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GCAS: 1/8 of Global Market Cap Now Committed to Science-Based Targets
Companies representing roughly one-eighth of total global market capitalization are now using climate science to define their future direction. Nearly three years on from the Paris Agreement and with time running out before greenhouse gas emissions m... View More
Dow Develops Leaders While Addressing World Challenges
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) sent 43 of its global leaders to Mumbai, India this week to address pressing local challenges related to sustainable housing, environmental cleanup, diversity and inclusion, circular economy, and education and career re... View More
Interface: How +Positive Spaces Can Create a Healthier Planet
Can a built space not only have a positive impact on those who occupy it, but also on the environment outside the building? We believe the answer is yes. ... View More
Shaw Launches Sound Advisor, Innovates with Acoustics Testing, Research and Education
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (Shaw) has introduced an innovative, patent-pending tool to showcase the impact ceiling and floor construction, as well as flooring and underlayment selection, have on room acoustics. Known as Sound Advisor, the web-based ... View More
Do We Lose Moral Self-Determination When We Work?
The co-working startup WeWork made headlines recently with a new policy banning meat from company functions and barring employees from expensing any meat dishes. The move is intended to reduce the company’s environmental impact, with the company pr... View More
Trending: Healthier Buildings Are on the Horizon; New Materials Clean the Air
What if buildings could break down pollution and act like forests? What if they could make occupants healthier? ... View More
New Methodologies Help Banking Industry Assess Risks, Opportunities of Climate Change
On Wednesday, 16 banks, the UN Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and climate risk advisory firm Acclimatise published new methodologies that will help banks understand how the physical risks and opportunities of a changing climate might affect... View More
Gold and Silver Awards for Sustainability Campaign from BASF Master Builders Solutions®
“Quantified Sustainabile Benefits” – the sustainability campaign from Master Builders Solutions® convinced the juries of both the Deutscher Preis für Onlinekommunikation (German Award for Online Communications) and the Best of Content Marketi... View More
3M™ Smog-reducing Granules Harness the Power of the Sun to Improve Air Quality
At 3M, we use science every day to improve lives and help solve society’s toughest challenges. We like to imagine a world where all communities are safe, healthy and thriving—where increased energy efficiency, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and... View More
Member Spotlight: Jennifer Silberman from Target shares how she leverages the power of markets and systems to drive change
We recently caught up with Jennifer Silberman (@jsilberman1), vice president of corporate responsibility at Target. In this member spotlight, she shares how Target is embedding social and environmental purpose into their company strategy to drive cha... View More
Interface Moving from Net Zero to Climate Positive by Rethinking Factories as Forests
With 3.8 billion years of R&D behind Earth’s systems and creatures, we’ve barely scratched the surface of what we can learn and how we can apply those lessons to our companies, products and processes. ... View More
Inspiring Consumers – and Companies – to Make Healthier Choices
Last week, over 2,000 representatives from our global community of sustainability practitioners, brand strategists, product and service innovators, thought leaders and other change-makers converged at SB’18 Vancouver to share their latest insights ... View More
Transformational Leadership in Action ... and In Transition
Last week, over 2,000 representatives from our global community of sustainability practitioners, brand strategists, product and service innovators, thought leaders and other change-makers converged at SB’18 Vancouver to share their latest insights ... View More
All of Interface’s Flooring Is Now Carbon Neutral – At No Extra Cost to Customers
Interface has become the first global flooring manufacturer to declare that all of its products — including all carpet tile and luxury vinyl tile (LVT) – are carbon neutral across the entire product lifecycle. The company is now offering its Carb... View More
Kohler Expands Environmental, Health Disclosures for Kitchen & Bath Products
Today, in recognition of World Environmental Day, Kohler Co. announces expansion of its environmental and human health product disclosures for its kitchen and bath products. ... View More
Vancouver Economic Commission: “If We’re an Island of Green, We’re F***ed”
Striving to be the world’s greenest city by 2020, Vancouver has adopted several ambitious action plans and goals. The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC) set to work in 2010 to define what a “green job” was at the city level in order to meet th... View More
Lowe’s to Phase Out 2 Toxic Chemicals Following Deaths, Petitions, EPA Inaction
Lowe’s has become the first major U.S. retailer to commit to ending the sale of two toxic chemicals in its paint removal products sold globally by the end of this year. The chemicals, methylene chloride and N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP), have been link... View More
Q&A: Continuous Improvement the Engine of Innovation at Shaw
Shaw Industries, the world’s largest carpet manufacturer and a leading floorcovering provider, has also become a leader in sustainability — in August, Shaw announced that 85 percent of its products are now Cradle to Cradle Certified™; and earli... View More
Lord Aeck Sargent Marks a Decade of Action on Carbon Emissions
Published during the first industrial revolution, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations used the metaphor of “the invisible hand of the market” to describe how the decisions of self-interested individuals in a free market economy could promote the... View More
Kingfisher Continues on Path to Net Positive, Puts Customers at Heart of 2025 Goals
European home improvement company Kingfisher has set out ambitious sustainability targets for the next seven years – the latest stage of its journey to become a net positive business by 2050. ... View More
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