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Here are 46 professional certifications to demonstrate your expertise across 9 subcategories of sustainability.
by Trish Kenlon
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Planetary Technologies shares a new measurement approach that it hopes will allow purchasers to buy ocean-based carbon removal credits with confidence.
by Stuart Stone
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Sponsored: Just how much carbon offsetting is simply greenwashing? As a sustainability director, I have become versed in what it means for a company to manage its environmental impact.
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Reporting frameworks have an important role to play in addressing quality and transparency challenges that have traditionally plagued the market.
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Sponsored: The benefits of creating sustainable businesses are undeniable. There are many choices that a small business can make to become more environmentally friendly.
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ESG has become the new black of corporate business. But many executives and boards are grappling with how to anchor strategic thinking on climate change and sustainable business into existing governance.
by Lise Kingo
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Sponsored: Climate change impacts are everywhere, and the time for transformative action is now. Companies and consumers both have vital roles to play.
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One of the biggest environmental impacts is associated with the food for meat-eating pets, a product category that contributed at least 64 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually as of 2017.
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Plus, an excerpt from our interview with former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack.
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Why do some green buildings perform as designed or better, while others might barely make the grade, even if certified? It turns out that even the most sustainably designed, intelligent building is only as smart and green as the people who occupy and operate it.
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Despite the well-trod cliché that a journey to sustainability is a marathon and not a sprint, Nike, with its Considered design ethos, shows all the signs of being in it for the long haul.
by Marc Gunther
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Although Seth Goldman says the company is still his baby, the planned full acquisition of the organic tea company will be another interesting experiment in how a smaller company can help shape the values and performance of its much bigger owner.
by Marc Gunther
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At the State of Green Business Forum in Washington D.C. today, the TeaEO of Honest Tea announced that Coke has decided to purchase the remaining 60 percent of the company, three years after it bought 40 percent of Honest Tea.
by Adam Aston
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Method's Adam Lowry describes how his company's innovations build on making life easier for their customers, and reducing environmental impacts at the same time.
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For a company with more than 115 years of history under its belt, Underwriters Laboratories is making big plans for the future, and its environmental wing has set its sites on meeting the market for reliable sustainability certifications.
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Lorrie Vogel, the head of Nike Considered, talked about the company's closed-loop ethos, why sustainability has to start from within, and how the company turned 13 million plastic bottles into World Cup jerseys.
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The Eco Index, launched last summer by a coalition of companies in the apparel industry, is shaping up to be a useful tool for companies across the spectrum, from wool socks to haute couture.
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Despite the wide array of sustainability initiatives companies are undertaking on their own operations, perhaps the biggest challenge to scaling up global sustainability efforts is convincing end users to reduce their own impacts.
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In an interview with BSR Senior Vice President Eric Olson, Clorox CEO Don Knauss described the sustainability journey of a company better known for its bleach than its green cleaning products.
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A renaissance in biology, chemistry and nanotechnology is breeding innovations in technologies that can address environmental problems, such as efficiency or recycling.
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In the first of our series on the biggest trends in green business practices in 2010, we look at the ways the world's biggest consumer brands -- P&G, Unilever, Kraft and others -- have stepped off the sidelines and into the green arena.
by Joel Makower
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Small companies have the nimbleness to achieve radical innovations, but they lack scale. On the other end of the spectrum are large companies that have the scale, but they face the uncertainty of trying to do something that is working in a radically different way.
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When it comes to climate change, consumers want simple and clear ways to buy the goods and services they desire, in a fashion that won't destroy their planet. Legislation that puts the real price of carbon into the economy would be a good step in that direction. But only a step. Brands have to get into the game, too.
by Jeff Swartz