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Project Peanut Butter Now Producing Life-Saving Therapeutic Food in Ghana,...
The Hershey Company, in partnership with Project Peanut Butter (PPB) — a project aimed at ending child malnutrition across sub-Saharan Africa — has announced that the Project’s newest manufacturing...
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LEGO Turning Its Attention to Girls with Call to #KeepBuilding
GoldieBlox, the startup behind “Engineering Toys for Girls” and star capital-raiser on Kickstarter, may have blazed a trail by marketing construction toys to girls. But it may be the venerable, and...
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Report: 5 Trillion Pieces of Plastic Floating in World’s Oceans
More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tons, are floating in the world’s oceans and causing damage throughout the food chain, according to new research, as...
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Purdue Researchers Turn Biomass Waste into Valuable Chemical Products
A team of researchers from Purdue University's Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio) has developed a new catalytic process that converts biomass waste into chemical...
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Sustainability Managers Bring More to the Table Than Environmental Expertise
Many companies today view sustainable business practices as an integral part of their overall strategy — and much more than an opportunity to enhance their brand image. A natural extension of this...
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New Mobile App Encourages Fitness, Rewards You for Reducing Your CO2 Emissions
Looking for something to hold you accountable on your New Year’s resolution to be more active? Changers— a German startup whose mission is to motivate behavior change by making sustainable actions...
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Tradeshift Waiving Fees for Companies Building Circular Economy Apps
Tradeshift, which digitally connects enterprises with their suppliers via a cloud-based platform, announced on Tuesday that it will waive the 30 percent revenue share it receives from organizations...
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eBay Drops ALEC After Pressure From Environmental Groups; Activists Set...
On Thursday, after months of pressure from climate change activists, eBay confirmed its departure from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).“This is a major victory for those of us who...
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Google, Microsoft, Walt Disney and BMW Have Best CSR Reputations
Google, Microsoft, Walt Disney and BMW have the best CSR reputations globally, according to new research from the Reputation Institute (RI).Although this year Google beat out Microsoft for the top...
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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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The Evidence Is Clear: Consumers Want More Sustainable Packaging Options
With the holiday season upon us, millions of shoppers are in the midst of purchasing wrapping paper and packaging for their gifts this year. What might surprise many is how much consumer commitment...
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Measuring Sustainability, Part II: Constructing a Sustainability Index
In Part I of this series, we explored the basics of why a company would use a sustainability index to help guide decision-making. Here, we go into further depth on the steps to create such an...
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UK's First 'Social Supermarket' Tackling Food Waste and Poverty
The UK’s first “social supermarket” opened in London last week — the first in a project aimed at reducing food waste as well as supporting low-income households. Surplus food from some of Britain’s...
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Christmas Dinner Reimagined: Designing Out Festive Food Waste
For many of us, at least some of the weekend just gone will have been spent planning and shopping for the big festive meal. With so much sustainability debate on wasted food in 2014, have our minds...
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BatteryVampire Wants to Give Second Life to Your AA Batteries
A start-up called BatteryVampire wants to give renewed life to your discarded batteries by taking advantage of a little known fact — when alkaline batteries appear to be dead, there is sometimes still...
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Now Is the Time for Action to Preserve Our Precious Ecosystems
Paul Polman is CEO of Unilever, a member of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group and Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. This is his observation following...
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PURELL® Hand Sanitizer Producer Hits Sustainability Goals 2 Years Early
Hand hygiene and healthy skin company GOJO Industries, maker of the PURELL® Hand Sanitizer, has exceeded its 2015 sustainability goals two years early, according to the company’s new sustainability...
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Survey: Packaging Pros Have Limited Understanding of Biz Impacts of Resource...
Packaging professionals within consumer packaged goods companies report growing awareness around the business impacts connected to natural resource scarcity, but robust knowledge and understanding is...
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Report from JetBlue, Ocean Foundation Finds Direct Correlation Between...
On the heels of recent moves aimed at increasing its revenue that are likely to ruffle flyers’ feathers, JetBlue Airways has released a first-of-its-kind report correlating the health of its bottom...
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The 2014 Corporate Sustainability Awards: 5 Companies That Bravely and...
2014 was a year of stunning statistics and some moments of brilliance from a few brands. Unfortunately, most of the numbers were of the gloom and doom variety: warmest year, worst drought, worsening...
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