Hannah Furlong
Editorial Assistant
Malala Fund Campaigning Globally for Girls’ Education in Tandem with Film Release
Earlier this month, He Named Me Malala, the feature-length documentary on the inspiring story of Nobel Laureate and girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, opened in theatres across the U.S. and Canada. To accompany the release, her charity, th... View More
Startup Exploring Multibillion-Dollar Opportunity for Coal Ash
Coal ash is the United States’ second-largest waste stream, after household garbage. It needs to be stored safely to prevent arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxins from leaching into farmlands, rivers, lakes, and other public water sources. Coal-f... View More
Trending: Tricking People Into Making Healthier Choices
A new cup will use aromas and a patented “sweet taste technology” to trick people who prefer sugary drinks into thinking they are drinking a fruit-flavored water. The Right Cup, designed to help people drink more water, will launch its crowdfundi... View More
6 Health, Energy, Infrastructure Solutions Shortlisted for World Design Impact Prize
Earlier this week, the shortlist was announced for the World Design Impact Prize 2015-2016, a global competition hosted by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID). Six projects that address health, energy, and infrastructu... View More
Courage Campaign Suing US Forest Service for Allowing Nestlé to Bottle Water in California
The U.S. Forest Service is the latest organization to be targeted by environmental groups demanding action related to the California drought. On Tuesday, the Courage Campaign Institute, Story of Stuff Project, and Center for Biological Diversity file... View More
WRAP to Lead €2.1M Raw Materials Recovery Project for Electronics
UK waste-reduction charity Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is launching a first-of-its-kind project to explore commercial opportunities for harvesting critical raw materials (CRMs) and precious metals from everyday end-of-life electronic ... View More
Trending: UK Grocers Turning Waste into Packaging
British grocery chains Tesco and Waitrose have added a new facet to their waste-mitigation efforts by launching upcycled packaging.Beginning this month, Tesco shoppers could get their groceries in recycled plastic bags made from back-of-store waste p... View More
H&M Accused of Dragging Feet on Worker Safety in Bangladesh
Earlier this month, H&M was accused of being “dramatically behind schedule” in meeting the requirements of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh in a joint report from the Clean Clothes Campaign, International Labor Rights Foru... View More
‘The Best Ideas Might Not Be Ours’: DiCaprio Produces Film on Biomimicry
As more and more organizations with sustainability missions are discovering, getting a celebrity to help spread your message could be the difference between creating a tiny ripple and engaging millions around the world (see recent examples around def... View More
Investors Gave This Sustainable Food Startup $108M to Do the 'Impossible'
Sustainable food startup Impossible Foods recently raised $108 million in Series D funding, bringing their total funding to date to $183 million. The Redwood City, California-based company is creating meat and dairy alternatives from plant ingredient... View More
Skeleton Tech's Graphene-Based Ultracapacitors Could Revolutionize Long-Life Storage
Out of 37 nominated startups, Skeleton Technologies won the Gold ECO15 London Award at the Ecosummit 2015 conference. The company manufactures high-performance, graphene-based ultracapacitors — energy storage devices with much higher power and long... View More
New App Aims to Disrupt Retail by Cutting Out Big Box Middlemen
Flipping the business-to-consumer (B2C) model on its head, San Francisco-based startup WUSIC wants to disrupt the retail industry through a “consumer-to-business” (C2B) model where consumers go straight to manufacturers for the largest savings po... View More
Trending: Whether or Not Insects Are Our Next Superfood, They Could Help Solve Our Styrofoam Problem
It seems increasingly likely that certain types of worms could be an amazing solution to our plastic problem — and that we may eat them and their cousins afterwards.Last week, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a risk profile to ad... View More
Loliware’s Edible Drinkware Attracts $600K Deal on ‘Shark Tank’
Frustrated by the amount of disposable packaging discarded at events and the amount of time it takes for disposable cups (including biobased plastics) to degrade, Chelsea Briganti and Leigh Ann Tucker created a “biodegredible” – biodegradable a... View More
Caesars Outlines Environmental, Social Impacts of Its Focus on 'Inspiring Citizenship'
Gaming, hotel and resort company Caesars Entertainment Corporation released its sixth annual Corporate Citizenship Report, Inspiring Citizenship, this week. The company achieved most of its 2015 targets early and has established new interim targets f... View More
Virgin Unite's Global Goals Alliance Enlisting 'People Power' to Help Fight for SDGs
The 17 Global Goals (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs) launched late last month by the United Nations (UN) aim to achieve three main objectives in the next 15 years: end extreme poverty; fight inequality and injustice; and tack... View More
Creating Shared Value: Nestlé USA Achieves Zero Waste to Landfill, Makes 1,000 Products More Nutritious
Today, Nestlé USA released its second Creating Shared Value (CSV) report, which details the company’s progress against 27 commitments set in 2013 related to nutrition, health and wellness, environmental impact and water use, social impact, and res... View More
First Draft of COP21 Climate Agreement Released, with Glaring Omissions
This week, the first draft of the new climate change agreement set for COP21, the United Nations (UN) international conference on climate change, was presented to governments. The document will act as a concise basis for negotiations for the next neg... View More
Shell CEO Calls for Carbon Pricing; Environmentalists Say Devil Is in the Details
Royal Dutch Shell PLC CEO Ben van Beurden promoted a carbon-pricing plan at the Oil & Money conference in London on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal reports that the plan will encourage investment in renewables and favor cleaner-burning natural g... View More
Greenpeace Launching Multi-Pronged Attack Against Thai Union for Abusive, Unsustainable Practices
The world’s largest canned tuna company, Thai Union Group (TU), has been connected to forced labor, human rights abuses, and environmental devastation. Yesterday, Greenpeace launched a global campaign demanding that TU take urgent and far-reaching ... View More
