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To Advance Sustainability, Go Beyond Traditional Employee Engagement Efforts
Imagine walking into your office one morning to find a business card on your chair — with a different title. It might just give you pause. ... View More
Unilever Expands 'Help a Child Reach 5' Campaign to Mark Global Handwashing Day
To mark Global Handwashing Day (GHD) — October 15th — Unilever’s Lifebuoy brand has announced a significant expansion of its Help a Child Reach 5 campaign. Launched in February in Thesgora, India, a rural village known to have one of the highes... View More
Help Us Help You: Thrive as a Purpose-Driven Brand with New Data, Tools and Success Stories
Sustainability experts often talk about the need for — and opportunities in — embedding systems thinking and sustainability-driven innovation into every aspect of a business. It sounds quite sexy, but it very often is a long and messy process tha... View More
B Team Meets with One Young World Delegates to Discuss the Future of Business and Leadership
On October 5, the One Young World conference, which convenes young people around the world to create positive change, gathered several leaders in the sustainability world to discuss the future of the integration of the environment and the economy. Kn... View More
Investors Call For Food Companies That Oppose Labeling to Stay Out of Washington State GMO Battle
Companies that donated funds to oppose ballot initiatives to require the labeling of products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are facing new pressure from shareholders to stay out of future elections. ... View More
M&S, BT, Unilever, Sainsbury's Top FTSE 100 Carbon Ranking
For the second year in a row, retailer Marks & Spencer has topped Carbon Clear’s ranking of the carbon performance of the FTSE 100. This is the third year that Carbon Clear has undertaken the research, examining the extent and depth of FTSE (Lo... View More
The North Face Receives EPA Green Power Leadership Award
The North Face recently became one of eight organizations awarded a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of the nation’s volunta... View More
The Story of Stuff Project's Latest Clip Focuses on 'Solutions'
Today marks the release of “The Story of Solutions” – the latest clip from The Story of Stuff Project and Free Range Studios. In the eight-minute clip, “Story of Stuff” storyteller Annie Leonard describes a set of solutions to the issues se... View More
Levi's, Unilever, Patagonia Among Companies Calling for Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants
Nearly two-dozen major U.S. companies and nearly 50 investors with more than $900 billion in collective assets announced their support last week for new carbon pollution standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for new power pl... View More
Solazyme and Unilever Sign Supply Agreement for Tailored Algal Oil
Solazyme, maker of algae-based oils and bioproducts, today announced a commercial supply agreement with Unilever for the first partnered Solazyme Tailored™ Algal Oil, a culmination of five years of collaboration between the companies. The agreement... View More
Investors Ask General Mills to Step Up Packaging Responsibility
This week, investors are asking General Mills to take responsibility for recycling its post-consumer packaging waste. ... View More
Developing a Purposeful Brand: A Practitioner’s Toolbox, Part One
In this series, Benoit Beaufils, founding partner of brand consultancy Innate Motion, along with several of his partners, presents the tools that the company uses to develop purposeful, mission-driven brands with their clients. Benoit views their too... View More
Unilever Recruiting Young Entrepreneurs to Help Tackle Some of the World's Most Pressing Issues
Today, Unilever announced an international awards program designed to inspire young people around the world to tackle environmental, social and health issues. Presented in partnership with the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL),... View More
Report: More Than Half of Diners Willing to Pay More For Meals in Sustainable Restaurants
More than half (56 percent) of diners would pay more for a meal if they knew the restaurant was investing in reducing its environmental impact and taking its social responsibility seriously, according to new research from the Sustainable Restaurant A... View More
Customer Behavior Change: The Holy Grail of Conscious Brands
“If we can’t get the consumer involved, we will always be behind the curve,” Marks & Spencer CEO Marc Bolland said when he launched the retailer’s ‘Plan A’ sustainability stakeholder consultation.The logic is compelling. Changing cust... View More
IKEA and Kingfisher Pledge Ambitious 'Net Positive' Agendas, But Can They Work?
In a world in which natural resources have become scarcer, can these companies truly contribute to the planet more than what they can, and will, take from it? ... View More
AT&T and the Nature Conservancy Team Up to Help Oregon Customers ‘Skip the Bag’
AT&T has partnered with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to encourage AT&T customers to skip the bag when purchasing items from its retail stores in Oregon by donating 10 cents to the Nature Conservancy for each check out bag its customers choose... View More
Sustainability Ideas Must Be 'Made to Stick'
Calls to shake up the sustainability community seem to be becoming increasingly frequent — the latest that I’ve read coming from the State of the World 2013 Report. With a warning that sustainability is in need of a “dramatic reboot,” it sugg... View More
Unilever Taps Crowdsourcing to Develop Eco-Friendly Shower
Unilever has announced that it will harness the potential of ‘crowdsourcing’ to develop the world’s first sustainable shower.The company is asking creative individuals all over the world to submit at eYeka.com their ideas and solutions for an e... View More
Unilever, Molson Coors, Co-operative Top Sustainability Champion Awards
The Co-operative Group, Unilever and Molson Coors are among the winners of the 2degrees 2013 Sustainability Champions Awards, which each year recognizes success in the execution of sustainability initiatives. ... View More
