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Organic flowers can be a tough sell, with higher short-term costs for growers and higher prices for buyers. Here’s how Organic Bouquet makes it work.
by Anna Hackman
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Despite the many differences between the Fortune 500 coffee retailer and the family-owned artisan roaster based in Mendocino, Calif., the two companies are committed to working with growers to source coffee beans as sustainably and ethically as possible.
by Marc Gunther
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Apple's China scandal demonstrates why companies need to do more to ensure the health of factory workers making their products. Here's how some manufacturers are netting returns from investing in women's health.
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by Marc Gunther
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The retail giant takes a stand on sandblasting denim, which can harm garment workers' lungs.
by Jennifer Kho
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The company's 15 goals embrace everything from advancing global health through medical innovation to pushing sustainability through its supply chain; among its other goals are a 20 percent emissions reduction by 2015.
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No company approaches sustainability more comprehensively — or more creatively — than the British retailer Marks & Spencer.
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by Marc Gunther
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Kraft plans to manufacture its famous foods using less water, energy and packaging, the company announced last week. Its European coffee brands have also committed to 100 percent sustainably sourced coffee by 2015.
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The company's new guidelines, issued 20 years after it set terms of engagement focused on compliance in its supply chain, now aim to help the workers in its global supply chains prosper while also protecting the environment.
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"The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work.
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As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year.
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Office Depot, whose annual Green Guide is a compendium of the nearly 2,200 greenest products the retailer provides, has added a new dimension to its campaign to be the working world's top supplier of eco-friendly office products.
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Smart companies that pursue zero waste are also taking us closer to an industrial system inspired by nature, where there's no such thing as garbage. Lipton's employees and management have developed just such a system in Suffolk, Va.
by Marc Gunther
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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