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Consumers, Activists Declare Victory as General Mills Commits to Non-GMO Cheerios
GMO Inside, a campaign of national non-profit organization Green America, celebrated a victory yesterday after target General Mills announced that its original Cheerios cereal would now be produced without the use of GMOs. ... View More
Kuli Kuli's Socially & Nutritionally Sustaining Moringa Superfood Bars Debut at Whole Foods
Six months after successfully raising more than $50,000 through one of the highest-grossing crowdfunding food campaigns of all-time, Oakland, Calif., startup Kuli Kuli has launched its first line of moringa superfood bars at 10 Whole Foods locations ... View More
Entrepreneurs Hoping to Fix Food System by Taking the “Ick!” Out of Cricket
Earlier this year, the United Nations released a report on incorporating insects into the diet as a means of increasing nutrition in developing nations and reducing the carbon footprint of the food production industry. While many might have taken thi... View More
Helping PDP Engage Brands to Revalue Plastic
The Plastic Disclosure Project sees an influential need for companies to start disclosing their plastic footprint in order to create a benchmark for reduction by increasing recycling and adding value back into plastic use. ... View More
Fenugreen, Toyota Offering 'Fresh Prize' to Simple Ideas Improving the World
Fenugreen, the company behind the revolutionary FreshPaper — an inexpensive, compostable, recyclable, organic paper insert that reduces food spoilage — this week announced The Fresh Prize, a $15,000 award to support similarly brilliantly simple s... View More
Browns' Food Waste Program Helping Turn Cleveland Into 'a Green City on a Blue Lake'
Waste-to-energy is a trend we’re happy to see growing like wildfire, with new initiatives seeming to pop up weekly that turn waste generated by everything from food and alcohol to heat, humans and ... View More
greenApes Helping Companies Reward Employees, Consumers Alike for Sustainable Lifestyle Choices
Buying organic tomatoes may not be a big deal. They taste better and they’re better for both your health and the planet; enough reasons to justify paying a price premium. No wonder organic food is leading the growth of sustainable consumption.But i... View More
World's First 'Brussels Sprout Battery' Lighting Up UK Christmas Tree
Notoriously hated by children, Brussels sprouts will be doing something a little more exciting this year than lining the edges of plates on Christmas day.A team of scientists and engineers from The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair ha... View More
How Green Is Your Coffee? New PCR Standardizes GHG Calculation for Coffee Production
A new Green Coffee Carbon Footprint Product Category Rule (CFP-PCR) was published this week, providing the first CPR for the calculation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coffee production. The Green Coffee CFP-PCR rule was initiated by SAI Plat... View More
'There's More Work to Do': A Conversation with Coke's Bea Perez
Earlier this week, Coca-Cola released its 2012/2013 Sustainability Report, which outlined progress the global beverage giant has made in the areas of water conservation and restoration, supporting sustainable community initiatives and empowering fema... View More
SAP Partners With Colombian Coffee Growers Federation to Support Rural Workers
SAP has joined forces with the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation (FNC) and the Manuel Mejía Foundation to provide coffee farmers with the technology and training they need to develop more sustainable business practices.Technology continues to be s... View More
Adnams Becomes First UK Brewery to Carbon Footprint Full Range of Bottled Beers
UK brewery Adnams has become the first brewer to measure the carbon footprint of its entire range of bottled beers, estimating that one bottle is equivalent to traveling 5.3 miles by train.The Southwold-based brewer says after a “rigorous six month... View More
Nearly 75% of General Mills' U.S. Retail Sales Volume Nutritionally Improved
General Mills says it has improved the health profile of 73 percent of its U.S. retail sales volume since 2005, which includes enhancing nutrition such as increasing protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals, or reducing limiters such as calories, sodium... View More
How Sweet: Chocolate Bars Can Now Be Wrapped in Paper Made from Cocoa Husk Waste
UK paper manufacturer James Cropper has developed another innovative recycling process that incorporates cocoa husk waste from chocolate production into unbleached cellulose fiber to produce a food-grade paper. The company says turning the otherwise ... View More
Tesco Reveals Food Waste Figures, Plus Action Steps on How to Tackle It in Store and at Home
Today, UK grocery retailer Tesco unveiled food waste figures for its operations and supply chain, alongside figures that show 68 percent of bagged salad in particular is wasted and that 35 percent of this waste occurs in the home.As a first step in r... View More
Effective Sustainability Strategies - Case Study #1: Pret a Manger
Bar none, the most persistent challenge that the sustainability movement faces is how to prove the business bottom line benefits of sustainability activities. This is particularly acute for small and medium-sized companies, for whom survival is the n... View More
Nestlé on Its Way to Achieving Zero Waste in Europe by 2020
Nestlé today announced it will achieve zero waste in all 150 of its European factories by 2020, meaning no factory waste will go to landfill or be incinerated without energy being recovered from the process.“The decision to achieve zero waste illu... View More
Del Monte Foods Partners with Wisconsin Growers, Suppliers and Second Harvest on Innovative Foodbank Program
According to Feeding America, one out of six Americans, one out of five children and about three million senior citizens lack adequate access to affordable and nutritious foods. This equates to approximately 47 million people considered to be food in... View More
New Report Urges America's 'Dirty Dozen' Supermarkets to Replace HFCs
America’s largest supermarkets and retailers, including Walmart and Whole Foods, are failing to take meaningful steps to replace climate-damaging hydroflourcarbons (HFCs), according to a new report released today by the Environmental Investigation ... View More
The Answer Is: The Human Condition
“We need to do something about the environmental damage in our heads.”(Time, 24 May 1993). ... View More
