For 2015, Let's Find Our Honor and Purpose
While Maurice Lévy called 2014 an "annus horribilus" for Publicis Groupe, life for most agency leaders was a bit merrier this holiday season – but not by much. As Steward Elliot wrote in one of his...
View ArticleChevy Bolt Could Be Affordable, Long-Range EV Option Drivers Have Been...
Concept cars are always great fodder for gawking at automobile shows, and in turn they do a fine job of generating buzz and stellar photographs. But at this week's North American International...
View ArticleLet's Take the B.S. Out of Food Marketing
As I stared at a seemingly endless array of packaged chicken parts in a high-end grocery store recently, a mother of two strode up to the refrigerated section and decisively grabbed a package that...
View ArticleUN Global Compact Expels 657 Companies in 2014
The UN Global Compact expelled 372 companies in the second half of 2014 for failure to communicate progress for at least two consecutive years, bringing the total number of expelled companies in 2014...
View ArticleAsda's 'Wonky Veg' Campaign Aims to Show Ugly Produce Is 'Beautiful on the...
UK supermarket giant Asda is trialing a new range of vegetable products it’s calling “Wonky Veg,” in a bid to reduce food waste.The retailer created its new range of misshapen fruit and vegetables —...
View ArticleMars, UC Davis Launch Innovation Institute for Food and Health
Mars, in partnership with UC Davis, launched the Innovation Institute for Food and Health, part of the university's World Food Center, at day-long symposium on Wednesday. Laureates and other leading...
View ArticlePepsiCo Reacts to New Ads Slamming Doritos Over Lax Palm Oil Policy
On Tuesday, SumOfUs, an international consumer advocacy organization, released a new parody video — in conjunction with Doritos’ annual “Crash the Super Bowl” commercial competition — that calls out...
View ArticleNew ROI Tool Helps Building Designers Make Biz Case for Triple Bottom Line
Impact Infrastructure has unveiled AutoCASE, a new cloud-based tool that enables triple-bottom line business case analysis to become an integrated part of a Building Information Modeling (BIM) project...
View ArticleTimberland 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...
View ArticleWhite Paper: Growing Number of Companies Using Software Tools to Manage...
Many companies already use manual systems to collect data on and manage their sustainability programs, but a growing number are using software tools that were professionally-developed for this purpose,...
View ArticleBackcasting: A Roadmap to Transformational Change
As we have entered a new year, I’d like to take a closer look at the concept of backcasting for coming up with strategies that marry ‘transformational change’ (as sustainability practitioners like to...
View ArticleNext-Gen ERP: Managing … and Saving the Panda Bears?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an impressive concept. It covers everything from business operations to corporate governance. It includes streamlining and automating corporations; making all...
View ArticleWhite Castle's Veggie Sliders Reflect a More Conscious Fast Food Industry in...
It is not easy being a fast food restaurant chain these days. New fast-casual restaurants such as Panera Bread and Chipotleoffer diners more updated and healthful menu options in a setting much more...
View ArticleL’Oréal, Avery Dennison Collaborating to Reduce Environmental Impact of Labels
L’Oréal Americas and Avery Dennison have joined forces to identify and reduce the environmental impacts of packaging labels throughout the entire label lifecycle.The collaboration has already produced...
View ArticleReport Finds Asia Pulp & Paper Lagging on Social Responsibility Commitments;...
A field-based survey by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) investigating Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) performance, providing input into an evaluation of APP’s progress on fulfilling its social...
View ArticleDutch Tech Reclaims Organic Fertilizer at Drinking Water Plants
Royal HaskoningDHV has partnered with Dutch water supply company Vitens to help other drinking water companies around the world recover humic acid, an organic fertilizer.Humic acid is often discharged...
View ArticleAll Capitals Are Unequal, But Some Are More Unequal Than Others
“Price is what you pay, value is what you get”Warren BuffettMoving beyond one-dimensional capitalism“All capitals are unequal, but some are more unequal than others.”This was a thought that popped into...
View ArticleReport: 5 Most Pressing Global Risks Create 15 Sustainable Growth Opportunities
Business leaders globally have strong confidence in their own ability to turn sustainability challenges such as water scarcity and fossil fuel dependency into new business opportunities, particularly...
View ArticleSonoma Winegrowers Create Business Plan to Preserve Agriculture for Next 100...
Sonoma County Winegrape Commission, also known as Sonoma County Winegrowers (SCW), has created a 100-year business plan to preserve agriculture in Sonoma County well into the 22nd Century.The time...
View ArticleNew MasterCard Rewards with Nike Carbon Offsets, Tracks Footprint Reduction
Sustain:Green has created a new biodegradable MasterCard® rewards card, which provides carbon offsets for everyday purchases — specifically, helping to fund Nike’s Mata no Peito rainforest preservation...
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