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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
Patagonia's 'Tools for Grassroots Activists' Also Offers Lessons for Business, Marketing Leaders
Patagonia's 'Tools for Grassroots Activists' Also Offers Lessons for Business, Marketing Leaders
Published on February 29, 2016
About a 5 minute read

Earlier this month, Patagonia released a new book aiming to offer environmental advocates best practices in grassroots activism. While it may seem counterintuitive for a big brand to be talking about grassroots activism, it’s widely known that Pata... View More

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Materials & PackagingInnovation & Technology
Vote to Allocate Part of €1M Global Change Award to Your Favorite Circular Textile Innovation
Vote to Allocate Part of €1M Global Change Award to Your Favorite Circular Textile Innovation
Published on February 2, 2016
About a 4 minute read

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the US alone generates an estimated 24 billion pounds of post-consumer textile waste (PCTW), which ends up in landfills each year — the equivalent of about 70 pounds of textiles per person. ... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
Nestlé, Tesco, Unilever CEOs Among 'Champions 12.3,' Determined to Halve Global Food Waste
Nestlé, Tesco, Unilever CEOs Among 'Champions 12.3,' Determined to Halve Global Food Waste
Published on January 22, 2016
About a 5 minute read

On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full-scale attack on global food waste: an all-sector collaboration aimed at... View More

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New Metrics
Industry-Led Roundtable for Product Social Metrics Expanding Into Multi-Stakeholder Group
Industry-Led Roundtable for Product Social Metrics Expanding Into Multi-Stakeholder Group
Published on January 18, 2016
About a 3 minute read

The Roundtable for Product Social Metrics — a coalition of multinational consumer product companies aimed at developing a comprehensive, consistent methodology for businesses to measure the social impacts of products, launched in 2013 — announced... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Courageous Companies: 7 Corporate Sustainability Pioneers Shaking Things Up
Courageous Companies: 7 Corporate Sustainability Pioneers Shaking Things Up
Published on December 29, 2015
About a 5 minute read

The bold thinking and actions taken by corporate sustainability trailblazers often challenge the status quo and alter the concept of a company’s role in society. The following companies are leaders. They have taken principled stances or have implem... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
How the Good Work Movement Is Offering Security for Gig Economy Workers
How the Good Work Movement Is Offering Security for Gig Economy Workers
Published on December 18, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Heard of the Good Work movement yet? If you haven’t, it’s probably because companies such as Uber and Airbnb get more press. The Good Work movement, founded by the National Domestic Workers Alliance in October, is a gathering of companies pledgin... View More

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A-B InBev Encouraging Consumers to Celebrate Responsibly with Global Smart Drinking Goals
A-B InBev Encouraging Consumers to Celebrate Responsibly with Global Smart Drinking Goals
Published on December 9, 2015
About a 5 minute read

Anheuser-Busch InBev today announced the launch of four Global Smart Drinking Goals, deepening its commitment to implement effective and collaborative solutions to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. The new goals, to be achieved by the end of 2025, d... View More

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New Metrics
COP21: 114 Companies Commit to Set Science-Based Emissions-Reduction Targets, Surpassing Goal
COP21: 114 Companies Commit to Set Science-Based Emissions-Reduction Targets, Surpassing Goal
Published on December 8, 2015
About a 5 minute read

The Science-Based Targets initiative announced Tuesday that 114 companies have now committed to set emissions-reduction targets in line with what scientists say is necessary to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 2 degrees Celsius. T... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-Creation
CI, Starbucks Aiming to Make Coffee World's First Sustainably Sourced Agricultural Product
CI, Starbucks Aiming to Make Coffee World's First Sustainably Sourced Agricultural Product
Published on December 7, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Conservation International (CI), in partnership with Ceres and industry leaders such as Starbucks and Keurig Green Mountain, have announced a call to action to make coffee the first sustainably sourced agricultural product in the world. The Sustainab... View More

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Supply Chain
55 Brands Are Protecting Forests with CanopyStyle
55 Brands Are Protecting Forests with CanopyStyle
Published on December 1, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Not-for-profit environmental organization Canopy has recruited big fashion brands in the fight to protect endangered forests since launching its CanopyStyle campaign in October 2013. Last week, the organization announced that Arcadia Group, C&A C... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
Levi’s and Goodwill Are Making It Easier to Donate Clothes This Holiday Season
Levi’s and Goodwill Are Making It Easier to Donate Clothes This Holiday Season
Published on November 19, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Only 15 percent of textile waste is donated or recycled in the United States. About 21 billion pounds of clothing, footwear, towels, bedding, drapery, and other textiles end up in American landfills every year, which adds up to more than 5 percent of... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
Australian Companies Commit to Carbon Reduction Through We Mean Business
Australian Companies Commit to Carbon Reduction Through We Mean Business
Published on November 12, 2015
About a 3 minute read

On November 5, 12 Australian companies committed to climate action at the Australian Climate Leadership Summit in Sydney, an official lead-up event to the COP21 UN climate conference. They join over 250 other companies from around the world who have ... View More

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Community Updates
Panera Bread® Shares Animal Welfare Progress and Makes New Cage-Free Commitment
Panera Bread® Shares Animal Welfare Progress and Makes New Cage-Free Commitment
Published on November 5, 2015
About a 4 minute read

Panera Bread is proud to share its progress in reducing confinement and antibiotics across its U.S. Panera Bread® and St. Louis Bread Co.® bakery-cafe menus.Highlights include:Laying Hens (Eggs): 100% cage-free by 2020Pigs (Pregnant sows): 100% ges... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
H&M Becomes Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Latest Global Partner
H&M Becomes Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Latest Global Partner
Published on November 4, 2015
About a 2 minute read

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation announced today that H&M has become its latest Global Partner accelerating the transition to the circular economy. ... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
WRAP, CDP Reveal Global Companies Leading in Waste Reduction, Water Security
WRAP, CDP Reveal Global Companies Leading in Waste Reduction, Water Security
Published on October 30, 2015
About a 7 minute read

Asahi Group Holdings, Colgate Palmolive, Ford Motor Company and Toyota Motor Corporation are among the global corporations achieving an A rating for their efforts to improve water security, according to the first global ranking of corporate water ste... View More

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Materials & PackagingMaterials & Packaging
Dow Launches New Line of Sustainable Packaging Resins
Dow Launches New Line of Sustainable Packaging Resins
Published on October 30, 2015
About a 2 minute read

The Dow Chemical Company on Tuesday announced the launch a new family of resins that offers unprecedented performance levels to help customers address some of today’s most challenging packaging performance gaps.Innate Precision Packaging Resins are... View More

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
PepsiCo, Unilever, WWF Leading Coalition Pushing for Value Chain Collaboration in Fighting Food Waste
PepsiCo, Unilever, WWF Leading Coalition Pushing for Value Chain Collaboration in Fighting Food Waste
Published on October 23, 2015
About a 3 minute read

As we prepare for the innumerable resource challenges of supporting a population expected to top 9 billion in the next 35 years, it is simply unacceptable to continue wasting food. Organizations large and small are now focusing a variety of efforts o... View More

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
#BusinessCase: Why Renewable Energy Will Make or Break Business Success
#BusinessCase: Why Renewable Energy Will Make or Break Business Success
Published on October 16, 2015
About a 4 minute read

World leaders have shaken hands on the new Sustainable Development Goals that will hopefully be shaping global and local agendas and policies over the next 15 years. The UN Sustainable Development summit coincided with the 7th edition of Climate Week... View More

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Collaboration & Co-CreationCollaboration & Co-Creation
Food Companies to Congress: Step Up with Bold, Enforceable Climate Agreement at COP21
Food Companies to Congress: Step Up with Bold, Enforceable Climate Agreement at COP21
Published on October 2, 2015
About a 3 minute read

The CEOs of 10 global food companies pledged to accelerate business action on climate change and urged U.S. and world leaders to form a robust international agreement at COP21 in December in a joint letter coordinated by Ceres and released yesterday.... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
One Year After New York Declaration on Forests, Report Identifies Companies Taking Action
One Year After New York Declaration on Forests, Report Identifies Companies Taking Action
Published on September 22, 2015
About a 3 minute read

Several dozen companies that endorsed the New York Declaration on Forests at 2014’s United Nations Climate Summit are taking concrete steps to eliminate commodity-driven deforestation from their supply chains, according to a new report from Supply ... View More

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