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Organizational Governance
Corporate Sustainability Practitioners: Roles Have Changed — Has Your Job Description?
Corporate Sustainability Practitioners: Roles Have Changed — Has Your Job Description?
Published on March 27, 2018
About a 3 minute read

Once sustainability has matured in an organization, entire teams undergo a similar transition. They become enablers, supporting their colleagues across the organization to foster sustainable innovation. ... View More

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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
WWF Challenges Creatives to Make Sustainability Sexy, Mainstream
WWF Challenges Creatives to Make Sustainability Sexy, Mainstream
Published on March 16, 2018
About a 3 minute read

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is challenging the marketing industry to use its influence to help deliver a more sustainable future with the launch of Project Extraordinary, a global video challenge that will see creative agencies produce short films to d... View More

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New Metrics
New Approaches, Tools for Ethical Sourcing of Conflict Minerals
New Approaches, Tools for Ethical Sourcing of Conflict Minerals
Published on March 15, 2018
About a 3 minute read

A multi-industry initiative has introduced new protocols and tools for the responsible sourcing of tin, tungsten, tantalum, gold, and cobalt, as well as social, environmental and governance impacts of the extraction and processing of raw materials in... View More

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Supply Chain
Sourcing Soy: The Role of the Private Sector in the Fate of the Brazilian Cerrado
Sourcing Soy: The Role of the Private Sector in the Fate of the Brazilian Cerrado
Published on March 14, 2018
About a 4 minute read

The Brazilian Cerrado — the world’s most biodiverse savannah — is being deforested at an alarming rate. Over 40 percent of the original landscape has already been cleared, largely for the cultivation of soy for animal feed. As major agribusines... View More

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Finance & Investment
UK Government Calls on Top Pension Funds to Disclose Climate Risks
UK Government Calls on Top Pension Funds to Disclose Climate Risks
Published on March 12, 2018
About a 3 minute read

The UK’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is calling on top pension funds in the UK to disclose information on the risks that climate change poses to pension savings. The move was prompted by an admission from the Department for Work and Pension... View More

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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
New Transparency Initiative Aims to Boost Responsible Ship Recycling Practices
New Transparency Initiative Aims to Boost Responsible Ship Recycling Practices
Published on March 7, 2018
About a 3 minute read

In a bid to increase responsible shipping practices, Forum for the Future and the Sustainable Shipping Initiative have launched the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI). The Initiative brings together key industry stakeholders to improve tra... View More

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Materials & PackagingMaterials & Packaging
Trending: Food Industry Says Sayonara to Single-Use Plastics
Trending: Food Industry Says Sayonara to Single-Use Plastics
Published on March 5, 2018
About a 6 minute read

The war against single-use plastics rages on as even more brands rise to the challenge of creating a plastic-free future. Online food delivery companies Just Eat and Deliveroo are the latest businesses to hop aboard the sustainable packaging bandwago... View More

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Organizational Governance
Social Purpose Imperative in Business Triggers Capitalism’s New Zeitgeist
Social Purpose Imperative in Business Triggers Capitalism’s New Zeitgeist
Published on March 5, 2018
About a 10 minute read

Welcome to the tipping point of capitalism. At a time defined by political scandals, nuclear threats, and turbulence on Wall Street, business is society’s unlikeliest hero. A series of watershed statements, reports and initiatives from some of the ... View More

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Community Updates
Measuring Fashion report delivers results from the first study on the global environmental impacts of the apparel and footwear industries
Measuring Fashion report delivers results from the first study on the global environmental impacts of the apparel and footwear industries
Published on February 27, 2018
About a 5 minute read

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Organizational Governance
Kashi Certified Transitional Program Increases 400% in Just 2 Years
Kashi Certified Transitional Program Increases 400% in Just 2 Years
Published on February 20, 2018
About a 3 minute read

Kashi continues to expand its Certified Transitional portfolio, announcing that with the support of consumers, it will now source Certified Transitional ingredients from more than 4,200 acres of farmland across the US — a 400 percent increase since... View More

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New Metrics
GoodWell ‘Mind the Gap’ Initiative to Create Common Methodology to Measure Pay Inequality
GoodWell ‘Mind the Gap’ Initiative to Create Common Methodology to Measure Pay Inequality
Published on February 20, 2018
About a 2 minute read

Without a uniform, universally accepted and publicly available measurement methodology, companies large and small wanting to eradicate the pay gap are often left wondering where to start. ... View More

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Organizational GovernanceOrganizational Governance
3 Environmental Lawsuits That Have Helped Society
3 Environmental Lawsuits That Have Helped Society
Published on February 19, 2018
About a 5 minute read

For Big Oil and lobbyists of legislative bodies, money talks. Unfortunately, keeping investors and corporate bigwigs happy often takes precedence over any environmental concerns. Trying to effect real change for the good of the environment can seem i... View More

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Marketing & CommunicationsMarketing & Communications
Unleashing the Power of Online Reporting
Unleashing the Power of Online Reporting
Published on February 15, 2018
About a 11 minute read

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

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Supply Chain
Building Better Supply Chains Requires Better Data
Building Better Supply Chains Requires Better Data
Published on February 13, 2018
About a 5 minute read

Supply chains are making headlines once again — and for all the wrong reasons. ... View More

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Supply Chain
New Venture Fund Aims to Rapidly Scale Ethical Supply Chain Technologies
New Venture Fund Aims to Rapidly Scale Ethical Supply Chain Technologies
Published on February 7, 2018
About a 3 minute read

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

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Circular EconomyCircular Economy
Next Step to Eliminating Food Waste? Making It Relevant, Surmountable to Farmers
Next Step to Eliminating Food Waste? Making It Relevant, Surmountable to Farmers
Published on January 29, 2018
About a 5 minute read

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

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Innovation & TechnologyInnovation & Technology
Trending: High-Tech Shipping Crates, Precision Technology Poised to Revolutionize Urban Ag
Trending: High-Tech Shipping Crates, Precision Technology Poised to Revolutionize Urban Ag
Published on December 19, 2017
About a 3 minute read

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

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Community Updates
GRID Alternatives Announces Major Workforce Development Grant From Bank of America Charitable Foundation
GRID Alternatives Announces Major Workforce Development Grant From Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Published on December 15, 2017
About a 3 minute read

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

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Supply Chain
Dell, Lonely Whale Launch Collaborative to Eliminate Marine Plastic Pollution
Dell, Lonely Whale Launch Collaborative to Eliminate Marine Plastic Pollution
Published on December 12, 2017
About a 4 minute read

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

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New Metrics
By Not Accounting for Nature, Business Is Reporting Fake Profits
By Not Accounting for Nature, Business Is Reporting Fake Profits
Published on November 13, 2017
About a 2 minute read

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

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