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Patagonia, GoLite Are 'Best for the Environment,' B Lab says
Patagonia, GoLite Are 'Best for the Environment,' B Lab says
Published on April 24, 2014
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Patagonia, GoLite, Seventh Generation, New Belgium Brewing Company and 80 other global companies have been named “Best for the Environment” by the nonprofit B Lab.The ‘B Corp Best for the Environment’ list honors businesses that earned an env... View More

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Gazzara to Future Sustainability Leaders: Embrace Failure, Avoid 'Analysis Paralysis'
Gazzara to Future Sustainability Leaders: Embrace Failure, Avoid 'Analysis Paralysis'
Published on April 18, 2014
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Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability recently launched the Executive Master’s for Sustainability Leadership (EMSL), a 13-month program designed for mid-career professionals currently employed in or near sustainability roles. The pr... View More

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IKEA's New US Wind Farm Is Its Largest Renewable Energy Investment to Date
IKEA's New US Wind Farm Is Its Largest Renewable Energy Investment to Date
Published on April 14, 2014
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IKEA US announced last week that it is making its first US wind farm investment with the purchase of Hoopeston Wind in Hoopeston, Illinois. The 98-megawatt wind farm is the largest single IKEA Group renewable energy investment globally to date and wi... View More

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Novo Nordisk Launches Low-Income Diabetes Clinics in Ghana
Novo Nordisk Launches Low-Income Diabetes Clinics in Ghana
Published on April 14, 2014
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Diabetes care supplier Novo Nordisk has opened two new clinics in Ghana as part of its Base of the Pyramid program, which creates partnerships to build sustainable access to diabetes care for people with low incomes.The two diabetes clinics serve ver... View More

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HP's 'Matter to a Million' Partnership with Kiva Loans Over $2.5M in First Two Months
HP's 'Matter to a Million' Partnership with Kiva Loans Over $2.5M in First Two Months
Published on April 11, 2014
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HP announced this week that thousands of entrepreneurs around the world have already received microloans from its employees since the launch of Matter to a Million, the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation’s partnership with Kiva, in February. In ann... View More

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Practically Green Becomes WeSpire, Debuts Sustainability ROI Calculator
Practically Green Becomes WeSpire, Debuts Sustainability ROI Calculator
Published on April 11, 2014
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Practically Green, the engagement platform for sustainability and responsibility programs, this week announced it is rebranding as WeSpire. The company also debuted its proprietary ROI calculator, which will allow customers to more accurately measure... View More

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Terracycle's New Zero Waste Boxes Helping Companies Recycle at the Factory Level
Terracycle's New Zero Waste Boxes Helping Companies Recycle at the Factory Level
Published on April 8, 2014
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Terracycle has been making it easy for people and businesses throughout North America to reduce consumer product waste through its dozens of “Brigades” that collect previously non-recyclable or hard to recycle waste — everything from Brita filt... View More

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GM, Samsung, Best Buy Receive 2014 EPA Energy Star Partner of the Year Awards
GM, Samsung, Best Buy Receive 2014 EPA Energy Star Partner of the Year Awards
Published on April 6, 2014
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General Motors, Samsung and Best Buy are among the 127 organizations to receive 2014 Energy Star Partner of the Year Awards, which the Environmental Protection Agency awards to organizations that have demonstrated innovative strategies to help custom... View More

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A Splash of Beer, A Ripple of Awareness: Sustainability at New Belgium Brewing
A Splash of Beer, A Ripple of Awareness: Sustainability at New Belgium Brewing
Published on April 2, 2014
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Jenn Vervier, Director of Strategy & Sustainability at New Belgium Brewing, knows firsthand the potential craft beer has to create profound and lasting change. Since starting part-time on the bottling line more than twenty years ago as a graduate... View More

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When Girl Meets Oil: Christine Bader on the Complexities of Corporate Idealism
When Girl Meets Oil: Christine Bader on the Complexities of Corporate Idealism
Published on April 2, 2014
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Christine Bader, author of The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil (Bibliomotion, March 2014), worked for BP for nearly a decade managing the social impacts of some of the company’s largest projects in the developing world. We as... View More

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The Big Pivot: A Realist's Guide to a Climate-Challenged Present
The Big Pivot: A Realist's Guide to a Climate-Challenged Present
Published on April 2, 2014
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If you’ve ever thought of dropping a book on your boss’s desk, in the hopes of sparking a Ray Anderson-type conversion, here’s a tip. Don’t use the new IPCC report: It’s gloomy, terrifying and a muddle.Try this instead: Andrew Winston’s b... View More

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Obama’s Methane Reduction Plan Targets Landfills, Ag, Fossil Fuels
Obama’s Methane Reduction Plan Targets Landfills, Ag, Fossil Fuels
Published on April 2, 2014
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The Obama Administration has released its official strategy for reducing methane emissions as part of the President’s Climate Action Plan, which takes steps to further cut methane emissions from landfills, coal mining, and agriculture, as well as o... View More

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IPCC: Climate Change Creates Pervasive Risks But It's Not Too Late for Effective Action
IPCC: Climate Change Creates Pervasive Risks But It's Not Too Late for Effective Action
Published on March 31, 2014
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report today that says the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans and the world, in many cases, is ill-prepared for risks from a changing c... View More

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Unilever, Philips, 3M Call For Stronger Energy-Efficiency Goals in Europe
Unilever, Philips, 3M Call For Stronger Energy-Efficiency Goals in Europe
Published on March 31, 2014
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Unilever, Philips, 3M and several other members of the European Alliance to Save Energy (EU-ASE) have signed a letter sent to the European Commission calling for a new set of competitiveness objectives to exploit all possible cost-effective energy-ef... View More

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Rethinking the Role of the Sustainability Executive
Rethinking the Role of the Sustainability Executive
Published on March 28, 2014
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For too long, sustainability executives have been focused on external stakeholders — selling their company’s story in order to build reputation and fill polished social responsibility reports.Now, according to a recent MIT Sloan Management Review... View More

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Global Team Engagement Key to Success of Microsoft's Carbon Fee Program
Global Team Engagement Key to Success of Microsoft's Carbon Fee Program
Published on March 26, 2014
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Political deadlock in Washington might be stifling any hope of a national carbon program, but it isn’t preventing companies from establishing their own initiatives. Take Microsoft, which has implemented a carbon fee program aimed at incorporating t... View More

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It May Sound Counterintuitive, But Can an Awards Scheme Level the Playing Field?
It May Sound Counterintuitive, But Can an Awards Scheme Level the Playing Field?
Published on March 24, 2014
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We know that stakeholder engagement is tough. Whether large or small, here at 2degrees we’ve seen businesses around the world sourcing expert opinion from our pool of sustainability professionals to find out how best to continue their journey.We al... View More

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2: With Great Power Comes Great (Environmental) Responsibility
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: With Great Power Comes Great (Environmental) Responsibility
Published on March 21, 2014
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Sony Pictures’ upcoming blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man 2 weaves an exciting web of action onscreen, combined with environmental consciousness and responsibility behind the screen. According to the studio, the physical production of the film, ha... View More

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Survey: Strengthening Health Systems a Crucial Investment Over the Next Decade
Survey: Strengthening Health Systems a Crucial Investment Over the Next Decade
Published on March 19, 2014
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Strengthening the systems that provide health products and care is the most critical investment in global health, according to international survey results released today by Devex and global health organizations PSI and PATH.Of the 1,500 internationa... View More

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Microsoft, Allstate, Unilever Sponsor California’s First ‘We Day’ Youth Service Event
Microsoft, Allstate, Unilever Sponsor California’s First ‘We Day’ Youth Service Event
Published on March 18, 2014
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Microsoft, Allstate and Unilever are sponsoring California’s first We Day — an educational initiative aimed at inspiring students to become active local and global citizens — on March 26.Organized by international charity and educational partne... View More

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