Daniel Burrus

APRIL 13, 2022

When you think about brick-and-mortar retail, you may not be thinking about hyper-personalized shopping experiences, digital shopping engagement tools, blockchain-powered commerce, autonomous delivery, virtual shopping, contactless self-checkout, or supply chain visibility. eCommerce Merges the Human with the Digital.

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Just Capital

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And our latest analysis finds that while a slight majority of America’s largest public companies (53%) disclose a policy to spend with diverse suppliers, but just 22% disclose the amount they spend with those partners. McKinsey found that including Minority and Women Owned Businesses in a procurement strategy can save businesses 8.5%

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3BL Media

JULY 25, 2023

Paychex THRIVE, a Business Podcast Get timely insights from industry leaders, policy experts, and newsmakers about current marketplace conditions, new legislation, and innovations impacting businesses today. Find out how to take on big challenges, propel your business forward, and THRIVE. Gene Marks (00:19): Hey everybody.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If you tell any retailer, ‘Hey, I can give you two to three days of added time to sell through fruits,’ that’s a game-changer. Educating the consumer on interacting with a technology that’s extending shelf life is going to be pushing water up the hill.". Those rejections usually end up in the trash. Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

MAY 15, 2020

The fashion industry is unsustainable — here's how journalism is inspiring activism to improve it. The fast fashion industry has long been critiqued for unsustainable practices and unethical working conditions. She also recently authored a new book, " The Rocket Years: How Your Twenties Launch the Rest of Your Life."

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 3, 2019

Augmented reality (AR) is a new industry growing at an exponential rate, loaded with opportunities for job creation. Data is overlaid onto a live view of something, and users can multitask, allowing them to work while simultaneously accessing important information. AR can also engage tourists who are in a new city for the first time.

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3BL Media

MAY 26, 2022

Consumers, investors, regulators, and employees are all increasingly demanding socially, environmentally, and economically responsible products and services that have been designed, produced, used, and recycled with circularity principles in mind. This packaging frustrates retailers and consumers and causes untold environmental damage.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

Imagine a world where consumers have access to affordable, locally grown plant-based foods every day. A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. Case in point: the no. Case in point: the no.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 29, 2021

How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. That’s the goal for e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative, which sells household and personal care goods. Most recently, in December, the retailer closed a $125 million funding round, which according to the company brought its valuation to $1.32

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3BL Media

JULY 6, 2022

With each iteration of an HP laptop, desktop, or gaming rig, they endeavor to push the bounds of sustainable design while offering consumers a device that they’re proud to use each day. Disagreements are dealt with by amping up their communication and doubling down on what they know to be their source of truth. “If

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 3, 2022

Instead, they see our net-zero targets slipping away and they feel betrayed. Our objective was to identify outstanding Canadian entrepreneurs and companies that are gaining significant traction in the fight against carbon – with exciting new solutions that most of the world hasn’t discovered yet. Bill Gates is an investor. .

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Gail Tverberg

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Growing economies require a growing supply of energy to keep up with a growing population. At some point, the energy supply and other resource needs cannot grow rapidly enough to keep up with population growth. Political leaders may not even be aware of how dependent today’s economy is on fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. The corporations among them include Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Foodstuffs, Gensler, Google, Ignitis Group, National Grid, Starbucks, Unilever and UPS. Some have helped with disaster relief. Zack Angelini, 29.

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