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GreenBiz.org advisor Jarami Bond takes us inside Rihanna's nonprofit, the Clara Lionel Foundation. Meanwhile, Mars sustainability executive Kevin Rabinovitch discusses the food giant's Scope 3 reduction ambitions.
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Words of wisdom from Paul Polman of Imagine, Sanda Ojiambo of U.N. Global Compact and Hana Kajimura of Allbirds.
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We piece together the puzzle of what 3-D printing technology means from a sustainability perspective.
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Costa Coffee, the Kenco Coffee Company ad Mars Inc. are among the winners of Rainforest Alliance's Sustainability Standard-Setter Awards for 2011.
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The Economy Map charts the various ways major U.S. industries affect the environment.
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The cosmetics company has pledged to buy enough GreenPalm certificates to cover all of its global palm oil use.
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The Global Environmental Management Initiative today unveiled the addition of a new tool to its roster of sustainability tools that will help companies understand water challenges wherever they operate.
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Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd., the world's third-largest independent Coke bottler, and the largest plastics recycler in Europe are teaming up to build a U.K. facility that's expected to more than double the country's production of high-grade recycled plastic, material suitable for beverage and food packaging.
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BASF's SELECT Eco-Label Manager provides a one-stop place to compare eco-labels and ratings systems.
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The Forest Footprint Disclosure's second Annual Review singled out the Drax Group, J Sainsbury Plc, Marks and Spencer, and British Airways for their work proactively addressing the business risks of deforestation. British companies were leaders in six of 13 sectors
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Members of the new platform, called Global Compact LEAD, will work to implement the newly unveiled Blueprint for Corporate Leadership, a roadmap released by the UN Global Compact last year. The LEAD program's new members include Accenture, Intel, KPMG, Newmont Mining Corp., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Symantec, Coca-Cola, Novo Nordisk and Heineken, among others.
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A new program aims to help private equity firms find environmental opportunities in their portfolios.
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Dean Foods' Environmental 2013 Roadmap is designed to achieve a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and 30 percent decline in water use by 2013, both metrics measured per gallon of product produced. The company also intends to slash its solid waste generation by 30 percent.
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On the heels of similar long-term targets set by rival Procter & Gamble, the consumer products company aims to double sales while cutting the water, waste and carbon impacts of its products -- and its customers' use of those products -- by 2020.
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Pharmaceutical distributor McKesson Corporation is using a new IBM program to look at where it can cut emissions and reduce costs in its supply chain.
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Since Aveda was purchased by Estee Lauder Companies in 1997, the smaller, environmentally-focused personal care company has benefitted from the larger scale of its owner while also influencing Estee Lauder's sustainability efforts.
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Maersk Line has become the first in its industry to independently verify its carbon emissions vessel by vessel -- a move that enables customers to track the environmental data along with other performance information about shipping line.
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Procter & Gamble today announced a series of long-term goals to move the global consumer products company to 100 percent green energy, zero waste and 100 percent recycled materials.
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General Mills became the latest company to declare it would only buy palm oil produced through environmentally and socially responsible means.
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Half of U.K. residents surveyed don't realize that the paper and wood products they buy could come from unsustainable or illegal sources, according to WWF-UK.
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Green means go for shoppers seeking fish caught in the wild in sustainable and responsible ways, in a new project unveiled by the natural foods grocer in partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.
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FedEx Office, Office Depot and Staples received the highest grades for paper practices in the office supply industry for a second year, according to the latest Green Grade Report Card issued by the environmental groups Dogwood Alliance and ForestEthics.
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The nonprofit eco-labeling group has launched a new certification that looks to measure the environmental impacts of an entire manufacturing firm. Green Seal will provide a walkthrough of the new standard in a webcast on Sept. 15.
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The Nature Conservancy and Coca-Cola released a report today with the results from three product water footprints. A big takeway: The numbers associated with a water footprint aren't nearly as important as how its water use impacts local watersheds.
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Burger King has become the latest company to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas, an embattled Indonesian company its critics accuse of deforestation.