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How VSP Global Drives Growth, Impact Through Purpose
The optical health company’s goal to “provide access to affordable, high-quality eye care and eyewear to the world” guides business development, branding, product innovation and other integral operations. ... View More
EcoVadis Helping Pharma Giants to Improve Global Health Supply Chain
The Responsible Health Initiative aims to fortify responsible business practices throughout healthcare value chain ... View More
Why Environmental Changes Are a Growing Public Health Crisis
Three years ago in Paris, Dignity Health was privileged to be among the delegations from around the world that came to consensus on how we needed to urgently curb our carbon emission rates or face irreparable harm. Now, as many of those same represen... View More
All New 3M Products to Include Sustainability Value
US-based multinational 3M launches approximately 1,000 new products each year; starting in 2019, 100 percent of them will have sustainability built in: Today, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24), 3M announced its first formal requ... View More
The Earth's Circular Economy: Not a Practical Solution to Our Waste Issues
This is the second in a four-part series on geomimicry by renowned author and George Mason University professor Dr. Gregory C. Unruh. Read part one here. ... View More
Johnson & Johnson Launches Africa Innovation Challenge
Now in its second year, the 2018 Africa Innovation Challenge is open to innovators and entrepreneurs from Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria & Ghana among other African countries. The challenge focuses on identifying scalable and sust... View More
Braskem plans initiatives to promote the Circular Economy
Braskem, the Americas’ largest resin producer and the world’s leading biopolymer producer, has defined a series of global initiatives to boost the Circular Economy in the production chain of manufactured plastic goods. “We are firmly committed ... View More
Mimicking Nature, But Not as Nature Intended: An Introduction to Geomimicry
This is the first in a series of posts by Dr. Gregory Unruh about geomimicry and its implications for sustainability. ... View More
Hurricane Michael Highlighted Growing Range of Corporate Responses to Natural Disasters
Arriving on the heels of Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Michael proved again that companies are making significant commitments to relief and recovery efforts in the wake of natural disasters. Our round-up of Hurricane Florence corporate response effor... View More
10 Burning Questions: PMI on How It Will Create a Smoke-Free Future
Jennifer Motles and her colleagues at Philip Morris International (PMI) are on a crusade to end smoking. They know many of us probably won’t believe them. And they are OK with that; they just want the chance to prove it. ... View More
How AI, Machine Learning Are Solving Global Problems
Although developments in the field of artificial intelligence began around the 1950s, its capacities have significantly increased in the recent years. Owing to factors such as the development of faster computers, availability of open-source software ... View More
HPE, WEF Enlisting Tech Sector to Solve World Hunger by 2030
Today at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Sustainable Development Impact Summit, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and WEF committed to help solve world hunger by 2030 through the innovative application of technology. HPE and WEF are calling on public and pri... View More
Novozymes: New enzyme helps poultry farmers produce more from less feed
Novozymes, world leader in biological solutions, and DSM, world leader in animal nutrition, announce the launch of BalanciusTM, a new feed additive for broiler chickens. “Balancius is the first and only feed additive that works by improving gut hea... View More
Beautycounter, HP, J&J Show Path to Chemical, Material Health Through Chemical Footprint Project
Signatories of the Chemical Footprint Project — companies across a range of industries with $2.78 trillion in assets under management and over $700 billion in purchasing power — are asking their stakeholders: Where are you on your chemicals manag... View More
VTT's Plastic-Eating Microbes Could Help Solve Marine Plastic Problem
VTT — the Technical Research Centre of Finland — is helping to solve the global plastic waste problem with a project called PlastBug, a mobile container unit that removes plastic waste from ocean areas and converts it into material for other uses... View More
Only Natural Pet Advances Sustainable Packaging Initiative with Braskem’s Sugarcane Based I’m greenTM Biopolymer
Philadelphia, PA & Boulder, CO – August 29, 2018 - Braskem (BM&FBOVESPA: BRKM3, BRKM5 and BRKM6; NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK), the largest thermoplastics polyolefins producer in the Americas and the leading producer of biopolymers in the world... View More
CVS Health Shows that Better Drug Cost Transparency Can Help Lower Out-of-Pocket Costs
CVS Health today released new data showing that the company's real-time benefits program, powered by its proprietary engine, Script Intelligence , can save CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) members between $120-$130 per prescription fill... View More
Q&A: DuPont Sorona and the Evolution, and Revolution, of Biomaterials
Over his more than 30 years in the business, Mike Saltzberg has seen firsthand how sustainability has grown to be of equal consideration with technical performance and cost in the development of new biomaterials. Saltzberg is the Global Business Dire... View More
Humana Highlights Commitment to UN SDGs in New Corporate Social Responsibility Report
Humana Inc., one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, today released its 2016-2017 corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. In the comprehensive report, Humana, for the first time, announces the company’s alignment with t... View More
