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Greenhushing: World’s Biggest Brands Leaving Billions on the Table
What You'll Learn: Brand Finance finds the world’s biggest brands are missing out
on billions of dollars of potential value by failing to properly communicate
their sustainability achievements and progress.
Approx Read Time: 4 minutes
Categories:
Marketing and Comms
The latest edition of the Sustainability Perceptions
Index
— produced by London-based brand-valuation consultancy Brand
Finance, in association with the International
Advertising Association (IAA) — indicates that
the world’s biggest brands are missi...
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‘The Value of Values’: Lessons from Tony’s Chocolonely
What You'll Learn: The story of impact-driven chocolate maker Tony’s Chocolonely has important
lessons for sustainability practitioners — which makes its story even sweeter.
Approx Read Time: 3 minutes
Categories:
Waste Not
By:
Daniel Aronson
If you missed this LinkedIn
post
(or the full
article)
by Sustainable Brands®, you’ll want to check them out. The story of
impact-driven chocolate maker Tony’s
Chocolonely has important lessons for
sustainability practitioners:
How values help attr...
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‘Quantum Nose’ Could Be Key to Sniffing Out Food Waste
What You'll Learn: The University of Maryland’s NourishNet team has been awarded $5M from the NSF
to develop its comprehensive, technology-based approach to tackling food waste
and insecurity.
Approx Read Time: 5 minutes
Categories:
Waste Not,
Product, Service & Design Innovation
A multidisciplinary team led by the University of
Maryland (UMD) has been awarded $5 million from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop
NourishNet: a comprehensive,
technology-based approach to tackling food waste and insecurity featuring
...
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Global Events
SB'24 San Diego
October 14 - 17, 2024
All of us feel the mounting pressure to reshape the future of commerce so that business and society can thrive in harmony with nature. It’ll require ongoing breakthroughs in innovation, properly and ethically deployed for us to reach our goals. Join us October 14-17 2024 as together we explore new strategies, tools and solutions for turning challenge into business opportunity to redesign our brands to win in a changing world.
Unilever Launches First UK Regenerative Ag Project for Mint, Mustard
What You'll Learn: The program will work with farms that grow mustard seeds and mint leaves used in
Colman’s products.
Approx Read Time: 4 minutes
Categories:
Supply Chain
Unilever has launched its first regenerative-agriculture project in the UK
this year — working with British farms that grow mustard seeds and mint leaves
used in its Colman’s products.
Alongside food giants including General
Mills,
Kellogg’s,
Nestlé
...
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SFI’s New Standard Aims to Bring Holistic Protection to Urban Forests
What You'll Learn: The sustainability non-profit is attempting to scale the first widely accepted
certification standard for urban and community forestry.
Approx Read Time: 4 minutes
Categories:
The Next Economy
By:
Geoff Nudelman
According to the US Forest Service, there are more than 140 million acres
of
forest
situated within “urban” areas across the country. That’s a lot of trees
maintained and nurtured under a mix of public and private entities that all have
a different s...
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Kroger Becomes Latest Retailer to Protect Biodiversity
What You'll Learn: The new policy will protect more pollinators and create a more sustainable
produce supply chain; but campaigners say more industrywide action is needed.
Approx Read Time: 6 minutes
Categories:
Supply Chain
The Kroger Co. has set a new goal to advance
sustainability in its fresh produce supply chain, to ensure protection of
pollinators and biodiversity. Kroger will require all of its fresh produce
suppliers to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practi...
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Webinars
Shifting Customer Behavior
Sponsored by L'Oréal , SAP
Friday, December 6, 2024 12:00 AM
Corporate Members will gain new insight into the drivers of a customer's desire to buy and live sustainably, positioning us to cultivate customer behavior that aligns with our purpose.
Previous Webinars
Biodiesel: Today's Solution for Meeting Renewable Energy Goals
Major Companies, Investors Still Blind to Their Role in Deforestation
What You'll Learn: Global Canopy’s 10th annual Forest 500 report reveals that, despite some pockets
of progress, voluntary private sector action has failed to generate meaningful
progress on commodity-driven deforestation.
Approx Read Time: 6 minutes
Categories:
Finance & Investment
Today, Global Canopy released its tenth annual
Forest 500
report
and ranking — which tracks the policies and performance of the 350 most
influential companies and 150 financial institutions most exposed to
deforestation risk in their supply chains an...
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How Amy’s Kitchen Synchronizes Sustainability Efforts and Growth
What You'll Learn: Through its dramatic growth, Amy’s continues its commitment to positive impact — scaling sustainability while managing thousands of environmental metrics; data sources; and KPIs across different vendors, geographies, utility providers, infrastructure types and regulatory frameworks.
Approx Read Time: 6 minutes
Categories:
Supply Chain
When family-owned, organic food company Amy’s Kitchen
started in 1987 as a small California business with a vegetarian pot pie,
founders Andy and
Rachel Berliner made a
firm commitment to environmental sustainability. Still independent but much
large...
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The Forever Cost of Materials: Considerations for Conscious Designers
What You'll Learn: By designing with the end in mind and considering durability, construction, recyclability and production, designers who create products with ‘lower-cost’ ingredients bring us one step closer to a circular economy.
Approx Read Time: 4 minutes
Categories:
Chemistry, Materials & Packaging
We need to rethink the way we calculate the cost of materials.
In addition to a material’s monetary cost, there is also an environmental
cost that considers resource extraction through disposal at the end of its
useful life; and all aspects of produc...
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Powering Earth from Space: Can We Solve Our Energy Crisis Without Destroying the Environment?
What You'll Learn: There is immense potential for sustainable innovation in the ever-growing space
economy — in ways that could bring the industry’s own impacts, and an infinite
source of solar power, back down to Earth.
Approx Read Time: 6 minutes
Categories:
Product, Service & Design Innovation,
Cleantech
By:
Roberto Guerra
Ever since the Soviets launched the first satellite into outer space on
October 4, 1957, shooting human-made apparatuses into the vast world far above
our own has captured our collective imaginations; and that fascination only grew
once humans began ...
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B Lab Seeks Input on Updated B Corp Standards
What You'll Learn: B Lab has launched a public comment period on new draft standards for B Corp
Certification — inviting businesses, civil society and the public to provide
feedback through an interactive website.
Approx Read Time: 6 minutes
Categories:
Marketing and Comms
By:
Christian Yonkers
B Lab, the nonprofit network behind B
Corp certification, is updating its
standards
for the sixth time since B Corp was launched 17 years ago. The organization is
once again seeking input from
various stakeholders to help ensure the latest draft cert...
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Ayurveda: A Fresh Perspective on Sustainability
What You'll Learn: Sustainability in business is treated as if our wellbeing isn’t
linked to the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the world
we create. In ayurveda’s holistic worldview, there’s no such thing as ‘it
doesn’t concern me’ when it comes to sustainability.
Approx Read Time: 6 minutes
Categories:
Walking the Talk
By:
John Broadway
First, a confession: Before I learned anything about
ayurveda, I had already decided it was
silly. While I acknowledge the presumption in dismissing thousand-year-old
traditions out of hand, a quick Google turns up DIY ayurveda quizzes to
“find your ...
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