Source : Food Business News
Par : Eric Schroeder
General Mills, Inc. is focused on increasing the sustainability of 10 priority agricultural raw materials that represent more than 50% of the Minneapolis-based company’s annual purchases.
Source : Triple Pundit
AMRAVATI, India — Leela Pandu (inset) and her husband, Ram Kumar Pandu, are typical Indian cotton farmers from the green belt state of Maharashtra. Ram Kumar’s ancestors left him massive cotton fields that sustained his family for decades. However, between 1996 and 2010, cotton (known as “white gold”) production declined, leaving Ram Kumar and his family in a massive debt cycle and defaulted loans.
Source : Triple Pundit
Par : Leon Kaye
This week HP released its 2012 sustainability report, or in HP’s lingo, Global Citizenship Report. The voluminous report–almost 150 pages if you include the GRI Index–jumps into minute detail about the work HP has accomplished on several fronts, from its corporate governance structure to the company’s leveraging of technology for health initiatives to scouring its supply chain for greater efficiency.
Source : GreenBiz
Par : Heather Clancy
Literally dozens of organizations provide eco-guidance related to buying green products. What makes the Sustainable Purchasing Council (SPC) unique is its mission to help purchasing managers consider this process more holistically.
Source : The Guardian UK
Par : Felicity Carus
Verizon Communications may have had its origins in Bell System, America's original telephone company. But today the largest mobile network in the US – with 144 million customers for its broadband, TV and wireless data services – has more in common with the tech giants of our age than the clunky rotary dial telephones, switches and copper wires that dominated telecommunications only a few decades ago.
Source : Sustainable Brands
Par : Jennifer Elks
Source : 2degrees
Par : Laurence Webb
In a discussion as part of Sustainability 24, Accenture’s annual online business forum, leading industry figures explained what sustainable supply chains mean to them.