How Staples sends e-commerce waste packing

Mark Buckley, vice president of environmental affairs at Staples, has been with the company for more than two decades — and in a sustainability role for 15 years. “Businesses have gone through an evolution of change in the past 15 years,” he said, including sustainability having become a core value for corporations and their customers.

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A big pawprint: The environmental impact of pet food

Pets can have a large ecological footprint, and their food is a big contributing factor.

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Cities get it and it’s time we did, too

Mayors and their administrations are showing strong commitment at Climate Week 2016.

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A 10-year checkup on the quest to detox commercial products

Clean Production Action evaluates the landscape of businesses and NGOs pushing for safer chemicals.

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Designing healthy buildings through data

Vivian Dien, project manager of Quartz, explains the launch of the building industry database of commonly used building materials and their environmental and health hazard impacts.

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Healthy buildings, made so through data

Vivian Dien, project manager of Quartz, explains the launch of the building industry database of commonly used building materials and their environmental and health hazard impacts.

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Healthy buildings, made so through data

OBBA built this affordable 538-square-feet daylit house in Seoul for a newlywed couple and their cats

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Tech meets transparency: The rise of connected supply chains

Transparency has arrived — whether companies and their suppliers like it or not — thanks to technologies related to smartphones, Big Data and the Internet of Things.

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Heard at VERGE: Highlights from the stage

Missing the show? No fear. Here’s a recap of quotes and tweets from San Jose.

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For climate progress, NGOs are in a league of their own

Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, nonprofits have made more progress than other groups. What’s their secret, and what does this mean for COP21?

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