The senior director of open innovation and circular economy for food at Danone North America at Danone, Merijn Dols, came to Circularity 19 to talk about a circular food system. “The circular economy is big in the construction and built world — but food has been lagging,” he said. How can we push it forward? There’s a lot of innovation and design going on in food already, Dols pointed out. So corporations need to focus on creating food lasts longer and is healthier.
Emilio Tenuta, the vice president of corporate sustainability at Ecolab, knows that the water cycle is inherently circular. It’s human use that isn’t. That’s why Ecolab is driving smart water management, encouraging reuse and developing tools for partnerships.
Featuring chats with Shell executives Brian Davis and Harry Brekelmans. Also on this episode, we chat about corporate and employee activism.
These consumer goods companies are embracing packaging innovation.
Warmer and wetter growing seasons are making yields decrease in some locations, but boosting others.
The software company’s strategic investment in Factory OS includes goals for impact metrics such as waste reduction, jobs creation potential and how the collaboration can stimulate the development of more affordable housing.
The record second quarter of 2019 saw deals inked to add over 2.8 gigawatts of capacity and 490-gigawatt hours (GWh) annually to corporate energy portfolios.
The sustainability movement has a language barrier: Spanish.
Driving more organization-wide support for sustainability starts with building self-awareness about your team’s purpose and the impact of the work they do.
Perhaps its best strategy is to let the market sort itself out, then swoop in and continue to buy up the dominant company/companies that survive.