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Taking Sustainability From the Home Kitchen to the Cambodian Slums
Cambodia is home to 13 million people, 46 percent of whom live in poverty with 100,000 living in slums. Jean Gong, Senior Manager – Internal Communications and Administration for Kohler Co.’s Asia Pacific region helps to oversee Kohler Co.’s do... View More
Unilever Signs White House Equal Pay Pledge
Unilever US announced today it joins 29 companies, including corporate members Target, Coca Cola, CVS, and Hersheys, in signing the White House Equal Pay Pledge. Unilever believes that business plays a critical role in reducing the pay gap. By signin... View More
The UPS Foundation Advances Global Forestry Initiative
7 million trees planted in 52 countries around the world Foundation to award millions in environmental grants US 08/31/16 ... View More
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Exceed Water Stewardship Goals
Water is the primary ingredient in Coca-Cola’s and PepsiCo’s beverages, and both companies recognize that increasing stress on supply is a risk to their businesses. This week, both beverage giants announced progress updates for their global stewa... View More
Unilever’s Surf Launches Unique Partnership with Oxfam to Lighten the Load of Women’s Unpaid Care Work
Unilever’s laundry brand, Surf, today announces a unique three-year partnership with Oxfam that aims to recognise, reduce and redistribute the amount of time spent by women and girls on unpaid care work. Crucially the collaboration will challenge s... View More
GM Recycles 2 Million Flint Water Bottles into Fleece
DETROIT – General Motors is adding 2 million water bottles from Flint, Michigan residents into its Do Your Part water bottle recycling initiative. The company partnered with Schupan Recycling to collect the bottles. The plastic is washed, flaked... View More
Nestlé Waters Sustainability Chief Calls for New Leadership, Collaboration on Water Challenges
Nelson Switzer, Chief Sustainability Officer for Nestlé Waters North America, has called for ‘aggressive new leadership’ in collective action through partnerships to solve shared water challenges. At an event on August 11, Switzer said all stake... View More
Trending: Latest Circular Innovations Close the Loop on Furniture, Packaging, Textiles
More and more companies are looking for ways to adopt circular models for their products, and some of the latest examples have been provided by industry giants. Furniture company IKEA, chemical firm Total, and Inditex - parent company of apparel bran... View More
Panera Bread to Industry: Kids Shouldn't Have to Imagine What's in Their Food
Panera Bread today issued its Kids Meal Promise to express the company’s long-held beliefs about kids’ meals and commitments relative to its Panera Kids™ menu. The promise is meant to be a challenge to the restaurant industry and to all food ma... View More
Sustainable Apparel Coalition Opens Access to Higg Index Tools to SME Brands, Retailers
The industry group Sustainable Apparel Coalition has opened use of its Higg Index suite of tools for measuring and evaluating supply chain impact to non-member small and medium-sized (SME) brands and retailers. SMEs may now take advantage of a specia... View More
Dow and Rio 2016 Delivering an Unprecedented Carbon Legacy in Brazil
The Rio 2016 Olympic Games are making history by leaving a significant legacy of low-carbon technologies in Latin America while set to balance 2 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents (CO2e). The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee and The Dow Chemical Company ... View More
Trending: Rio 2016, McDonald’s, Subway Making Strides on Responsible Food Sourcing
Among the latest news in responsible food sourcing: The Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games will have the largest sustainable seafood offering to date of any Olympic or Paralympic Games; McDonald’s announced developments collectively impacting ne... View More
Disney Buys Up Carbon Credits in Mondulkiri, Cambodia
The Walt Disney Company has purchased $2.6 million in carbon credits in the forests of Mondulkuri province – marking the largest carbon credit sale to date in Cambodia and breathing life into a carbon-trading program many had written off as all but... View More
Unilever, Hubbub, WRAP Join Forces in Pursuit of a Zero Food Waste Britain
New research commissioned by environmental non-profit Hubbub and consumer goods giant Unilever reveals that in the first week of the summer break, £12 million worth of food will be thrown away as UK families head off on holiday; more than half of pe... View More
Coke, Pepsi Forge Partnerships to Deliver Water Access in Rural Africa, Latin America
Currently, 663 million people lack access to safe drinking water, and by 2025, half the world’s population could be living in water-stressed areas. ... View More
Are We Talking our Girls Out of STEM?
When we look at the statistics, it is still very clear that women are extremely underrepresented in Science, Technology and Math (STEM) careers. Half of the U.S. workforce is female, and half of the college population, however, only 28% are in STEM f... View More
Doing Well by Doing Good is A Lot More Than the Bottom Line
We make choices every day. Hit the snooze again, what do I wear today, where do I eat lunch, latte or cappuccino, paper or plastic? And so on and so on. We probably make thousands of choices every day. The same thing happens when we think about choo... View More
Kimberly-Clark’s U By Kotex Brand And Dosomething.Org Introduce Power To The Period To Benefit People Experiencing Homelessness
The U by Kotex brand and DoSomething.org kick off Power to the Period, the first-ever, national period products donation drive and second installment of the U by Kotex Period Projects – a groundbreaking series of projects, each inspired by a woman ... View More
Beer Giants Increasing Transparency Around Ingredients, Nutrition Information
This week, the Beer Institute announced a new initiative to encourage its member companies to display specific consumer information on products, packaging or websites. ... View More
A Busy Week for Palm Oil Sustainability: Indonesia Cops Out, Singapore Steps In
It was something of a ‘two steps forward, one step back’ kind of week in the ongoing quest for sustainable sourcing of palm oil — potentially the most prolific and embattled ingredient in the consumer goods industry. First, five multinationals ... View More
