Context-based sustainability measures, manages and reports the sustainability performance of organizations that takes contextually relevant social, economic and environmental limits and thresholds explicitly into account.
Ben Simon founded Food Recovery Network to put an end to the waste accumulated at college dining facilities.
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Autodesk’s mission is to help people imagine design and create a better world. The company is a leader in 3D design technology, helping engineers, architects and designers bring their designs to life. With 100 locations in 42 countries — each staffing approximately 7,500 employees — Autodesk’s carbon footprint is a major issue. Ben Thompson, the brand’s Sustainable Business […]
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The Center for Health, Environment & Justice is an organization that works to prevent harm from toxic chemicals in homes and schools, often in communities directly affected by industrial chemical facilities, plants and incinerators. Toxic chemicals like bisphenol-A, phthalates and PVC are known to cause asthma, cancer, development disabilities and more, and they are found in […]
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Founded in 2004 by Mark W. McElroy, the Center for Sustainable Organizations is a nonprofit specializing in context-based sustainability that conducts research, develops, trains and consults for, and with, companies around the world interested in improving the sustainability performance of their operations. Context-based sustainability is an approach for measuring, managing and reporting the sustainability performance of organizations […]
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Food Recovery Network founder and Executive Director Ben Simon may only be a senior at the University of Maryland, but he is already making a major impact in the field of food waste. Simon started the program in 2011 after noticing that food was going to waste at the end of every day at Maryland’s […]
Nestlé Waters is focusing on new ways to retrieve its empty bottles so it can do more green good.
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R2 provides guidelines for e-waste recyclers to properly, safely recycle through an extensive certification program.
Lauzzana has now implemented the “Go Green Challenge,” an energy-saving behavioral program aimed at raising energy awareness and driving cost savings through various eco-minded projects.
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Extended producer responsibility is at the forefront of Nestlé Waters North America‘s sustainability profile. The company’s Vice President of Sustainability, Michael Washburn, says that recycling rates for beverage containers hover somewhere between 30% and 40% — especially significant when you consider that beverage containers represent 4% of the U.S. solid waste stream. Now, the company […]