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Hong Kong Cleantech Companies Showcase in San Francisco
Hong Kong Cleantech Companies Showcase in San Francisco
Published on March 17, 2015
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Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation ("HKSTP") is showcasing Hong Kong's sustainable innovations to the world by leading a delegation of cleantech companies at an event this week in San Francisco.The HKSTP delegation includes ... View More

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Levi's Has Saved 1B Liters of Water Through Its Water<Less Process — Now It's Asking You to Wash Less
Levi's Has Saved 1B Liters of Water Through Its Water<Less Process — Now It's Asking You to Wash Less
Published on March 16, 2015
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Levi Strauss and Co. today announced it has saved one billion liters of water since 2011 through its Water&lt;Less™ process, which reduces the water used in garment finishing by up to 96 percent. This announcement coincides with the release of LS&a... View More

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On-Site Water Recycling Could Create Drought-Resilient Homes in California
On-Site Water Recycling Could Create Drought-Resilient Homes in California
Published on March 16, 2015
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California builders, water &amp; sewer agencies and homeowners are one step closer to being able to construct bona fide drought-resilient homes.Nexus eWater, maker of home water and energy recyclers, has received certification to the NSF/ANSI 350 glo... View More

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Starting Now: A Smarter Approach to Sustainability Management
Starting Now: A Smarter Approach to Sustainability Management
Published on March 16, 2015
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The importance of sustainability has surged over the last two decades, as has the amount of information available and the demands on companies and practitioners – from regulators, customers and investors. At the same time, the new opportunities tha... View More

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JetBlue's New Mentoring Program Helping Small, Responsible Food Companies Get Off the Ground
JetBlue's New Mentoring Program Helping Small, Responsible Food Companies Get Off the Ground
Published on March 16, 2015
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JetBlue Airways recently launched its first business mentoring program, called BlueBud (buddies + budding new companies), which will offer small and startup responsible food companies an opportunity to get their businesses off the ground (pun intende... View More

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UCS: 40% Less Fuel Use by Heavy Duty Trucks, Creating $30B in Savings, Feasible with Existing Technology
UCS: 40% Less Fuel Use by Heavy Duty Trucks, Creating $30B in Savings, Feasible with Existing Technology
Published on March 13, 2015
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Ahead of the release of a new heavy duty truck fuel-efficiency standard from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this spring, a new Union of Concerned Scientists study, released this week, says new f... View More

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World’s First Solar-Powered Plane Making Its Way Around the Globe
World’s First Solar-Powered Plane Making Its Way Around the Globe
Published on March 13, 2015
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Single-seat, solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse 2 successfully completed the second leg of its five-month journey around the planet, after touching down in Ahmedabad, India on Tuesday.The journey began successfully after a 13-hour flight from Abu Dha... View More

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#ThrowBackThursday: Amazi Will Not Only Lead You to Water, It Will Tell You What's in It
#ThrowBackThursday: Amazi Will Not Only Lead You to Water, It Will Tell You What's in It
Published on March 12, 2015
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In the lead-up to this year’s Sustainable Brands Innovation Open — our competition for startups poised to make scalable, sustainable impacts — we’re catching up with some of our favorite game-changing solutions from past years. This week, we ... View More

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Pee-Powered Toilet Could Help Light Refugee Camps
Pee-Powered Toilet Could Help Light Refugee Camps
Published on March 12, 2015
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Sometimes clean technology doesn't need to be sanitary.Students and staff at the University of the West of England in Bristol now have the opportunity to test out a prototype toilet that uses urine to generate electricity, The Guardian reports.Resear... View More

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Brands: Why Should It Be Up to Walmart to Tell Us If You Are Sustainable?
Brands: Why Should It Be Up to Walmart to Tell Us If You Are Sustainable?
Published on March 11, 2015
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Walmart recently launched its Sustainability Leaders online shop. While I commend the company’s efforts over the past six years to elevate sustainability as an important attribute of products and their manufacturers, I feel that this launch is a bi... View More

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thinkstep (fka PE International) Launching Comprehensive Platform for Enabling Business Sustainability
thinkstep (fka PE International) Launching Comprehensive Platform for Enabling Business Sustainability
Published on March 11, 2015
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Sustainability software and consulting company PE International, creators of the industry-leading GaBi life cycle assessment software and providers of a vast array of tools for sustainability performance management, unveiled its new name – thinkste... View More

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UK Researchers Make Cheap Solar Cells From Shrimp Shells
UK Researchers Make Cheap Solar Cells From Shrimp Shells
Published on March 10, 2015
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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have for the first time successfully created electricity-generating solar cells with chemicals found in the shells of shrimps and other crustaceans.The materials chitin and chitosan found in the shells a... View More

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Just in Time for St. Paddy’s Day, 24 American Brewers Call for Climate Action
Just in Time for St. Paddy’s Day, 24 American Brewers Call for Climate Action
Published on March 9, 2015
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Is your favorite beer helping to fight climate change? The chances just improved as, in the lead-up to Saint Patrick's Day — one of America's favorite excuses to drink beer — New Belgium Brewery, Guinness, Smuttynose Brewing Company and Deschutes... View More

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Ford Aiming to Revolutionize the Commute with New eBikes
Ford Aiming to Revolutionize the Commute with New eBikes
Published on March 6, 2015
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Ford Motor Company is expanding its global Ford Smart Mobility plan with a new experiment to study how electric bicycles can work seamlessly with cars and public transport to deliver faster and easier daily commutes and help businesses operating in u... View More

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#ThrowBackThursday: Blue Box Re-Emerges with Zero-Waste Air Filtration Solution
#ThrowBackThursday: Blue Box Re-Emerges with Zero-Waste Air Filtration Solution
Published on March 5, 2015
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In the lead-up to this year’s Sustainable Brands Innovation Open — our competition for startups poised to make scalable, sustainable impacts — we’re catching up with some of our favorite game-changing solutions from past years. This week, we ... View More

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Tesla Promises New Battery Can Power Your Home, Power the Grid
Tesla Promises New Battery Can Power Your Home, Power the Grid
Published on March 4, 2015
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Tesla founder Elon Musk has announced a new project that could get millions of people off the grid.Musk’s increased interest in the emerging energy storage market has led to plans for a giant lithium-ion battery factory. Home and businesses owners ... View More

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Reformation Showing Fashionistas They Can Change the World Without Changing Their Style
Reformation Showing Fashionistas They Can Change the World Without Changing Their Style
Published on March 4, 2015
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Los Angeles-based fashion brand Reformation is helping to challenge the paradigm of wasteful “fast fashion.” Designed and produced in its factory in downtown LA, Reformation’s limited-edition collections of everything from ready-to-wear staples... View More

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Starbucks Partnering with Washington Post Vet on New ‘Social Impact’ Media Company
Starbucks Partnering with Washington Post Vet on New ‘Social Impact’ Media Company
Published on March 2, 2015
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The Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran is reportedly leaving his longtime post at the Post to form a new venture — a media company that will produce longform “social-impact&quot; documentaries, with an initial focus on veterans’ issues, i... View More

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10 Ways to Demystify the Business Case for Net Zero
10 Ways to Demystify the Business Case for Net Zero
Published on March 2, 2015
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The energy shift in the world is now inevitable. To sustain life and livelihoods for 9 billion people by 2050, even if we didn’t count on living well (which we do, of course), we have 35 years to transform the global economy in order to decouple ec... View More

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soleRebels: Rising to the Top of the Footwear Industry Through Decent Work
soleRebels: Rising to the Top of the Footwear Industry Through Decent Work
Published on February 27, 2015
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“It was pretty basic. We self-financed. Five workers plus myself working inside a workshop situated on my grandmother’s plot of land inside our village of Zenabwork,” recalls Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, now CEO and managing director of soleRebels,... View More

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