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Now that the news of Whole Foods’ adoption of the Global Animal Partnership’s animal welfare certification is a week old, it’s time to look a bit deeper at both the market demand for this new information, and what costs suppliers must pay to become certified. A few readers expressed their concerns about the economic cost [...]
Two new polls out this week show that Americans want their future energy supply to be renewable. A mid-January USA Today/Gallup poll found that 83 percent of Americans want incentives for alternative energy, which put it at the top of their list for Congress to work on. And a February 7 Pike Research survey on [...]
We’ve all read those horrific stories about plastic bags wrapped around sea birds that choke them to death or cause them to starve to death because they cannot fly. While those stories pull on the heart strings, they are — well — from somewhere else. Not this time. My parents were canoeing in Canada, and [...]
Mission Markets is the world’s first fully functional, FINRA-regulated electronic impact investment platform. Its mission is to provide the essential infrastructure to scale the social and environmental markets by facilitating transparency, efficiency, and impact measurement. It is one step closer to achieving scale with its first two investments on its Impact Investment Platform.
I just downloaded The State of the Paper Industry: Monitoring the Indicators of Environmental Performance, put out by the Steering Committee of the Environmental Paper Network. On the surface, the numbers sound impressive and scary. The big bad paper industry needs to be reigned in for the good of the planet. Old growth forests are [...]
