Sustainable Brands
Apple Joins Tech Companies Cracking Down on Conflict Minerals
Today, Apple released its latest Supplier Responsibility report, covering a range of social and environmental issues, according to Apple Insider. Of note, the company says it will reveal the names and certification status of all minerals suppliers in... View More
Report: High Liner Foods Achieves 99% of Its 2013 Sustainability Goal
High Liner Foods Incorporated (HLF), the leading North American value-added frozen seafood company, has announced that it has achieved 99 percent of its goal to source all its seafood from “certified sustainable or responsible” fisheries and aqua... View More
Brand Leaders Join SB Collaboratory to Address Employee Engagement
Less than a year ago at Sustainable Brands ‘13, leading brand innovators from around the world came together in San Diego for the seventh year to address some of their biggest sustainability challenges. These innovators realize that no brand is an ... View More
Calling All Sustainable Businesses: 2degrees Champions Awards 2014 Now Open for Entries
2degrees is calling for organisations with inspiring examples of sustainable practice to shout about their success stories by entering this year’s Champions Awards.The only sustainable business awards voted entirely by industry peers, the 2degrees ... View More
Sustainia Seeking 100 Game-Changing Solutions & Technologies for Third Annual Sustainia100
What are the 100 solutions that can bring about a sustainable society? Scandinavian think tank Sustainia has launched its third annual global campaign to find the answers. With a worldwide alliance of companies and organizations, the goal is to ident... View More
P&G Removing Phosphates from All Detergents by End of 2015
Procter & Gamble announced this week that it will eliminate phosphates from all of its laundry detergents — which include brands such as Tide, Ariel, Cheer, Gain, Ace and Bold — by the end of 2015. The company says the goal of the change is t... View More
BMW, HP, BT Top Inaugural CDP Index of Companies Demanding Top Climate Performance from Suppliers
CDP, with the help of FirstCarbon Solutions (FCS), a pioneer in environmental and sustainability business solutions, has announced the debut publication of the Supplier Climate Performance Leadership Index (SCPLI), a new evaluation and benchmarking t... View More
Sprint Takes HFC Technology to Rooftops with Help from Department of Energy
Sprint announced today it will deploy hydrogen fuel cell (HFC) technology as backup power to its rooftop network sites thanks to a grant from the Department of Energy (DOE). The solution should allow for lower site maintenance and cleaner network ene... View More
Walmart Launching $10 Million Fund For US Manufacturing Innovation
On Thursday at the US Conference of Mayors Meeting in Washington, D.C., Walmart US President and CEO Bill Simon announced a new fund for innovation in US manufacturing.Walmart and the Walmart Foundation will fund the five-year program and launch it i... View More
WEF, Ellen MacArthur Foundation Project Circular Economy Can Generate US$1T Annually by 2025
A new report released Friday by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at its annual meeting in Davos, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF), contends that over US$1 trillion a year could be generated for the global economy by 2025 and 1... View More
Stonyfield Shifts to Innovative Supply Chain Management with SupplyShift
Organic dairy producer Stonyfield Farm, Inc. announced this week that it will utilize a new tool to manage its supply chain: SupplyShift™ — a new, cloud-based, supply chain management platform focused on sustainability, but flexible enough to ass... View More
The North Face Releases Global Responsible Down Standard
On Wednesday, The North Face announced the completion of its Responsible Down Standard (RDS), a tool that will provide a global standard through which the outdoor-gear retailer says any organization can evaluate and certify its full down supply chain... View More
Westpac Banking Tops Corporate Knights' 2014 Global 100 Index
Corporate Knights, the Toronto-based media and investment advisory company, released the 2014 iteration of its Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World (Global 100) index today at the World Economic Forum in Davos.In its tenth year, the ... View More
Sustainable Brands Unveils a Refreshed List of Editorial Channels
As the global Sustainable Brands community keeps on growing, the conversations we host and catalyze on our digital platform are evolving, as well. To reflect this evolution, we are announcing a refreshed list of topics that matter the most to our com... View More
L’Oréal Expands 'Sharing Beauty with All' Sustainability Pledge to Include Zero Deforestation
To ensure that none of its products are linked to deforestation, L’Oréal has been implementing action plans with regards to the sustainable sourcing of palm oil, soya oil and wood fiber-based products since 2007. This week, as part of its ambitiou... View More
Sonoma County Commits to 100% Sustainable Wine by 2019
The Sonoma County Winegrape Commission, also known as Sonoma County Winegrowers (SCW), announced this week that by 2019, consumers will be able to purchase any Sonoma County wine confident that it was grown and made in the nation’s first 100 percen... View More
#SustyGoals 4: Math Not Myth – Energy Points’ Ory Zik on Normalized Energy Target Setting
At SB's third annual #NewMetrics Conference at the University of Pennsylvania in September, the need for next-generation sustainability goals — which measure progress toward real-world goal-lines such as carbon budgets, water tables, and living wag... View More
Nestlé, Campbell's, Coke Among Companies That Eliminated 6.4T Calories from U.S. Marketplace
16 of the nation’s leading food and beverage companies sold 6.4 trillion fewer calories in the United States in 2012 than they did in 2007, according to the findings released last week by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The companies, ac... View More
Nestlé Partners with Stem Cell Tech Company to Study Link Between Nutrition and Disease
The Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) has signed a long-term research agreement with Wisconsin-based Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a leading developer of stem cell technologies for in vitro drug development, stem cell banking and i... View More
Intel CEO Challenges Entire Electronics Industry to Become 'Conflict-Free'
In his pre-show keynote at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas yesterday, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich outlined a range of the company’s new products, initiatives and strategic relationships aimed at accelerating innovat... View More
