SB Launches Voyager Program to Accelerate Major Business Transformations Through Community Support

Sustainable Brands® (SB) launches SB Voyager today, a new program supporting businesses that face significant challenges related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance and reputation. This latest offering, a precursor to the SB Corporate Member Network, is designed to help companies, which do not yet meet the full qualifications for membership, overcome those challenges and fuel their transformation.

Bacardi Bemoans Brand Greenwashing Stunts

Consumers are more sensitive to greenwashing as brands continue to ride the pro-environment bandwagon, according to 42BELOW global brand manager Kane Stanford. Speaking to AdNews on the subject, which is when brands use marketing to mislead consumers into thinking they are environmentally friendly, Stanford said greenwashing can have the opposite effect if done wrong.

How Electrical Distribution Networks Can Contribute to a Low-Carbon Future

Climate change is a rapidly growing global concern. Therefore, new, more stringent regulations to reduce CO2 emissions will be introduced to allow a massive deployment of distributed energy resources, including the incorporation of electric vehicles. Electrical distribution utilities will therefore face problems in managing their networks and will need to adopt new solutions. This paper offers modern strategies for leveraging smart grid and microgrid tools, as well as more environmentally-friendly switchgear, and a circular economy approach, in order to help electrical distribution utilities meet and exceed regulatory targets toward a low-carbon future.

Sparking Stakeholder Joy: How Materiality Can Tidy Up Sustainability Reporting

Using Marie Kondo’s methods of tidying house, an organization can approach sustainability reporting in an orderly way, sparking stakeholder joy.

Mohawk’s New York Showroom Achieves Two Prestigious Green Building Certifications

To meet the stringent requirements of both certifications, the world’s leading producer and distributor of quality commercial flooring implemented unique measures to support employee health and wellness and incorporate responsible nature-inspired design. These efforts included: sourcing products that were either Red List-free with a Declare Label or had an Environmental Product Declaration and/or Health Product Declaration; integrating an indoor herb and plant garden; specifying daylight harvesting light sensors with energy-efficient LED lighting; incorporating natural daylight throughout; stocking healthy food options for employees and guests; ensuring indoor air quality and offering complimentary off-site gym memberships to showroom employees.

Utilizing Micro-Enterprise to Sustain Safe Water

Safe Water Network, supported by funding from the Pentair Foundation, works with local entrepreneurs to manage filtration systems across India. These small enterprises allow low-income families access to safe water at a price which is affordable to them.

A Smart Solution to Wasted Truck Journeys

Until 2009, double-deck trailers would deliver consignments of 20 tractor cabs built at CNH Industrial’s factory in Croix, north-eastern France, to the New Holland Agriculture plant in Basildon, UK, where the manufacture of tractors is completed. Because the trailers had top decks that were fixed in place and the finished tractors were too tall to fit, they would drive back to Croix empty.

BIER Member Spotlight: Michael Wilson

The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) highlights their members' beverage industry sustainability insights and ideas in their BIER Member Spotlight series on a monthly basis. These spotlights include their answers to questions about their company's sustainability achievements and strategy, practical insights from BIER, interesting facts, and more.

ANN SACKS® Collaborates With Kohler Wastelab on the Crackle Collection

ANN SACKS has partnered with parent company, Kohler Co., to create The Crackle Collection by Kohler WasteLAB, an innovative tile series that employs Kohler’s unfired pottery cull as its medium, transforming the waste into a responsive tile body.

Forest Recovery: Marlin’s Environmental Legacy

At Goldcorp, we are committed to managing our impact on the environment. After a mine’s closure, our aim is to leave a sustainable legacy for present and future generations that we can be proud of. Goldcorp’s Marlin mine, Guatemala’s first large scale gold mine, closed in 2017 and has transitioned into a reclaimed and reforested area of biodiversity interest and research.

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