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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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Hiring practices, wage policies and affordable, quality products that meet the needs of low-income populations can influence this unrelenting social issue.
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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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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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While corporations pour millions of dollars into sustainability policies and initiatives, consumers remain skeptical.
by Ory Zik
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After the Fair Labor Association found workplace violations at Apple's supplier Foxconn Technology Group, it looks like the electronics giant is becoming more transparent.
by Robert Kropp
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Computer and monitor manufacturers now have to meet social-responsibility criteria -- not just environmental and performance requirements -- to get that coveted "TCO Certified" label.
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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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At Social Media Week in New York City, two recently sprouted startups joined two innovative established companies to talk about how to harness the power of gaming for the greater good.
by Adam Aston
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John Donahoe, the CEO of the online retail platform, talks about how the company backed into sustainability as part of its business model, how it gathers green ideas from employees, and why 'users' are the new 'consumers.'
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A newly relaunched green hub on the retail website might be ho-hum news -- except for what it says about green teams' abilities to push sustainability both internally and externally.
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The clothing manufacturer's head of sustainability talks about the rules of engagement for weaving environmental initiatives throughout a recently restructured century-old brand.
by Ann Goodman
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Gamification is a huge trend in marketing almost any kind of product or service today, and is only going to get bigger and more commonplace. And some innovative companies are already putting the power of game mechanices to work for sustainability.
by Ashok Kamal
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From energy management to smart design to waste diversion, Kathy Loftus, Global Leader of Sustainable Engineering, Maintenance & Energy Management at Whole Foods Market, knows how important it is to get every coworker on board with green efforts.
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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 outgoing and incoming CEOs of the iconic brand discuss the legacy of sustainability in the food industry, how Millennials are shifting the company's focus, and why they changed the "M'm! M'm! Good!" slogan.
by Heather King
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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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'Mesh companies' -- new enterprises based on sharing goods and services -- have the ability to redefine the nature of gift-giving this holiday season and beyond.
by Lisa Gansky
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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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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