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Adriana Trujillo

The North Face Releases Global Responsible Down Standard | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 29 Jan 14
     
    The North Face announced the completion of its Responsible Down Standard (RDS), a tool that will provide a global standard through which the outdoor-gear retailer says any organization can evaluate and certify its full down supply chain.
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H&M Grabs More Control of Factories Amid Bangladesh Unrest (1) - Businessweek - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Nov 13
     
    H&M has negotiated agreements this year that make the Sweden-based fast-fashion retailer the sole customer of two factories in Bangladesh and a third in Cambodia, a move designed to give the retailer more control over working conditions and wages for the people who make its clothes. "We see these a little like test centers where we can try out different things that we can then push out on a larger scale in the entire supply chain," said social sustainability manager Anna Gedda
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Lego Pledges Supply Chain CO2 Cuts, Joins Climate Savers · Environmental Mana... - 0 views

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lego supply chain other company news climate change

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Nov 13
     
    Lego Group today pledged to work with its suppliers to reduce total carbon emissions as it joins the World Wildlife Federation's Climate Savers program. If Lego reduced CO2 emissions directly related to toy production at Lego factories by a minimum of 10 percent - the target - this would remove about 10,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions, the toy manufacturer says.
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General Mills commits to sustainable sourcing of half its raw materials by 2020 | Suppl... - 0 views

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general mills sourcing sustainable target 2020

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 03 Oct 13
     
    Cereals business General Mills has committed to sustainably source 100% of its top ten priority ingredients by 2020. And these ingredients represent 50% of the company's total raw material purchases.
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McDonald's USA Becomes First Restaurant Chain to Join GreenBlue's How2Recycle Label Pro... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 02 Apr 14
     
    GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) announced this week that McDonald's USA is the newest participant in its How2Recycle Label Program. A member of the SPC since 2005, McDonald's is the first national restaurant chain to join How2Recycle, a program dedicated to clearly and consistently communicating recyclability to the public.
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Lowe's to eliminate pesticides that hurt crop pollinating honeybees | Reuters - 0 views

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    Home improvement chain Lowe's Cos Inc will stop selling a type of pesticide suspected of causing a decline in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, following a few U.S. retailers who have taken similar steps last year.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Apr 15
     
    Home improvement chain Lowe's Cos Inc will stop selling a type of pesticide suspected of causing a decline in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, following a few U.S. retailers who have taken similar steps last year.
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Investors call for better fix to garment supply-chain risk | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 May 15
     
    Two years after the collapse of a garment factory killed 1,100 workers in Bangladesh, a coalition of investors argue that not enough has been done to remediate dangerous conditions.
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Lululemon, Patagonia Pledge End to Endangered Forest Fiber Use · Environmenta... - 0 views

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  • Designer Eileen Fisher, apparel companies Quiksilver, Prana, Patagonia, Lululemon Athletica and other global clothing brands with revenues totaling more than $4 billion have partnered with environmental organization Canopy to develop purchasing policies that aim to end the use of endangered forest fiber. The companies along with 14 eco-designers are working to craft forest-friendly purchasing policies that track which forests their rayon and viscose fabrics are from. The group also will work to eliminate controversial forest fiber from their supply chains.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 04 Nov 13
     
    Designer Eileen Fisher, apparel companies Quiksilver, Prana, Patagonia, Lululemon Athletica and other global clothing brands with revenues totaling more than $4 billion have partnered with environmental organization Canopy to develop purchasing policies that aim to end the use of endangered forest fiber. The companies along with 14 eco-designers are working to craft forest-friendly purchasing policies that track which forests their rayon and viscose fabrics are from. The group also will work to eliminate controversial forest fiber from their supply chains.
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Patagonia weaves Fair Trade practices into supply chain | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 04 Nov 13
     
    Patagonia will offer 9 styles of Fair Trade Certified apparel in its fall 2014 lineup. As part of the effort, Patagonia will contribute a portion of revenues from sales of Fair Trade items to the Indian workers that produced them.
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Unilever, WRI Partner to End Tropical Deforestation Through Supply Chain Transparency |... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 09 Sep 14
     
    Unilever and the World Resources Institute are partnering to increase transparency in agricultural commodity supply chains with the goal of ending tropical deforestation. The partnership will enable Unilever and its suppliers to use the Global Forest Watch Commodities platform to monitor forest cover change around commodity supply areas and processing facilities such as palm oil mills.
Del Birmingham

Unilever, WRI Partner to End Tropical Deforestation · Environmental Managemen... - 0 views

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Unilever WRI partner deforestation supply chain commodity palm oil

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  • Del Birmingham on 03 Sep 14
     
    Unilever and the World Resources Institute have partnered to increase transparency in agricultural commodity supply chains with the aim to end tropical deforestation.
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Wilmar opens palm oil supplies to scrutiny to protect forests | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 23 Jan 15
     
    Wilmar International Ltd. , the world's largest palm oil processor, opened its supply chains to outside scrutiny on Thursday in what environmentalists called an unprecedented step to help safeguard tropical forests. Singapore-based Wilmar said it would give outsiders, from customers to environmentalists worried about deforestation, access to online maps showing where it buys palm oil at more than 800 mills in Indonesia and Malaysia.
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How Business Leaders Can Drive Seafood Supply Chains Toward Sustainability - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 02 Jul 14
     
    Truly committed companies have shortened their supply chains and focused on domestic sourcing. Bon Appétit is a great example. Their Fish to Fork program goes beyond a purchase commitment on paper to getting in the trenches to source fish that meets their corporate values. That means buying fish that is low on the trophic scale, meets their definition of "local" (both in the number of miles out to sea and across land that fish travels) and favors small boat operators.
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In 2016, Intel's Entire Supply Chain Will Be Conflict-Free - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jan 16
     
    Buying electronics used to help fund war in Africa. Now big tech companies like Intel are working to make sure their money isn't used for destruction.
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Dell Moves Even Closer to a Closed-Loop Supply Chain - 0 views

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    As a society, we are a long way from having an information technology industry that is anywhere near a closed-loop system, but Dell has been among the companies at the forefront of this movement.
Del Birmingham

Nestlé verifies three-quarters of its supply chain as deforestation-free | 20... - 0 views

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business Nestle deforestation-free goal three-quarters supply chain achieved

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  • Del Birmingham on 30 Apr 19
     
    More than three-quarters (77 percent) of Nestlé's agricultural commodities are verified as deforestation-free, the company announced Tuesday.
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BASF, Cargill, P&G and GIZ collaborate to drive production of sustainable certified coc... - 0 views

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    BASF has partnered with Cargill, Procter & Gamble and German Development Agency GIZ to build a sustainable and transparent supply chain for coconut oil in the Philippines and Indonesia. The partnership is organized under a German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) program.
Del Birmingham

How Apple is moving its supply chain toward clean energy | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 29 Jun 17
     
    Two years ago, Apple embarked on an ambitious plan to help its biggest suppliers switch to clean power sources. As of early June, the tech giant has managed to get eight partners on board.
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Canopy Releases Viscose Producer Progress on Deforestation-Free Supply Chains | Sustain... - 1 views

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canopy add fashion deforestation NGO

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 29 Nov 17
     
    As part of its CanopyStyle initiative, environmental NGO Canopy has released an updated and expanded edition of its Hot Button Report, a ranking of eleven viscose and rayon producers that represent 70 percent of global viscose production. The report is the first tool of its kind to enable fashion brands and retailers to robustly assess producers' impacts on the world's forests, as well as their leadership in forging solutions to eliminate endangered forest fiber from the rayon and viscose supply chain.
Del Birmingham

Unilever CEO: For sustainable business, go against 'mindless consumption' | Marketplace... - 0 views

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deforestation palm oil beef soy paper pulp consumption

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  • "Most of the activity that actually touches society is happening in the supply chain," says Polman, "and that's why we take responsibility from sustainable sourcing to sustainable living." The company looks to find materials from sustainable sources, but then also looks to encourage sustainable choices on the consumer end.
  • A similar effort is aims at ending illegal deforestation. Unilever and other companies "made a commitment not to sell anything anymore from illegal deforestation by the year 2020 -- soy, paper, pulp, beef, palm oil. And if a big association representing $3-4 trillion of consumer sales makes that commitment, it sends a very strong signal into the whole value chain," he says
  • Unilever and other companies "made a commitment not to sell anything anymore from illegal deforestation by the year 2020 -- soy, paper, pulp, beef, palm oil.
  • Del Birmingham on 17 Jun 13
     
    Unilever goal aims at ending illegal deforestation. Unilever and other companies "made a commitment not to sell anything anymore from illegal deforestation by the year 2020 -- soy, paper, pulp, beef, palm oil.
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