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Unleashing the Power of Online Reporting
Confronted with an ever-growing demand for transparency and materiality, companies need to find an adequate format to publish both financial and pre-financial information to their stakeholders in an effective way. While traditional reporting reaches ... View More
Building Better Supply Chains Requires Better Data
Supply chains are making headlines once again — and for all the wrong reasons. ... View More
New Venture Fund Aims to Rapidly Scale Ethical Supply Chain Technologies
On January 30th, Humanity United, a California-based foundation and leader in supply chain advocacy, announced the launch of a $23 million venture fund to invest in ethical supply chain innovations. The Working Capital Fund is unique in that it will ... View More
Next Step to Eliminating Food Waste? Making It Relevant, Surmountable to Farmers
Globally, food loss and waste prevention efforts at farm and production level are, in many respects, still in their infancy. Many growers around the world are not required to record or report on their post-harvest crop losses — the dearth of data i... View More
Trending: High-Tech Shipping Crates, Precision Technology Poised to Revolutionize Urban Ag
Between a growing global population — which is estimated to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 — rapid urbanization and climate change, shifting agricultural to a more sustainable model is essential for safeguarding the future of our food system. Startups... View More
GRID Alternatives Announces Major Workforce Development Grant From Bank of America Charitable Foundation
GRID Alternatives, a national leader in making clean, affordable solar power and solar jobs accessible to low-income communities, announced today a $500,000 grant from Bank of America Charitable Foundation to support its SolarCorps Fellowship Program... View More
Dell, Lonely Whale Launch Collaborative to Eliminate Marine Plastic Pollution
An estimated 150 million metric tons of plastic waste are in the ocean today and every year around eight million metric tons more are being added. Earlier this year, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation warned that by 2050 there will be more plastic than f... View More
By Not Accounting for Nature, Business Is Reporting Fake Profits
We need to make better decisions to avoid the potentially severe consequences for businesses operating in a deteriorated environment. The social and environmental megatrends will, over time, act as a drag on prosperity as the costs of basic inputs su... View More
Bard: A Burgeoning Brand in Sustainable Business
Dr. Eban Goodstein is a contradiction of sorts. Trained in “the dismal science” — economics — Goodstein is an inveterate optimist about the prospects for business to lead the way to a sustainable future, and sooner rather than later. He is tu... View More
From Niche to New Normal: Scorecards Enabling Holistic Shifts to Sustainable Product Portfolios
Shifting an entire product portfolio to align with an ambitious sustainability strategy is no small feat. Even those considered leaders in corporate sustainability are still refining their approach. This session on day two of SB'17 Copenhagen explore... View More
Looking for a Circular Packaging Solution? Meet RePack
Maybe you remember visiting a post office to pick up one of your online purchases and seeing the hundreds, even thousands, of packages going to other shoppers — to be used once and thrown away. Sure, online purchases need to be individually labelle... View More
White Supremacy: What’s a CEO to Do?
If you’re a U.S. business leader, this week likely threw you into a professional conundrum: Should you take a public stand against white supremacy knowing you’ll jump into treacherous political waters? ... View More
Companies Committed to Sustainability But Which Rely on Old-Economy Metrics Will Never Get There from Here
A close friend and colleague of mine, Joe Firestone, once pointed out that along with new conceptions of the world (i.e., new paradigms) come corresponding requirements for new measurement models. We simply cannot measure things in old ways when the ... View More
Going Deeper on Understanding, Measuring Transformational Change: Part 21
In 20 earlier parts of this series,Claire Sommer,Jill Lipotiand I developed 38 pitfalls in the sustainable business metrics field, based on the experiences of many mostly non-business fields (Find them here.). ... View More
While Scotland Flourishes, Red Tape Puts the Brakes on Circular Economy in the UK
With UK Prime Minister Theresa May putting Article 50 into effect, many questions have arisen in regards to the UK’s sustainability agenda. Uncertainty exists about whether the economic powerhouse and EU defector will adhere to the ambitious goals ... View More
There is No ‘Away’: How Each of Us Can Help Stop Plastic Pollution
Last month, Indonesia pledged to cut plastic pollution by an astounding 70 percent by 2025, in response to the UN Environment Programme’s #CleanSeas campaign. This commitment is a huge step forward in reducing the more than 8 million tons of plasti... View More
Systems Thinking: Life-Enhancing Business Through Leadership
Change is one of the most challenging elements of life within an organization. To sustain a change agenda moving away from behaviors and decisions that are life-destroying to becoming life-enhancing, the nuances of both corporate culture and the patt... View More
America’s Broken Systems: A Case for Sustainable Design?
The first of a three-part proposal for using sustainability to recharge America's problem-solving. ... View More
Europe Could Open Up €320 Billion by Scaling a Circular Economy
The business case for sustainability, particularly the circular economy, is a strong one, and more and more researching is backing it up. A recent report by the Business & Sustainable Development Commission pointed to sustainable business models ... View More
30 New EU Life+ Pilot Projects Make Convincing Case for Circular Business Models
A recent report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and a number of new initiatives sweeping Europe have highlighted the convincing business case for companies to adopt circular principles into their business models. The latest development on the path ... View More
