Climate Change in the San Joaquin Valley and Our Future Food Supply
Source : Triple Pundit
By : Leon Kaye
Source : Triple Pundit
By : Leon Kaye
Source : International Green Purchasing Network (IGPN)
Smartphones are the latest products to be certified, allowing buyers to choose devices based on environmental and social criteria.
Source : EBN
By : Peter Buxbaum
Opponents of the SEC's conflict metals rule are citing the opinions of regional experts who say that the SEC rules do not advance Dodd-Frank Section 1502's objective of weakening armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and have caused a de facto embargo of Congolese minerals.
Source : Sustainable Brands
By : Mike Hower
Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers (SHCI) has embarked on a relief effort to help Latin American coffee farmers facing an outbreak of Coffee Leaf Rust Disease, known as Roya in Spanish — a parasitic fungus that is expected to destroy between 30 and 70 percent of the region’s organic coffee harvest.
Source : Marc Gunther
This is the first of three stories about Walmart’s supplier sustainability index.
Source : Décision achats
Par : Marie-Amélie Fenoll
Alcatel-Lucent France, France Telecom-Orange, Nexter-Systems, Silec Cable, l'Ugap et Sanofi France viennent d'obtenir le Label Relations fournisseurs responsables le 8 avril dernier. A cette occasion, le Médiateur des marchés publics, a annoncé le changement de nom de la Charte.
Source : 2degrees
By :Toby Pickard
“Nothing is more important to us, at Tesco, than the trust of you the customers” Philip Clarke, Chief Executive, Tesco. Consumer trust is arguably the single most important asset to food manufacturers and retailers and therefore the whole supply chain. Without trust, a company will have a poor reputation leading to low or no customer loyalty which impacts sales and shareholder evaluation.
Source : Sustainable procurement resource centre
By : ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability on behalf of the European Commission (DG Environment)
Source : CSR Wire
By : Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers