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AB InBev: Lessons Learned from Scaling Up a Sustainable Logistics Operation
Moving goods from raw ingredients to finished products is complex and requires a significant amount of energy. A bottle of Budweiser, for example, starts with transporting barley and other materials to the brewery and then shipping our finished produ... View More
Groups call on Walmart, P&G, Coke to Back Proven Recycling Approaches, Not Closed Loop Fund
Today, a group of public interest organizations called on Walmart and the eight other companies involved in the recently launched $100M “Closed Loop Recycling” loan fund, to instead support proven policies to boost recycling, such as extended pro... View More
On #SB14sd Day 3, Brands, Innovators, Entrepreneurs Redesign How Business Works
Kicking off Wednesday, the third day of the SB’14 San Diego conference, business leaders, social entrepreneurs, business disruptors and innovators presented a full morning of business challenges and opportunities to attendees gathered in the Paradi... View More
Panels Ponder Context, Chemicals, Cradle to Cradle Textiles on #SB14sd Day 3
“What if sustainability was at least 10 percent of every product decision at every company? ... View More
Unilever Named #1 in 20th Annual Sustainability Leaders Report
A survey released this week of expert stakeholders from business, government, NGOs and academia across 87 countries shows that Unilever, Patagonia, Interface and M&S are viewed as leaders in corporate sustainability. ... View More
How CEOs Can Save the World from Global Warming
The business world is waking up to the challenge of climate change.Apple CEO Tim Cook recently lashed out at a shareholder who pressed the company to stop investing in carbon reduction and renewable energy. In the most recent World Economic Forum Glo... View More
Whole Foods, Safeway Again Top Seafood Sustainability Ranking; Kroger Still Lagging
Today, Greenpeace released the 8th edition of its annual report, Carting Away the Oceans, which evaluates 26 major retailers on their seafood sourcing and sustainability.For the second year in a row, Whole Foods and Safeway topped the ranking. Employ... View More
Walmart Commits to Doubling Solar on US Stores by 2020
At an event this morning in Mountain View, Calif., during a visit from President Barack Obama, Walmart announced that it will double the number of on-site solar energy projects at its US stores, Sam’s Clubs and distribution centers by 2020. The com... View More
Walmart Hosts Sustainable Product Expo to Accelerate Supply Chain Innovation
Today, Walmart joined forces with CEOs from more than a dozen global companies — including Kellogg, P&G, Monsanto, Campbell Soup, PepsiCo, General Mills and the Dairy Farmers of America — to sign new commitments that accelerate innovation in ... View More
LaborVoices Continues to Provide 'SmartLine' of Insight Into Supply Chain Issues
In the lead-up to this year’s SB Innovation Open, we’re catching up with some of our favorite paradigm-disrupting startups from past years. This week, we have an update from LaborVoices. ... View More
Walmart to Cut Store Lighting By 40% With GE LEDs
Walmart has announced plans to purchase energy-efficient LED ceiling lighting fixtures for its new supercenters in the United States, stores in Asia and Latin America, and Asda locations in the United Kingdom, that will use 40 percent less energy tha... View More
GRSB's Principles, Criteria for Sustainable Beef Production Open for Public Comment
The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), members of which include Walmart, McDonalds, WWF and the Rainforest Alliance, recently announced that its Draft principles and criteria for global sustainable beef (production, processing and retail)... View More
The Future of Driving? Hydrogen Cars Have 3 Times the Range of EVs, Emit Only H20
Hydrogen fuel cell cars have more than three times the standard range of plug-in electric vehicles (EVs), can be refueled in minutes rather than hours and look and handle more like traditional cars — so why are there still only a few hundred hydrog... View More
Elio's 3-Wheeled Car Could Change the Way We Commute
Elio Motors on Thursday unveiled a compact 3-wheeled commuter vehicle capable of achieving 84 miles per gallon fuel efficiency and engineered for an anticipated 5-Star Crash Test Safety Rating.With a sticker price of just $6,800, the high-mileage Eli... View More
Walmart Tractor Prototype Could Disrupt the Trucking Industry
Walmart has developed a prototype tractor designed to increase airflow and cut fuel consumption, which could dramatically increase the efficiency of one of the largest commercial truck fleets in the world.The Walmart Advanced Vehicle Experience (WAVE... View More
Walmart Implements Policy to Remove Harmful Chemicals from Consumer Products
Walmart has informed dozens of product manufacturers throughout its supply chain that it is now implementing its new policy to phase out hazardous chemicals from its consumer products, announced late last year. ... View More
Sustainable Seafood: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Green Fish
One fish, two fishRed fish, green fishSick fish, well fishFrankenfish, farm-raised fishSome fish you should not eatOthers that are a treatFrom fish caught with a dolphinTo fish caught far too oftenA glut of boats in the seaSome fish caught responsibl... View More
BBVA, AT&T, GE, Unilever Among Brands Best at Making Sustainability Viral in 2013
Is 2014 the year that sustainability marketing and communication become a big deal for companies? That’s certainly the impression you could draw judging by Unilever’s recent launch of its Project Sunlight campaign, not to mention Chipotle’s &qu... View More
More than 70 Mainstream Brands Now Taking Part in Collaborative Economy
I have been leading a research effort to understand the impacts of the growing Collaborative Economy trend. In case you are new to the collaborative economy, there's an unstoppable wave of people trading, renting and borrowing all kinds of services a... View More
#SustyGoals 5: The Hardcore Business Case for Setting Science-Based Goals – A Dialogue with Andrew Winston
One of the key messages in the upcoming book The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, More Open World is the “need to set goals in companies based on science, not on what we think we can do, not bottom-up,” says author... View More
