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If all of the finalists’ proposed businesses were realized, they would save more than one trillion gallons of water annually.
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The landmark memorandum of understanding identified a variety of projects that can help the dairy industry achieve those greenhouse gas reduction goals and increase its financial and environmental sustainability.
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Jackson Family Wines is introducing the wine industry to a new era in winery water recycling and energy-use reduction that, if adopted by even 35% of California wineries, could result in conserving as much as one billion gallons of water annually.
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Business leaders taking part in the first half of the climate conference know they can take practical steps that deliver emissions much more rapidly than broad targets set by policy makers.
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With meat production expected to double by 2050 and methane from cows contributing a sizeable chunk of GHG emissions, any successful, long-term global solution to climate change will have to address livestock. And that could include lab-grown meat.
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Building upon a highly effective test market launch in Toronto, Nature's Path Organic unleashed a North American campaign this fall to promote its flagship cereal under the banner of great tasting, healthy cereal and sustainability.
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The fast food chain is swapping out the red for green in its logos in some European stores, as a way of promoting its environmental commitment.
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Moving farms off land and into skyscrapers is on the verge of becoming reality. The main hurdle isn’t technology; it’s one of engineering and funding.
by GLOBE - Net
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A number of innovative bio-technologies are on the market today that offer highly effective alternatives to traditional chemical formulas, proving that products don't need to be toxic to be effective. Case in point are silver-based technologies.
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When a meat-based entrée is being served and people are offered a vegetarian alternative, about 5 to 10 percent will request it. But what if the choices were reversed?
by Marc Gunther
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The company's 2009 sustainability report shows that not only has the company passed the half-way point on its goals, but that its reductions are picking up speed year over year.
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Kraft Foods vowed to increase the amount of Rainforest Alliance Certified cocoa beans ten-fold to 30,000 tons by late 2012, to be used in two premium chocolate brands sold in the European and North American markets.
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Sodexo helped National Geographic cut water consumption in its cafeteria by 18 percent between 2006 and 2009, it said in its latest citizenship report. Meanwhile, Sodexo cut waste at Communications by 80 percent by recycling or composting all paper, cardboard, food products and plastics used in the company's cafeteria.
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In a new scorecard released by the World Wildlife Fund, only one-sixth of companies surveyed show progress toward goals of ending the environmental and ecosystem impacts of conventional palm oil harvesting.
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The University of California has stepped up its sustainability systemwide by setting higher green standards for food service operations and building throughout its 10 campuses, five medical centers and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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A top-notch panel on traceability in the supply chain offered a hard look at one of the biggest challenges facing companies, part of a roster of big issues tackled during day two of the 2009 BSR Conference.
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There's a good food revolution brewing. By bringing locally grown, organic, nutritiously rich food to a table near you, the good food revolution can help us tackle larger societal issues, and benefit us all.
by Will Allen
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Sodexo Inc. is partnering with the nonprofit Net Impact in establishing a new sustainability fellowship program for the integrated food and facilities management services company.
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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 vision: green rooftops, not just as gardens, but as urban agriculture hubs for herbs and edible greens, grown in renewable energy-powered greenhouses, allowing city dwellers to grow and sell food locally.
by Joel Makower
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With the adoption of a meat-free menu one day a week in the Baltimore school district, the emissions-reduction, health-improvement project got a significant boost last week, but is it an idea that will take root on corporate campuses?
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At the World Dairy Summit yesterday, industry associations from around the world signed a pact to reduce emissions associated with milk production, as well as develop and share innovations for lower-impact milk processing, packaging and distribution.
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Although some pundits and critics claim the green bubble has burst, a quick look around the world of business shows at least five ways that environmental innovation is on the rise, and is only getting more critical to business operations.
by David Scott
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A wine producing culture and industry that took centuries to cultivate may evaporate if nothing is done to address climate change, a new report has found.
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Scottish households are needlessly chucking away £1 billion (US$1.6 billion) of food each year, according to new research from the nonprofit WRAP Scotland.