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The following is adapted from State of Green Business 2020, published by GreenBiz in partnership with Trucost, part of financial information and analytics giant S&P Global. Having moved from fringe, mostly academic conversations into the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies and the halls of parliament around the world, the idea of a circular economy is growing […]
Week in Review Commentary on this week’s news highlights begins at 6:08. 25 badass women shaking up the climate movement in 2020 Signs of progress for green chemistry Can this app solve our coffee cup problem? Features A Project Drawdown update: Here are the climate solutions we should draw on first (20:10) Jonathan Foley, executive […]
One of the many fascinating aspects of the war on plastics is the way in which it provides a near perfect case study for how change ebbs and flows through an organization. The pattern will be familiar to many who work in the sustainability space. First an issue grabs the headlines and sparks a public […]
This is an excerpt from “The Circular Economy Handbook: Realizing the Circular Advantage” by Peter Lacy, Jessica Long and Wesley Spindler. It is reprinted here with permission from Accenture Strategy. What’s driving the industry shift to circularity? The types and volume of industry-level circular activity vary widely. In general, consumer-facing industries have seen the largest […]
Week in Review Commentary on this week’s news highlights begins at 6:45. Stores are essential for the Loop reusable packaging program 5 hot technologies for cold trucking Inside Bill Weihl’s quest to give employees and job seekers a ‘ClimateVoice’ Features What will it take for brands to fix recycling (29:45) We all know the […]
In the roughly eight months since the Loop reusable packaging service has been up and running with pilot e-commerce consumers in select markets, there have been package design hiccups, retailer additions and product-line extensions. As an early adopter in Loop parent company TerraCycle’s home state of New Jersey, I’ve witnessed all of that firsthand. Now, […]
This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription. This week I want to talk about our coffee cup problem. Nearly two in every three Americans drink coffee, and many of us grab a cup to go. That’s a lot of cups. Because most disposable […]
Fast fashion brands drop new collections as often as every two weeks, illustrating the fast cycle of manufacturing, buying and disposing which drives the fashion industry’s wastefulness and polluting impact. In fact, it is estimated that more than half of the fast fashion produced is disposed of in under a year. But it appears that […]
This article is adapted from GreenBiz’s weekly newsletter, Circular Weekly, running Fridays. Subscribe here. These days, recycling gets all the attention. Yet while the world scoffs at global recycling rates and panics at plastic pollution, I often wonder when a similar wave of public outrage will arrive for recycling’s biological counterpart: the humble world of […]
The Report Report is a periodic article produced by Corporate Eco Forum, a by-invitation membership organization comprised of large, global companies that demonstrate a serious commitment at the senior executive level to sustainability as a business strategy issue. 2019 Industry Report on GHG Emissions (Consumer Technology Association, or CTA) tracks progress that 45 companies in the […]
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