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Fair Trade Gifts That Do Good

Fair Trade USA rounds up Fair Trade Certified gifts for everyone on your holiday shopping list.

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PepsiCo Acquires Kombucha Beverage Maker KeVita

Last week, beverage and snack foods giant PepsiCo acquired the popular brand KeVita, a California-based company that bottles kombucha, probiotic and apple vinegar beverages.

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Wildlife Corridors: A Response to Mass Extinction

National parks and wildlife refuges were established across the U.S. to protect wildlife. But these areas are not always as protected as we may assume. Wake Forest University student Denise McGuigan explores how conservation corridors can help.

Because biodiversity cannot sustain on a manmade island...

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Ford Sets Aggressive Goals For Water Savings

Back in 2000, Ford invested in a fact-finding mission to save water -- and money along with it. The automaker saved 10.6 billion gallons of water between 2000 and 2015. And that's just a start.

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7-Eleven Announces First Sustainably-Sourced Coffee

Last week, 7-Eleven announced that it would start offering a Rainforest Alliance-certified coffee, sourced from Nicaragua, at participating stores.

The fourth largest seller of coffee just went fair trade.

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Sustainable Business Will Drive the New Economy, Not Trump

The government may be useless and hostile for the next four years. The business community must rise to the challenge of sustainable innovation and opportunity that has always existed.

Business, with almost no help from the government, has already begun to take proactive action on climate change.

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Twitter Chat: Waste Reduction with the Experts at Yum! Brands #YumCSR

Join TriplePundit and the experts at Yum! Brands on Thursday, November 17 with #YumCSR to discuss how one of the world’s largest restaurant companies is fo

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CoverGirl’s New ‘Cover Boy’ Shows Fashion and Beauty Industries Are Turning a Corner

This month, CoverGirl hired its first male brand ambassador, 17-year-old James Charles. The high-school senior is just one of many who are challenging conventional beauty norms and redefining what it means to be "masculine." Fashion and beauty companies have no choice but to accept, and even celebrate, these trends.

Easy, breezy, beautiful... #CoverBoy.

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Why Startups Skimp on Worker Safety

A recent Buzzfeed investigative report uncovered labor issues at the warehouses of popular food-delivery startup Blue Apron. It's another sign that tech startups are skimping on worker safety and not integrating lower-level employees as meaningful members of their company.

The cash keeps flowing, but the benefits — nevermind basic safety protections — don’t always float down to the lower levels.

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Food Waste: We All Know the Stats, So Why Has Nothing Changed?

It's true that the global food waste crisis is -- finally -- having a moment in the international dialogue. But while more people know about the problem than ever before, statistics on waste levels refuse to budge. At SXSW Eco this week, experts discussed how to finally move the needle.

If food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter.

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How Companies Can Be Allies on Race Issues

How can a company demonstrate that it is an ally of the Black Lives Matter movement, or any group that considers itself under-represented or the object of bias in the workplace?

Tensions over police violence and the #blacklivesmatter movement can manifest themselves in the workplace.

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3p Weekend: A Triple Bottom Line Look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership

We examined the TPP from a triple-bottom-line perspective to bring you all the details.

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Trump Inadvertently Hastened Global Climate Accord Ratification

As the news made its way across the Web, experts lined up to offer their two cents on what's next for the agreement and the fight against climate change.

Finally, good news regarding climate change! You've got Trump to thank for this one...

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French Billionaire Clashes With Rural California Town Over Water Rights

Weed, a small town in the far north of California, is now the focal point in the fight for a community’s right to local water versus a company's right to sell it for a massive profit.

From $1/year for water, to $97,500. CEO says, "Hey, at least there's no child labor."

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Talking About Race and Police Violence at Work

Should corporate leaders take responsibility for creating safe environments to discuss race and marginalization at work?

Silence about racial justice speaks volumes to employees.

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Pitch Perfect: Fostering Local Talent Makes Clean Cookstoves More Popular

BioLite employs 40 tenacious local sales agents in emerging markets who can captivate a crowd with their personalized pitches. Thanks to these in-person demonstrations, clean cookstoves can become a desirable, affordable and life-enhancing solution for tens of thousands of homes in India and sub-Saharan Africa.

BioLite has hit the trifecta of a perfect cause, product, and salesman. We could all learn a thing or two from this sales pitch!

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Greenpeace: Bayer and Syngenta Knew About Pesticide Harm to Bees, Did Nothing

According to internal research documents obtained by Greenpeace under the Freedom of Information Act, both Bayer and Syngenta knew well about the negative impacts of neonicotinoid insecticides. Yet they still chose to sell the products widely, and even actively argued against independent studies connecting them to bee population declines.

Just another #ExxonKnew climate denial scandal. 😒 #BayerKnew #SyngentaKnew