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Coke, Pepsi Forge Partnerships to Deliver Water Access in Rural Africa, Latin America

Currently, 663 million people lack access to safe drinking water, and by 2025, half the world’s population could be living in water-stressed areas. ... View More

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Are Your Retirement Funds Destroying Rainforests? This New Web Tool Can Tell You

For the eco-conscious American, it may seem counterintuitive to invest in companies notorious for deforestation. Unfortunately, they may be unknowingly supporting such corporations through their retirement funds. “When Americans put their hard-earn... View More

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We’re One Step Closer to Transparent Windows That Can Generate Solar Power

This week, SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. announced an ‘invisible’ system for transporting electricity within the company’s transparent organic coatings, which are applied in thin layers onto glass surfaces. The SolarWindow™ Intra-Connection ... View More

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Trending: Wonder Food Can Make Products Softer than Suede, Sweeten Foods Better Than Sugar

Here are two innovations that give new meaning to the phrase "magic mushrooms": An Italian textile manufacturer has used a skin extracted from giant mushroom caps to create a leather-like material similar to suede; and a Colorado-based star... View More

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Schneider Electric Launches Network to Help Companies Discover, Vet Energy Prospects

Today, energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric launched a collaborative online platform to help commercial and industrial companies find the right tools and financial vehicles to meet their sustainability goals. ... View More

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Musk Envisions Tesla at Center of Sustainable Energy, Urban Transit, Sharing Economy

Billionaire industrialist Elon Musk is doubling-down on the ambitious vision he laid out in August 2006. In a blog post, Musk recently revealed his “Master Plan, Part Deux,” which extends beyond a corporate strategy for his electric car company T... View More

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Outerknown Sets New Bar for Transparency by Disclosing Supply Chain, Sharing Suppliers’ Stories

Just one year after the brand’s launch, eleven-time world champion surfer Kelly Slater and menswear designer John Moore’s clothing company Outerknown has publicly released its supply chain. The young brand is taking the public ‘inside the facto... View More

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AT&T’s Roman Smith: Here’s How We Can Bring About Tomorrow’s Smart Cities

News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, is producing a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and gather insights from a new wave of corporate citizen... View More

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ByFusion: Creating the Building Blocks for Tackling Ocean Waste

“It’s all about timing,” says Gregor Gomory, CEO of ByFusion, a startup he believes is about to take advantage of a “perfect storm” brewing as the world wakes up to the enormous problem of plastic waste filling up our oceans. By now, we’v... View More

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Play Through Heineken’s Sustainability Highlights from Ship to Concert in Its New Online Game

Heineken released its 2015 sustainability report back in April, along with a ‘Frank’ distillation video featuring Dutch rapper and vocal artist Kevin “Blaxtar” de Rendamie. This week, Heineken USA launched another unique engagement experiment... View More

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All Innovation Is Not Created Equal

All around today’s business world, there’s a lot of talk about “innovation.” Supply chains, service delivery, formulation, marketing, and countless other areas of business are undergoing rapid change from a variety of angles. Innovation is th... View More

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Waste-Make-Retake: How Interface Is Setting Out to Change Industry with ‘Climate Take Back’

Carpet might not seem like a major player in the climate change fight, but the process of making it actually is quite impactful on the environment. Most carpets are synthetic — nylon, polyester, acrylic — all of which are petroleum-based products... View More

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Achieving Higher Value Chain Efficiency Through Product Life Cycle Analytics

“What data analytics did for baseball it could do for the environment by shrinking the carbon footprint of thousands of consumer products. ... View More

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California's RPS Generating Thousands of Clean Energy Blue-Collar Jobs

California’s aggressive climate policies — combined with the sheer size of its economy — have helped it create the most clean energy jobs of any state in the country, according to a new study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center. The report, The Lin... View More

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Project JUST Platform Expanding to Meet Demand for Ethical Fashion - and It Needs Your Help

Project JUST, an online platform that reviews fashion brands (75 to date) for their supply chain ethics and sustainability to help consumers make more informed choices, is crowdfunding to help expand its offering. ... View More

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Ben & Jerry's and Ford Are Embracing Climate Disruption - and Your Company Needs to, as Well

Is your business embracing the disruptive forces of a low-carbon world as Ford and Ben & Jerry’s are? Over the next 10 years, climate change will drive industrial disruption at rates that previously seemed unimaginable. In response, policy make... View More

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Five Ways to Cheaper Offshore Wind – and More Clean Energy

The cost of black energy has now got ‘green’ competition. Solar power and onshore wind are already cheaper than fossil alternatives and according to DONG Energy, offshore wind must follow the same development. DONG Energy aims to make clean energ... View More

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World’s First Full-Scale Bio Plant Will Sort Waste from 110,000 Homes Annually

Danish cleantech company DONG Energy is constructing the world’s first full-scale bio plant capable of handling household waste by means of enzymes. The REnescience plant in Northwich, in the North West of England, will be able to sort 15 tonnes of... View More

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Shell Launches Digital Tool to ‘Springboard’ … Low-Carbon Startups?

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the low-carbon, clean energy and sustainability sectors can now use a handy interactive online tool to identify funding opportunities most relevant to their sector, development stage and financial requirements. ... View More

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