Innovation & Technology
The latest products, services, design approaches and business models that are helping organizations of all sizes deliver on their sustainability ambitions and establish a new business as usual
Trending: Buildings Inspired by Nature Absorb Pollutants, Collect Water, Keep You Cool
Nature has inspired all kinds of innovation – from Ford looking at geckos’ sticky toe pads to improve adhesives to Airbus building a stronger, lighter-weight galley partition that mimics cell structure and bone growth. Biomimicry is also influenc... View More
adidas Launches Latest Sustainability Report, New Strategy Aimed at Protecting Power of Sport
Today, the adidas Group launches its Sustainability Strategy, “Sport needs a space,” as part of its 2015 Sustainability Progress Report. Rooted in the company’s core belief that sport has the power to change lives, the Strategy translates the G... View More
SDG #2: Young Entrepreneurs Are Key to Feeding the World
Building a stronger and more equitable food system requires the fresh thinking, talents, and skills of our youth. We have the potential to feed everyone, including the millions of people globally who are most vulnerable to hunger and its serious cons... View More
Net Impact, Campbell's, General Mills Seeking Next Great Sustainable Food Solution
This week we welcomed the latest in a spate of recent challenges aimed at overhauling our broken food system: In partnership with Campbell Soup Company and General Mills, Net Impact launched the Forward Food Competition, an opportunity for innovative... View More
Blaxtar Offers 'Frank' Distillation of Heineken's Sustainability Progress in New Video
Move over Prince Ea, there's a new spoken word artist promoting sustainability. To help reach a wider audience for its newly-released 2015 sustainability report, Heineken recruited Dutch rapper and vocal artist Kevin "Blaxtar" de Randamie t... View More
Apparel Startup Forgoes Ad Budget to Plant Trees, Feed Kids, Provide Water
When you’re shopping for your next hoodie, this startup is hoping you’ll choose to plant as many as 93 trees: ch8se (choose) is a new experimental fashion brand from Amsterdam that has decided to donate its would-be advertising budget towards pla... View More
B of A Expands Catalytic Finance Initiative, Directs $8B to High-Impact Sustainability Projects
A consortium of leading financial institutions and investors today announced a new partnership under the Catalytic Finance Initiative (CFI), to direct $8 billion in total commitments toward high-impact sustainability investments. ... View More
The Bar for Corporate Leadership on Climate Has Been Raised
As the legal briefings pile up over the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), I’m inspired by the growing number of companies and business organizations standing up for the most significant step in U.S. history toward reducing climate pollution. The bar ... View More
The B Team Launches ‘Born B’ to Support Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurs
New companies have the opportunity to manage their business in progressive and innovative ways from the start, but it is not always easy – their hands are full just maintaining viability. The B Team, a group of influential business leaders, believe... View More
Vodafone, Philips Partner on IoT Solution That Lights the Way for Smart Cities
Telecommunications firm Vodafone and Philips Lighting announced a new partnership earlier this month that will focus on smart street lighting systems. ... View More
Utility Companies Turn to ‘PR Guru’ for Help Cleaning Up Their Reputation
The trade organization representing investor-owned electric companies, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), has hired a communications consultant who will help utilities rebrand themselves into something more appealing to the public. The changes will... View More
South Pole Group: Why Companies Should Care About Renewable Energy
The landmark international climate change nearly 195-nation agreement that came out of COP21 late last year sent a message to the world that a low-carbon future is imminent. The Paris Agreement, for the first time, brings all nations into a common ca... View More
Sweetgreen's Uphill Battle to Transform Fast Food
It’s a great time to be a salad on a fast food menu. A generation ago, there was no happy medium between lunch hour at a fast food joint or at a sit-down restaurant — and either option was, and still is, calorie-laden. But concerns over the natio... View More
An Open Letter to Manufacturers
Do you ever have that Charlie Brown moment? You know, the moment when you’ve done something again for the umpteenth time, hoping for a different result, but you get what you’ve always gotten? That’s my current relationship with the Eco Mode on ... View More
SeaWorld Finally Moving the Needle on Animal Welfare
When Oren Lyons, traditional faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation, addressed the United Nations in 1977, he highlighted the relationship between people and animals: ... View More
Tesco Celebrating Easter With Responsible Cocoa, Exclusive LEGO Toy
British multinational grocer and retailer Tesco sourced 100 percent of its own brand Easter eggs from programs that promote responsible cocoa, and teamed up with LEGO to offer a special limited edition toy created as a healthy alternative present to ... View More
Coca-Cola Enterprises Investing £56M Toward Vision for Sustainable Food and Drink Manufacturing
On Monday, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) released a second white paper detailing the final findings from its industry research partnership with Cranfield University. ... View More
The Internet of Things, Smart Cities and World Water Day
Click to enlarge. The United Nations deemed March 22 World Water Dayas a way to call global attention to this diminishing resource. ... 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 Bold Approach of Transformational Companies
At age 27, I was the youngest director elected to Vancity Credit Union, the largest community-based credit union in the world. It was the late 1980s. I ran a seniors' agency, was chair of a provincial social planning group and had been a recent board... View More
