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PepsiCo Reveals New Tool to Manage Water Risks in Latin America
Last week at the Stockholm International Water Institute’s annual World Water Week, PepsiCo unveiled a new data management and modeling tool that estimates the availability of freshwater use in water-scarce regions throughout Latin America and the ... View More
Arizona State University and STAR Communities Announce Partnership
Washington, DC (April 10, 2014) – This week STAR Communities and Arizona State University’s Sustainability Solutions Services announced an official partnership to support local governments who are interested in benchmarking and tracking sustainab... View More
EPA Programs Help Companies Reduce Costs, GHGs
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) climate-protection programs prevented 365 million metric tons of US greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2012, according to a new report by the agency.EPA’s annual Climate Protection Partnerships report... View More
National Council of Chain Restaurants Urges Further Reductions to Corn Ethanol Mandate
This week, the National Council of Chain Restaurants (NCCR), which represents just about every US quick-service and table-service chain you can think of, submitted comments to the EPA on its proposal to reduce the levels of corn ethanol mandated unde... View More
Chemicals in Consumer Products: New Progress in Transparency
The states of Washington and California are breaking new ground by providing consumers with information on potentially harmful chemicals in the products they buy and use on a daily basis. Washington’s focus is on products meant for children; Califo... View More
Subway Joins First Lady in Promoting Healthy Food to Kids by 'Powering Playtime with Veggies'
In the latest in a string of recent efforts to engage children in the joys of healthy eating, First Lady Michelle Obama announced last week that Subway® restaurants has joined the Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) and Mrs. Obama’s Let’s ... View More
Food Brands, Farming Groups, NGOs Urge Obama to Enact Federal GMO Labeling Law
A group made up of over 200 organizations including food companies, organic farming and environmental groups have signed a letter urging President Obama to enact labelling laws highlighting products that contain genetically modified ingredients. ... View More
UK Bosses Miss Out on £300 Million Energy and Waste Reduction Opportunity
Less than a quarter of UK employees have been asked to help save energy at work, and fewer than half are concerned about the cost of energy for their employer, according to new research by the Carbon Trust.The research highlights how UK workplaces ... View More
Food Companies Seek Federal GMO Labeling Standard, Challenge Washington's Campaign Finance Laws
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) — which represents food-industry giants including Coca-Cola, MARS, Kellogg, P&G, McDonald’s, Mondelez International, Starbucks, Hershey, General Mills and roughly 300 others — announced this week ... View More
NYC Now Heating Thousands of Homes with Food Waste
Just before the turn of the new year, when many of us were enjoying our annual season of gluttony, New York City Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway announced a pilot program that will convert the thousands of pounds of food waste currently shipped to out-of-s... View More
USAID, P&G, Coke Partnering to Boost Entrepreneurship in Philippine Recovery Effort
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today it has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Coca-Cola to support the revival of economic activity and livelihoods in Leyte, the ... View More
New Study Shows 51 of Top 100 Companies Emitting Unsustainable Levels of CO2
Today, Climate Counts and the Center for Sustainable Organizations (CSO) released a collaborative report, Assessing Corporate Emissions Performance through the Lens of Climate Science, which revealed that, surprisingly, almost half of the Top 100 com... View More
UN, BCtA Urge Japanese Private Sector to Embrace Sustainable Business
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Tokyo and the Business Call to Action (BCtA) last week hosted the first BCtA event in Japan to encourage the Japanese private sector to participate in innovative business approaches that create development im... View More
EPA Relaxes Renewable Fuel Standard While Reaffirming Commitment to Biofuels
The U.S. EPA on Friday backed away from its previously mandated targets for U.S. biofuel production by relaxing the proposed levels of ethanol use outlined in its Renewable Fuel Standard, to address the “E10 blend wall.” The proposal would set et... View More
Employee Engagement: Why Motivating the Elephant Is Better Than Rewarding the Rider
Many organisations are grappling with the same question: How do we create an employee reward and recognition programme designed to deliver widely adopted and sustained pro-environmental behaviours? ... View More
Sochi 2014 Pledging to Be First Carbon-Neutral Olympic Games — For Real, This Time
The upcoming Sochi 2014 Olympics will be the first in history to achieve carbon neutrality, according to a recent announcement by The Dow Chemical Company, the Official Carbon Partner for the Games. This includes carbon footprints associated with the... View More
Disney Scores the Only 'A' on Cruise Industry Environmental Report Card
Cruise ships dumped more than a billion gallons of sewage in the ocean last year, much of it raw or poorly treated, according to federal data analyzed by Friends of the Earth, which is calling for stronger rules to protect oceans, coasts, sea life an... View More
World Bank Says Businesses Must Collaborate to Help Save Oceans
Businesses must work with government and the scientific community to help counter damage to the world’s oceans, according to a panel established by the World Bank to advise the Global Partnership for Oceans (GPO).The Blue Ribbon Panel consists of 2... View More
How To Use Well-Managed Data to Realise Your Sustainability Goals
Data, Data, DataSustainable business these days requires data, and lots of it. Companies are using sustainability data for a multiplicity of reasons: to inform corporate strategy, comply with regulations, evaluate investments, improve transparency, d... View More
Microsoft, Diageo Among Latest Companies Urging Policymakers to Address Climate Change
Business calls for strong climate change action are getting louder. A half-dozen more leading global companies including Microsoft, Owens Corning, Diageo, Thornton Tomasetti, and Acer America Corporation last week joined hundreds of other U.S. busine... View More
