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Food retailers play a role in addressing (food) waste.
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Key trends that have financial implications for investors.
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Food is turning into an information business, and the online retailer-turned-grocer has an unassailable competitive advantage.
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Retailers are far more active in scrubbing deforestation out of their palm oil supply chains than cattle, research shows.
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<p dir='ltr'>What would the Future MBA look like? Explore the potential in week 7 of this new 100-day series.
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Supermarket giant says it has become the first retailer to offer an MSC-certified tuna sandwich.
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Here's how companies such as Whole Foods and Honest Tea brought organic, local products from the fringes to the masses. Welcome to the "Purpose Economy."
by Aaron Hurst
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A big retailer, a scrappy startup and a third-party fair trade certifier weigh in on sourcing organic, fair trade, eco-friendly flowers.
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At Walmart's Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting today, the retailer vowed to target chemical and fertilizer use in its mammoth supply chain.
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We've looked at why your firm should reduce food wasted by customers. Now here's how to do it.
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Embedded environmental costs represent real financial risks and strategic opportunities for the world's biggest retail and food and beverage companies.
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At the Sustainable Operations Summit this week in New York City, leaders from companies in widely different industries shared their secrets of successful composting, and how to cut costs while not wasting food.
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A deal brokered this week between the world's two largest markets for organic foods provides mutual recognition to each region's organic certification, lowering barriers to expanding a $50 billion market for organic food sales.
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The British retailer yesterday unveiled 20 green targets to be achieved by the end of the decade; the company has set an absolute emissions reductions goal of 30 percent by 2020, or 65 percent relative to revenues.
by Will Nichols
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Two new reports from the Food Marketing Institute track trends in grocery retailing, finding that embracing greener foods -- and the price premiums they tend to carry -- can help grocers stay afloat during the down economy.
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Walmart needed to find a home for its food waste that didn't involve a landfill. No such infrastructure existed so Walmart built one, with the help of Quest Recycling Services from Frisco, Texas.
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The company revealed it would stop selling a dozen at-risk species in its wholesale club stores, while also committing to buying canned tuna and farmed species that meet emerging sustainability standards.
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"Nothing says energy efficiency like 'off',' " said Best Buy's Hugh Cherne, one of several speakers at the GreenBiz Environmental Sustainability Tools Virtual Conference, the company's first online trade show which was presented with Groom Energy.
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As part of its corporate responsibility program, Sainsbury's will set up a network of bee hotels across London in a bid to boost the region's ailing population of solitary bees, which its says are critical for the pollination of most fruits and vegetables in the U.K.
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Sainsbury's has invested in new technology that will allow the retailer to make real-time supply chain decisions to reduce food waste caused by unexpected weather.
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The supermarket chain is claiming a U.K. first by announcing plans to boost local bee population by housing several hundred bees in land around its new eco-store.
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British restaurants have come together to establish an association aimed at improving their reputation for poor environmental performance.
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A new report argues that axing tax breaks for carbon-intensive industries, curbing spending on road expansion and improving public sector energy efficiency could cut the country's national debt by £12 billion a year.
by James Murray
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Business leaders taking part in the first half of the climate conference know they can take practical steps that deliver emissions much more rapidly than broad targets set by policy makers.