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Stanford University will chronicle the sustainability movement through the eyes of William McDonough via writings, conversations and tweets.
by Kira Gould
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The 30x30 Nature Challenge is deceptively easy with big payoffs: Encourage your employees to spend 30 minutes a day outside for 30 days.
by Nadine Gudz
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Hannah Jones, vice president of sustainable business and innovation at Nike, talks about how to tap mega trends like population growth, scarcer natural resources and climate change to create massive opportunities for new business models.
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McDonald's and Starbucks stand out at leading examples of what fast food companies should do to lower the impacts of their packaging.
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The first-ever chief sustainability officer at the beverage giant discusses what it's like to be the first to hold the CSO role at Coke, why the company is excited about the PlantBottle, and the importance of listening to feedback from customers.
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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 partnership between the CEO of a $157 billion global industrial goods and financial services juggernaut and a much smaller online crowdsourcing firm highlights how innovation can be put to work at even the world's largest firms.
by Adam Aston
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On Thursday the consumer goods manufacturer announced the members who sit on its U.S. Sustainability Expert Advisory Panel, which helps the company evaluate future consumer-facing initiatives and offer advice on sustainability-oriented issues.
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When Nike first began incorporating sustainability into its business practices, the risks and opportunities we grappled with seemed distant indeed, even non-existent to most businesses. Fifteen years later, the risks and opportunities that businesses face from environmental and social challenges are more obvious than ever.
by Sarah Severn
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As we view the whatever-it's-called decade in the rearview mirror, it's tempting to assess what's transpired since the good old days of Y2K to see how far we've come — and how far we haven't.
by Joel Makower
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What to make of the 20 most-read stories among the 2,350 (or so) articles and blog posts we ran during 2009? It's hard to make head or tails of them.
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The founder of Interface shows how being a tree-hugging environmentalist and the head of a thriving, $1-billion a year carpet company don't need to be mutually exclusive
by Marc Gunther
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In this in-depth interview, Interface founder and CEO Ray Anderson explains what it takes to be a 'radical industrialist,' and how the very first green project his company undertook both paid for and paved the way for every project since.
by Marc Gunther
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In the latest challenge posed by the editors of Backpacker Magazine to equipment manufacturers, five companies are bringing all their innovations to bear to make hiking boots that tread gently on the planet.
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The U.S. Green Building Council is compiling the top green building educational programs and is looking for classroom courses to support with grants.