Leading Brands and Retailers Partner to Increase Fair Trade Offerings as Part of Sustainable Coffee Challenge

Fair Trade USA, the leading certifier of Fair Trade products in North America, in collaboration with the Sustainable Coffee Challenge, announces a group of joint commitments with major partners deeply committed to sustainable coffee sourcing and improved farmer livelihoods. This announcement from Target, Chartwells Higher Ed, UCLA, Bon Appetit Management Company, Atlas Coffee Roasters, and the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council comes at a pivotal moment for coffee farmers around the world who have been struggling with low C-Market prices. The unstable coffee market has millions of producers looking for the price assurances and community development funds provided by the Fair Trade model.

HP Pledges to Make Every Page Printed Forest Positive, Carbon Neutral and Part of a Circular Economy

Today at HP Reinvent, the company announced its bold vision for print sustainability – pledging that every page printed with HP will support a forest positive future, carbon neutrality, and materials designed to reduce the impact to the planet.

Harnessing a Spirit of Innovation and Creativity

“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”
As the world is still debating the origin of this quote, what we all agree is that innovation happens when people see things differently.
It is for this reason CLP encourages employees to look beyond the ordinary and to find new solutions to carry our business forward.

BAT’s 2018 Sustainability Report Underlines Group’s Commitment to Transforming Tobacco

British American Tobacco (BAT) has published on 15 March its 2018 Sustainability Report. The Report outlines the Group’s work and progress across its three strategic focus areas of harm reduction, sustainable agriculture and farmer livelihoods, and corporate behaviour.

Ross Professor: There's Something Terribly Wrong With How We Make Decisions About Climate Change

For over two decades, Joe Árvai has studied how we actually make choices — compared to how we think we make them. It will come as no surprise to even the most casual observers that the gulf between them can be large. In a recent study, Árvai and Douglas Bessette of Michigan State University found a clever way to measure this phenomenon. Motivated by the “ethical oil” debate in Canada, they designed a study that would allow drivers to view a menu of gasoline options from different countries.

Bacardi Receives First Certification in Puerto Rico from Wildlife Habitat Council for Conservation and Education Efforts

Bats are more than just an icon on a label for Bacardi. The company, synonymous with the world’s only flying mammal, stepped up its environmental stewardship efforts at the world’s largest premium rum distillery in Cataño, Puerto Rico to create a full-circle bat conservation campaign in 2018. The initiative was applauded during the annual WHC Conservation Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, where Bacardi demonstrated its commitment to environmental stewardship by securing the WHC Conservation Certification. This is the first WHC certification for a program in Puerto Rico and the second certification for a Bacardi facility, the first was for the program at Bacardi Bottling Corporation in Jacksonville, FL, which recently achieved re-certification.

This School is Serving as a Sustainable Safe Haven for 240 Girls in Ghana

Ghana's Volta region has the lowest quality education in the country, and lack of facilities means 87% of girls in primary school do not continue to secondary school. Tetra Tech partnered with Voices of African Mothers and Cornell University Sustainable Design’s Sustainable Education Ghana to give girls a safe and sustainable place to receive an education. Watch the video above to learn more about this project and partnership.

Stella McCartney, Christopher Raeburn Among Winners of Inaugural CO10 Sustainability Award

The designer has just marked his 10th year in business and last year was named global creative director of Timberland. Under his new role, Raeburn will work with Timberland on footwear, apparel and accessories to bring his sustainability ethos into Timberland’s creative strategy and retail spaces.

North Carolina Schoolchildren Give Mohawk Group and Karastan a Hand in Sustainability

Rockingham County students in North Carolina recently joined Mohawk Group and Karastan to commemorate the installation of an on-campus SmartFlower™ solar energy unit with a collaborative hands-on art project facilitated by plant employees. On a canvas backdrop using eco-friendly paint, students from Morehead High School and Central Elementary School covered their hands in different colors and imprinted them around a message embodying Mohawk’s commitment to sustainability: “We Believe in Handprints Over Footprints.”

Observations for a Better World – Increasing Awareness, Resource Efficiency, and Safety in Societies

Vaisala, a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, has published its Annual Report 2018. The report integrates strategy, value creation, financial statements, governance, and sustainability information all into one coherent report.

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