SVN member Ken Lee, co-founder of Lotus Foods with Caryl Levine, presented at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative on their work to expand the use of systems of rice intensification (SRI) to alleviate poverty. SRI rice takes a fraction of the resources to grow and boosts yields substantially. Check out webcasts...
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Books-a-Million kicked off its first promotion with the Green America Better Paper Project to spotlight a handful of magazines using recycled paper. The six participating titles each have their own sign under the title indicating that “This magazine is printed on recycled paper.” The magazines and signs appear directly in the mainline display at...
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Network for Good and Zoetica have created an eGuide to cause marketing, outlining the five steps to success from their extensive experience in social good campaigns, where companies partner with causes and consumers to achieve social good. The eGuide details how to use cause marketing to further both your marketing goals and your social...
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Procter & Gamble has unveiled a long-term environmental sustainability vision to guide all sustainability decisions and goal-setting within the organization. The company’s priorities for responsible growth include: powering plants with 100% renewable energy, using 100% renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging, moving towards zero consumer and manufacturing waste, and designing products...
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President Obama has appointed Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a special advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. Green America campaigned actively with the American Sustainable Business Council and Green Business Network members to win passage of a financial reform bill that created the new agency, and wrote...
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Procter & Gamble has unveiled a long-term environmental sustainability vision to guide all sustainability decisions and goal-setting within the organization. The company’s priorities for responsible growth include: powering plants with 100% renewable energy, using 100% renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging, moving towards zero consumer and manufacturing waste, and designing products...
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President Obama has appointed Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a special advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury. Green America campaigned actively with the American Sustainable Business Council and Green Business Network members to win passage of a financial reform bill that created the new agency, and wrote...
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Network for Good and Zoetica have created an eGuide to cause marketing, outlining the five steps to success from their extensive experience in social good campaigns, where companies partner with causes and consumers to achieve social good. The eGuide details how to use cause marketing to further both your marketing goals and your social...
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Chicago public schools will get $2.3 million worth of locally farmed fruits and vegetables this school year, due to a new partnership between their major food service provider and FamilyFarmed.org. Together with Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality, FamilyFarmed.org will ask Midwestern farmers for $500,000 more in fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, adding to the $1.8 million...
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YourOliveBranch.org and Green Business Network members Indigenous Designs and Alter Eco have launched “I Love Fair Trade!” – a contest that invites people to express what Fair Trade means to them for the chance to win $2,000 in Fair Trade goods supplied by these companies. Green America is a sponsor of the contest, which...
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