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Adriana Trujillo

Fair Trace Tool Makes Supply Chain Transparency Fashionable - 0 views

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    Fashionistas now, for the first time, can see beyond clothing labels with the Fair Trace Tool developed by my company, fair trade fashion retailer INDIGENOUS along with Worldways Social Media. This new tool, a QR code on hang-tags, offers transparency throughout the garment's supply chain, including a glimpse of the artisans who actually made it and insight into the product's social impact. The content is delivered in text, video and animated map format.
Adriana Trujillo

PepsiCo, Unilever Launch Sustainable Agricultural Tool · Environmental Manage... - 0 views

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    PepsiCo, Unilever, Heineken and other members of the Cool Farm Institute have launched an online tool to help farmers assess and improve the environmental and economic performance of their businesses.
Adriana Trujillo

Ecodesk Launches Conflict Minerals Monitoring Tool · Environmental Management... - 0 views

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  • As each supplier completes a declaration on its sustainability profile, data is automatically connected to a customer dashboard,
  • enabling businesses to analyze conflict mineral use by geography, industry and by individual smelters at a glance.
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  • Ecodesk says it can help customers and their suppliers report once, but share many times, through its profile-based platform, thus avoiding having to complete repeat questionnaires.
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    Ecodesk launched a monitoring tool for businesses to track conflict minerals in supply chain. They want it to be an eary warning system for non-financial factors in supply chain, providing an understanding of potential problems
Adriana Trujillo

New Tool Helps Businesses Act on Sustainable Development Goals | Sustainable Brands - 1 views

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    GRI, the UN Global Compact and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development have launched a new tool to help companies navigate and contribute to a new set of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations last week. The SDG Compass is a guide that companies can use to align their strategies with the relevant SDGs, and measure and manage their impacts. It is supported by a live and constantly updated inventory of business indicators.
Adriana Trujillo

New Palm Oil Risk Tool Allows Companies to Better Identify Deforestation Risk | Sustain... - 1 views

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    Using automatic analysis, Global Forest Watch's new PALM Risk Tool determines the level of risk that a particular mill is using palm oil from illegally deforested sources, making it a powerful platform for companies to not only better understand their supply chains, but figure out how to mitigate risk and allocate limited resources towards achieving zero-deforestation goals.
Adriana Trujillo

Tool Helps Manufacturers Use Safer Chemicals · Environmental Management & Sus... - 1 views

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    The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute will offer a material health certificate, a tool for manufacturers across industries to avoid chemicals of high concern, shift to safer ones in their products and encourage product and supply chain transparency.
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Opens Access to Higg Index Tools to SME Brands, Retailers... - 2 views

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    The industry group Sustainable Apparel Coalition has opened use of its Higg Index suite of tools for measuring and evaluating supply chain impact to non-member small and medium-sized (SME) brands and retailers. SMEs may now take advantage of a special licence for full access to the Higg Index. The coalition, which has over 180 apparel, footwear and home textile company members, expects that increasing the number of SMEs participating in the Index will bolster reporting and impact a wider spectrum of the supply chain.
Adriana Trujillo

New Mapping Tool Links Chinese Factory Environmental Impact to Brand Name Retailers; Bo... - 2 views

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    Today, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in the U.S. and the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) in China launched the IPE Green Supply Chain Map, the only tool in the world to openly link leading multinational corporations to their suppliers' environmental performance.
Del Birmingham

Supply chain traceability steps up a level, with Gap, Target, others on the map | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Supply chain data gaps have inspired numerous industry-led initiatives dedicated to massive supply chain data-gathering and sharing projects, such as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), and it has inspired dozens of cloud services specializing in traceability, ranging from EcoVadis to SourceMap. And barely one month into 2018, several of these tools are attaining new levels of maturity and transparency.
Del Birmingham

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Adds Materials Web Tool · Environmental Managem... - 0 views

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    Rates materials in apparel an footwear manufacturing for their environmental sustainability.
Adriana Trujillo

New forest satellite monitoring tool set for take off | Innovation Forum - 1 views

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    A new radar and satellite system will give brands greater forest commodity sourcing transparency Companies that source commodities from areas potentially at risk of deforestation will have a new weapon in their armoury from the start of 2017. Starling is a high-resolution satellite auditing service that can be used to check forest management practices, in particular in source countries for palm oil, such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
Adriana Trujillo

Corporate clean energy boosters RE100, RMI join forces | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    The Rocky Mountain Institute's Business Renewables Center (BRC) is working together with RE100, led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, to accelerate the procurement of renewable energy by some of the world's most influential companies. The partnership aims to increase renewable demand (buyers), find renewable opportunities (developers and intermediaries), and provide the means to bridge the two through tools and knowledge.
Adriana Trujillo

RE100 cements partnership with Rocky Mountain Institute's Business Renewables Center - 0 views

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    The Climate Group-led RE100 program has partnered with Rocky Mountain Institute's Business Renewables Center to increase renewable demand, find renewable opportunities, and provide the means to bridge the two through tools and knowledge.
Adriana Trujillo

5 companies leading the charge on net zero building | GreenBiz - 1 views

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    Last month, the World Green Building Council announced its ambitious new project, Advancing Net Zero, which aims to make all buildings net zero by 2050. Here are five companies that are providing first-rate technology, building products and services that have been and will continue to be important tools for the evolution of net zero buildings.
Adriana Trujillo

The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability - 0 views

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    Shareholder proposals are an effective tool for driving companies to tackle environmental and ethical issues, according to new research. "Investors can be a driver for social responsibility and -- at least when focused on material issues -- can improve both societal and financial outcomes at the same time," writes George Serafeim.
Adriana Trujillo

Industry Associations Launch Conflict Minerals Compliance Center · Environmen... - 0 views

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    A group of industry associations representing a total of 15,000 businesses launched the Conflict Minerals Resource Center, a website with compliance tools for new conflict mineral regulations
Adriana Trujillo

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

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    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.
Adriana Trujillo

Wildlife in the city: Urban biodiversity takes flight | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    A movement is afoot to help cosmopolitan species thrive, with help from surveys and tools like i-Tree and eBird.
Adriana Trujillo

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

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    On Wednesday, The North Face announced the completion of its Responsible Down Standard, 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.
Adriana Trujillo

Stonyfield Shifts to Innovative Supply Chain Management with SupplyShift | Sustainable ... - 0 views

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    Organic dairy producer Stonyfield Farm, Inc. announced this week that it will utilize a new tool to manage its supply chain: SupplyShift™ - a new, cloud-based, supply chain management platform focused on sustainability, but flexible enough to assess any procurement need or supply chain risks.
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