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Clearly, it's not just the bottles themselves that are the problem...

Visa has announced a new commitment to use 100% renewable energy across its global operations by the end of 2019. As part of this commitment, announced in conjunction with this week’s Climate Leadership Conference in Denver, Visa is joining the RE100 initiative, a collaborative, global platform developed by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP …

Ditching coal has brought the country a long way. Now they have to tackle transportation too.

António Guterres has appointed Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, to be his special envoy for climate action.

Lego has announced that its first brick pieces made from plant-based plastic sourced from sugar cane will go on sale later this year. Production has started on the sustainable pieces, which include “botanical elements” like leaves, bushes, and trees.

Finally, one nation is taking firm, clear action toward going plastic-free.

It would require an infrastructure overhaul costing hundreds of billions—if not trillions—of dollars, but technically speaking, it’s possible.

General Motors has expanded is landfill-free program to 27 newly certified facilities, with all manufacturing plants in Canada, Mexico and South America reusing, recycling, or converting to energy all waste from their daily operations. “To us, waste is simply a

The initiative, part of a global push to fight waste, saw about 700 products packaged in compostable materials or in glass, metal or cardboard.

Replacing just 30 percent of the meat in these blended recipes could help cut up to 10.5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent annually.

Renewable sources of energy are expected to reach grid parity with fossil fuels by 2025 in the US, three years after China, as technology costs continue to fall. A standardized carbon price would bring huge amounts of investment from the oil and gas majors that would boost efficiency and innovation.

Dunkin’ Donuts plans to begin phasing out polystyrene foam cups beginning this spring, hoping to have completely eliminated polystyrene cups from its global supply chain by 2020.

A series of droughts with little recovery time in the intervals has pushed millions to the edge of survival in the Horn of Africa.

Corporate action to tackle the mounting problem of ocean plastics is on the rise with new commitments and cross-industry initiatives cropping up regularly. Kimberly-Clark, The Coca-Cola Company and The Dow Chemical Company are the latest to double down on their efforts to drive impact, joining Closed Loop Partners’ Closed Loop Ocean initiative, which seeks to develop a new funding mechanism to prevent plastic from leaking into the world’s oceans.

Nearly two thirds of the more than 600 companies covered intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  

New legislation would require polyester clothing to have a label warning about shedding in the wash.

Plastic was modern. It was convenient. It accelerated industrial creativity. “There’s a great future in plastics.” We’ve referenced that movie quote before in an earlier article, “The Plastic Invasion,” which provides background on our plastic problem and collaborative efforts to address it through an initiative called The New Plastics Economy.

A statehouse vote was canceled, but Gov. Jay Inslee is making climate a central plank in his political platform, perhaps ahead of a 2020 presidential run.

Bloomberg New Energy Finance is predicting a healthy recovery for the industry this year.

"This Lent let's give ocean creatures a better chance to renew themselves, free of our trash!" –Church of England’s Diocese of London

It costs 2,000 times more too.

CDP's newest report looks at 100 global cities that have made (or are making) the transition to 100% renewable energy.

And that was after one week of avoiding foods that may have come into contact with the notorious hormone-disrupting chemical!

In case there was still any doubt that fossil fuels are on the decline, new analysis from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) confirms it: wind and solar energy jobs now outnumber coal and gas jobs in 30 states. In addition to providing local jobs, EDF finds that the clean energy and sustainability economy also pays higher than average wages and offers individuals numerous career and educational pathways.