Sustainability
Balancing impacts through responsible business practices, supply chains and energy use.
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10-05-10
Indigenous to be first USA premium fashion brand certified Fair Trade
While many companies strive to cut costs at every opportunity and find ever-lower sources of labor and manufacturing, one fashion company is celebrating its commitment to paying its labor force a fair wage in a time of global economic worry.
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10-04-10
PeopleTowels and the Breast Cancer Fund Collaborate for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
PeopleTowels (peopletowels.com), the eco-friendly and sustainable on-the-go alternative to paper towels, and the Breast Cancer Fund, a groundbreaking organization working to eliminate the environmental causes of brea...
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10-01-10
The 8th Annual Glynwood Harvest Awards Honor Innovation and Leadership in the Sustainable Food Movement
Glynwood, the not-for-profit organization whose mission is to save farming, has announced the 2010 winners of its annual Harvest Awards. The Harvest Awards were created by Glynwood in order to highlight innovative work being done to increase access to fresh, locally-produced...
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09-30-10
Global GRI Certification in Sustainability Reporting Comes to New Mexico!
ISOS Group, a U.S. GRI Certified Training Partner of the Global Reporting Initiative and Concept Green of New Mexico have teamed up to co-host a GRI Certification in Sustainability Reporting course in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The course takes place December 2-3 at the Hotel ...
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09-30-10
"Bitter" Chocolate: New Report on Child Labor in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana Offers Further Evidence that Hershey, Cocoa Industry, are Failing to Address Abusive Child Labor and Human Trafficking
The Payson Center for International Development at Tulane University released its fourth annual report on Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. The report underscores the lack ...
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09-30-10
Cascades Tissue Group Named "Environmental Strategy of the Year" Award Finalist by Pulp & Paper International
Cascades Tissue Group, North America's fourth largest producer of tissue paper, announces that it has been shortlisted for the prestigious "Environmental Strategy of the Year" company prize in the 2010 Pulp & Paper International (PPI) Awards. Cascades Tissue Group also r...
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09-29-10
First of its Kind Law Gives Bid Advantages to Sustainable Small Business
The City of Cleveland has enacted the first law in the U.S. providing advantages for sustainable companies bidding on City contracts. Cleveland's 'buy local and sustainable law' puts sustainable companies' bid advantages on par with those given to minority (MBE) and female b...
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09-29-10
Governance & Accountability Institute Announces Launch of SustainabilityHQ(TM)
Governance & Accountability Institute, Inc. (www.GA-Institute.com) today announces the launch of its sustainability and ESG knowledge management platform SustainabilityHQ (
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09-28-10
Largest North American Fair Trade Conference Activates 'Solutionaries'
From September 10-12, 2010, the Fair Trade Futures Conference brought together 762 entrepreneurs, students, advocates, artisans, farmers, faith community members, and concerned citizens from five continents f...
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09-24-10
Global Postal Industry Cuts Over Half A Million Tonnes of Co2 in One Year
The postal industry today reports that it cut its CO2 emissions by over half a million tonnes in 2009, on 2008 figures. The findings were made public in the Postal Sector Sustainability Report 2010, published today by the International Post Corporation (IPC).
