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Picarro believes its nifty, mobile analyzers have a bright future in new markets, including organic food.
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Dow Chemical faces an uphill battle to convince consumers that its latest agriculture project is eco-friendly. But the company's past history, the role of herbicides in farming and strong resistence from environmental groups are presenting significant hurdles.
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Honest Tea CEO Seth Goldman discusses co-founding the company, which Coca-Cola bought last year, and offers tips for new entrepreneurs.
by Anna Hackman
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In a move that could grow the market for cage-free eggs, Burger King is pledging to switch to 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2017. It also plans to eliminate gestation crates for breeding pigs.
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Walmart is making progress on its sustainability goals, but it still has a long way to go.
by Eric Louie
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The wife of Bill Niman, the name that launched a revolution in human cattle farming, is a vegetarian. But she's quick to say that eating meat is not a sin, although the meat that most Americans eat is a travesty.
by Marc Gunther
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What's the carbon impact of banana yogurt? How about strawberry? Thanks to a new SAP system, Danone now knows the carbon footprints of each of its 35,000 products.
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As the world faces huge multidisciplinary sustainability challenges, many university sustainability programs remain part of a single discipline. Dow hopes its $10 million gift could help change that.
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The world's largest soupmaker says it will eventually stop using BPA -- a controversial chemical -- to line its cans. Advocates call the decision a big step for the canned-foods industry.
by Jennifer Kho
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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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A deal brokered this week between the world's two largest markets for organic foods provides mutual recognition to each region's organic certification, lowering barriers to expanding a $50 billion market for organic food sales.
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It's easy to lose sight of sustainability issues on a day that's focused on material expressions of affection, but there are resources gift-givers can use to gauge the environmental impacts of sweets and the firms that make them.
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As part of its CSR initiatives, SAP has partnered with PlaNet Finance to help fund, and make more efficient, the work of rural shea harvesters in Africa -- improving lives and helping to improve the environment in one fell swoop.
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The brewing giant faces stiff competition in Africa from home beer brewers. As the company learned how to make beer from local crops, SABMiller's head of sustainability explains how it's also making its beers more socially and environmentall responsible.
by Marc Gunther
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Bob Langert, the company's VP for sustainability digs in to the many ways the company is pushing for greener fast food, and how it's got a long row to hoe to convert its many skeptics and opponents.
by Marc Gunther
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Jed Davis, the sustainability director at the cooperative of 1,200 dairy farms, talks about quality control, energy efficiency, the vision of employee engagement, and what sustainability means on the farm.
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Americans waste a shocking 40 percent of the food they buy, and as much of half of that can be attributed to the "best before" labels on food.
by Dana Gunders
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It will take a global network of retailers, farmers, NGOs and shoppers to make global cotton production better for the planet. Fortunately, the Better Cotton Initiative brings all these groups to the table. Here's how.
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Portland, Oregon's Bamboo Sushi is powered by wind energy, Marine Stewardship Council-certified, and is singlehandedly proving that sustainable sushi doesn't have to be an oxymoron.
by Marc Gunther
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The industry behind the nation's favorite sweetener relies on government trade barriers and subsidized water costs to grow sugar cane in Florida -- and the Everglades are paying the price. And there's a Monica Lewinsky angle, to boot.
by Marc Gunther
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The Slow Money Conference held last week aims to bring socially responsible investing to innovative companies that are creating jobs, improving the soil and growing healthy food at a sustainable scale.
by Kathy Brozek
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The British retailer yesterday unveiled 20 green targets to be achieved by the end of the decade; the company has set an absolute emissions reductions goal of 30 percent by 2020, or 65 percent relative to revenues.
by Will Nichols
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The U.K. company is launching next week a new barcode tracker to allow customers to trace the fish they're buying back to the boat that made the catch.
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The first prize from a challenged issued by the Environmental Defense Fund and InnoCentive proposes a simple solution to the problem of pollution from nitrogen-rich farm runoff. It's just one of many little challenges that could add up to big solutions.
by Marc Gunther
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Walt Freese, the appropriately named former head of the do-gooder ice-cream company, dishes on the importance of a values-driven work life, the significance of being authentic and how employee engagement got Ben & Jerry's back on track.