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The increasing globalization of culture, as well as of business, brings opportunities for companies to streamline production while also expanding their market reach.
by John Viera
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Nike's head of sustainability and innovation offers advice to entrepreneurs and other sustainability professionals, and tells how her company is creating radical innovation.
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At the GreenBiz Forum in New York City, the CEO of the world-leading sustainable manufacturer talks about how Interface continues to evolve and improve the sustainability of its products, and how its taking its products to the skies.
by Adam Aston
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Sourcemap, the crowdsourced archive of supply chain information, is readying for a big 2012 with new product and service offerings geared toward large firms with complex supply chains.
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Can we take Jobs' legacy of fanatical dedication to continual improvement and apply it to business areas like supply chain, workers' rights, and business impacts globally, we will all be living in a better world.
by Kara Hurst
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The world's second largest sports brand has been working on a cross-industry partnership to phase out hazardous chemicals in its supply chain, in response to a challenge from Greenpeace.
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The clothing giant is following Nike's lead in the wake of a Greenpeace campaign around the clothing industry's use of harmful chemicals.
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TerraCycle has built a business around taking other companies' trash and turning it into treasure. It's a surprisingly tough sell sometimes, but here's how you make the case that it's not trash, it's wasted brand equity.
by Albe Zakes
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The textiles and apparel industry, once considered far behind the building and consumer electronics sectors in sustainability, has taken the lead on the environmental front.
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The wireless carrier has set a series of ambitious goals regarding its own end-of-life electronics, as well as those it sells to individuals, and is taking a lifecycle approach to the e-waste challenge that could shift the entire industry.
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The new law requiring U.S. public companies that use tin, tantalum, tungsten or gold to trace them back to their source calls for unprecedented transparency in supply chains. But will it end the "minerals curse" that hangs over materials from the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
by Tim Mohin
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Interest in life cycle assessments has exploded as companies realize the benefits of knowing nitty-gritty details of their products' impacts and aim to stay ahead of regulations.
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Puma plans to put a dollar figure on its impact to clean water, natural resources and other ecosystem services.
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Putting an embargo on minerals from war-torn areas of Congo will only lead to more conflict, unemployment, and poverty. What's needed is more investment in supply chains.
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P&G's supplier environmental scorecard will now affect how the company rates suppliers, with rewards going to those that perform well and bring in innovative ideas.
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Using a new product scorecard, IKEA hopes to make its stock greener so that by 2015 the retail chain can classify 90 percent of the goods it sells as being "more sustainable."
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The sports apparel company is targeting broad changes in its supply chain and own operations.
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Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd., the world's third-largest independent Coke bottler, and the largest plastics recycler in Europe are teaming up to build a U.K. facility that's expected to more than double the country's production of high-grade recycled plastic, material suitable for beverage and food packaging.
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Nike, Gap, Patagonia and Walmart have teamed up to create a standard way to measure and evaluate the environmental impact of clothing.
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What should companies be doing to comply with new U.S. rules on sourcing conflict minerals?
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Source4Style hopes to accelerate the use of sustainable materials in the fashion world by making it easier for designers to find and purchase materials.
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For many years we have heard about closed-loop systems, in which waste from one process is the raw material for another. But across the global community of environmentalists, government, manufacturers and others, there is no common strategy to minimize waste.
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Last year, Ford cut its new vehicles' carbon dioxide emissions by 12 percent, slightly improved fleet fuel economy, exceeded its water and landfill waste goals, saved $15 million with energy efficiency efforts and increased its use of recycled, renewable and lightweight materials.
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With more than 600 eco-certifications on the market around the world today, companies must choose with great care what green labels are right for them and their customers. We talked to five companies to learn how they make their decisions.
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In a move affecting more than $1 billion in goods each year, Kaiser Permanente is now requiring its suppliers to provide environmental data on all medical equipment and products purchased by the largest managed care organization in the U.S.