Sustainability News & Insights

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October 8, 2014

Rockefellers divest from their oily past

Is John D. Rockefeller rolling over in his grave? One can’t help but wonder how the founder of Standard Oil, who led America into the...

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October 1, 2014

Simple but not easy

My role, as usual, was to give the American consumer perspective and answer the question, “How do we market this energy-conserving and/or...

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September 17, 2014

Linking CSR to your supply chain

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the World Resources Institute recently announced that they had brokered an alliance between a dozen large...

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August 20, 2014

Getting beyond incremental change

I go to a lot of conferences. And a consistent theme I’ve seen this year is incremental change: At sustainability conferences, companies...

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August 13, 2014

Toward a never-ending circle: The circular economy model

I recently read a report sponsored by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation that describes a new sustainable economic model called the “Circular...

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July 30, 2014

Transparency bites back

Restoration Hardware has recently garnered a lot of returns. This is not unusual for a mail-order business; however, the items landing on...