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Creating Brands of Enduring Value: The 5 Trends Shaping CMO Success in 2015
Creating Brands of Enduring Value: The 5 Trends Shaping CMO Success in 2015
Published on January 5, 2015
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The new buzzword among CEOs, entrepreneurs and ecologists is the idea of resilience: building the values, systems and behaviors within businesses and brands to cope with uncertainty and constant, disruptive change.From data breaches and hacked emails... View More

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Latest Weapon in Battle to Reduce Christmas Tree Waste: Goats
Latest Weapon in Battle to Reduce Christmas Tree Waste: Goats
Published on December 29, 2014
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It's that time of year again — when thousands of Christmas trees go from being the resplendently ornamented focal point of a festive holiday scene to a sad heap on the sidewalk next to the trash bin, the perfect visual representation of that “day... View More

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Cause vs. Purpose: What's the Difference?
Cause vs. Purpose: What's the Difference?
Published on December 26, 2014
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Statistics and surveys make it clear that people want brands to do good in this world. According to the latest Cone/Echo Global Study, 93 percent of today’s shoppers would buy a product associated with a cause, and 65 percent have already purchased... View More

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5 Tips on Finding the Right Financing for Your Food Startup
5 Tips on Finding the Right Financing for Your Food Startup
Published on December 26, 2014
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What’s the next food trend poised to sweep the nation? A recent conference showcasing roughly 60 recipients of Whole Foods local producer loans revealed some candidates: Maybe a half-fruit, half-vegetable roll-up that tastes like pure fruit (as a p... View More

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Royal Caribbean Retrofitting 19 Ships With Sulfur Dioxide Scrubbers
Royal Caribbean Retrofitting 19 Ships With Sulfur Dioxide Scrubbers
Published on December 24, 2014
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Royal Caribbean Cruises has announced it will retrofit 19 of its ships with advanced emissions purification (AEP) systems, also known as scrubbers, which will remove more than 97 percent of the sulfur dioxide emissions generated by the ships' diesel ... View More

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UK's First 'Social Supermarket' Tackling Food Waste and Poverty
UK's First 'Social Supermarket' Tackling Food Waste and Poverty
Published on December 22, 2014
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The UK’s first “social supermarket” opened in London last week — the first in a project aimed at reducing food waste as well as supporting low-income households. Surplus food from some of Britain’s largest supermarkets (such as Asda, Tesco ... View More

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BatteryVampire Wants to Give Second Life to Your AA Batteries
BatteryVampire Wants to Give Second Life to Your AA Batteries
Published on December 22, 2014
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A start-up called BatteryVampire wants to give renewed life to your discarded batteries by taking advantage of a little known fact — when alkaline batteries appear to be dead, there is sometimes still up to half the energy left. BatteryVampire’s ... View More

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New Mobile App Encourages Fitness, Rewards You for Reducing Your CO2 Emissions
New Mobile App Encourages Fitness, Rewards You for Reducing Your CO2 Emissions
Published on December 19, 2014
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Looking for something to hold you accountable on your New Year’s resolution to be more active? Changers — a German startup whose mission is to motivate behavior change by making sustainable actions measurable — has launched CO2 Fit, a new mobil... View More

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Tradeshift Waiving Fees for Companies Building Circular Economy Apps
Tradeshift Waiving Fees for Companies Building Circular Economy Apps
Published on December 19, 2014
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Tradeshift, which digitally connects enterprises with their suppliers via a cloud-based platform, announced on Tuesday that it will waive the 30 percent revenue share it receives, for organizations that use its platform to build apps that help to sup... View More

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Proving the #BusinessCase: P&G Exceeds 2 Sustainability Goals; One Creates $1.6B in Value
Proving the #BusinessCase: P&G Exceeds 2 Sustainability Goals; One Creates $1.6B in Value
Published on December 18, 2014
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This week, Procter & Gamble published its 16th annual sustainability report, which reveals how the CPG giant made far-reaching — and as it turns out, lucrative — improvements to its global operations years ahead of schedule. ... View More

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Panera Bread Reports Strides in Achieving Its Standard for Responsibly Raised Livestock, Poultry
Panera Bread Reports Strides in Achieving Its Standard for Responsibly Raised Livestock, Poultry
Published on December 17, 2014
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Panera Bread today offered details regarding its progress on sourcing only responsibly raised livestock and poultry, following the introduction of its new Food Policy in June.As part of Panera’s commitment to have a positive impact on the food syst... View More

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Eastman Joins Consortium Dedicated to Sustainable Chemical Procurement
Eastman Joins Consortium Dedicated to Sustainable Chemical Procurement
Published on December 16, 2014
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Eastman Chemical Company today announced it will join chemical giants such as BASF, AkzoNobel, Henkel and Clariant as a member of Together for Sustainability (TfS), a European initiative dedicated to the sustainable procurement of chemicals. Eastman ... View More

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P&G, Terracycle Challenging Canadians to Keep Home Care Waste Out of Landfills
P&G, Terracycle Challenging Canadians to Keep Home Care Waste Out of Landfills
Published on December 16, 2014
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A new initiative from Procter & Gamble’s Febreze air freshener and TerraCycle is challenging Canadians across the nation to recycle everything from used air fresheners to Swiffer packaging for $5,000 in prize money, to be donated to the school ... View More

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Drones: Sustainability's New Wingmen?
Drones: Sustainability's New Wingmen?
Published on December 16, 2014
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Drones have already disintermediated the aerospace/defense industry and have crossed the threshold from commercial to consumer, delivering to the average person the world’s most powerful personal computer. The potential for good in industrial agric... View More

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Honda Says Customers Care About Dealership Sustainability – and the Customer Is Always Right
Honda Says Customers Care About Dealership Sustainability – and the Customer Is Always Right
Published on December 11, 2014
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Honda is counting on a new way to reach sustainability-minded car buyers: through “green” dealerships. A new “Green Dealer Guide” the company is releasing to its dealers today arguably puts Honda at the forefront of this trend, but it also fo... View More

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Boeing, South African Airways Prepare for First Tobacco Harvest for Sustainable Aviation Biofuel
Boeing, South African Airways Prepare for First Tobacco Harvest for Sustainable Aviation Biofuel
Published on December 10, 2014
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Boeing and South African Airways (SAA) have announced that South African farmers will soon harvest their first crop of energy-rich tobacco plants, an important step towards using the plants to make sustainable aviation biofuel.Boeing and SAA, along w... View More

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World's First Solar Road Opens in The Netherlands
World's First Solar Road Opens in The Netherlands
Published on December 9, 2014
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The world's first public road that includes embedded solar cells has opened in the town of Krommenie in the Netherlands, NPR reports.The crystalline silicon solar cells are encased in two layers of tempered safety glass, set in a concrete housing. Th... View More

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Obama Administration Selects 26 Communities to Foster Economic Expansion Through Local Food Projects
Obama Administration Selects 26 Communities to Foster Economic Expansion Through Local Food Projects
Published on December 8, 2014
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On Wednesday, on behalf of the White House Rural Council, six federal agencies came together to announce the 26 communities selected to participate in Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP), a federal initiative providing technical support to integrate loc... View More

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Chipotle Leads with Sustainability to Maintain Brand Sheen
Chipotle Leads with Sustainability to Maintain Brand Sheen
Published on December 5, 2014
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While the fast-food business in the United States remains sluggish and roiled, eco-conscious burrito chain Chipotle has experienced rapid and relatively smooth growth through the recession and, especially, since then: Same-store sales rose by 20 perc... View More

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Keurig Green Mountain Founder Invests $10M in Future of Fair Trade
Keurig Green Mountain Founder Invests $10M in Future of Fair Trade
Published on December 4, 2014
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Bob Stiller — long-time Fair Trade enthusiast and founder of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (now Keurig Green Mountain, Inc) — and his wife, Christine Stiller, recently awarded a monumental $10 million challenge grant to nonprofit organizat... View More

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