Environment and employees are the new “purpose of a corporation”
Since 1997, the Business Roundtable, America’s most
influential group of corporate leaders, has agreed on one principle: “The
paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s
stockholders,”...
Iceland held a funeral for its first glacier lost
Iceland has marked its first-ever loss of a glacier to climate change as scientists warn that hundreds of other ice sheets on the subarctic island risk the same fate....
Nespresso takes recycling up a gear with coffee capsule bike
More than ever before, consumers are looking to make
sustainable choices in their daily lives. Understanding the origin of a product
and its impact on the world around us are crucial...
Apple, searching for gold with habitat restoration in mind
The search for gold can be very harmful for the environment
and for salmon, whose natural habitat is damaged by miners. Apple uses gold in all
its devices and has chosen...
Rens, sustainable shoes made with coffee grounds and recycled plastic
Rens are the first CoffeeSneakers, shoes made with coffee
grounds and recycled plastic. The idea came to two entrepreneurs from Helsinki,
Son Chu and Jesse Tran, sneakers addicted and worried about...
In Italy a new technology that recycles dirty diapers
Sustainable development also means transforming used
absorbent personal products, baby diapers, feminine pads and products for
incontinence into resources for the environment and for the economy. The
technological recycling process was developed...
