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Trending: Virgin, Aspiration Incentivize Sustainable Spending
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Virgin Money’s sustainability-linked loans will reduce finance costs for businesses that proactively help the transition to a more sustainable economy; and Aspiration’s new credit card will enable consumers to work toward a ‘zero’ carbon footprint.
Design Takes Center Stage in Kohler Co.’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - We have set bold sustainability goals and worked to understand the gaps we need to fill and the impacts we can make based on our business and expertise. We’re guided on this path by our Design for Environment program, which takes into account the full life-cycle of our products.
How Amazon Is Scaling Conscious Consumerism by Partnering with Brands, Certifications
MARKETING AND COMMS - The e-commerce giant is working with over 20 product-certification partners to deliver product-specific sustainability information to shoppers through its Climate Pledge Friendly program.
Why We Tell the Stories Behind Sustainable Products
MARKETING AND COMMS - Telling the stories of the people and forests behind FSC-certified products deepens consumers’ connections with the brands, and demonstrates the impacts of responsible sourcing. We expect this is just the beginning, due to the clear signals of consumer demand for these stories.
Please Hold the Packaging: Creating a No-Landfill Meal Kit
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Meal kits are synonymous with excessive packaging, but they have a crucial redeeming feature — they reduce food waste. At Just Salad, that got us thinking: Could we drastically reduce packaging to make meal kits an unambiguous environmental win?
When Employees Embrace Sustainability, Game-Changing Ideas Happen
OUR HEALTHY LIVES MISSION - When cross-functional leads from the Nicorette® brand worked together to create innovative solutions and savings for the company, the business gained valuable insight on the necessity of inter-departmental collaboration for sustainability.
2020’s Top 10 Trends in Purpose — and What They Could Mean for You in 2021
WALKING THE TALK - In the midst of all the unrest and uncertainty, where did we see innovation, progress and possibility in 2020? Porter Novelli analyzed a year’s worth of Purpose-driven news, activities, campaigns and announcements; and distilled our 10 need-to-know trends for today and tomorrow.
Kao: Striving for 'Yoki-Monozukuri' (‘Excellent Manufacturing’) Through the Pursuit of 'Kirei'
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Kao’s new ESG strategy is centered on "kirei" (meaning “clean, beautiful and orderly”) — a Japanese word that is not yet well known worldwide but one that the company aims to make aspirational throughout the world.
Bid Adieu to This Dumpster Fire of a Year! The 2020 SB Holiday Gift Guide
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - No offense, 2020 — but it is high time we put you to bed and look toward the future. After the year we’ve had, we all deserve a little pampering — and so do the makers of these thoughtful, ethically made products …
Ahead of Black Friday, Brands Join Fight Against Paper Packaging Problem
COLLABORATION - 22 more brands have joined Canopy’s Pack4Good campaign to greatly reduce the three billion trees cut down every year for paper packaging.
Committing to Compostable: Neutrogena’s Journey to Create a 100% Plant-Based Cleansing Cloth
OUR HEALTHY LIVES MISSION - Transitioning the market-leading Neutrogena make-up wipes to 100% plant-based fabric will massively increase the reach of the innovation, and illustrates the potential for transforming products across numerous brands and sectors. The company plans to share information about the new fabric with the industry.
Chipotle’s Real Foodprint Tracks Sustainability Impact of Menu Items
MARKETING AND COMMS - Guests ordering on the Chipotle app and Chipotle.com now get a first-of-its-kind look into the brand’s sourcing efforts, down to the ingredient — and can track how Chipotle reduces its environmental impacts.
Q&A: FSC on the Role of Brands in the Fight Against Climate Change
SUPPLY CHAIN - As Forest Stewardship Council Director General Kim Carstensen explains, the certification helps brands take climate action by offering a simple way for consumers to make a difference, connected to tangible impacts in forests.
How the Cocoa Industry Can and Must Change to Tackle the Climate Crisis
SUPPLY CHAIN - Ceres’ new Investor Brief on Cocoa identifies three key challenges posed to the cocoa industry by shifting social and environmental conditions, and the actions companies can take today to mitigate the material financial risks embedded in cocoa supply chains.
How WestRock Is Collaborating Its Way Toward a More Circular Economy
THE NEXT ECONOMY - Here, WestRock shares insights from its Climate Week panel with the Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, GreenBlue and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health Commits $800M to Improve the Health of People, Planet
OUR HEALTHY LIVES MISSION - The Consumer Health division of the world’s largest healthcare company has launched its Healthy Lives Mission — with a commitment to invest $800 million through 2030 to meet ambitious goals of improving people’s health while protecting the health of the planet.
How Fairtrade Protects Company Supply Chains — and Brand Reputations
SUPPLY CHAIN - We caught up with Peg Willingham, newly minted Executive Director of Fairtrade America, to clear up the confusion around the concept of “fair trade”; and hear why Fairtrade is more important than ever.
In the Spirit of Sustainability: Absolut Set to Unveil Fully Recyclable Paper Bottles
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - While still in the testing phase, The Absolut Company hopes that its new paper bottle will be the first of many in a wider range of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers.
Retailers Could Be the Most Important Player in Reducing Food Waste
MARKETING AND COMMS - If we want to reduce food waste, we need consumer-led solutions — which can be sparked by retailers. Brands, manufacturers and other food system actors get their message through to consumers if retailers open the door for them.
Amazon’s ‘Climate Pledge Friendly’ to Make It Easier for Customers to Discover, Shop for Sustainable Products
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Label launches with 25K+ products endorsed by team of third-party sustainability certifiers. And Amazon’s new ‘Compact by Design’ certification aims to reduce carbon emissions through increased efficiency and better packaging.
