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Circular Economy
From Compliance to Competitive Edge: How Mobility Leaders Drive Business Growth with Design for Recyclability
From Compliance to Competitive Edge: How Mobility Leaders Drive Business Growth with Design for Recyclability
Published on October 27, 2025
About a 5 minute read

For decades, automotive regulations have been viewed as hurdles to overcome. Today, leading OEMs are flipping the script — seeing evolving end-of-life and circularity standards not as limitations, but as launchpads for innovation. From materials sc... View More

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Materials & PackagingMaterials & Packaging
Materials Science Breakthroughs & The Try, Try Again Model
Materials Science Breakthroughs & The Try, Try Again Model
Published on October 13, 2025
About a 5 minute read

If innovation had a lab soundtrack, it wouldn’t be a triumphant drumroll—it would be the quiet hum of “try again.” Dow’s research in food packaging and recycling technology reflects that rhythm: every experiment, win or lose, adds something... View More

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Community Updates
Sustainable Brands Reveals Program for SB'24 San Diego Around The Theme of Breakthrough Innovation
Sustainable Brands Reveals Program for SB'24 San Diego Around The Theme of Breakthrough Innovation
Published on July 25, 2024
About a 5 minute read

Join industry leaders in shaping the future of sustainable commerce as brands showcase their innovation initiatives and thought leadership toward smarter, healthier, and faster transitions to sustainable and regenerative business models. ... View More

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D2 Systemic Design: An Approach to Sustainable Innovation
D2 Systemic Design: An Approach to Sustainable Innovation
Published on July 12, 2022
Runtime: 31:43

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Day 2-B2A3: New Marketplaces and Platforms Designed for Regenerative Outcomes
Day 2-B2A3: New Marketplaces and Platforms Designed for Regenerative Outcomes
Published on November 3, 2021
Runtime: 1:01:14

This panel will cover the benefits of a few exciting new types of marketplaces specifically and explicitly aimed at producing sustainable and/or regenerative outcomes. From new ways to trade carbon, to converting waste to a resource, to catalyzing up... View More

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Day 3-B3A3: Moving Toward Positive: Using Nature as a Model, Mentor, and Measure for Regenerative Performance
Day 3-B3A3: Moving Toward Positive: Using Nature as a Model, Mentor, and Measure for Regenerative Performance
Published on November 3, 2021
Runtime: 1:01:45

This panel will offer three rich cutting-edge case studies of major brands applying biomimicry principles in order to advance their sustainability and regeneration programs in unprecedented ways. Attendees can expect practical real-world insights aro... View More

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Day 2-B2A2: Consumers as Suppliers
Day 2-B2A2: Consumers as Suppliers
Published on November 3, 2021
Runtime: 1:02:52

This panel will examine ways and means of activating consumers as the critical ‘missing link’ in emerging circular models around clothes, footwear and other CPGs. Panelists will combine their experiences with ‘consumers as suppliers’ of used ... View More

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Day 4-A5: Carbon Clarity: Understanding Carbon Impact and Communicating through Carbon Labeling
Day 4-A5: Carbon Clarity: Understanding Carbon Impact and Communicating through Carbon Labeling
Published on October 29, 2021
Runtime: 13:49

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Day 2-B3: Accelerating Sustainable Innovation at P&G
Day 2-B3: Accelerating Sustainable Innovation at P&G
Published on October 29, 2021
Runtime: 20:06

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Day 2-B4: Expanding Consumer Awareness of Climate Change through Real Estate
Day 2-B4: Expanding Consumer Awareness of Climate Change through Real Estate
Published on October 28, 2021
Runtime: 10:42

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Day 2-A4: Transforming CO₂ Into Products for the Future
Day 2-A4: Transforming CO₂ Into Products for the Future
Published on October 28, 2021
Runtime: 14:11

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Day 1-A3: Essential Principles of Regeneration in Nature
Day 1-A3: Essential Principles of Regeneration in Nature
Published on October 27, 2021
Runtime: 21:55

Join Nicole Miller of Biomimicry 3.8 as she steps in for pioneer and visionary Janine Benyus. Nicole outlines what nature teaches us about regeneration and how to use its lessons wisely to shape the future of business. Nicole teams with Janine, a glo... View More

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Day 3-S3B1: Boosting Sustainable Product Sales with Amazon Climate Pledge Friendly- sponsored by Amazon
Day 3-S3B1: Boosting Sustainable Product Sales with Amazon Climate Pledge Friendly- sponsored by Amazon
Published on October 27, 2021
Runtime: 59:07

Join us for breakfast to learn how you can work with Amazon to boost sales of more sustainable products through the recently launched Climate Pledge Friendly program, and other programs across Amazon dedicated to the mission of preserving the natural... View More

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Innovating Together: Embedding Personal Wellbeing, Ecosystem Health and Strong Community Values in All Aspects of Product Development
Innovating Together: Embedding Personal Wellbeing, Ecosystem Health and Strong Community Values in All Aspects of Product Development
Published on June 5, 2019
Runtime: 14:30

Seed Phytonutrients is a recently-launched L'Oréal brand that set out to make every aspect of its skin and haircare products as sustainable as possible. This session tracks the entire process along with key partnerships that enable and empower the e... View More

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A Bold New Vision for the Collection, Processing, Circularity and Productivity of Plastic Waste
A Bold New Vision for the Collection, Processing, Circularity and Productivity of Plastic Waste
Published on June 4, 2019
Runtime: 16:46

Hear the latest from the one and only William McDonough, the globally recognized thought leader on sustainable design and cradle-to-cradle circular thinking. Get the scoop on an ambitious new vision aiming to tackle plastic waste at scale.... View More

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Access and Equality as Drivers of Fundamentally New Business Models
Access and Equality as Drivers of Fundamentally New Business Models
Published on May 24, 2017
Runtime: 18:43

Healthy food is a human right, but $9 green juices and $12 salads make healthy food a luxury many people can’t afford. In this talk, attendees will find out how Sam Polk went from a hedge fund manager on Wall Street to successful entrepreneur build... View More

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SB’17 Detroit - Holistic Reinvention: Win-win Scenarios Emerging from Rethinking an Entire Value Chain
SB’17 Detroit - Holistic Reinvention: Win-win Scenarios Emerging from Rethinking an Entire Value Chain
Published on May 23, 2017
Runtime: 15:05

In October 2013 L’Oreal announced one of the most ambitious corporate sustainability strategies in the world – a set of commitments aimed at transforming the ways in which the company innovates, manufactures its products, communicates with consum... View More

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