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Waves breaking on a beach in California. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Putting sustainability at the center of business strategy: An interview with Paul Polman

Rhett A. Butler 19 Oct 2020
Chickens. Image by Capri23auto via Pixabay.

Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods commits to no deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Feb 2020

From trash to cash: How a Thai entrepreneur turned used flip-flops into a sustainable business model

Ryan Anderson 2 Jan 2020

Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time

Donny Iqbal 17 Oct 2019

For one Indonesian village, mangrove restoration has been all upside

Fathul Rakhman 24 Sep 2019

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

David Klinges 2 May 2019
Chocolate is wrapped in a cocoa tree leaf. Photo by Sarita Reed.

Smallholder farmers defy cocoa’s production model in Brazil

Sarita Reed, Vinícius Fontana 26 Nov 2018

Traditional groups sowing sustainable crops could save Venezuelan park

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 24 Sep 2018

How a national reserve stopped the extinction of the Peruvian vicuña

Vanessa Romo 17 Sep 2018

Indonesia turns to green finance for development projects

Basten Gokkon 25 Jun 2018

A wish list for an environmentally friendly NAFTA

Jennifer Huizen 11 Apr 2018

Red Cloud’s Revolution: Oglalla Sioux freeing themselves from fossil fuel

Saul Elbein 19 Feb 2018

Poor grade for Malaysia, Singapore brands in palm oil sustainability: WWF

Hans Nicholas Jong 22 Sep 2017

How important is corporate social responsibility to building a green economy?

Mike Gaworecki 9 May 2016

How can banks spur the palm oil industry toward sustainability?

Pek Shibao 8 Feb 2016
Human-wildlife conflicts could potentially be reduced with the introduction of fully certified palm oil for Sabah. Photo shows an elephant stranded in a smallholder’s farm. Photo and caption courtesy of LEAP.

Do poor environmental practices affect palm oil firms’ bottom lines on a scale meaningful for investors and financiers?

Pek Shibao 1 Feb 2016

What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?

Pek Shibao 28 Jan 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Pek Shibao 26 Jan 2016

Help on the way for ‘green investment’ in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 29 Apr 2015

Accounting for natural capital on financial exchanges

Sarah Friedman 26 Jan 2015

L’Oreal pledges to wipe out forest destruction from its products by 2020

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2014

What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

Jeremy Hance 29 Apr 2013

Paradigm shift needed to avert global environmental collapse, according to author of new book The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse

Dr Liz Kimbrough 10 Jan 2013

Soccer lights up kids’ lives: new technology produces cheap, portable power

Julie Freydlin 16 Jul 2012

Oil exploration approved in Africa’s oldest park, Virunga National Park

Jeremy Hance 19 Mar 2012

Taking corporate sustainability seriously means changing business culture

Jeremy Hance 11 Aug 2011

Shipping firm pledges to disconnect itself from rainforest destruction

Karimeh Moukaddem 25 May 2011

Nobel laureates: ‘we are transgressing planetary boundaries that have kept civilization safe for the past 10,000 years’

Jeremy Hance 23 May 2011

Sustainability takes only cents

Gabriel Thoumi 30 Mar 2011

Clean energy investments rise 630% in 7 years

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2011

Environmental sustainability—the new economic bottom line

Gabriel Thoumi 28 Mar 2011

New organization seeks to make biofuels sustainable, but is it possible?

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2011

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