Levi’s last month opened a new two-story store on Kalverstraat. The 2700 square feet store’s interior is full of reused, restored and repurposed materials.

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By Matt Evans At the beginning of this month, SOCAP Europe was hosted  in the same area of Amsterdam where the very first capital markets were built over 400 years ago. Created to invest in the dangerous voyages of sea captains to the Far East to bring back spices, silk, and other revolutionary products, those [...]

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In recent years, gardening, farmers markets, eating local and organic have become increasingly popular. But, reality collides with ideals when it comes to being an urban resident and wanting to grow your own food. Space is constrained, reliable sunshine can be minimal and your outdoor options might be limited to a balcony. Urban Green has [...]

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Towards the end of my trip in Amsterdam to attend the Global Reporting Initiative Conference, I toured the city’s waste fired power plant (WFPP), which is a cornerstone of Amsterdam’s long-term sustainability plan. On a sunny Friday morning, I biked to the incineration plant, which is in the western dockyards of Amsterdam.  Just like anywhere else [...]

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For three days I attended the Global Reporting Initiative’s Amsterdam Conference, which was humming with the GRI’s ambitious goals for increasing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting by the end of this decade.  But the enthusiastic buzz often stopped when the challenges involving greater American involvement became central to the conference’s numerous panel discussions. One [...]

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The three-day Global Reporting Initiative’s Conference on Sustainability and Transparency ended in Amsterdam yesterday, with 1100 professionals from 77 countries buzzing over  the future possibility of integrated financial and ESG (environmental, social, and governance–the European term for “CSR”) reporting. One session that several hundred people attended was Thursday morning’s session on the information needs of [...]

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Earlier this week we announced that our friends at JustMeans will give two bloggers an opportunity to cover the Amsterdam Global Reporting Initiative Conference.  The way the competition works is fairly simple:  authors first submit any topic related to CSR or sustainability.  JustMeans looks at the total amount of votes, quality and relevance of the [...]

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Fancy yourself a writer? Our friends at JustMeans have put together 2 chances to win a trip to Amsterdam later this month to attend the annual Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Conference. You have until Sunday, May 16th to put together an article on a relevant CSR or Sustainability topic as well as incorporate some of [...]

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