COLLABORATION - “I don’t see roadblocks … just lots of untapped opportunity!” — Shauna Sadowski, Annie’s Homegrown
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Companies increasingly recognize the importance to their bottom line of a comprehensive sustainability strategy, which includes reporting.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE - When a statement is too generic, it can be challenging for employees to connect to it and for the entire organization to be galvanized by that social purpose.
COLLABORATION - Findings from State of Technology in Retail report underscore growing importance of technology and consumer feedback in product development process.
BEHAVIOR CHANGE - WRI’s Better Buying Lab works with food companies to research and test science-based approaches that encourage consumers to choose more sustainable, plant-based foods.
BUSINESS CASE - CDP says 10 years of corporates requesting supplier transparency has triggered a step-change in environmental action.
CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS & PACKAGING - Global fashion brands highlight new solutions to viscose made from ancient and endangered forests.
MARKETING AND COMMS - Quick laughs, bad jokes, celebrities — but very few with a message.
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Light of Hope had the rather ingenious idea of fitting a solar panel-powered classroom into a backpack.
COLLABORATION - Collaboration will allow companies to gain data-backed insight into worker treatment in their supply chains.
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Two startup accelerators highlight the latest startup solutions poised to disrupt our food system for good.
THE NEXT ECONOMY - The central theme of the World Economic Forum 2019 in Davos last week was “Globalization 4.0: Shaping a New Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” But what is Globalization 4.0, and what are the main sustainability lessons that practitioners can take away from the week?
SUPPLY CHAIN - Players large and small are innovating to optimize what goes into — and comes out of — alcohol production.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT - Now, under SD VISta, projects seeking funding must demonstrate, to the satisfaction of a third-party assessor, that they advance the SDGs.
MARKETING AND COMMS - With certified companies such as Procter & Gamble, the Forest Stewardship Council is advancing a strategy to help consumers understand the impacts of their purchases.
MARKETING AND COMMS - “If there is one take-away for brands after reviewing this study, we hope it’s this: What matters most to your stakeholders should matter the most to your company.” — Brittany Hill, Catalist
WASTE NOT - Many farmers avoid wasting excess fruit by turning it into animal feed, but Sidehill Farm has found much more delicious solutions.
WALKING THE TALK - This year, we are dissecting big, open questions that could either speed up or slow down our quest toward Delivering the Good Life.
SUPPLY CHAIN - Over 80 investors warn that “animal agriculture is the world’s highest-emitting sector without a low-carbon plan.”
WALKING THE TALK - So, what do a slave-free chocolate brand, an activist bank and a blindfolded panel of diversity experts have in common?