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In Chile, a Dolphin Is Running for President to Highlight Need for Strong Climate Leadership
Greenpeace has a knack for creatively communicating about its causes and its latest campaign is no exception. The NGO is backing a dolphin in Chile’s upcoming presidential election to call attention to the need for strong climate leadership in the ... View More
BFI Highlights Projects Catalyzing Change in Architecture, Education, Food Systems and More
Ahead of announcing the 2017 Buckminster Fuller Challenge semi-finalists, the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) has unveiled some of the initiatives that were selected for the 2017 Catalyst Program, representing the top 17 percent of entries this ye... View More
Trending: The Future of Sustainable Food Is the Stuff of Science Fiction
Organic agriculture is likely one of the first things that come to mind when considering a sustainable food future, but emerging news would suggest that it is the laboratory — not the fields — where the sustainable food revolution is taking form.... View More
Wrangler Joins Field to Market to Accelerate US Sustainable Cotton
Further establishing itself as a strong proponent of increasing the supply of sustainable cotton, denim brand Wrangler has joined Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture as an associate member. The multi-stakeholder initiative is wo... View More
WWF Launches Research Program to Reduce Food Waste, Boost Farmers' Bottom Lines
Food waste and agriculture contribute considerably to greenhouse gas emissions, making farm and market-level interventions imperative in order to reduce impacts. Together with the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) and the Walmart Fo... View More
Trending: Circular Solutions for Agricultural, Seafood Waste Unlock New Economic Opportunities
Circular solutions for food waste are popping up almost daily, but agricultural and seafood waste are commonly overlooked, despite the value that can be derived from these biomaterials. Recognizing the opportunities these waste streams present for bo... View More
Driscoll's Fair Trade Program helps schools in San Quintín, Mexico
More than 1,600 members of the San Quintín community received free access to health care offerings, including pediatric, women’s health, dental and optometry services, in May. This was part of the first Health Fair organized by farmworkers employe... View More
Member Spotlight: Laura Palmeiro from Danone on new metrics, the relationship between drones and yogurt, and more
Laura Palmeiro (@laurapalmeiro), Sustainability Integration Director at Danone, sits down with us to share her thoughts on the importance of numbers to back up a good story, the value in advising a tech startup and sharing high tea with the Prince of... View More
Regionalizing agricultural lifecycle assessments boosts decision-making
Regionalized lifecycle inventory (LCI) modeling generates and links process datasets to the location in which they occur[i]. Given agricultural lifecycle assessments (LCA) are particularly spatially-sensitive, Quantis’s Rainer Zah was involved in d... View More
Origin Green Ambassadors Paving the Way in Sustainable Food, Beverage Collaboration
New types of partnerships can enable systemic changes to flourish. That thinking is behind the Origin Green Ambassadors programme, which brings education, leading global brands and entrepreneurial sustainability professionals together to collaborate ... View More
How to Measure Social Impact of Community Collaborations
The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is working to debut America’s first sustainable urban agrihood – a neighborhood growth model with agriculture at the center of a mixed-use development. ... View More
Thai Union, Greenpeace Partnership Ushers in New Era for Seafood Industry
Two years after Greenpeace launched a campaign demanding Thai Union, the world’s largest tuna company, take action to eliminate exploitative and unsustainable practices from its supply chains, the two organizations have finally put their long-runni... View More
Timberland Employees Pull on Their Boots During 25 Days of Service Challenge
Global outdoor lifestyle brand Timberland believes in activating people to transform the world with powerful tools like community service. Through the company’s award-winning Path of Service™ program, first launched in 1992, employees receive up ... View More
WWF Shows UK Consumers How to Fight Climate Change with Their Forks
The World Wildlife Fund has published a new report, Eating for 2 Degrees — New and Updated Livewell Plates, which outlines how simple steps, such as reducing red meat consumption, could help to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2030. ... View More
How the Scouts' 2017 National Jamboree Will Spotlight Local Agriculture
Those attending the 2017 National Jamboree are in for a delicious treat! As part of a new partnership with the Boy Scouts of America, the West Virginia Department of Agriculture will bring locally sourced food to campers at the Summit Bechtel Reserve... View More
Ceres Launches Guide to Help Investors Identify Risks in Food Sector Supply Chains
With environmental and social impacts increasingly influencing investor decision making, Ceres has developed a new peer-reviewed resource guide to help investors better analyze financial risks in the food sector. ... View More
Halting Deforestation: Three Essential Things Your Business Can Do
One of the most complicated supply chain issues for companies is deforestation. Why? Because deforestation may take place in areas distant from company headquarters in countries that may not have the strongest government regulations. ... View More
BASF, Cargill, P&G, GIZ Team Up to Transform Coconut Oil Supply Chain
BASF, Cargill, Procter & Gamble and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have joined together in a development partnership under the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development's (BMZ) develoPPP... View More
BASF, Cargill, P&G and Giz Collaborate to Drive Production of Sustainable Certified Coconut Oil in the Phillippines and Indonesia
BASF, Cargill, Procter & Gamble (P&G), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have joined together in a development partnership under the develoPPP.de programme by the German Federal Ministry for Economic ... View More
Nestlé Lends Expertise to Terra Startup Accelerator to Shape Future of Food, Agriculture Industries
Expanding its commitment to innovation in the food industry, Nestlé has teamed up with Rabobank and Rocketspace to support startups through the Terra Food + Agtech Accelerator Program. The food giant will collaborate with Terra to select and coach t... View More
