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Parsons’ Healthy Materials Lab and Library Offers Resources for Designers, Architects, Students
Shaw’s Tim Conway recently spoke with the Lab's director, Alison Mears, about how it is raising awareness about building material ingredients and educating the next generation of designers and architects. ... View More
Innovation for Good Driving Both Internal and External Impacts for Kohler
What happens when a company empowers its associates to think creatively and innovate with a social purpose? You find yourself with a potent strategic framework for solving for some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. ... View More
Conscientious Consumption: The SB 2021 Holiday Gift Guide
With no end in sight to the pandemic and its many ripple effects, we can all use a little bit of brightness in our lives! So, here are some of the many companies, platforms and products aligned with a more intentional approach to consumption, that we... View More
$1M Innovation Challenge to Fuel Upcycled Solutions to Pomegranate Waste
The Wonderful Company has chosen two winners to create value-added solutions from 50,000 annual tons of pomegranate husks, to reduce food waste and create a more circular supply chain. ... View More
Racing to Zero, Part 1: On Track, or Playing with Numbers?
Many companies say they’ve reached their net-zero goals, but is it really that easy? We can make the numbers look good, at least in the short-term; or we can strive for greater impacts — towards real zero and beyond. If we don’t take this chall... View More
Natural Resources: Brands Partnering with Indigenous Communities on Forest Conservation
Consumer goods brands and retailers aiming to diminish their climate impacts or even become forest positive can find cost-effective solutions to protect forests when they partner with indigenous communities on the ground. ... View More
This Industry-First Online Marketplace Is Helping Companies ‘SourceGreenPackaging’
The newly launched B2B marketplace helps connect companies with vetted, sustainable, plastic-free packaging options, as well as education on materials and the evolving regulatory landscape. ... View More
Microgrids Could Be a Secret Weapon in the Corporate Race Towards Net Zero
Reining in energy emissions is top of mind for companies; so having more control of how, where and when energy is produced makes good business sense. Here, Shell Energy’s Matt Baker explains why microgrids are an increasingly popular solution. ... View More
Composting Consortium Aims to Advance Recovery of Compostable Packaging, Food Scraps
The new Consortium — which includes Closed Loop Partners, PepsiCo, the NextGen Consortium, the US Plastics Pact and other value chain players — aims to pilot industry-wide solutions and map tech and infrastructure investment to advance the circul... View More
Water and Climate: The Business Imperative to Change Behavior
While it can feel overwhelming to see how much our actions impact the Earth, we still have a small window of opportunity. And by changing how we consume, store and distribute water, the water sector alone could eliminate 10% of global GHG emissions. ... View More
Ready to Kelp: How the ‘Kelp Bill’ Unlocked a Potential Game Changer in the Climate Fight
Now finally legal in New York, kelp farming is an environmental engineering solution ready-made for sequestering carbon and nitrogen, improving soil health, cleaning up waterways and creating jobs — a ‘suite of benefits’ that could make it a cl... View More
Brightworks: Looking at the ‘Brightside’ of Material Health & Sustainable Design
Brightworks’ materials scoring methodology distills existing product sustainability standards and attributes into holistic, comparable, numerical scores — making it easier for manufacturers, the design industry and design clients to create and se... View More
VF Corp Shows How Science-Based Targets Can Help Measure True Progress on Sustainability
Setting climate targets is one thing, but achieving them has often proven a challenge. According to VF Corp’s VP of Global Sustainability, Jeannie Renne-Malone, part of the reason for the company’s success was due to making sustainability a comp... View More
HowGood Augments Ingredient Sustainability Database with OP2B’s Regenerative Ag Metrics
Brands and retailers using HowGood’s Latis platform can now further improve product impacts using uniform metrics and thus contribute to a global agricultural transition. ... View More
SBTi Launches World-First Net-Zero Corporate Standard
The Standard clarifies that rapid action to halve emissions before 2030 and long-term deep emissions cuts of 90-95% before 2050 are crucial for net-zero targets to align with science. ... View More
How Companies Are Joining Forces, Closing Loops, Optimizing Outputs in Complex Supply Chains
At SB’21 San Diego, innovators in the agriculture, electronics, food and plastics industries shared lessons learned from a variety of initiatives aimed at closing loops and optimizing value chains for a circular, regenerative future. ... View More
Report: US Plastics Production to Outpace Coal in Driving Climate Change by 2030
Beyond Plastics says the report's estimates are conservative; many emissions remain uncounted because current regulations do not require the industry to report them. ... View More
From Silicon Valley to Rural Africa: Boosting Energy Access with the D-REC Initiative
The potential for D-RECs as an instrument for transformative change is limited only by the corporate appetite for renewables, which at this point sees no signs of waning. While the infrastructure is currently being built and finalized, the chance to ... View More
How ESG Is Forever Changing Investing, Design in the Built Environment
Simply returning profits to investors is no longer a good enough measure of success. If any stakeholder does not see benefits in the design of a capital project, then gaining support is unlikely. Is your organization ready for multi-stakeholder inves... View More
Trending: Beauty Brands Building Biodiversity, Better Packaging Solutions
Aveda and L’Occitane Group continue to raise the bar for beauty industry sustainability ambitions with new packaging innovations and a ‘nature-positive’ biodiversity strategy. ... View More
