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Featuring interviews with Heather White, author of 'One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet,' and Nurit Argov-Argaman, a researcher and lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Plus, why a fifth-generation farmer is sowing oats with Oatly.
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Plus, vertical farming pioneer AeroFarms is having a very busy year.
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Costa Coffee, the Kenco Coffee Company ad Mars Inc. are among the winners of Rainforest Alliance's Sustainability Standard-Setter Awards for 2011.
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The cosmetics company has pledged to buy enough GreenPalm certificates to cover all of its global palm oil use.
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These fruits and plants contain cellulose, which can be processed into tiny nano fibers that reinforce plastics used in automotive manufacturing. In addition to its renewable nature, the material is extremely strong and lightweight.
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Walmart's charity arm is donating $2 million to more than a dozen food banks in the U.S. to fund energy-efficiency programs.
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About a third of eco-minded grocery shoppers are leery about products labeled "natural" and two out of three say they'd like to see standards set for goods that bear the description, according to a new study.
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Frito-Lay North America, which has pursued greener manufacturing, transportation and packaging, is launching a major push to reformulate half its products in 2011 so that the snacks are made only with natural ingredients.
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A pilot project conducted by Sodexo on eight college campuses found that tracking and monitoring food waste can easily lead to reductions of nearly one-third in the amount of food sent to landfill.
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On the heels of similar long-term targets set by rival Procter & Gamble, the consumer products company aims to double sales while cutting the water, waste and carbon impacts of its products -- and its customers' use of those products -- by 2020.
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The food and beverage giant aims to give the world's farmers a cloud-based solution to monitoring and reducing their water use and carbon emissions.
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A study that looks at sustainability from an employee productivity level rather than a financial level, finds that productivity goes up as much as 40 percent if workers perceive that their job is for the greater good.
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A study by researchers at the University of Texas finds that the embedded energy in wasted food is equal to 2 percent of the nation's annual energy budget; cutting food waste would save 350 million barrels of oil per year.
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General Mills became the latest company to declare it would only buy palm oil produced through environmentally and socially responsible means.
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Green means go for shoppers seeking fish caught in the wild in sustainable and responsible ways, in a new project unveiled by the natural foods grocer in partnership with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.
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The company launched a campaign this week called "Stop Wasting Food," aimed at reducing some of the 31 million tons of wasted food that ends up in U.S. landfills.
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Burger King has become the latest company to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas, an embattled Indonesian company its critics accuse of deforestation.
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Nestlé is investing nearly $350 million over the next decade to expand its reach into sustainable coffee farming, make its factories more efficient and reduce its packaging. Beyond the Cup: The Nescafe Plan is the company's global project that adds onto the nearly $200 million already spent on coffee project in previous years.
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The Rainforest Alliance has launched a new certification aimed at helping cattle farms improve their environmental and social performance.
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As large, widespread fast food chains have been pressured and prodded to lower the environmental impacts of their businesses, the same has not been asked of independent quick-service cafes and takeout spots, resulting in many offering unhealthy food with little incentive to improve the sustainability of their operations.
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Warmer waters potentially exacerbated by climate change have become a fertile breeding ground for a new strain of herpes threatening the western European oyster industry.
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The grocery giant has mandated that all suppliers of fresh, frozen and packaged fish and shellfish must comply with its verification policy by March 31, 2011, or show an action plan to achieve compliance. The company has already begun collecting and evaluating data from its seafood suppliers.
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The 20 restaurants, include big-name eateries such as Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill and Topolobampo restaurants, earned the Guaranteed Green seal last week, available through the Green Restaurant Association or Green Seal, which is the more expensive option of the two, Time Out Chicago reported.
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As part of its corporate responsibility program, Sainsbury's will set up a network of bee hotels across London in a bid to boost the region's ailing population of solitary bees, which its says are critical for the pollination of most fruits and vegetables in the U.K.