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The Brazilian makeup giant is working hard to confront the environmental issues that come from fast international growth.
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How can hot water-intensive industries cut back on their consumption and curb their carbon emissions? Learn how the first dairy in the U.S. adopted solar cogeneration technology as a key strategy.
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The company talks more about why it's setting a zero emissions goal for its offices and factories by 2040, and how its sustainable sourcing goals could have a big impact on the way cocoa is grown.
by Marc Gunther
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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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Why would the world's largest auto maker invest in a company that helps people use fewer cars?
by Marc Gunther
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SC Johnson, the maker of household products ranging from Windex to Ziploc bags, has met -- if not topped -- its five-year environmental goals.
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A new series of articles in Grist drags Walmart over the coals for not being as sustainable as it could be. While the author raises valid points about Walmart's level of action, there is more to the story.
by Marc Gunther
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Autodesk is on a mission to dispel any doubts about the power and possibilities that cloud computing brings to sustainable design. The technology and its impacts on design are Topic A at company's user conference in Las Vegas.
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The first class of 14 companies have signed up for the new WindMade label, making a big bet that shoppers will seek out products made in factories powered by wind energy.
by Adam Aston
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Putting energy management systems in place in its manufacturing facilities was one of several steps that have helped the beverage maker earn the highest score ever recorded by The Carbon Trust.
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We've always looked at the problem of sustainable consumption as needing to convince individuals to buy less. But the real challenge may be in convincing companies to sell less -- and to make what they sell more sustainable.
by Jeff Erikson
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On America Recycles Days, a coalition of labor and environmental groups have published a report showing how investing in a recycling infrastructure can cut greenhouse gas emissions and create new jobs.
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The new report brings a new methodology and different contenders for the world's greenest tech firm.
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After bringing a nearly defunct brand to the top tier of global sports fashion -- and the leading edge of corporate sustainability -- the former CEO of PUMA (and now Chief Sustainability Officer at its parent company) is still looking forward.
by Adam Aston
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The company that started out by creating rewards for recycling is seeking to become a Internet marketing platform that will reward people for how they shop, do laundry and even commute.
by Marc Gunther
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The obesity epidemic in this country is causing any number of serious health and economic problems -- but there may also be serious environmental problems associated with our waist-management failures.
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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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Economics, sustainability and reputation are among the top reasons that a number of US-based companies are starting to bring manufacturing jobs back home.
by Eric Lowitt
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Hewlett-Packard's latest sustainability report shows the company's CO2 emissions continuing to decline, while the company shined a spotlight on how it enables other businesses to achieve their own sustainability goals.
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One-hundred-eleven companies received Energy Star honors from the U.S. EPA in the annual awards program that recognizes the most the energy efficient businesses in a national program that now has more than 20,000 members.
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There’s a lot to be said for viewing the year just passed through the rear-view window, from runaway oil wells to crashing hybrids to political stalemate over climate change. Still, there’s much to be hopeful about. Here are 10 stories we published that represent significant, promising developments.<o p=''></o>
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by Joel Makower
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The industry association that represents roughly 34,000 pubs and brewers in the U.K. has laid out 10 sustainability commitments that cover emissions, water use, renewable energy and others, including some goals that double the U.K. government's own targets.
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General Electric Company plans to invest $432 million in the next four years to establish four design and manufacturing centers for energy efficient refrigerators in the U.S. and create 500 jobs in the process.
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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.