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IT Enabling a Smarter, More Sustainable Workplace
Joe Sanguinetti, Senior Director of Shared Technology Services at Avery Dennison gives his take on his IT team's role in enabling sustainability: Last month, we celebrated our sustainability wins across the company through a campaign called Sustainab... View More
Trending: Chicken of the Sea, Google Set to Make Waves with Seafood Traceability Platforms
Following numerous reports of slave labor in seafood supply chains, traceability seems to have (finally) become a priority for the industry. ... View More
White House, Google, Amazon Launch Big Data Tool to Help with Climate Resilience Planning
Despite international efforts to curb climate change, communities and companies alike need to prepare for the impacts of a changing climate. With this in mind, The White House has launched a new public-private collaboration to improve the availabilit... View More
Project Breakthrough: Can Your Brand Deliver Exponential Solutions to the SDGs?
Declaring intent is oh-so-easy. CEOs and other business leaders do it all the time. But delivering against declared pledges can be a very different matter. In recent years, for example, thousands of companies have signed up to various international c... View More
5 Ways to Transform Your Organization Into a Purposeful Living System
We are in the midst of a metamorphic period of change unlike anything the world has seen since the Late Middle Ages. With “meta” (meaning “form”) and “morph” (meaning “change”), the word suggests the transformative change in form of h... View More
How the Better Buying Lab Aims to Accelerate Demand for Sustainable Food
The latest food trend isn’t a particular cuisine or exotic ingredient; it’s sustainability. Nearly 75 percent of Americans think sustainability is important when deciding what food to buy. The food industry has noticed. In Britain, close to half ... View More
Leaders Discuss Paths to Health, Well-Being and Net Positive at the SHINE Summit 2016
Last week Harvard’s Sustainability and Health Initiative for Net Positive Enterprise (SHINE) hosted its annual Net Positive Summit to showcase the latest trends in well-being and health, and how they factor into creating Net Positive impacts. SHINE... View More
Is Privatizing National Parks the Solution to Sustaining Them?
2016 is the centennial of the National Park Service (NPS), and in February the agency got a present from the biggest tech company in the world – or, more accurately, the world got a present from Google and the NPS: On February 11th, Secretary of th... View More
Can ‘The Paris Effect’ Take Companies, Governments Beyond Flagship Initiatives?
This Friday, world leaders will convene to sign the Paris Climate Agreement. The international regulatory environment and national policies to curb emissions are reshaping global markets. Decarbonization could define the 21st century economy. But wha... View More
The Bar for Corporate Leadership on Climate Has Been Raised
As the legal briefings pile up over the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), I’m inspired by the growing number of companies and business organizations standing up for the most significant step in U.S. history toward reducing climate pollution. The bar ... View More
Satellites, Drones Catching Companies Destroying the Planet
Aerial imaging is emerging as an invaluable resource for collecting information and enforcing the law, especially when it comes to environmental protection. Satellite and drone technologies are getting increasingly smaller, cheaper, and easier to use... View More
Trending: GM, Ford Launch New Partnerships to Drive the Future of Mobility
With CES 2016 underway in Las Vegas this week, we are expecting to have announcements about exciting tech advancements coming out of our ears. Case in point: At The Ford Motor Company's press conference this morning, it announced a partnership with A... View More
10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015 ... and Some Questions for 2016
2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. On our largest shared challenge, climate change, most of the major hurdles to action — both imagined and real — started to crumble. And... View More
COP21: A View from Paris
The Conference of the Parties … COP21 … the climate conference … or just “Paris,” as in “What’s going to happen in Paris?” ... View More
Google-Backed Database Promotes Sustainable Building Design
Google, along with thinkstep, architecture and engineering tech company Flux and nonprofit Healthy Building Network (HBN), last week launched a new collaborative open data initiative to combine health and environmental impact data on building materia... View More
Google, BMW, Disney, Microsoft Once Again Top List of Best CSR Reputations
Reputation Institute has released its annual Global CSR RepTrak® 100, which highlights the companies that have the best reputations for corporate social responsibility (CSR) among the general public in 15 countries. Google tops the ranking for the s... View More
Facebook, Google Back World Food Programme Humanitarian Relief Efforts
Facebook, Google and Twitter are among the more than a dozen companies that have come together today, the International Day of Peace, to draw attention to the vital role of food assistance in creating a more peaceful world.Many firms are donating tel... View More
CEOs, Entrepreneurs Share 'The Best Advice I Never Got'
In Spring 2014, the Social Venture Network (SVN) began asking its conference speakers to share words of wisdom that they wished they’d heard on their road to success - and the tradition has continued ever since. Here, we hear advice from companies ... View More
Google’s ‘Project Sunroof’ Calculates the Cost of Solar
Google is testing a new online tool to help homeowners explore whether they should go solar, according to a recent blog post by the search giant.Now available in the San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno and the Boston area, Project Sunroof utilizes the sam... View More
Tech Giants, NGOs, Warren Buffett Campaigning to Wipe Out Wildlife Trafficking
The uproar over the recent poaching and killing of Zimbabwe’s beloved Cecil the Lion has thrust wildlife hunting and trafficking back into the international spotlight.On the heels of President Obama’s recent visit to Kenya, he announced on July 3... View More
