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Adriana Trujillo

Adidas Kicks Up PFC-Free Pledge, Partners with Bluesign · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    The adidas Group, whose brands include adidas, Reebok and TaylorMade, has partnered with bluesign technologies and committed to being 90 percent perfluorinated compound (PFC) free by June 15 and 99 percent PFC free by Dec. 31, 2017. The company has already committed to phase out the use of long-chain PFCs by no later than Jan. 1, 2015.
Adriana Trujillo

APP to support the protection and restoration of one million hectares of forest in Indonesia | APP - 0 views

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    Asia Pulp and Paper will restore and conserve 1 million hectares of Indonesian rainforest, targeting threatened species like orangutans, elephants, and tigers. The plan was developed with input from Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, and other environmental groups.
Adriana Trujillo

Mexico City's New Airport Will Be The Most Sustainable Airport Ever Built | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

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    When Mexico City's new international airport is finished in four years, it will be one of the largest in the world, spanning over half a million square meters. It will also be the most sustainable airport ever built. Instead of a group of average warehouse-like terminals, the airport will use a single giant structure wrapped in a unique skin that lets in natural light and air, collects rainwater, and provides incredible views of planes circling the sky.
Adriana Trujillo

Google, Facebook, Others Launch Sustainability Platform · Environmental Management & Sustainable Development News · Environmental Leader - 1 views

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    A group of 29 companies and organizations launched collectively.org, a website designed to engage millennials on environmental issues by showcasing examples of sustainability in art, culture, food, and technology. CEF members involved in the initiative include Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Facebook, Google, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce and Unilever.
Adriana Trujillo

Climate change front and center at UN summit - CNN.com - 0 views

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    The first item on the long list of issues to be addressed at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week: Climate change. On Tuesday President Barack Obama will address a group of world leaders at the U.N. Climate Summit, a one-day meeting hosted by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and open to leaders of all 193 U.N. member states, though not all will attend, plus members of the private sector.
Del Birmingham

Lego ends Shell partnership following Greenpeace campaign | Environment | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    Toymaker will not renew current multimillion pound deal, that sees Shell-branded Lego sets sold at petrol stations, following a viral video against Arctic drilling by the green group
Adriana Trujillo

Humane League Campaigns Prompt Sweeping Improvements to Animal Welfare in Food Industry | Sustainable Brands - 1 views

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    After less than two intensive months of campaigning for change in the foodservice industry, The Humane League has proudly announced further progress. Compass Group has announced it will join Aramark and Sodexo, the nation's largest foodservice companies, in making major changes to their animal welfare policies.
Adriana Trujillo

'Let's Make Air Pollution' Visible Campaign Aims to Improve UK Air Quality | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Deliver Change, a UK-based non-profit focused on sustainable technology projects, launched a campaign this week called "Let's make air pollution visible," which aims to bring together businesses, policy makers and local groups to solve the problem of air pollution in the UK. Deliver Change is also piloting its air-quality monitoring network, AirSensa, to collect data on air pollution in UK cities. 
Adriana Trujillo

Fur Is Back in Fashion and Debate - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Fashion houses and animal-rights campaigners are squaring off again over the ethical status of fur, which some designers and trade groups are seeking to reposition as an environmentally sustainable material. "There will be fur long after the last oil wells are empty," said Alan Herscovici of the Fur Council of Canada
Adriana Trujillo

Lego Makes Good on Sustainable Materials Pledge · Environmental Leader · Environmental Management News - 1 views

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    The Lego Group is making good on its promise to spend 1 billion Danish Krone ($150.5 million) to develop new sustainable materials for its plastic Lego toys and packaging materials. This includes the establishment of the Lego Sustainable Materials Centre in Billund, Denmark.
Adriana Trujillo

'From big to strong': China sees competitive edge in green cars | Reuters - 1 views

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    Chinese automakers plan to spend almost $8 billion this year on developing all-electric and hybrid automobiles, an analysis shows. The government is setting targets and offering incentives, believing that "developing new-energy vehicles is the Chinese auto industry's only road to grow from being big to being strong," said Xu Heyi, chairman of Beijing Automotive Group
Adriana Trujillo

Study to examine recovery of flexible packaging - RT - Recycling Today - 0 views

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    Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble, and others have sponsored Materials Recovery for the Future-a research effort to increase the recycling and recovery rates for flexible film and packaging. The group plans to publish results in the second quarter of 2016.
Adriana Trujillo

Europe begins smart water project rollouts | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Acciona Agua, the water services division of Acciona, a global renewable energy, infrastructure and water services group, will deploy Spain's first smart water grid in the western city of Cáceres as part of a European project that aims to apply new technologies to the management of drinking water networks.
Adriana Trujillo

Greenpeace: APP Making Progress on Forest Conservation Pledge · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Asia Pulp and Paper Group, one of the largest paper producers in the world, is serious about its pledge to end the clearing of natural forests, according to a progress review of the company's Forest Conservation Policy.Greenpeace International, a long-time critic of APP and the organization that conducted the progress review, is cautiously optimistic and warns that the company's commitments are likely to stand or fall by the quality of conservation and management recommendations to the company's senior management.
Adriana Trujillo

Toxic 100 Names Top Corporate Air Polluters · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Precision Castparts, DuPont, Biomet, the Bayer Group and Dow Chemicals are the top five corporate air polluters in the US, say researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Adriana Trujillo

Match 'ethical' coffee with 'forest-friendly' food, Starbucks told | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific - 0 views

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    Forests and consumer campaign groups have called on the global coffee chain to step up its sustainability commitment and ensure its baked products do not use palm oil grown from destroyed forests and tiger habitats.
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainable Supply Chain Summit Europe | Ethical Corporation - 0 views

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    (Ethical Corporation) analyzes responses from 415 members in Ethical Corporation's global network to identify prominent supply chain sustainability trends. The analysis finds that around 24% of the respondent group cited industry collaboration as the most significant opportunity to advance supply chain sustainability; 16% cited the circular economy as the most significant opportunity in coming years.
Adriana Trujillo

UPS Makes Substantial Move To Renewable Fuels - 1 views

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    UPS reached an agreement to purchase 46 million gallons of renewable diesel for its vehicle fleet over the next 3 years, in partnership with Neste, Renewable Energy Group, and Solazyme. The company plans to replace more than 12% of its purchased gasoline with alternative fuels by the end of 2017.
Del Birmingham

Apple, Microsoft, Motorola wring new revenue out of e-waste | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    All of these high-profile technology companies are harvesting new revenue out of discarded and end-of-life gadgets, rather than looking at them just as liabilities that require responsible recycling. What's more, all three are among the roughly 100 organizations using Hong Kong's Li Tong Group (aka LTG) to get the job done.
Adriana Trujillo

Subaru Campaign Aims to Get Public to Stop Trashing Our National Parks | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Subaru has partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a national park advocacy group, to test zero-landfill practices in Yosemite, Grand Teton and Denali National Parks. If successful, there are plans to expand the program to include all of the National Park System's 408 areas.
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