Stories About Balanced Simplicity
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Renewal Mill: Turning By-Products Into More Nutritious Food
WASTE NOT - Through its proprietary technology, the company transforms organic, high-fiber food by-product streams into nutritious raw ingredients.
Conscious Consumers Flocking to Pinterest for Sustainable Lifestyle Ideas
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - Sustainable living is the most searched term around sustainability (+69% since last year), while searches for “sustainable living for beginners” are up 265%.
Q&A: How a ‘Cuban’ Name Change Boosted Panera’s Soup Sales
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - WRI’s Better Buying Lab works with food companies to research and test science-based approaches that encourage consumers to choose more sustainable, plant-based foods.
Employee Engagement 3.0: How Starbucks, Unilever Go the Extra Mile
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - 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 brand and organizational efforts to recruit, retain and support an engaged workforce — and go the extra mile for employees in need.
Startup Allows Neighbors to Generate Returns Through Investments in Their Community
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - “A lot of people want to participate in Detroit’s recovery, but unfortunately, they feel that because they’re not a billionaire, millionaire, celebrity or politician, they feel they can’t,” Kwaku Osei told Fast Company.
Landmark Research Shows Americans Are Redefining The “Good Life”
PRESS RELEASE - 80% would be loyal to brands that helped them live their new values Large opportunity for business to support new aspirations of balance, health, and connections
A Sustainable Life at Home: How IKEA Plans to Become Circular
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - IKEA has been quietly piloting various initiatives across its European stores to see how it can build circularity into its service offering for customers. It’s a bold move, given that consumer-facing circular economy business models are still relatively embryonic, particularly in the retail market. “Over the coming years, we will support customers to care and repair, rent, share, bring back, and resell their IKEA products to prolong product life,” IKEA’s sustainability manager Jonas Engberg told me in a recent interview.