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Plus, a spotlight on climate change and the healthcare profession with the editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs.
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New research shows that Americans are increasingly concerned about the environment, but don't currently have lifestyles that reflect that.
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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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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