Most recent 40 articles: Sustainable Brands
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CDP: Water Now a Major Risk for World’s Supply Chains - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 26) |
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Mar 26 · With $77B under threat due to water risk in supply chains, 50% of large corporate buyers now engage suppliers on water issues; but only 14% financially incentivize senior leaders to act on water. The water crisis threatens global supply chains like never before, according to new research from CDP - the global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system. Stewardship at the Source - CDP’s most-extensive-ever analysis on how companies are responding to water security, based on record-high disclosure numbers - focuses on 3,163 large companies with an annual revenue of more than €/US$250 million, who responded to CDP’s annual water-security questionnaire ... Read more ... |
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Risk Managers, Consumers Cite Climate Change as Top Emerging Concern - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 22) |
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Mar 22 · 2023 surveys of risk professionals and consumers indicate an intensifying concern about extreme weather as it more directly impacts people’s daily lives, and a corresponding interest in sustainable investment opportunities. The news about extreme-weather events since 2023 has been nearly unrelenting: Atmospheric rivers unleashed flooding in California; deadly wildfires in Canada, Maui and Texas; tornadoes and cyclones in regions as far-flung as Southeast Africa, Myanmar and Mississippi. Not to mention the widespread droughts and heatwaves: The US set a record in 2023 with 28 extreme-weather events costing $1 billion or more, surpassing the previous record of 20 such events in ... Read more ... |
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Shrinkflation: Drawbacks for the Environment, Consumer Trust - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 22) |
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Mar 22 · In times of inflation, consider whether shrinking a product for a short-term win could cause long-term brand damage - first, determine if it’s the best option and include a robust assessment of the environmental impacts. In an era of intense inflation, the practice of shrinkflation raises important questions about its environmental impact - particularly regarding packaging waste. One might thin less product means less packaging and less waste in our landfills and oceans. But, like most things in life and business, it’s not that simple. Does shrinkflation really lead to increased packaging waste, or does it reduce it? To better understand this, it's essential to ... Read more ... |
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Could Supercharging Starch Production Secure Our Food Future? - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 19) |
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Mar 19 · ClimateCrop is boosting starch metabolism in plants through non-GMO gene editing - enhancing crop resilience to climate change, increasing yields, and offering a sustainable solution to future farming challenges. As we strain our planet's resources to meet an ever-increasing global demand for essential crops, the flaws in our agricultural system become ever more apparent. What once was a sustainable, farmer-driven endeavor has morphed into an industrial juggernaut obsessed with maximizing yields at any cost. Monocultural practices and an unyielding pursuit of productivity have left cultivated plants ill-equipped to adapt to our rapidly changing environment. While startup ... Read more ... |
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This Platform Turns Your Branded Video Content Into Support for Nature Conservation - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 15) |
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Mar 15 · With Ecoflix - a nonprofit streaming platform on a mission to be the 'Netflix for nature’ - brands can produce compelling sustainability content that also helps protect nature and wildlife. In 2016, filmmaker Mark Downes was in the South of France for the annual Cannes Lions Festival. As a seasoned ad-video producer, he had been to the event many times before - but that year, something happened that changed his life. “I had my 'purpose turn,’” he tells Sustainable Brands®. “I happened to be in the room when Ban Ki-moon came on stage to deliver a keynote about something called the Sustainable Development Goals - and my mind was just blown, totally blown.” Downes’ ... Read more ... |
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Uber’s 'Emissions Savings’ Feature Shows Riders Benefits of Lower-Emission Transport - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 15) |
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Mar 15 · Uber users will now see two ratings in the app - their 'Emission Savings' score, alongside their rider rating. This week, Uber unveiled a new feature that enables riders around the world to track and learn more about the carbon impact of their rides. The company’s new Emission Savings feature gives riders data on the amount of carbon emissions avoided if they opt for electric vehicle and hybrid options, as well as how much CO2 might have been produced by the same journey in an UberX or Uber Comfort. Emissions savings will be shown for each trip and as a cumulative total. Uber hopes that the feature will further nudge riders towards using Uber Green - a low-emission ride ... Read more ... |
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Individual Investors Want Funds, Pension Plans to Actively Address Climate Change - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 14) |
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Mar 14 · In a new GlobeScan survey of 5K retail investors in 10 countries, all express similarly high levels of support for investment funds becoming more active in the climate space. New global public-opinion research by GlobeScan, in collaboration with InfluenceMap, shows that retail investors support investment funds being more involved in addressing social and environmental sustainability. Public support is particularly strong for investment funds encouraging governments to act on climate change, followed by financing companies advancing cleaner energy. Conducted in summer 2023, the survey of nearly 5,000 retail investors - individual, nonprofessional investors who own ... Read more ... |
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Earthshot Prize 'Launchpad’ to Link Investors with Climate Innovators - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 13) |
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Mar 13 · New matchmaking platform highlights game-changing solutions from the Earthshot Prize nominations process and connects them with like-minded investors and philanthropists. At an event on Monday in London with investors, philanthropists and Earthshot Prize finalists, HRH Prince William celebrated the launch of The Earthshot Prize Launchpad - the next phase in The Earthshot Prize’s journey to scale innovative climate solutions from around the globe by 2030. Unveiled in November, the online matchmaking platform - which connects Earthshot innovators with like-minded investors and philanthropists - has already attracted 135 investors and philanthropists. Launchpad offers ... Read more ... |
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Report: AI Fueling Climate Change, Energy Usage and Disinformation - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 12) |
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Mar 12 · Coalition of over 50 tech accountability and environmental groups sound the alarm on the potential harms of AI to the planet, democracy and information ecosystems. This week, partners in Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) - a coalition of over 50 leading climate and anti-disinformation organizations demanding robust, coordinated and proactive strategies to deal with the scale of the threat of climate misinformation and disinformation - released a report that maps the risks that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the climate crisis. While sustainability-focused organizations are embracing AI in their efforts to do everything from eliminate greenwash from ... Read more ... |
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Lab-Grown Coffee: Sustainable Brew of the Future? - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 11) |
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Mar 11 · Over the past century, the world has fallen in love with coffee. In fact, a significant percentage of the global population now relies on it every single morning. Culturally ingrained in daily ritual for centuries in both ancient Mecca and Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire helped spread the caffeinated beverage throughout the Middle East and Europe. By the 20th century, the greatest concentration of coffee cultivation was in the Western Hemisphere - especially Brazil and Colombia - while Vietnam became the main supplier for those in the far east and much of the globe. For many today, coffee is perceived as equally essential as water. A 2021 report by National ... Read more ... |
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How US Soy Is Cultivating Sustainability Around the World - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 8) |
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Mar 8 · Here, Abby Rinne - Director of Sustainability at the U.S. Soybean Export Council - discusses how U.S. Soy is helping customers both here and abroad reach their sustainability goals. When it comes to sustainability, all soy products are not created equal. Over the last few decades, global soy production has risen and had major impacts on water, energy, deforestation and soil health - which is why it is essential for companies utilizing soy as an ingredient to ensure a sustainable supply chain. U.S. Soy is committed to sustainable production and continuous improvement through the utilization of technology, collaboration across stakeholders, and rigorous sourcing ... Read more ... |
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Impact Entertainment: Reflecting Climate Issues in the World We Live in - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 8) |
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Mar 8 · Good Energy helps writers and other entertainment professionals address the climate crisis with confidence and make climate storytelling a mainstream narrative for all audiences. Nonprofit storytelling consultancy Good Energy - which believes that Hollywood is uniquely positioned to shift the conversation on climate change - serves as a hub for entertainment professionals and climate experts looking to meaningfully represent the climate crisis on-screen across all genres and mediums. “Why is the climate crisis largely absent from our screen?” Good Energy founder and CEO Anna Jane Joyner pondered as she noticed the pattern within the entertainment industry, in which ... Read more ... |
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What Does the New SEC Climate-Risk Reporting Rule Mean for Brands? - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 7) |
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Mar 7 · While the new mandate was scaled back from what was originally proposed, US companies must now prepare to join many markets around the world in the climate-risk disclosure game. Finally, we have a decision from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on mandatory climate-risk disclosure for businesses - described in many quarters as a “landmark decision.” The final ruling means that all public companies will have to include information in their annual reports setting out the climate-related risks to their business, and what they are doing to manage those risks - including material climate targets and goals and governance processes. The mandatory rules kick in for ... Read more ... |
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'Quantum Nose’ Could Be Key to Sniffing Out Food Waste - Sustainable Brands  (Mar 1) |
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Mar 1 · The University of Maryland’s NourishNet team has been awarded $5M from the NSF to develop its comprehensive, technology-based approach to tackling food waste and insecurity. A multidisciplinary team led by the University of Maryland (UMD) has been awarded $5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop NourishNet: a comprehensive, technology-based approach to tackling food waste and insecurity featuring “Quantum Nose” - a portable and user-friendly food-quality sensor that can detect early-stage food spoilage, and FoodLoops - a real-time app to be developed to optimize surplus food distribution to food-insecure people. The NSF Convergence Accelerator ... Read more ... |
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SFI’s New Standard Aims to Bring Holistic Protection to Urban Forests - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 28) |
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Feb 28 · The sustainability non-profit is attempting to scale the first widely accepted certification standard for urban and community forestry. According to the US Forest Service, there are more than 140 million acres of forest situated within “urban” areas across the country. That’s a lot of trees maintained and nurtured under a mix of public and private entities that all have a different set of demands compared to the traditional ways we think about remote, park-like forests. As Paul Johnson, VP of Urban and Community Forestry and Career Pathways at the Sustainable Forest Initiative (SFI), told Sustainable Brands®, “Unless you live in one of the country’s ten largest ... Read more ... |
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Powering Earth from Space: Can We Solve Our Energy Crisis Without Destroying the Environment? - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 23) |
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Feb 23 · There is immense potential for sustainable innovation in the ever-growing space economy - in ways that could bring the industry’s own impacts, and an infinite source of solar power, back down to Earth. Ever since the Soviets launched the first satellite into outer space on October 4, 1957, shooting human-made apparatuses into the vast world far above our own has captured our collective imaginations; and that fascination only grew once humans began walking on the moon - by way of Apollo 11 in 1968, then Apollo 17 in 1972. In September of 1982, Europe’s Arianespace became the first commercial launch-service provider; and in 1984, Ronald Reagan signed the Commercial Space ... Read more ... |
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Radical Sustainability Experimentation in Tourism Highlights Challenges, Opportunities - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 20) |
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Feb 20 · “We don’t need everyone to do it perfectly to change the world; we just need double-digit percentages from a heck of a lot of buy-in.” - Natural Habitat Adventures’ Court Whelan In responding to the climate crisis, companies have committed to a wide range of ambitious sustainability goals. The need to cut carbon emissions is a very real and urgent need; so, on paper the claims to be “carbon neutral” and “net zero” outline the ideal situation. However, the reality behind those buzzwords may be little more than greenwashing - especially since many companies have turned to dubious carbon-offset schemes to achieve their goals. This is as true in the tourism industry as ... Read more ... |
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How Singapore Became Asia's Launch Pad for Sustainable Innovation & Tech - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 19) |
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Feb 19 · We spoke with Damian Chan, EVP of the Singapore Economic Development Board, to learn more about how it is driving sustainability and the energy transition in the island nation. Climate change is exerting profound and multifaceted impacts on the Global South, especially the Asia-Pacific region - exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and posing unprecedented challenges including rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and more frequent and intense extreme-weather events. Coastal areas are particularly vulnerable to sea-level rise - which threatens densely populated cities and low-lying island nations. Despite the growing, climate-related issues impacting the ... Read more ... |
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Tony’s Chocolonely Scales Impact Model While Delivering Record Growth - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 16) |
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Feb 16 · The impact-driven chocolate brand doubled farmer premiums, further reduced child labor and environmental impacts, and continued to grow its coalition of Mission Allies. Tony’s Chocolonely, the impact company that makes chocolate, has published its latest annual FAIR report for 2022-23 - which shows it was able to pay its highest farmer premiums to date, continued to lower the rate of child labor, confirmed its supply chain is deforestation free, and welcomed six new corporate partners dedicated to furthering its mission of delivering 100% slave-free chocolate. According to the report, more than 17,000 farmers (+20 percent YoY) now benefit from Tony’s 5 Sourcing ... Read more ... |
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Streamlining Certification Will Help Scale a Sustainable Food System - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 15) |
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Feb 15 · The often-arduous process for meeting sustainable certification requirements can be daunting, if not prohibitive, for smallholder farmers. Digitizing the process removes pain points for both farmers and the companies that source their crops. Over 65 percent of consumers want to make the right spending choices to live a healthier and more sustainable life, and they’re growing increasingly conscious of the environmental and social impact of their food choices. This shift towards prioritizing sustainability mirrors the food and beverage industry’s own recent initiatives, as leading brands continue to set goals to reduce their carbon footprint and implement social-impact programs. Read more ... |
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Automobili Lamborghini Pledges 40% CO2 Reduction Across Its Value Chain by 2030 - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 14) |
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Feb 14 · The luxury Italian carmaker extends its decarbonization program to its entire value chain, with the aim of reducing total enterprise emissions by 40% per car by 2030. Automobili Lamborghini has announced an ambitious, new target on its path to decarbonization - supported by the biggest investment in the history of the company. Pacing peers including Aston Martin, Jaguar Land Rover and Porsche in continually updating their sustainability commitments, this latest step in Lamborghini’s “Direzione Cor Tauri” (“Heart of the Bull” in Latin) strategy, which involves electrification of the model range and decarbonization of the production site, extends its commitment to ... Read more ... |
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Brands Are Missing a Climate Leadership Opportunity at the Super Bowl - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 13) |
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Feb 13 · A Super Bowl ad can shape a countrywide conversation; but most brands are choosing gutless entertainment - missing an opportunity to differentiate, engage and lead on today’s most pertinent issues. January 22, 1984 - during a break in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple showed its famous, Ridley Scott-directed commercial, “1984,” as a dystopian warning about the power of technology in the wrong hands and a nod to George Orwell’s novel. The ad - which faced tough pushback from the Apple board and was only approved last minute - was shown only that one time but created a press frenzy. It was a bold move and one that paid off and shaped an iconic brand ... Read more ... |
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This 'SeaFeed' Could Be a Game-Changing Solution to Livestock Emissions - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 13) |
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Feb 13 · Australian startup Sea Forest’s seaweed-based feed supplements significantly reduce methane emissions from ruminant livestock. In recent years, the surge in global methane emissions - primarily from ruminant livestock including cows, sheep and goats; which emit methane through their digestive processes - has greatly exacerbated climate change. Animal agriculture alone is responsible for a staggering 14.5 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, with methane proving over 25 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period. This dual threat necessitates innovative solutions that can enable us to meet the escalating global demand ... Read more ... |
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Jones Snowboards Earns Industry-First Fair Trade Certification - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 9) |
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Feb 9 · The certification signifies attention to worker empowerment, fair wages and more; but whether it will galvanize competitors and partners to make such a commitment remains to be seen. Ethical snowboard, winter apparel and backcountry gear brand Jones Snowboards recently announced that beginning this year, its snowboards and splitboards would be Fair Trade Certified - marking something of a milestone for a certification largely used by apparel and food manufacturers. For hard goods, Fair Trade certification primarily focuses on factory standards and worker empowerment - ensuring that those making the products are treated fairly, equitably and paid a living wage. As ... Read more ... |
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This Technology May Tackle 2 Sustainability Challenges in One Fell Swoop - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 9) |
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Feb 9 · Anaerobic digestion offers a solution to two major challenges: food waste and transitioning to clean energy. We spoke with Shawn Kreloff, founder and CEO of Bioenergy Devco, to discuss the technology’s potential. As individuals, companies, and the government work to be more sustainable, food waste remains a challenge. In the US alone, we waste 80 million tons of food per year, according to Feeding America; and that waste emits potent greenhouse gases including methane into the atmosphere. While composting is an option at the individual or smaller municipality level, it takes time and is difficult to scale. But a time-tested technology, anaerobic digestion, could be emerging as ... Read more ... |
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Despite Its History, Not All Lobbying Is Bad - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 8) |
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Feb 8 · Unlike the majority of lobbyists dedicated to preserving business as usual, a new generation of lobby groups are using their power to fuel sustainable development. The words “lobby group” or “lobbyist” tends to conjure negative feelings among citizens concerned about human, animal and planetary health. After all, corporate lobbying efforts are the reason much of the world was convinced smoking is cool for a good part of the previous century. It’s why beef still features heavily on menus around the world, despite the adverse health and environmental effects of excessive meat consumption; and the reason most of civilization is still being powered by fossil fuels that are ... Read more ... |
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How SustainCERT and Regrow Ag Are Transforming Cotton Cultivation - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 8) |
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Feb 8 · SustainCERT, through its Value Change Initiative and partnership with Regrow Ag, is working to promote resilience across the cotton value chain. Cotton is the backbone of the textile industry, helping to bring countless fabrics to life across the globe. Beyond textiles for the fashion, housewares and automobile industries, this versatile natural fiber is also used in everything from healthcare to paper production. A high-value commodity, its social and environmental impacts are also high - making it an essential factor in land-based climate action. 27 million tons of cotton are harvested every year; and although it occupies only 2.5 percent of the world's agricultural ... Read more ... |
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Hellmann's Declares New Holiday to Fight Post-Super Bowl Food Waste - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 7) |
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Feb 7 · The mayo brand is once again aiming to inspire game-day partiers to reimagine mouthwatering dishes out of their leftovers, in honor of #SickofFoodWasteDay. The Monday after the Super Bowl is known for being a major “sick” day, with 16+ million US football fans estimated to call in “sick” from work this year. So, this Monday, Feb. 12, Hellmann's is inviting everyone - whether they’re going to work or not - to work at fighting post-game day food waste. For the fourth year in a row, Hellmann’s ad during the Super Bowl puts food waste front and center with one of the biggest TV audiences of the year. In addition to introducing the world to the talking “Mayo Cat” in this ... Read more ... |
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Pandora Now Sources 100% Recycled Silver, Gold for Its Jewelry - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 5) |
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Feb 5 · By using recycled instead of newly mined silver and gold, Pandora avoids 58,000 tons of CO2 per year. The company expects that it will craft all new jewelry with 100% recycled silver and gold from the second half of 2024. Pandora, the world’s largest jewelry brand, has announced it has changed its precious metals supply and is now sourcing only recycled silver and gold for all its jewelry. The company says the shift avoids significant greenhouse gas emissions, as mining requires more energy and resources than recycling. The carbon footprint of recycled silver is one-third that of newly mined silver; while the recycling of gold emits less than 1 percent of the carbon ... Read more ... |
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Sailing Legends Empowering Youth with Lessons in Climate Action - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 2) |
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Feb 2 · British Olympians Sir Ben Ainslie and Hannah Mills have created calls to action for young people, with a special focus on marine efforts, as part of a program to educate children ages 8-18 on the complexities of climate change and how to take meaningful action. Although SailGP is a relatively new international sports league, it’s already making waves (every pun intended) as a leader in sensible ways in which sport can champion climate-positive action. The Larry Ellison-founded league (whose first iteration was in 2019) includes an array of teams that sail on high-tech catamarans at various locations around the world. It’s grown from just six teams and five events in ... Read more ... |
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Why Your Sustainable Brand’s Name Is More Important Than You Think - Sustainable Brands  (Feb 2) |
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Feb 2 · The names that resonate with consumers and shop optimism in an industry hoping to fix a host of complicated, global problems will help form a foundation for many years of success. Over the last decade, the renewable-energy and sustainability industries have experienced huge growth and demand. Environmental concerns regarding fossil fuels, urbanization, and responsible, equitable economic growth have contributed to the rise - coupled with increased legislation and consumer demand for brands committed to making positive social and environment impacts. As this demand continues, we will continue to see an influx of new brands starting out and securing venture capital that are ... Read more ... |
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The Window of Vitality: How Great Businesses Balance Efficiency, Resilience - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 29) |
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Jan 29 · Mired in short-termism, many investors and company bonus structures incentivize optimizing for cost and efficiency. The lesson from nature: Successful organizations stay within their own window of vitality by understanding and balancing the tension between efficiency and resilience. Are you familiar with the “window of vitality”? It refers to the idea that functioning ecosystems exist within a range of what ecologists call “system order.” These ecosystems avoid breaking down over time because they balance efficiency (the optimum use of resources) with resilience (the capacity to adapt to change). To illustrate the concept, let’s take an example from urban planning - ... Read more ... |
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Report Highlights Sustainability Language Barrier Between Business, Consumers - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 26) |
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Jan 26 · “This puts the onus firmly on brands to properly educate consumers so that awareness and understanding of major climate-related terms are increased across the board.” - Paul Flatters, founder/CEO, Trajectory The Language of Sustainability, which surveyed 1,000 UK adults, reveals that just 11 percent of consumers feel they have a thorough understanding of the term “carbon offsetting” - despite it being one of the primary methods that businesses rely on to hit their net-zero goals. For another term that has been widely adopted by brands, “circular economy,” just 4 percent of consumers polled claiming to be confident in defining it - indicating a clear language barrier ... Read more ... |
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This Startup Could Spark a Revolution in Early-Wildfire Detection - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 26) |
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Jan 26 · “By detecting wildfires while they are still small, we stand a much better chance of stopping them before they cause too much damage - saving money, the environment and, ultimately, lives.” - Dryad Networks' Carsten Brinkschulte 2023 was another year of rampant wildfires, all over the planet. In recent years, more than 370 million hectares of land burn every year - releasing over 1.8 billion tons of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere. Wildfires have become a major contributor of GHGs - even more than traffic (around 20 percent). The climate crisis, along with rapid land-use change - especially, deforestation - is making wildfires more frequent and intense. ... Read more ... |
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Analysis of US Utilities Reveals Inconsistent Climate-Policy Advocacy - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 25) |
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Jan 25 · A new benchmark analysis of 12 of the largest US electric utility companies finds significant inconsistencies between utilities’ public climate commitments and their direct and indirect climate lobbying practices. A new report from Ceres shows that US utility companies are heavily involved in climate-policy engagement and are taking steps to reach their climate commitments by advocating in support of certain climate policies - but this progress is being undermined by simultaneous advocacy against other climate policies. Toward Consistency: Assessing the Power Sector's Climate Policy Advocacy is a follow-up to the second Responsible Policy Engagement benchmark Ceres ... Read more ... |
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Early Adopters Share Insights from Piloting Science-Based Targets for Nature - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 24) |
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Jan 24 · Pilot companies say the newfound understanding of their impacts and dependencies on nature is helping change mindsets internally regarding the urgency of meaningful action. In May 2023, 17 companies - AB InBev, Alpro (part of Danone), Bel, Carrefour, Corbion, GSK, H&M Group, Hindustan Zinc Limited, Holcim Group, Kering and L’Occitane Group (which in 2022 joined forces to launch a Climate Fund for Nature), LVMH, Nestlé, Neste Corporation, Suntory Holdings Limited, Tesco and UPM - representing various sectors and supply chains significantly impacting nature, embarked upon a unique journey: piloting the first-ever science-based targets for nature. Central to the pilot is ... Read more ... |
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How Stonyfield Organic and Regrow Are Building a Resilient Dairy Industry - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 24) |
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Jan 24 · The two have partnered to help Stonyfield build out a program aligned with its science-based climate targets that empowers its farmers with actionable insights to bolster emission-reduction and carbon-sequestration efforts. Dairy is an essential part of life for people across the globe. Dairy products fulfill the dietary needs of millions, contributing to 10 percent of daily protein intake - and in the United States alone, the industry supports approximately 3 million jobs. However, the dairy industry is deeply intertwined with climate change: Animal husbandry (including dairy cattle) is responsible for 14.5 percent of global emissions - but it is also heavily impacted ... Read more ... |
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This App Could Be Key to Securing Fisher Livelihoods, Restoring Fish Stocks - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 22) |
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Jan 22 · Our oceans and coastal communities globally face a host of looming crises - in addition to rising water temperatures and acidification, which are contributing to biodiversity loss, overfishing remains a pressing issue. The surge in global demand for seafood has pushed numerous fisheries beyond their limits. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 57 percent of fisheries are currently fully exploited, while 30 percent are over-exploited or depleted. To appropriately respond to these crises, governments and marine scientists need to understand the full extent of the issues; yet the lack of essential data regarding catch levels and the origin of fish catches ... Read more ... |
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Ecology Meets Circular Economy at Maryland's Bioenergy Center - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 19) |
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Jan 19 · By recycling organics, producing renewable natural gas, and yielding nutrient-rich soil amendments, it exemplifies a harmonious relationship between environmental responsibility and economic growth. In an era marked by growing environmental concerns and climate change, sustainable solutions for energy and waste management have become paramount. Nestled in Jessup, the Maryland Bioenergy Center - operated by Bioenergy Devco - is groundbreaking as the state's first anaerobic digester of such scale, and showcases the intersection of ecology and a circular economy - offering a sustainable, scalable and efficient approach to organics recycling. The Jessup facility is designed ... Read more ... |
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Latin Americans Are Embracing Plant-Based Foods - a Growing Opportunity for Investment - Sustainable Brands  (Jan 19) |
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Jan 19 · Food investors and entrepreneurs would do well to mark the major focus on plant-based protein innovation happening for our neighbors to the South. Just like all disruptive industries, the ever-growing plant-based food industry has been through quite a rollercoaster ride over the last several years. But why are plant-based alternatives to animal-based foods such a big deal in the first place? Well, ethical concerns aside, global meat and dairy production produces roughly 18 percent of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions - that’s more than the entire transportation industry across the globe. Farming animals for food also takes up lots of land - making it a ... Read more ... |
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