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How Brands Can Better Employ Empathy During Pride
1 month ago - Although June is the perfect milestone to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, our hope is that brand efforts and progress last throughout the year — and simply become another part of doing good business.
Committing to the Sustainability Journey: How Do You Know When Your Company Is ‘Ready?’
1 month ago - Deciding if you’re ready is a lot like deciding if you’re happy. “Ready” doesn’t mean totally or even confidently prepared. Here’s a starter checklist to help you know when your company is ready — and any one of these can be enough of a spark to light a fire.
SB’19 Paris, Day 2: Virtuous Value Chains, Next-Gen CSR and Redesigning the #GoodLife
3 months ago - Our second day in Paris was chock-full of rich panel discussions with brands trading stories of the evolution of ideas and lessons learned — and still to be learned — on the long, windy road to creating a sustainable consumer economy.
EDF Unveils Crowdsourced Platform to Accelerate Sustainable Supply Chains
5 months ago - Site offers tools to help supply chain professionals meet corporate environmental targets.
Champions 12.3: Restaurants Realize 7:1 ROI by Reducing Food Waste
6 months ago - New research finds rather compelling business case for restaurants to reduce the amount of food they throw away.
Trending: Better Furniture Options Enable a ‘Sustainable Life at Home’
6 months ago - New offerings by IKEA, Loll Designs add more options for consumers invested in living more sustainably.
Unifi, Saint Haven, TreeToTextile Pioneering New Breed of Sustainable Textiles
6 months ago - Market demands continue to drive innovation in sustainable fabrics.
Unilever, EU Build on Plans for Plastics Recycling, But Problems Plague UK
9 months ago - This week, building on news that HP, Inc and IKEA joined a global consortium working to develop the first global network of ocean-bound plastics supply chains, the public and private sector made further strides on creating a circular economy for packaging around the world.
HP, IKEA Join Group Developing Global Supply Chain for Ocean-Bound Plastics
10 months ago - Today, NextWave Plastics — a collaborative, open-source initiative convening leading technology and consumer-focused companies to develop the first global network of ocean-bound plastics supply chains — announced that HP Inc. and IKEA are joining its global consortium. The addition of HP and IKEA marks 10 companies collaborating to “turn off the tap” of plastic entering the ocean.
Global Practitioners Gather to Compare Notes on Redesigning the #GoodLife
10 months ago - Last year, the Sustainable Brands community gathered around the world throughout the year to share insights on how they – and their customers – were “redefining the good life.” This year, the conversation has progressed from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’ of designing the sustainable future in which we all want to live.
Food for Thought: How Brands, Farmers, Entrepreneurs Are Reshaping Food and Ag
1 year ago - Last week, over 2,000 representatives from our global community of sustainability practitioners, brand strategists, product and service innovators, thought leaders and other change-makers converged at SB’18 Vancouver to share their latest insights on a multitude of themes pertinent to all of those committed to improving business around the world. Here, we dig into the supply chains, test kitchens, labels and apps behind good food. What’s on your label? How marketing affects food & farming By Marissa Rosen
Transformational Leadership in Action ... and In Transition
1 year ago - Last week, over 2,000 representatives from our global community of sustainability practitioners, brand strategists, product and service innovators, thought leaders and other change-makers converged at SB’18 Vancouver to share their latest insights on a multitude of themes pertinent to all of those committed to improving business around the world. Here, we dig into a topic at the heart of all lasting change: Transformational leadership.
Trending: Single-Use Plastics Continue to be Tossed – By Brands, Nations Imposing Bans
1 year ago - It’s a tough time to be a plastic straw producer. Over the past few months, it seems the message has broken through that plastic straws are harmful to the environment – and marine life in particular – that phase outs and bans are warranted.
BASF, IKEA, P&G Among Companies Showcasing How Brands Are Redesigning the Good Life
1 year ago - Today, the Sustainable Brands® team has convened, along with 2,000 members of its global community, for the kick-off of SB’18 Vancouver, running June 4-7 at Vancouver Convention Centre West in Vancouver, British Columbia. More than 300 influential brand leaders and practitioners of environmental and social innovation will share new tools and frameworks, cutting-edge business solutions and case studies related to design and innovation for The Good Life.
Sustainable Brands Reveals Final Program Details for SB’18 Vancouver
1 year ago - BASF, P&G, Danone, Starbucks, and Salesforce.org among companies confirmed to showcase how brands are redesigning products and services for The Good Life
WAP: Helping Companies Navigate Hot Spots in Quest for Supply Chain Transparency
1 year ago - WAP Sustainability Consulting works with manufacturers and brands to help them meet customers’ expectations on sustainability – specifically around life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon management and product ingredient transparency, particularly in regards to chemicals management. We spoke with founder William Paddock to learn more about these current hot spots in the ongoing quest for supply chain transparency. What are some of the key issues or buzzwords of concern for companies right now? William Paddock: I tend to see organizations struggling with three things:
Something > Nothing: The Importance of a Circular Feedback Loop
1 year ago - “All I really need is the word to be brought up.” “If they aren’t talking about it, then it can’t be important to them.” At WAP Sustainability, we work with manufacturers and brands to help them meet customers’ expectations on sustainability, many of which receive requests through The Sustainability Consortium (TSC).
Execs Agree: Emerging Technologies Key to Business, Environmental Success
1 year ago - Business strategy, technological innovation and corporate sustainability are increasingly linked in the minds of executives.
Why Business Needs to Collaborate for a Clean Energy Future
1 year ago - Many people assume that tech companies are always competing. But as we celebrate Earth Day this year, we’re feeling grateful for our tech peers. When it comes to the environment, working together allows us to make bigger strides toward our shared sustainability goals — and collaboration is the only way forward.
Report: Unilever, Tesla, Nestlé Among Biggest Corporate Advocates for Climate Policy
1 year ago - Companies including Apple, Google and IKEA earned top spots in a new ranking of the top 20 business leaders calling for more ambitious climate policy across the globe. To make the A-List of Climate Policy Engagement, companies must showcase sectoral leadership, be vocal in calling for ambitious policies and align these calls with their own strategic activities.