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Run Up to SB '13: Neal Gorenflo on the Cultural Shift Around Innovation and the Sharing Economy
Run Up to SB '13: Neal Gorenflo on the Cultural Shift Around Innovation and the Sharing Economy

Product, Service & Design Innovation / Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder of the non-profit Shareable, whose mission is to empower everyone to share for a more joyous, resilient and equitable world. Shareable is best known for its online magazine covering the sharing economy.At Sustainable Brands ’13 (June 3-6), Gorenflo will be moderating and participating in panel discussions focused on entrepreneurial trends and the importance of connecting innovation with purpose. I asked him a few questions about how sharing fits into the picture. - 10 years ago

Run Up to SB '13: John Havens Crowdsourcing Happiness To Save the World
Run Up to SB '13: John Havens Crowdsourcing Happiness To Save the World

New Metrics / John C. Havens is founder of the H(app)athon Project, a contributing writer for Mashable and - 10 years ago

Visa, Sherwin-Williams Join Most Ethical Companies List
Visa, Sherwin-Williams Join Most Ethical Companies List

Marketing and Comms / A total of 138 companies have made the World’s Most Ethical (WME) Companies List, an annual designation recognizing companies that consistently translate business ethics rhetoric into action. - 11 years ago

FedEx Delivers on Fleet Fuel Efficiency Goal Years Ahead of Schedule
FedEx Delivers on Fleet Fuel Efficiency Goal Years Ahead of Schedule

Cleantech / FedEx has trimmed its fleet’s cumulative fuel economy by more than 22 percent, exceeding its goal of a 20 percent reduction by 2020 seven years early. - 11 years ago

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Only 38% of Palm Oil Production by RSPO Members Certified Sustainable
Only 38% of Palm Oil Production by RSPO Members Certified Sustainable

Supply Chain / 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 - 11 years ago

Unilever Promotes Sustainable Ingredients on Knorr Soup Packs
Unilever Promotes Sustainable Ingredients on Knorr Soup Packs

Marketing and Comms / Unilever has launched a new soup in France that is the first to publicize a key ingredient as sustainably sourced, according to a recent announcement. - 11 years ago

Green Products Account for Roughly Half of Philips' 2012 Revenue
Green Products Account for Roughly Half of Philips' 2012 Revenue

The Next Economy / Approximately 45 percent of Philips 2012 sales came from green products, accounting for nearly $15 billion, according to the company’s latest annual report. - 11 years ago

Ford Aims To Cut Landfill Waste to 13.4 Pounds Per Vehicle
Ford Aims To Cut Landfill Waste to 13.4 Pounds Per Vehicle

Waste Not / Ford announced plans to reduce the amount of waste it sends to the landfill by 40 percent per vehicle over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016. This would reduce landfill waste to an average of 13.4 pounds per vehicle worldwide, the company said. - 11 years ago

Levi’s, BBVA, eBay Top Index of Brands Communicating Sustainability Via Social Media
Levi’s, BBVA, eBay Top Index of Brands Communicating Sustainability Via Social Media

Marketing and Comms / Levi Strauss, BBVA, eBay, Danone and General Electric made the top five of the SMI-Wizness Social Media Sustainability Index 2012, an annual review examining how major firms use social media to communicate sustainability and corporate social responsibility. - 11 years ago

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AT&T, Carbon War Room Say ‘Internet of Things' Can Cut Emissions by 19%
AT&T, Carbon War Room Say ‘Internet of Things' Can Cut Emissions by 19%

Cleantech / Global greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by 9.1 billion metric tons by 2020, or 18.6 percent of all emissions in 2011, through the widespread adoption of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, according to a recent report by AT&T and the Carbon War Room. - 11 years ago

M&S To Initiate First Wide-Scale Green Lease Policy in the UK
M&S To Initiate First Wide-Scale Green Lease Policy in the UK

Cleantech / Marks & Spencer will soon require all of its new retail stores to have green clauses in new leases to facilitate the sharing of waste information and utilities data in a collaborative effort to reduce carbon emissions. - 11 years ago

Starbucks Shifting to 100% Sustainable Palm Oil Sources by 2015
Starbucks Shifting to 100% Sustainable Palm Oil Sources by 2015

Supply Chain / 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 Fund, a mutual fund concerned with environmental responsibility. - 11 years ago

SolarCity To Help Honda Customers Adopt Solar
SolarCity To Help Honda Customers Adopt Solar

Cleantech / SolarCity has partnered with Honda to establish a $65 million investment fund to make solar power more affordable and available to Honda and Acura customers in the U.S. - 11 years ago

Macy's, Sprint Join Presidential Challenge To Increase Building Energy Efficiency
Macy's, Sprint Join Presidential Challenge To Increase Building Energy Efficiency

Cleantech / Macy’s, Sprint and Johnson Controls will upgrade more than 200 million square feet of building space to cut energy use by at least 20 percent by 2020, as part of the Obama Administration’s Better Building Challenge. - 11 years ago

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Coors, ASDA Partner With Sustainable Farming Initiative To Advance Water Conservation
Coors, ASDA Partner With Sustainable Farming Initiative To Advance Water Conservation

Collaboration / Molson Coors Brewing Company and British supermarket ASDA have joined with UK-based group Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF) to introduce a program to help farmers manage water resources more sustainably. - 11 years ago

Häagen-Dazs, General Mills Promote Sustainable Vanilla Farming in Madagascar
Häagen-Dazs, General Mills Promote Sustainable Vanilla Farming in Madagascar

Supply Chain / 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. - 11 years ago

The North Face Launches Recycling Program for Apparel, Footwear
The North Face Launches Recycling Program for Apparel, Footwear

Waste Not / The North Face has announced a new initiative aimed at reducing the amount of clothing and footwear going to landfills. - 11 years ago

Greyhound Installs Telematics to Increase Fuel Efficiency in 1,775 Buses
Greyhound Installs Telematics to Increase Fuel Efficiency in 1,775 Buses

Product, Service & Design Innovation / Greyhound has begun integrating telematics program DriveCam across its entire fleet to optimize safety performance and increase fuel efficiency. - 11 years ago

Coke, Sainsbury’s Among First To Achieve Carbon Trust Water Standard
Coke, Sainsbury’s Among First To Achieve Carbon Trust Water Standard

Supply Chain / Water scarcity has been recognized by the United Nations as one of the most pressing problems facing the 21st-century world. Although 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is water, nearly 1.2 billion people, or one-fifth of the human race, live in areas of physical water scarcity, and another 1.6 billion face economic water shortages. - 11 years ago

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Biochar Pilot Program Aims for Carbon-Negative Coffee
Biochar Pilot Program Aims for Carbon-Negative Coffee

Product, Service & Design Innovation / With more than 2 billion cups consumed each day, coffee is one of the world’s most popular beverages. Most consumers of the black liquid hail from industrialized countries — over 90 percent of coffee production occurs in developing countries and out of the bulk of climate change regulations’ reach. - 11 years ago