Ashoka Changemakers® has launched The League of Intrapreneurs: Building Better Business from the Inside Out, an online competition to find employees within multinational corporations that are...
Campbell Soup Company announced a partnership to generate renewable biogas from waste associated with the company’s soup, sauce and beverage production in Ohio.
The biogas facility will be the...
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are among the companies commiting to new sustainable packaging guidelines developed by the wireless industry association CTIA.
The organization’s Green...
In my last real job, at Red Herring Communications, my group hired a slew of vendors, so we were showered with gifts during the holidays — wine, branded shirts, golf balls, “towers” of goodies, and...
During the next six months, 12 families across the UK will test practical ways to adapt their daily routines in order to reduce their impact on the environment and cut their household bills.
Unilever...
This is the second in a series of posts detailing responses to a Q&A we've conducted with members of the Sustainable Brands community on a variety of issues at hand.
Q: The UK and European...
In doing business sustainably, Seacourt has shown everyone from its own accountant to royalty that ambitious environmental goals are attainable. The small printing company, based in Oxford, England,...
LG Electronics said the number of products it sold in the U.S. with the EPA’s Energy Star “Most Efficient” designation increased by 75 percent for the year, through September.
Now in its second year...
Day Two at the Net Impact 2012 conference in Baltimore proved to be an inspirational closing for the students, university faculty and staff, and professionals in attendance. The morning opened with...
Hilton Worldwide announced a new recycling program that will convert used mattresses and box springs from the company’s properties into automobile parts, construction materials, and other useful...
Reporting on the UN’s Rio+20 Earth Summit earlier this year, the Financial Times' environment correspondent, Pilita Clark, became so bored of the term ‘sustainable’ and its derivatives that she...
As the catastrophic impact of Superstorm Sandy causes the dynamics of U.S. political campaigns to dramatically shift, Havas Media uses its unique Meaningful Brands methodology to uncover how each of...
Beginning next year, Nestlé will burn coffee husks to produce steam at the company’s largest coffee plant, located in Toluca, Mexico. The biomass boiler will provide approximately half of the steam...
Corporate sustainability claims are becoming standard practice, and consumer expectations have risen in kind: A growing pool of data indicates that stakeholders across the globe now expect business...
Assembly lines in Japan and the United States produced more than 20,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) in 2011, an all-time record for such vehicles. But optimism about the market for PEVs has...
UK grocer Waitrose said it has achieved its aim of sending zero food waste to landfill two months earlier than planned. The supermarket initially set the goal for the end of 2012, but all 280 of its...
The 20th annual Net Impact Conference in Baltimore last week brought together 2700 dedicated students, university faculty and staff, business leaders and innovators from various industries. The...
Unilever aims to achieve three ambitious targets by 2020: help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being; halve the environmental footprint of the making and use...
This is the first in a series of posts detailing responses to a Q...
This story first appeared in The Huffington Post on October 16, 2012.
A major fashion manufacturer embarks on a journey to sustainability. Supply chains and operations are modified, new...
Sustainability will become a dominant trend in packaging in 10 years, according to a new study of future packaging trends done by Packaging World and DuPont.
Cost is currently the top driver in...
Marks & Spencer (M&S) signed a power purchase agreement with the owners of an anaerobic digestion plant that will turn the company’s food waste into electricity.
The UK-based retailer...
When General Motors started its landfill-free program in the United States, it invested about $10 for every ton of waste reduced. Over time, it has reduced program costs 92 percent and total waste by...
Walmart this week announced a series of steps and commitments intended to increase the sustainability of its supply chain in the U.S. and China.
By the end of 2017, Walmart said it will buy 70...
When it comes to corporate social responsibility (CSR), consumers want more than aspirational mission statements, according to the results of a new survey by Cone Communications. The Corporate Social...
When we think about re-branding, our first thoughts tend to go to the customer. What will they think? How can we best communicate our mission and our products with this re-brand? But for a re-...
A new report by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) outlines both alarming challenges and promising opportunities for investors in the so-called soft commodities: agricultural, forest and seafood commodities....
There is a sharp rise in company reports of detrimental impacts from drought and other water-related issues, according to the 2012 Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Global Water Report. However, there...
By 2020, Ikea aims to use only renewable energy, while basing its supply chain on safe chemicals and responsible stewardship of forests, water and farmlands.
The Swedish retailer released a new...
A quarter-century after helping to pioneer the socially responsible business movement, ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s is the first wholly-owned subsidiary to gain B Corp certification.
The growing...
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