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Philips Gives Madrid's Entire City Lighting Infrastructure an...
In what is being called the world’s largest street lighting upgrade to date, Royal Philips has provided the government of the City of Madrid with 225,000 new energy-efficient lights and connected LEDs,...
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Creating Brands of Enduring Value: The 5 Trends Shaping CMO Success in 2015
The new buzzword among CEOs, entrepreneurs and ecologists is the idea of resilience: building the values, systems and behaviors within businesses and brands to cope with uncertainty and constant,...
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Cashew Nut Byproduct Could Help Trap Tsetse Fly, Create New Value for African...
Researchers have developed a new chemical method applied to a byproduct of cashew nuts that could make it easier to trap tsetse flies and open new revenue streams for nut producers in sub-Saharan...
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Revlon Agrees to Remove Some Dangerous Chemicals From Its Products
Late last month, global cosmetics giant Revlon announced it will remove some long-chain parabens and formaldehyde-releasing chemicals from its products, in response to a petition circulated last year...
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Tetra Pak Launches Environmental Benchmarking Service for Food & Beverage...
Tetra Pak has launched a new environmental benchmarking service to help food and beverage companies assess the environmental performance of their production operations, and to identify opportunities...
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Whirlpool Imagines Smart Homes with a Conscience at CES 2015
This week at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, Whirlpool is helping attendees imagine the future of a fully connected home ecosystem — from smart products such as the first connected,...
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Toyota Opens Up 5,680 Patents to Spur Hydrogen Fuel Cell Innovation
Toyota has announced it will invite royalty-free use of approximately 5,680 hydrogen fuel cell related patents held globally, including critical technologies developed for the new Toyota Mirai.The list...
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BASF, Haier, Astronautics Corp Unveil Next-Gen Refrigeration Technology at...
Among the dizzying array of potentially game-changing innovations on display this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BASF— along with Haier, a global manufacturer of...
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Ford Highlighting Smart Mobility, 25 Experiments Aimed at Changing the Way...
This week at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ford is showcasing its latest innovations — aimed not only at advancing its vehicles, but at helping to change the way the world moves.With...
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White Coffee Introduces Organic Coffee in Biodegradable, Compostable...
White Coffee Corporation has introduced a new line of single-serve organic coffees in a new BioCup that is completely biodegradable when aerobically composted.Consumers committed to sustainable...
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The Push for Bioplastics and the Myth of Biodegradability
This is the first of a three-part series by TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky that examines the benefits, risks, misconceptions and long-term viability of bioplastics.Since the relatively recent rise in...
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BMW, Nestlé, Rio Tinto Alcan Develop New Standard for Sustainable Aluminum...
BMW Group, Hydro, Nestlé Nespresso SA and Rio Tinto Alcan and other members of the Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI) have generated a new Standard to help improve environmental and social standards...
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Canadian City Moves Toward First Closed-Loop Organics Waste Management System
The Canadian city of Surrey has chosen Iris Solutions to build what the city claims will be the first closed-loop, fully-integrated organics waste management system in North America.The Surrey Biofuels...
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AT&T's Eco-Rating 2.0 Helps Consumers Understand Environmental, Social...
At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week, AT&T unveiled Eco-Rating 2.0, an updated rating system that provides consumers an easy way to understand environmental —...
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Electronics Industry Will Conduct Shadow Audits to Root Out Forced Labor in...
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), a nonprofit coalition of electronics companies dedicated to supply chain responsibility, has announced that it will conduct shadow audits and...
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Sainsbury's Inching Toward 100% Certified Sustainable Palm Oil
UK grocery giant Sainsbury’s has announced that 95 percent of the palm oil used in its own-brand products is now certified as sustainably sourced. The supermarket revealed this statistic late last...
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How England Took Its First Rugby World Cup: A Lesson in Marketing Sustainability
On a balmy Sydney night in November 2003, a squad of 31 English rugby players fulfilled their dreams. They won England's first rugby World Cup, led by a brilliant coach, ex IT-leasing company founder,...
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New Report Finds Forest Certification Program Misleads Consumers
On Wednesday, forest conservation NGO ForestEthics released Peeling Back the Eco-Labels, a report comparing the rigor of forest audits conducted in Canada by the two leading forest certification...
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Timberland Reforestation Program Slowly Sowing Seeds of Change in Haiti
Timberland has long been one of the more proactive and socially responsible companies within the apparel industry, and this commitment has continued since its acquisition in 2011 by the multinational...
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Hershey Exceeds Sustainable Cocoa Goals in 2014, Sets New Targets
The Hershey Company has announced that 30 percent of its globally sourced cocoa was independently certified and verified in 2014—this reflects an accelerated pace for achieving its goal of sourcing 100...
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