3M announced this week a new sourcing policy that ensures all the virgin wood fiber going into its paper-based products and packaging comes from sources that protect forests and respect human rights.
Keurig coffee fans might love the convenience of the single-cup system, but the amount of plastic being thrown into landfills was worrying the rest of us. Now the coffee-selling giant has announced a recyclable coffee pod that may ease customers' guilt.
43 leaders of huge corporations joined together as Ambassadors for Climate Action. They challenged governments and big business to do more on climate change.
Today, Harvard University is among more than 30 business schools offering courses on social responsibility.* This is illustrative of many postive trends in business, as exemplified by the growth of Business for Social Responsibility.
1,500 tons of food that would have gone to waste will now go to UK charities every year thanks to an innovative plan by the British grocery chain, Asda. Teaming up with hunger charity FareShare, Asda will divert surplus refrigerated food that arrives from suppliers, ensuring it won't end up in the trash bin.
It's capitalism with a conscience. Nordstrom recently opened a test store where all profits go to charity. Starbucks has three coffee shops where a big chunk of the money made helps the needy. In the past few years, dozens of America's biggest brands have embraced social generosity.
Optimism has been good for Bert Jacobs, who along with his brother John, co-founded Life is good in 1989. The lifestyle and clothing brand has grown from two brothers sleeping in a van while they sold T-shirts door-to-door on college campuses to a $100 million business built around the idea of spreading optimism.
Michelle Obama joined Disney executives today to announce an unprecedented move in the battle against childhood obesity. The media company will eliminate the advertising of unhealthy food and beverages from all of its Disney channels, the first major media company to introduce standards for food advertising on shows targeting kids and families. Mrs. Obama called it a game changer that would give parents more leverage as they campaign to bring healthier foods into their kids' diets.
Whole Foods Market has partnered with Gotham Greens to build the nation's first commercial-scale rooftop greenhouse for growing year-round local produce atop the store in Brooklyn beginning this fall.
With the new reality of $70 (US) crude oil, the plastics industries are turning to corn and fast-growing switchgrass to manufacture everything from carpet to car parts. Bio-degradable and reusable shopping bags made of corn will break down in a landfill â€" or home composter â€" within four to 12 weeks.
Did you hear about the pharmaceutical CEO who bought the rights to a drug and jacked up the price 5000%? Well, guess who just came to the rescue?
The CEO of America's biggest corporation did something astonishing this week: He staked his company's future on its ability, in his words, "to define the cutting edge in cleaner power and environmental technology." The greening of General Electric was announced by its chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt. He said that by 2010, GE would double its […]
Profits and productivity have doubled, customer retention is through the roof, and new customers continue to flock to a company with a $70,000 minimum wage.
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As of July 1, cruise ships belonging to the International Council of Cruise Lines (ICCL) will implement a new set of dumping standards that includes zero discharge of some of the most hazardous chemicals used aboard luxury liners.
Oil and mining companies have signed on to support a global agreement being worked out by almost 200 nations at the Climate Conference in Paris.
Campbell Soup Company announced last week a plan to phase out cans that are lined with BPA (Bisphenol A). The company has already begun using cans with linings made from acrylic or polyester materials and will continue to introduce the new linings across the U.S. and Canadian until the transition is complete in mid-2017. Campbell […]
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