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BP Drops the Ball, Nike Scores
The BP oil spill is only one example of recent hidden risks that are increasingly bubbling into corporate bottom lines and making shareholders testy about companies’ untracked social and environmental...
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PepsiCo’s Water-Saving Mission Flows Beyond Its Factories
To meet ambitious savings and conservation goals, PepsiCo explores ways to deeply reduce its use of water in operations with innovations that include tapping potatoes for their moisture at a Walkers...
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4 Ways to Boost Sustainability in the Merchandising Supply Chain
There are several simple, effective ways merchandising supply chain companies can work with their clients to increase sustainability. Read the original post: 4 Ways to Boost Sustainability in the...
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Walmart Scores First Absolute Emission Reduction, but Lags on Goal
In 2009, Walmart’s absolute emissions at all stores fell, though only by 1 percent, for the first time. More: Walmart Scores First Absolute Emission Reduction, but Lags on Goal
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Radical Confidence: Leverage Points for Structural Change
The ability to change and reorganize the system — one of Donella Meadows’ 12 leverage points for change — is both one of the most difficult and most fundamentally important methods to make...
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A Closer Look at the Green City Index
Why did some cities nail top ratings in Siemens’ new Green City Index for North America, while others tanked and still others weren’t counted at all? NRDC’s Kaid Benfield takes a deep dive into the...
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World’s Oldest Person Found Thriving in the Amazon
Photo courtesy of Survival International While the Amazon rainforest is certainly known to be teeming with life, it turns out that the people who live there are too. Maria Lucimar Pereira, an...
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Honda Civic, Toyota Prius Earn Least-Toxic Car Scores
A new study about the potentially toxic off-gassing chemicals in vehicles — responsible for 'new car smell' — finds steady improvement across most vehicles, though cars from Mitsubishi, Chrysler and...
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