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Dow Celebrates Achieving 2015 Goals, Looks Ahead to 2025 in New Sustainability Report
On Monday, The Dow Chemical Company released its 2015 Sustainability Report, culminating Dow’s decade-long 2015 Sustainability Goals, which centered on producing solutions to global challenges including the areas of food, water and energy and conti... View More
The True Cost of Water: New Partnerships, Business Models and More Tackling the Global Crisis
On the final afternoon of an action-packed week at SB'16 San Diego, this panel brought together stakeholders working to address different facets of the global water crisis, both locally in California, and internationally. The panel provided an opport... View More
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POWER PLAY Toyota’s New Plano Campus Drafts Impressive Energy & Environmental Line Up ... View More
Kohler Launches Six-Minute Shower Challenge to Bonnaroo Attendees
According to research from the EPA WaterSense® program, the average American adult spends 8 minutes in the shower, using about 18 gallons of water each time they lather up.* Kohler, a global leader in the manufacture of kitchen and bath products, en... View More
#BusinessCase: Top 9 Reasons for Businesses to Proactively Manage Water
A sustainability manager at a large auto parts manufacturer recently explained the company’s lack of interest in water management this way: “It's not worth our time. Water is too cheap and no one cares." Moreover, the executive acknowledged ... View More
Sustainable Water Management and Facilitating Global Access to Clean Water: Addressing SDG 6
Although roughly 70 percent of our planet is covered with water, drinkable water is increasingly becoming a scarce resource. The United Nations has defined access to clean water as one of 17 Sustainable Development Goals; BASF supports the SDGs and i... View More
Stakeholder Relations - Invest in It Before You Need to Rely on It
As the world’s leading chemical company, BASF has products in all kinds of industries; it employs 112,000 employees globally, services a variety of customers, and has relationships with shareholders and a large numbers of societal stakeholders. Any... View More
With 'Electronic Nose' Nanotechnology, We Can Analyze Safety, Chemical Composition of What We Consume
In light of this year’s Flint, Michigan water crisis and massive methane leak in Porter Ranch, California, along with increasing awareness of manmade toxicities in our environment, consumers are looking for better tools to control their health and ... View More
Can Diamond-based Semiconductors Solve the Electronic Industry’s CSR Problems?
Diamonds may be forever, but they soon could change the way we power electronics by cutting e-waste, conserving water and fighting climate change. Today, semiconductors usually are made of silicon, which, when disposed of as e-waste, poisons children... View More
Trending: P&G, Levi Strauss, Kohler Broadening Reach of Life- and Water-Saving Innovations
In honor of World Water Day, major brands are making their pioneering water-saving and -purifying innovations available for more widespread use. Kohler Co., a global leader in the plumbing industry, has shipped the first order of its ceramic filtrati... View More
The Power of Clean Water in a Four-Gram Sachet
It takes just 30 minutes – using only a bucket, a spoon, a cloth and a four-gram Procter & Gamble sachet – to purify 10 litres of dirty, contaminated water. Rose M lives in a semi-urban area in Kisumu County in Western Kenya with her husband ... View More
Ford Expanding Environmental Stewardship Efforts by Sharing Best Practices with Suppliers
Tomorrow, at a forum of the G7 Alliance on Resource Efficiency in Washington, D.C., Ford Motor Company will highlight its new Partnership for A Cleaner Environment (PACE), a program that aims to help the automaker’s suppliers minimize their impact ... View More
Californians Supporting Recycled Water Use as Long-Term Drought Solution
So far, El Niño has been unable to quell concerns over California’s drought, which is expected to persist or only slightly improve over the next few months. Reduced water flows have reduced hydroelectric power generation in the state at an estimat... View More
Report: Water Management Action Plan for Food, Beverage Supply Chains
Water quality is an urgent national concern in the UK, where only 17 percent of water bodies currently meet ‘good’ standards. Several businesses are already working with farmers and others in their supply chains to improve the situation, but UK c... View More
Winning Water Tech Removes Contaminants Using Bubbles, Wastewater Minerals, Biomaterials
Last week, Veolia, The Water Council and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) announced the first-ever “Pow! ... View More
Trending: Biomimetic Design Solutions Collecting Clean Water from the Air
According to the United Nations, 1.2 billion people live in areas of physical water scarcity and another 1.6 billion people face economic water shortage or lack the infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers, making water scarcity one of t... View More
FloWater Nixes the Need For Plastic Water Bottles
The negative environmental impacts of our rampant plastic water bottle use have been well-documented, and despite a growing number of efforts to discourage their use or develop alternatives such as boxed water and edible bottles, Americans alone use ... View More
California’s Drought Added $2B In Energy Costs, Caused 10% More Emissions
California’s drought is contributing to a dangerous cycle: Reduced water flows have reduced hydroelectric power generation, leading to an increased reliance on natural gas for the state to meet its energy needs. Since climate change is worsening Ca... View More
How a Partnership with Parley for the Oceans Is Driving Engagement at adidas
Leading up to her trip to the Parley Ocean School, adidas Group designer Jasmin Bynoe was unsure of what to expect. She was about to take to the seas for a 5-day adventure in the Maldives alongside 17 of her colleagues from adidas; they would be lear... View More
Tyson Foods Dumps More Pollution Into Waterways Each Year Than ExxonMobil
Tyson Foods Inc. was the second biggest polluter of America’s waterways from 2010 to 2014, according to data the company submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Toxic Release Inventory. ... View More
