Supply Chain
How organizations are working to address the myriad social, environmental and operational issues that can arise in complex supply chains
Startup Crowdfunding to Sell Superfood Bars in US to Aid West African Farmers
Oakland-based social enterprise Kuli Kuli is launching an Indiegogo campaign to leverage its “superfood” nutrition bar to help alleviate poverty in West Africa.Kuli Kuli Bars are gluten-free, raw and made with just a few simple all-natural ingred... View More
GreenBlue Launches Guidelines for Sustainable Paper Products
Non-profit design and strategy group GreenBlue has released a set of guidelines aimed at protecting forests by taking a holistic approach to the life cycle management of paper products. ... View More
United To Launch Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative
Hot on the heels of its announcement earlier this week of a goal to save 85 million gallons of fuel in 2013, United Airlines is launching a Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) initiative in an effort to better understand the environmental performance of a... View More
Polluting Paradise: Gap, Inc Among Companies Exposed in Indonesian Toxic Water Scandal
In its latest investigation into the polluting effects of the textile industry, Greenpeace International has uncovered the dumping of industrial wastewater containing a cocktail of toxic and hazardous chemicals, and caustic water, directly into the C... View More
Sustainable Harvest Launches Disaster Relief Effort For Organic Coffee Farmers in Latin America
Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers (SHCI) has embarked on a relief effort to help Latin American coffee farmers facing an outbreak of Coffee Leaf Rust Disease, known as Roya in Spanish — a parasitic fungus that is expected to destroy between 30 a... View More
Sainsbury's Begins Selling Sustainably Farmed Fish
UK grocery chain Sainsbury’s is now selling farmed fish certified by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) in what is apparently an industry first, according to The Grocer. ... View More
Sodexo Joins the Sustainable Seafood Game
Sodexo, one of the world's largest food services and facilities management companies, has announced a partnership with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) that will help many Sodexo sites maintain a high standard of sustainability in their seafood p... View More
New Earth Launches Online Tool to Analyze Supply Chain Social Conditions
Non-profit New Earth has released a new online portal to help supply chain stakeholders to better manage social responsibility issues and create incentives to collaborate and drive progress. ... View More
Rainforest Foundation Promotes Sustainable Palm Oil with UK Easter Chocolate Rankings
With Easter just around the corner, The Rainforest Foundation has teamed up with Ethical Consumer magazine to release a ranking of more than 70 UK chocolate brands to encourage companies to use more sustainably sourced palm oil. ... View More
International Paper Joins WWF Global Forest & Trade Network
International Paper has become a member of the Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) in North America, a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiative focused on eliminating illegal logging and promoting environmentally and socially responsible forest mana... View More
Eurostar, GlaxoSmithKline Join Ecodesk Campaign To Improve Supply Chain Efficiency
Ecodesk recently announced that 25 companies representing one million suppliers have joined its VIP Enterprise Innovator Program aimed at developing a clear and unambiguous business case for supply chain efficiency. ... View More
Starbucks Expands Ethical Sourcing Efforts With New Global Agronomy Center
In an effort to support long-term crop stability and help coffee-farming communities mitigate the effects of climate change, Starbucks this week announced the expansion of its $70 million comprehensive ethical sourcing program with a new farming rese... View More
Nike Partners With Bluesign Technologies To Scale Access to Sustainable Textiles
Nike today announced a partnership with Swiss company bluesign technologies to broaden the supply of sustainable materials and chemistries for use in Nike products. ... View More
Co-op, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s Using New Research to Inform Reduction in Supply Chain Footprints
The Co-operative Group, Nestlé and Sainsbury’s say they will improve the sustainability performance of some of their products in response to research from the Product Sustainability Forum.The study, published by the Waste and Resources Action Prog... View More
Dunkin’ Donuts To Source Sustainable Palm Oil
Dunkin’ Donuts will set a target date to source all of its palm oil from sustainable sources or purchase offset certificated covering its sourced palm oil, according to a recent announcement by New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. ... View More
Sheba Cat Food To Source 100% Sustainable Seafood
Sheba Entrées For Cats announced that by the end of 2013, all of the brand’s U.S. recipes will include only responsibly sourced fish — even adding sustainable salmon to the menu. ... View More
Bucky Box: Taking Nature's Cues for Creating a Sustainable Food System
The food system is not a machine, but this is how we have treated it in the last 50 years. With the growth of industrial food production, manufacturing and distribution, we have seen a vast range of short-term benefits and a swathe of longer-term cha... View More
Only 38% of Palm Oil Production by RSPO Members Certified Sustainable
The World Wildlife Federation (WWF) released analysis of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) showing only a handful of member producers are making adequate progress towards t ... View More
Starbucks Shifting to 100% Sustainable Palm Oil Sources by 2015
Starbucks will begin sourcing 100 percent of its palm oil from certified sustainable suppliers by 2015, according to a recent announcement.The coffee company made the change in response to a shareholder resolution filed by the Green Century Balanced ... View More
Häagen-Dazs, General Mills Promote Sustainable Vanilla Farming in Madagascar
Häagen-Dazs has partnered with General Mills to invest $125,000 dollars over two years in Madagascar’s Sava region to encourage sustainable agriculture in one of the world’s most important vanilla production centers. ... View More
