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The key to Steelcase Inc.'s business sustainability practices -- and its design strategy -- lies in its approach, says Angela Nahikian, the company's director of Global Environmental Sustainability. That approach may come as a surprise to some people who have tracked this industry leader and its nearly 100-year history of innovation. Nahikian tells GreenBiz Radio about her company's outlook and the concept of "radical evolution."
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The key to Steelcase Inc.'s business sustainability practices and its design strategy lies in its approach, says Angela Nahikian, the company's director of Global Environmental Sustainability. That approach may come as a surprise to some people who have tracked this industry leader and its nearly 100-year history of innovation. Nahikian talks to GreenBiz Radio about her company and the concept of 'radical evolution.'
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GreenBiz.com launches our second annual Greener By Design conference today. The focus this year is on how companies are transitioning to greener product design amid rapidly changing, but still economically troubled, times. And a key thread will explore how firms should operate under what is being called "The New Normal."
by Joel Makower
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Rand Waddoups, Wal-Mart's senior director of Business Strategy and Sustainability, provides an insider's update on Wal-Mart's efforts toward sustainability, its progress and its next big challenges.
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(Episode 88): Almost four years ago, Wal-Mart announced three major goals that have since driven the company's operations internally and externally. Today, Rand Waddoups, Wal-Mart's senior director of Business Strategy and Sustainability, provides an insider's update on Wal-Mart's efforts toward sustainability, its progress and its next big challenges.
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3M, the company behind the ubiquitous Post-It notes, secures new sustainable forestry certification through U.S.-based Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
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Ever wonder what it takes to make a single-serve tray of heat-and-eat chili? The folks at Truitt Brothers Inc. did, and the Oregon-based food processor now lays claim to being the first firm to have a lifecycle assessment conducted by the Institute for Environmental Research and Education to determine the environmental impacts that result from a food product.
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The global market for organic cotton hit $3.2 billion in 2008, according to a new report from Organic Exchange, but the rapid growth of supply could lead to problems.
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Seventh Generation already makes cleaners that are non-toxic, but it's now taking steps to make one of its ingredients more sustainable.
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An examination of common products from eight U.K. retailers found 40 percent of packaging in non-recyclable, leading the Local Government Association to call for retailers to help fund recycling programs. The retail industry is pushing back, defending the use of packaging to preserve items and saying the survey is flawed.
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The two major retailers are adding organic jeans to their private label clothing brands after testing sales of the jeans last year.
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7-Eleven unveiled its new environmentally-friendly commissary and distribution center last week in Bohemia, Long Island. The facility will prepare and deliver fresh foods to 674 7-Eleven stores on the East Coast.
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Clothing retailer H&M plans to increase its organic cotton use this year by 50 percent, starting with its latest spring line.
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Econscious, a supplier of blank clothing, bags and other items, has earned certification under the Global Organic Textile Standard.
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In its quarterly ranking of electronics manufacturers' commitments to the environment, Greenpeace found Nokia at the top of the heap yet again, while the NGO highlighted takeback policies and carbon-reduction commitments as the key to truly green electronics.
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As environmental regulations change throughout the world, companies need to understand how laws affect supply chains that feed into them as well as supply chains they feed into.
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Whether taking a close look at packaging materials, optimizing shipping logistics or even changing the types of pallets in use, the world's supply chain players are working to lessen transportation's impact.
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Wal-Mart’s Matt Kistler recently joined GreenBiz Radio to offer insight into working with its behemoth supply to design products and packaging to be more environmentally friendly.
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(Episode 40): Jason Pearson, president and CEO of research and design institute GreenBlue, joins GreenBiz Radio to talk about how sustainability is being woven into product ingredients, materials and supply chains.
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As part of the retailer's plan to improve packaging, it will switch from PVC plastic to cardboard for energy efficient light bulb packaging.
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Wal-Mart will be meeting with many of its Chinese suppliers later this year to set goals on environmental initiatives. The retailer has been working to green its supply chain throughout the world.
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A new agreement between computer manufacturers and healthcare providers will make green computer and electronics products to hospitals.
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Companies are facing accelerating pressures to adopt safer chemicals principles and practices and to cajole, encourage, or force their supply chains to join them. The demands stem both from governments and from leadership companies in the private sector. Corporate strategic planners had better pay attention, lest they get shut out of markets, says Rich Liroff.
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The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) International has created a set of guidelines to serve as a roadmap for any office furniture manufacturer or supplier desiring to become a more sustainable company.
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I'm interested in eco-friendly closed-loop manufacturing, but I need some ideas on how to find source materials.
by Good Company