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Innovation & Technology

Socially Conscious Hotel Booking Platform Empowers Travelers to Create Positive Impacts

Published on August 15, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 3 minute read

Hotel booking platform and blog Kind Traveler is changing the way consumers think about travel. Built on a socially conscious ‘Give + Get’ model, the platform aims to empower travelers to become a force of change that benefits communities, the environment and animals. In just its first year of operation, Kind Traveler has already reached 130 hotels, destinations and charities that have come together to fulfill its mission. Read More...

Finance & Investment

ESG2.0: Investors Can Now Use AI, Big Data to Reveal Companies' Real-Time ESG Momentum

Published on August 10, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 2 minute read

This week, TruValue Labs unveiled its ESG Momentum™ score – the first ESG indicator that leverages artificial intelligence, big data and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s (SASB) materiality framework – as part of its Insight360™ suite of products. The score reveals the positive or negative direction, or trend, of ESG performance based on daily data. Read More...

Materials & Packaging

Wrangler Joins Field to Market to Accelerate US Sustainable Cotton

Published on August 7, 2017

About a 2 minute read

Further establishing itself as a strong proponent of increasing the supply of sustainable cotton, denim brand Wrangler has joined Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture as an associate member. The multi-stakeholder initiative is working to unite the agricultural supply chain in defining, measuring and advancing the sustainability of food, fiber and fuel production in the United States. Read More...

Organizational Governance

Why Strong Data Is Key to Any Sustainability Effort

Published on August 7, 2017

Written by Cristian Barcan

About a 4 minute read

It’s increasingly clear that becoming more sustainable is a business imperative. And it’s not enough to “go green”; companies and industries need to factor in the social and economic impacts of their decisions locally and across their supply chains. Read More...

Organizational Governance Circular Economy

Expedia Combating Poverty, Climate Change with Revenue-Sharing Carbon Offset Program

Published on August 3, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 5 minute read

To help reduce global economic inequality along with greenhouse gas emissions from its corporate travel, travel giant Expedia, Inc. has invested in four community-owned carbon offset projects from the global nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP). Read More...

Innovation & Technology

Plug and Play Accelerators Advance Sustainable Energy, Fashion

Published on July 31, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 5 minute read

2017 has been a busy year for global innovation platform Plug and Play. Read More...

Marketing & Communications

Stella McCartney Fall Campaign Targets Overconsumption, Waste

Published on July 19, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 3 minute read

Stella McCartney has long been an advocate for sustainable, ethical fashion; the luxury label has been busy over the last several months trying to drive the industry away from a take-make-waste model, announcing plans to use Parley for the Oceans’ recycled plastic yarn and Aquafil’s ECONYL® fiber, made from 100 percent regenerated nylon waste, in its line of shoes, accessories and outerwear Read More...

Organizational Governance Organizational Governance

#BusinessCase: REI Proves Values-First Approach Leads to Longevity

Published on July 13, 2017

Written by News Deeply

About a 7 minute read

News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, has produced a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and gather insights from a new wave of corporate citizenship – in an era when the private sector is increasingly expected to play a positive role in improving our lives and societies. This is the 10th article in the series. Read More...

Collaboration & Co-Creation Global Partners

Creating the Win-Win: How Startups, NGOs and Global Brands Are Planting Seeds for 'The Good Economy'

Published on July 13, 2017

Written by Jennifer Elks

About a 5 minute read

It was standing room only on Tuesday at Buenos Aires’ MALBA modern art museum, for the second of two ‘InFocus’ events this year by the Sustainable Brands Buenos Aires team. Last month’s event at MALBA presented “Good to the Core” as a collective construction that can be achieved when all of society’s stakeholders work together to achieve it. Read More...

Materials & Packaging

Trending: Biomimicry, Changing Attitudes Poised to Revolutionize Apparel Sector

Published on July 12, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 5 minute read

Fashion continues to make headlines, with news emerging about a new textile breakthrough and shifting attitudes towards clothing across the UK that are helping drive down the industry’s environmental impact. Read More...

Innovation & Technology Organizational Governance

RE100 Reaches 100 Companies Committed to 100% Renewable Energy

Published on July 11, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 4 minute read

As further evidence of the global corporate momentum behind renewable energy, the RE100 initiative has reached 100 members, following new commitments from AkzoNobel, AXA, Burberry and Carlsberg Group to transition to 100 percent renewable power. Read More...

New Metrics

CDP: 70% of Global GHG Emissions Linked to Just 100 Companies

Published on July 10, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 4 minute read

71 percent of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 1988 can be traced to just 100 fossil fuel producers, including ExxonMobil, Shell, BHP Billiton and Gazprom, says a new report by CDP. Read More...

Innovation & Technology

5 Climate Change Solutions Advance to Biomimicry Accelerator

Published on July 10, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 3 minute read

Nature-inspired solutions designed to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems continue to gain steam as five teams of entrepreneurs from around the world vie for the top prize at the 2017 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. Read More...

Materials & Packaging

Trending: Stella McCartney, C&A, WRAP Continue Pushing the Envelope on Sustainable Textiles

Published on June 27, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 6 minute read

Fashion is slowly shedding its negative rep as brands continue to embrace circular and forward-thinking practices that drive innovation and product durability. Only weeks after announcing a new partnership with Parley for the Oceans, luxury label Stella McCartney has made yet another push to keep the world’s oceans waste-free. The brand has revealed that its Autumn 2017 collection of Falabella GO bags will be made with yarn derived from converted ocean waste. Read More...

Circular Economy Circular Economy

Urban Barrels: Giving Sails, and Local Manufacturing, a Second Life

Published on June 26, 2017

Written by Tamay Kiper

About a 8 minute read

The Southern California startup rescues end-of-life sails from landfill and turns them into hats, bags and other items. Read More...

Innovation & Technology Innovation & Technology

5th C2C Design Challenge Winners Reimagine Apparel, Furnishings, Personal Care Items

Published on June 20, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 6 minute read

The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute has announced the winners of the 5th Cradle to Cradle Product Design Challenge, including MyEcoWall, a mobile acoustic wall made from Ecovative mushroom material and Scout, a children’s jacket that “grows” with the child. The Challenge is the fifth in an initial series of six circular design challenges that incentivize and inspire the design community to envision viable product design solutions for the circular economy using Cradle to Cradle product design principles. Read More...

Materials & Packaging Materials & Packaging

Good News, Bad News for Viscose: USFIA Joins CanopyStyle; H&M Lands in Hot Water

Published on June 14, 2017

Written by Sustainable Brands

About a 6 minute read

Viscose continues to dominate the news as brands ramp up efforts to eliminate the destruction of ancient and endangered forests and human rights violations from the viscose supply chain, while others fall behind. Read More...

Collaboration & Co-Creation

It Takes an Industry to Move the Needle on Sustainability

Published on June 14, 2017

Written by Cristian Barcan

About a 4 minute read

We can’t become sustainable by going it alone. This is the core tenet that has underpinned the vinyl industry’s sustainability efforts from the onset. As industry leaders first came together to talk about establishing a sustainability platform, there was a general consensus that this was an effort that had to be broad-based and encompass companies across the vinyl value chain. Read More...

Organizational Governance Organizational Governance

Not All of US: Response to Trump Administration's Decision to Withdraw from Paris Agreement

Published on June 2, 2017

Written by Mark Lee and KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz

About a 4 minute read

While telegraphed for days and choreographed down to the military band playing soft jazz in the background before the announcement, President Trump’s June 01, 2017 declaration that the U.S. will pull out of the Paris Agreement still jarred and dismayed. Read More...

Presidio Graduate School Commencement Address

Published on June 1, 2017

Written by KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz

About a 17 minute read

What an honor to be here in this beautiful place with such a great group of passionate leaders — and even more so, to offer you some thoughts as you begin important next steps in your lives — steps that I know will be particularly important to our collective future. Read More...