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Rainforest Alliance Certified Coffee Reached 4.5% of Global Market

April 12, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

McDonald’s, Caribou Coffee and Green Mountain Coffee are among the companies buying Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee — and attributing to the rapid growth in sustainable coffee sourcing. Last year, 375,000 metric tons of coffee, representing 4.5 percent of global production, was grown on Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, a 45 percent ... Read more »

Sodexo to Serve Eco-Labeled Seafood, Improve Supply Chain Sustainability

April 8, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sodexo will serve Marine Stewardship Council-certified seafood at 11 Washington, DC-area locations and has agreed to use the Real Food Calculator to increase supply-chain sustainability on all Sodexo-contracted campuses. The food services company says the following locations will participate in the sustainable seafood program, which begins this month: National Geographic, ... Read more »

Democrats Canvas Walmart, NFL, Apple on Climate Change Strategies

February 4, 2013February 4, 2013 by Leon Walker

Congressional Democrats’ Bicameral Task Force on Climate Change has written to Google, the NBA, the NFL, Walmart, Wells Fargo, the Clinton Global Initiative and more than 300 other organizations to canvas their opinions on combating global warming. The letter, which was also sent to companies including Whole Foods, Target, Ford, ... Read more »

Aqueduct Launches Global Water Risk Atlas

January 31, 2013March 14, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The World Resources Institute and companies including GE, Shell, Dow, United Technologies and DuPont have launched an online tool that maps water risks worldwide. The Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, developed by WRI and founding members of the Aqueduct Alliance, can help companies, investors and governments see how water stress will ... Read more »

McDonald’s to Serve Only Eco-Labeled Fish

January 25, 2013January 28, 2013 by Leon Walker

McDonald’s USA says it will become the first national restaurant chain to serve fish bearing the Marine Stewardship Council eco-label at all of its US locations. McDonald’s, which uses MSC-certified wild-caught Alaska Pollock for its Filet-O-Fish sandwich, will begin displaying the MSC ecolabel on product packaging, in-restaurant communications and external ... Read more »

WWF Publishes Guide to Responsible Commodities Investing

September 25, 2012September 25, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The WWF today released a guide to responsible investing in commodities. The report, The 2050 Criteria Guide to Responsible Investment in Agricultural, Forest, and Seafood Commodities, is backed by Credit Suisse and addresses 10 commodity sectors: aquaculture; beef; cotton; dairy; palm oil; soy; sugar; timber, pulp and paper; wild-caught seafood; ... Read more »

Consumers More Willing to Buy from Brands Using Renewable Energy

September 14, 2012September 14, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sixty two percent of consumers surveyed said they would be more willing to buy products from brands using wind energy, according to a study commissioned by turbine maker Vestas. The Global Consumer Wind Study 2012, an annual survey produced by TNS Gallup, also showed that 79 percent of consumers prefer ... Read more »

BASF Debuts Compostable Snack Bag at Seattle Mariners Game

September 6, 2012September 7, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chemical company BASF partnered with the Seattle Mariners to debut compostable snack bags at a baseball game yesterday. The first 10,000 fans that arrived at Safeco Field to see the Mariners take on the Boston Red Sox received a free bag of peanuts in BASF’s prototype packaging, developed with its ... Read more »

London 2012: McDonald’s Chooses Bioplastic Packaging, Will Recycle 75% of Building

July 31, 2012June 15, 2018 by Leon Walker

McDonald’s is using Novamont’s Mater-Bi bioplastic for the cups, cutlery, straws, lids and containers used at its Olympic park restaurant, in a bid to meet the sustainability goals of the 2012 Games, writes Plastic News. Mater-Bi is a biopolymer containing vegetable starches and oils. It is produced at Novamont’s plant ... Read more »

McDonald’s, AT&T, Hilton Execs Tell How To ‘Sell Sustainability’

July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sustainability officers and managers at McDonald’s, Novelis, AT&T, DuPont, EMC and Hilton Worldwide, among others, say one of the keys to selling sustainability inside their companies is to communicate environmental issues in language business leaders understand – not sustainability jargon, according to a new report that surveyed more than 30 ... Read more »

Kraft’s Oscar Mayer Pledges to Ban Pig Gestation Crates

July 9, 2012July 9, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Kraft Foods has said it will eliminate gestation crates from Oscar Mayer’s pork supply chain by 2022. The Humane Society of the United States described the new policy’s phase-in period as “lengthy,” but said that it applauds Kraft Foods’ decision to help improve conditions for its pigs. In the pork industry, ... Read more »

Domino’s, Unilever, Greggs Agree to Cut Food Waste 5%

June 27, 2012June 27, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Domino’s Pizza, Greene King, Greggs and Unilever Food Solutions along with 65 other UK hotels, restaurants, contract caterers and government departments have agreed to cut food and associated packaging waste five percent by 2015, the equivalent of about 100 million meals. The five percent reduction target contained in the Hospitality and Food ... Read more »

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