything from polite wincing to effectively spitting...
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Researchers Turn Old Toothpaste Tubes into Aluminum and Fuel
Nestlé, Kraft Foods and Mondelez International are helping fund a new commercial-scale recycling plant that can turn old toothpaste tubes into aluminum and fuel in only three minutes.This type of...
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Now You Can Peer Into McDonald's – But Do You See Customers?
McDonald’s unprecedented corporate-transparency marketing campaign, “Our Food. Your questions,” is the fast food giant’s attempt to reduce the impact of one major aspect of its brand and operations —...
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Sedex, NGOs Call for Global Response to Corruption
Sedex Global has partnered with anti-corruption NGO Transparency International UK, and training, consulting and research NGO, Verité, to publish a new briefing which explores the impact of corruption...
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Google, Facebook Flex Market Muscle in Favor of Healthier Building Materials
Google, Facebook, Genentech and several other companies and organizations comprising a working group of The Building Health Initiative are actively using their collective market influence to create...
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VF Corporation Helping Fund Safety Improvements in Bangladeshi Factories
VF Corporation— parent company of The North Face, Timberland, Vans,Wrangler, Lee and Nautica— and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, this week announced they have provided loans to three...
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Brown-Forman, BeMyDD Partnering for Holiday Designated Driver Program
Just in time for this season of excess and merrymaking, BeMyDD (Be My Designated Driver), the nation’s largest designated driver service, has launched a joint promotion with Brown-Forman Corporation,...
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