… Palm oil is everywhere. Not only is it in the news, it is also an ingredient in roughly half of the … that consumers can easily spot or screen for. When, in June 2015, France’s Ecology minister, Segolene Royal, called on her country to stop eating Nutella to avoid palm oil, … oil, it is in our cookies, our shampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, high yields, oil palm, and the oil derived from it has become a …
… While the use of palm oil has been documented since ancient times, it is only in the past few decades … campaign took off in 2010, when the organization targeted a GAR customer, Nestlé, with a report and a provocative video that went viral on social media sites. Nestlé quickly … organization, the ISPO, which many argued had even lower standards than the RSPO. Local communitieswithin Indonesia had a mixed relationship with large palm oil companies. On one …
… Throughout the world, Cummins Inc. meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced diesel … it manufactured components, including filters, turbochargers, and aftertreatment, used with its own engines and with the systems of other manufacturers. The components and engines were all designed to …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining hallsserve more organic food. Withsupport from the university, they started a pilot project to introduce local, seasonal … the menu of one of Yale's undergraduate residential colleges. The experiment was a successwith both students and dining hall staff, and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move …
… At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solar’s founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the United States market. In the previous five years, Trina, a company with manufacturing and headquarters in Changzhou, China, had managed to grow rapidly by … market during 2007-10 had allowed Trina to quickly establish strong relationshipswithsome of the continent’s leading developers of solar projects. Trina supplied modules …
… In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companiessigned an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the … many environmentalists believed that the agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who … center also became the first facility in Southeast Asia to obtain ISO 20121 Sustainable Events Management System certification. Beyond the physical plant, MBS looked to create … meetings annually by the year 2030. Teng had a particular interest in seafood, and worked with WWF to address procurement issues in the fishing sector, starting with removing red …
… Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power … The road to SELCO’ssuccess, however, has not always been smooth. Hande cofounded SELCO (with Neville Williams) in 1995 to sell and service photovoltaic (PV) systems in his home … Investors put pressure on Hande to lay off employees and contract the organization. With the help of the World Bank’s commercial finance arm, the International Finance …
… Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family’s name. As one might … times, growers have little incentive to improve their operation – they have minor contact with the roasters or customers and no knowledge of how their crops get translated into the … circle” that draws the grower, the roaster, the barista and customer together. Growerswith better knowledge of the market will work to improve their crops or experiment with new …
… With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Sammaan brought together a stellar group of designers, architects, and … hoped to develop research from the effort to create a model that could be used by other communities, completing the research in 2014. However by the late fall of 2013, not a single …