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How the World's Best Companies Demonstrate Their Sense of Purpose

How do you communicate your company's sense of purpose — what you stand for in simple terms — in a way that is authentic, transparent and honest? Increasingly, the answer for many of the world's biggest companies is to highlight their sustainabil... View More

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PSA Illustrates Potentially Hairy Effects of China's Air Pollution

Air pollution in China is unavoidable, and a huge health problem. Last year, a Berkeley Earth study found that deaths related to the main air pollutant, PM2.5 particles, total 1.6 million a year or 17 percent of China’s mortality rate. ... View More

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Union of Concerned Scientists Ad Presses Presidential Candidates on Climate Threat

Over the next month, the Manchester Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire’s five video screens will regularly show an animated ad depicting the state’s four leading presidential candidates with tides rising to their waists from climate-induced... View More

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FTC Fines 4 Major Retailers Collective $1.3M for Falsely Labeling Rayon Textiles as 'Bamboo'

The Federal Trade Commission announced complaints and proposed court orders barring four national retailers from mislabeling and advertising rayon textiles as made of “bamboo,” and requiring them to pay civil penalties totaling $1.3 million. ... View More

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Colgate Hoping to Rally Super Bowl Viewers to Save Water with Debut Ad

Colgate toothpastes and toothbrushes will not be the focus of the brand’s first-ever Super Bowl advertisement. Rather, it will be using its airtime to remind viewers to turn off the tap when brushing their teeth. ... View More

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How to (and How Not to) Use Humour, 'Macho-Eco' Identities to Communicate Sustainability

This Tuesday afternoon breakout session saw Thomas Kolster, founder and creative director at the Goodvertising Agency, and Kerry Eustice, Editorial Partnerships Editor at The Guardian Sustainable Business, share their perspectives on changing the con... View More

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Why Purpose Brands Think Beyond the Consumer

For many marketers or entrepreneurs, building a business with a purpose is the Holy Grail. It feels great – and we all want to do a job that makes sense. And it’s good business: brands with a purpose work better – Jim Stengel and a few others h... View More

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New Clooney Ad, Video Promoting Nespresso and Its Sustainability Program in the US

After nine years as a spokesman for Nespresso in Europe, actor and activist George Clooney has finally agreed to promote the brand in North America. Television advertisements began airing yesterday, and online videos promoting the company’s social ... View More

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Schneider Electric's 'Life Is On' Campaign Showcases Its Impact on Customers' Sustainability, Efficiency

Schneider Electric, global specialist in energy management and automation, announced the launch of a new brand campaign in North America to showcase the business and societal value of sustainability and efficiency. The brand campaign executes on the ... View More

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Trending: Barbie, 'Sesame Street' Encouraging Kids to Bust Social Stereotypes

This might be the best recent trend in children’s brands. After years of being a less-than-progressive feminine role model, Barbie is on the verge of becoming the feminist icon she should be. Mattel’s latest ad features a college professor, a vet... View More

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Why Your Company Needs a Magazine Mentality

There was a time when the only way a company could hope to talk directly with real people was through the medium of advertising or public relations. Companies felt distanced from consumers and they worried that people wouldn't take them seriously unl... View More

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Conceptual Water Company's Bottles Are as Empty as California's Reservoirs

Designer Chris Onesto created California Water Company to highlight the state’s historic drought. The company’s water bottles are only about 6 percent full, to reflect the current capacity of California water reservoirs.“The Golden State is tur... View More

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5 Types of Sustainability Marketing Tactics Corporate Execs Need to Understand, and Utilize, Better

Sustainability marketing is a strange and special animal. To be effective, it needs to popularize the work of sustainability teams, which tends to be based on rigorous systems thinking, carefully and scientifically considering the whole picture befor... View More

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Brilliant Behavior Change Campaign Helping Put a Dent in London Litter

On the heels of a coalition of British NGOs and businesses issuing a “litter manifesto” to help clean up the UK last month, research from Keep Britain Tidy has revealed that an anti-littering campaign launched in May has achieved rather impressiv... View More

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How Marketing and Social Action Can Bring Back Recycling

A cloud seems to be looming over the recycling industry today. No matter where you turn, the reigning attitude seems about the same — the future of recycling is in trouble. ... View More

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NGO Asking Coke to Spend Its $3B Ad Budget on Saving the Rainforest Instead

Hey Coca-Cola, how about redirecting your advertising budget for a year to help save the planet?That is the ask of the group Buy the World a Hope, an “independent group of people who believe that there must be new ways to substantially help the wor... View More

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3 Tips for Helping B2Bs Find Their Sex Appeal

B2B companies often see themselves as the dry toast to B2Cs’ Belgian waffles dripping with whipped cream and berries. And when we talk about making sustainability sexy, they may think it doesn’t apply to them. But it does. ... View More

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Video Production with a Heart: How Casual Films Helps Responsible Companies Tell Their Stories

NYC/London-based production company Casual Films believes we have entered “a new era in branded communications.” As Managing Director Barnaby Cook asserts in a video on the company’s website: “In the future, all successful businesses will hav... View More

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'Human Resources,' Season 2 (or How TerraCycle Hopes to Pave the Way for 'Green' on Reality TV)

The television remains one of the most vital tools available to “green” marketers. From product placement to paid commercial spots, getting your product, service or mission featured on TV is an invaluable way to bring your company’s messaging d... View More

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Academic Lag, Advertising Jag & the Task of Socialising the Genome

LAG:A period of time: a noticeable delay between action and reaction – Failing to keep up with another or others in movement or developmentJAG: A short period of overindulgence in an activity: a shopping jag: a crying jag. A stab; an intense and co... View More

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