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Supply chain environmental management can help companies decrease the use of toxic and non-renewable materials, use energy more efficiently, reduce labor costs and promote greater employee participation in environmental-improvement activities. This section explores the ways that supply chain managers are developing to make products green from beginning to end.
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- The scale of Walmart's supply-chain sustainability program is massive, but the lessons learned by the world's largest retailer can be applied at companies of all sizes.
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A new trade group aims to reduce environmental damage from rare earth materials, but it likely won't increase the supply of the minerals -- which cleantech and IT firms depend on -- or check......
The $14 billion manufacturing giant shares some of its secrets for integrating sustainability into product design, and explains how companies can set their own innovation goals and ramp up their......
A coalition of health care systems issues a six-point agenda on how to transform the industry by tackling waste, runaway energy consumption, lax supply chains and other obstacles to sustainability......
Supply chains offer large potential for companies to cut emissions. Here are four steps for tapping into it.
Many electronics companies would like to use conflict-free minerals, but finding suppliers can prove challenging. A new program could make it easier for smelters to become conflict-free....
What's the carbon impact of banana yogurt? How about strawberry? Thanks to a new SAP system, Danone now knows the carbon footprints of each of its 35,000 products....
Eight years since the launch of its Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices commitment, Starbucks is ready to share some of the lessons its learned along the way to greener supply chains.
The development the AMEE carbon measurement and management platform provided the narrative for a "One Great Idea" presentation at VERGE DC and illustrated several of the conference......
Apple's China scandal demonstrates why companies need to do more to ensure the health of factory workers making their products. Here's how some manufacturers are netting returns from......
The retail giant takes a stand on sandblasting denim, which can harm garment workers' lungs.
Just 38 companies currently report four or more of the 15 categories of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, but there's no doubt this number will grow rapidly. Here's what you need to know......
The NGO lays out what it will take for Apple -- and other multinational firms doing business abroad -- to forge a responsible supply chain....
One year into his term as chief sustainability officer at Ikea, Howard talks about his move from The Climate Group to the global retailer, Ikea's push for certified cotton and timber, and how...
Major meat producers including McDonald's, Cargill and Walmart are committing to making meat production more humane and environmentally friendly. Bon Appetit Management Company, a Bay Area...
The increasing globalization of culture, as well as of business, brings opportunities for companies to streamline production while also expanding their market reach.
The costs of environmental impacts from businesses are on track to double every 14 years, according to an analysis of 10 global "megaforces."
KPMG explains how megaforces like climate change, urbanization and food security are rapidly increasing the costs of doing business.
The third annual review from the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project finds that many more big companies are starting to measure and report their forest-related impacts and risks, but Big Oil as an...
It's easy to lose sight of sustainability issues on a day that's focused on material expressions of affection, but there are resources gift-givers can use to gauge the environmental......
The apparel company's groundbreaking report offers a roadmap on assessing the eco-impacts of any company's supply chain.
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