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Innovations in Sustainable Packaging

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Consumer Perception/Behavior

Unreal Helps Unjunk Sweets with Easter Bunny Apology Tour

Candy company Unreal is sponsoring the 2013 Easter Bunny Apology Tour, a social media and publicity campaign aimed at “unjunking” popular candy products, according to a recent announcement.

Changing Consumers to Users Key To Success of Circular Economy

In January, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation released a new animation, focusing on the role of new business models in the transition to a regenerative circular economy.

Brands More Trusted Than Millionaires When Espousing Sustainable Consumption

The old cliche “money doesn’t buy happiness” still rings true; yet in this economy, apparently it can buy sustainable consumption.

eBay Launches Standard for Measuring Costs, Impacts of Online Transactions

eBay has released a new Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) dashboard to monitor and analyze the cost, performance and environmental impact of customer buy and sell transactions in an effort to balance and tune its technical infrastructure, according to a recent announcement.

Tom’s of Maine Shares Sustainability Goals, Progress in New ‘Goodness Report’

Tom’s of Maine has launched a new website that makes it easier for people to learn about the way it does business, its goals and its progress against those goals.

Mosaic: Making Solar Power Accessible for and by the People

To prepare for this year's Sustainable Brands Innovation Open (SBIO) competition, we're catching up with some of our favorite entrepreneurial ventures from competitions past ... 

Nestlé Commits To Fighting Obesity and Climate Change with New Goals

Nestlé has published a set of 30 social and environmental goals focused on countering the global nutrition crisis and environmental decline, to be achieved by or before 2020.

Coca-Cola, Hershey Top CoreBrand 2012 BrandPower Rankings

Consumer-facing companies made up more than half of the Top 100 BrandPower Rankings Report released this month by CoreBrand.

New Research Suggests Marketers Underestimate Consumer Interest in CSR

New research released last week by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and Edelman shows global marketers overwhelmingly agree that "purpose" will be increasingly important to building brands in the future.

Ecover Developing New Type of Recycled Plastic from Recovered Marine Waste

Last week marked the official launch of an innovative initiative supported by Ecover, maker of non-toxic cleaning products, and Closed Loop Recycling (CLR), a UK operation that takes discarded soda and water bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and milk bottles made from high-d

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