It takes up to 10,000 liters of water to make one pair of jeans, the equivalent of flushing your toilet approximately 2,000 times. H&M sold +22USDBn worth of clothes globally last year. How is the company addressing the challenge of water scarcity? Can the company set a new standard for water sustainability provided that it is competing in the fast-fashion space?
Climate Change
Can The Glenmorangie Co Lead the Whisky Industry to Greener Pastures?
The Glenmorangie Company has built the first whisky distillery to combat climate change, but does it do enough?
Syngenta: feeding future generations?
One of the largest agrochemicals businesses wants to address one of the toughest challenges in our generation: feeding the growing world population in a sustainable way.
The Bottomless Cup: Nespresso’s Bid to Save Coffee From Climate Change
Nespresso is racing to save coffee from climate change.
Climate change: BMW’s supply chain strategy to reduce CO2 emissions
The article explores how BMW, the most sustainable automotive company based on the Down Jones sustainability index of 2016, is able to use its supply chain as a lever to reduce CO2 emissions.
Live from New York it’s Gotham Greens….Optimizing Crop Production, Crop Quality, and Food Safety in the Face of Global Warming
“We are farmers that live in apartments. We see green fields where others see rooftops. We fuel blooming communities where others fear urban decay. And we purvey the freshest produce grown on earth.”
As droughts and storms become more prevalent due to global warming, impacting the ability for farmers to properly anticipate and control growing conditions, it is crucial for grocery stores and other food service companies to identify alternative sources of fresh produce. Enter Gotham Greens (“Gotham” or the “Company”). Gotham not only helps to solve the problem by growing produce year-round in its controlled-climate, urban greenhouse facilities, but it also does so in an ecologically sustainable way, taking a variety of extra steps to mitigate its contributions to carbon emission and thus climate change.
Keeping Bees Buzzing: Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream
How Häagen-Dazs is reviving bee populations to support its suppliers of critical ice cream ingredients
NextEra ready for the Next Era of Electricity?
Climate change is greatly impacting the electricity supply chain. Is the utility that is the leading producer of renewable energy in the world ready?
It’s time for Red Lobster to be a little less shellfish
Red Lobster needs to start pressuring its suppliers to engage in sustainable fishing practices, before it’s too late.
Burden of Arabia
With low oil prices and continued technological shifts towards renewable energy on the horizon, Saudi Aramco confronts a monumental struggle to evolve into more than an Oil Company