CONSUMER BEHAVIOR CHANGE -
Levi Strauss, The Children’s Place and Kontoor Brands have launched a pilot program aimed at ending gender-based harassment at five factories owned and operated by supplier Nien Hsing Textile Co. Ltd., in Lesotho.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
Big data is now helping Barry Callebaut improve its farmer support programs in typically low-tech environments such as cocoa farms.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
Published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the sharing economy, Generation Share captures 200 untold stories of how sharing models are saving and transforming the lives of millions across the world.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
The new short documentary, Street Surfers, explores the lives and livelihoods of the young men indirectly serving the environment through recycling as a means of income.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
In conversation with Dr Tomaso Ceccarelli and Dr Elias Eyasu Fantahun — winners of the 2019 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
The PepsiCo Foundation’s US$2M grant to Ciudad Saludable will support recyclers and their organizations to become part of the recycling system within the country.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS -
H&M’s move towards transparency has been praised by competitors and consumers alike. But other firms looking to emulate this heightened visibility approach should understand that transparency is merely the end goal in a multi-step process.
ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE -
At SB’19 Detroit, Burt's Bees, Caesars Entertainment, Dave’s Killer Bread, Gap, Kellogg, Patagonia, P&G and more shared insights and strategies aimed at addressing governance inside and outside their organizations.
ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE -
As part of our commitment to exploring the intersections of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and sustainable practices, three of our leaders will take part in discussions on the topic next week at SB'19 Detroit.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
The Body Shop is launching its first Community Trade Recycled Plastic from Bengaluru, India. Along with fighting plastic pollution, the initiative aims to drive social change and help empower up to 2,500 waste pickers in Bengaluru.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS -
On the sixth anniversary of the devastating Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed over 1,100 garment workers, Fashion Revolution’s most recent Transparency Index indicates slow progress across the industry.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
Largest private sector investment to date will prepare next generation of global workforce with education and training, build financially stable communities and help break the cycle of poverty.
CIRCULAR ECONOMY -
Not only can girls earn money for themselves and their families, they can also access farmer training and classes on a range of subjects, including financial literacy, reproductive health, farming and entrepreneurship.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Change Please is empowering London’s homeless by training them to be baristas — providing full barista training, jobs paying London Living Wage, and support with housing, bank accounts and mental wellbeing.
FINANCE & INVESTMENT -
CNote's new impact investment vehicle provides funding to underserved women of color and low-income women entrepreneurs across the US.
SUPPLY CHAIN -
New Fairtrade Foundation campaign calls on the UK government and companies to end ‘shameful’ exploitation of cocoa farmers by 2030, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
COLLABORATION & CO-CREATION -
Collaboration will allow companies to gain data-backed insight into worker treatment in their supply chains.
ORGANIZATIONAL GOVERNANCE -
As part of our CSR strategy, we strategically aligned our programming based on three Sustainable Development Goals.
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS -
JUST Capital and Forbes today released the 2018 list of America’s Most JUST Companies, an annual ranking of the 1,000 largest publicly traded US corporations on the issues Americans care about most, including fair pay and good benefits, customer treatment and privacy, beneficial products, environmental impact, job creation, and community support in the US and abroad, as well as ethical leadership and long-term financial growth.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY -
Next week, at the COP24 climate summit in Poland, a Swedish startup is set to unveil what it hails as the world's first carbon-negative fuel.
NextFuel briquettes