June 14, 2012
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	Buzzwords are Never Buzzworthy At times I start to feel like one of the biggest impediments to the sustainability movement are our terms. While it’s often easy to blame ‘external forces’ like consumer apathy, corporate greed, or governments slow to adopt greener regulations, if we take a minute to look at ourselves, we might find that there is nothing quite so atrophying to sustainable innovation than the words we bring to the debate. Read More...

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	U-Can Do It: U-Haul Makes it Easy for Customers to Offset Emissions at Checkout U-Haul, the largest do-it-yourself moving company in North America, wanted to give its customers renting equipment at more than 15,000 locations in the U.S. and Canada and on uhaul.com a simple way to make their move a little bit greener. Beginning in 2007, the company partnered with The Conservation Fund’s Go Zero program to offer customers a chance to donate $3, $5 or $10 at checkout to plant trees and offset their moving-related emissions. Read More...
	Disrupt & Delight: Five Principles for Sustainable Brand Innovation Innovate or die, the saying goes. Whether you call it innovation, disruption or some other buzzword, brands big and small have frantically chased the next big idea for many decades. After all, the rewards can be great (survival notwithstanding), and forward-thinking innovators are heralded as heroes in boardrooms and on magazine covers across the globe. Read More...
	Intel, Whirlpool Rank Top for Environmental Policies Sustainability consultants Soyka & Company released an updated report of the disclosed environmental management practices of the largest publicly traded corporations in the U.S. The study, Benchmarking Analysis of Disclosed U.S. Corporate Environmental Practices, assesses the presence or absence of 50 distinct indicators as a measure of a company’s ability to anticipate and actively manage the environmental issues that pose risks to and present opportunities for their operations. Read More...
	Yoplait, Esteé Lauder Among Brands Launching How2Recycle Labels Several major consumer brands this summer will introduce the How2Recycle Label, a voluntary recycling label developed by the nonprofit GreenBlue and its Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC). The goal of the How2Recycle Label is to reduce consumer confusion in the U.S. with a clear and consistent recycling label and corresponding informational website. Read More...
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