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Running Shoes’ Carbon Footprint ‘More than 60% Manufacturing’

May 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

More than two-thirds of a running shoe’s carbon footprint can come from manufacturing processes, with a smaller percentage arising from acquiring or extracting raw materials, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers. The MIT team says a typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. The ... Read more »

GreenEarth Cleaning Joins Sustainable Apparel Coalition

May 21, 2013May 21, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

GreenEarth Cleaning has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition and says it will use the group’s sustainability measurement tool, the Higg Index, as a standard-setting mechanism to improve its environmentally friendly dry cleaning system. The Higg Index is an open source, indicator-based tool that allows suppliers, manufacturers, brands and retailers to ... Read more »

Climate-Change Related Weather Pounds Insurers

May 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US insurance industry expects climate-change related storms and weather occurrences to worsen — but isn’t doing much to combat global warming, the New York Times reports. Peter Höppe, who heads Geo Risks Research at the reinsurance giant Munich Re, cites studies that forecast a rise in future summer droughts, ... Read more »

Nike, Disney Inaugural Partners of Otis Sustainability Alliance

May 6, 2013May 6, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

Eddie Bauer, Disney, Nike, Patagonia, Quiksilver and Todd Oldham are the first apparel brands to join the Otis Sustainability Alliance, a partnership between the fashion industry and higher education that aims to advance environmental, social and economic sustainability. The Otis College of Art and Design launched the alliance Saturday at ... Read more »

Water Innovation Competition Pairs Startups, Food Companies

May 3, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Imagine H2O has announced an initiative to establish pilot programs for water startups — the winners of its food and agriculture competition — with commercial growers and food processors in California’s Central Valley. The group’s fifth annual program aims to advance innovation in using, supplying and treating water to improve ... Read more »

Grocery Delivery Services Cut CO2 Emissions Up To 75%

April 30, 2013April 30, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Grocery deliver services — such as those offered by Amazon, Safeway, FreshDirect and Google — can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 20 to 75 percent compared with individual household trips to the store, according to University of Washington researchers. The study, published in the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, ... Read more »

Nike, NASA Launch Sustainable Materials Challenge

April 29, 2013April 29, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Nike, along with partners NASA, the US Agency for International Development and the US Department of State, have challenged materials manufacturers and others to create new, sustainable materials. About 150 billion garments were produced around the world in 2010 and by 2015 the global apparel industry is expected to produce ... Read more »

LaserShip Joins EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership

April 26, 2013April 26, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

LaserShip has joined the EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership, a program that reduces transportation-related emissions by creating incentives to improve supply chain fuel efficiency. As part of the initiative, SmartWay provides the tools and framework with which LaserShip and other member carriers can benchmark operations, track fuel consumption and improve performance. ... Read more »

Nike, Starbucks: Climate Change Policy is ‘Economic Opportunity’

April 11, 2013August 3, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Nike, Starbucks, Ikea and 30 other companies have signed a statement urging federal policymakers to take action on climate change by promoting clean energy, boosting efficiency and limiting carbon emissions. Climate change policy is an economic opportunity, says Anne Kelly, director of Ceres’ Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy ... Read more »

Nike Supply Chain to Use Bluesign Sustainability Tools

March 20, 2013March 20, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Nike has partnered with Bluesign Technologies in an effort to use more sustainable materials and chemistries in its products. The partnership makes available Bluesign’s assessments tools and data to Nike’s materials suppliers. Previously, to access these tools and data, a brand would have to take its supply chain through individual ... 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 »

Gap, Calvin Klein, Levi’s Linked to Toxic ‘Textile Town,’ Greenpeace Says

December 11, 2012July 17, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Textile suppliers for Levi Strauss & Co, Zara and many other global clothing brands likely dump a wide range of hazardous chemicals into China’s wastewater systems, according to a Greenpeace study. In Toxic Threads: Putting Pollution on Parade, Greenpeace says its investigation, which focused on the discharge of effluent from ... Read more »

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