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In the beginning…there were the high-stakes / high-visibility crises events that are now part of corporate legend -- the ExxonValdez tanker oil spill in Alaskan waters (in resource-rich Prince William Sound) just as the fishing season got underway -- the deliberate poisoning of over-the-counter Tylenol pain relief pills, resulting in the tragic deaths of retail customers trusting in the product (the most recommended by physicians, it was said at the time). 

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News & Updates

January 22, 2020 Air Pollution in New York City Linked to Wildfires From As Far as Canada

Source: Science Tech Daily

A new study shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern U.S. traveled hundreds of miles and several days to reach Connecticut and New York City, where it caused significant...

January 22, 2020 GM's Cruise unveils its first driverless vehicle

Source: BBC

Cruise, the self-driving car start-up, majority owned by General Motors, has unveiled its first vehicle designed to be driverless.

January 22, 2020 Nissan Dealers Hate How It's Become A 'Bargain Basement Brand': Report

Source: The Drive

When Makoto Uchida took the reins as Nissan CEO in December, both the company and its newly appointed executive knew there was work to be done. Besides the obvious embarrassments, like former megaboss Carlos Ghosn fleeing...

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Research & Insights

December 3, 2019 Hancock Natural Resource Group Successfully Completes Inaugural Sustainability Examination of Select Managed Agricultural Operations

Source: PR Newswire

The examination found the operations fully conform to a new sustainable agricultural standard (the Standard) for farmland management which is expected to launch more broadly in 2020. The Standard was developed by the Sustainable...

December 2, 2019 New study analyzes viability of sustainable fuels developed through new process

Source: PHYS.org

A technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and scaled up by Vertimass LLC to convert ethanol into fuels suitable for aviation, shipping and other heavy-duty applications can be...

November 29, 2019 A new world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe

Source: Science Daily

A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score the sustainability of food systems, country-by-country. The study goes beyond usual questions of productivity and nutrition, and includes...

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Commentary & Opinion

January 8, 2020 Rest Easy, World. Vogue Editors and Celebrities Are Here to Save the Environment.

Source: National Review

We are awash in celebrities who live opulent, much-envied, sumptuous lifestyles with gargantuan carbon emissions, and who contend that like Vogue, they are committed to living sustainably because they say they’re committed to...

December 30, 2019 Get Brexit done’? We’re not even allowed to mention it

Source: The Guardian

When Johnson returns from the West Indies and moves on from victory celebrations to the hard study of what his officials tell him, he should realise that his campaign promises are totally incompatible with the appalling economic...

December 16, 2019 Goldman Sachs’ commercially driven plan for sustainability

Source: Financial Times

David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, says the company will target $750bn of financing, investing and advisory activity to areas such as clean energy and sustainable food production © Bloomberg

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