Kimberly-Clark, the brands of which include Huggies, Kleenex and Kotex, set several sustainability goals for 2015 and updates its stakeholders on the company’s progress on environmental and social issues

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In this interview, Sourcemap founder Leonardo Bonanni shares his quest to shed light on supply chains and to make them more sustainable.

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Our personal data form an incredibly important resource for many technology companies, leading some to regard the massive amounts of data we generate as the 21st century version of oil. Although potentially unlimited from a supply perspective, is our personal data a sustainable resource for the companies that rely on it?

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Patagonia has released its Footprint Chronicles, one tool to help customers and stakeholders learn more about the the company’s global operations and suppliers.

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There’s no doubt Adidas is an industry leader when it comes to sustainability. The problem is that such recognition also generates expectations. So while its 2011 progress report shows a number of achievements, some elements are still missing in Adidas’s effort to “to meet society’s evolving expectations of business practices.”

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This week Kohl’s issued its first annual corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, which discusses the company’s energy efficiency and green building efforts.

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Supply chain leaders can make some improvements around sustainability – here are the first five steps.

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Safeway and Whole Foods tops the list of Greenpeace’s rating of sustainable seafood retailers.

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Hershey’s is getting with the program, and its most recent CSR report is a step in the right direction on responsible sourcing and child labor.

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Yesterday Burger King announced that its restaurants would transition to cage-free pork and eggs by 2017. Watch for other fast food companies to follow.

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Kellogg’s released its annual corporate responsibility report to coincide with Earth Day and focuses on sustainable agriculture and water stewardship.

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Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood will soon be home to a 100,000 square foot, multi-acre rooftop farm that will produce a million pounds of produce per year – enough to feed 5,000 people – without using any dirt. The farm will be built by BrightFarms, a new company with a unique business model that finances, builds, and operates hydroponic greenhouse farms for supermarkets and other retailers who purchase the produce.

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Kraft Foods recently announced they have cut 45 million pounds of weight from the packaging of their products since 2010. According to their report entitled Creating a More Delicious World, in the last year the company also increased its amount of sustainable agricultural commodities by 36 percent. These have third party verification or certifications. They have [...]

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Ready to comb through Walmart’s 2012 Global Responsibility Report? The past year has been a bumpy one for its sustainability agenda. Local food, renewables, and waste have been the focus.

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H&M, the global fast fashion leader, has ramped up its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts in recent years, improving performance on labor and the environment.

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From environmental conservation, supplier diversity to community development, Lowe’s 2011 CSR report is full of highlights.

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Johnson Controls, a $40 billion company with 162,000 employees across the globe, builds on its CSR track record with the release of its 2011 Business and Sustainability Report.

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Rooted in a strong environmental ethic, Helveta’s garnering international recognition for its supply chain management technology and efforts to reduce deforestation and eliminate illegal logging.

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Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China, which was broadcast in January on This American Life, appears to contain significant fabrications. We can’t vouch for its truth and therefore we’re retracting the story, Ira Glass, the host, announced on Friday. The impact of the original show in January brings to mind two important questions – why Daisey’s story played such an important part in creating a tipping point, and also, given what many consider as a positive impact generated by the original show, does it really matter if Daisey fabricated some parts of it?

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Target announces a phase-out of sandblasted denim by the end of 2012 due to social concerns.

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Target has pledged to stop selling denim jeans manufactured from suppliers who use sandblasting techniques.

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A recent editorial in The Economist would have us believe that of all the problems facing the oceans—acidification, plastics pollution, decline of habitat—overfishing is the easy win, the simple fix. Really, the article argues, this whole overfishing mess is the fault of fishermen. If fishers would just wise-up to the long-term environmental consequences of taking too much, they would make the well-informed and uncomplicated choice to just simply catch fewer fish. This naive finger-pointing exercise is about as helpful and logical as driving past an unemployment line and yelling out the window, “Get a job!”

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A six month investigation conducted by Bloomberg Businessweek found evidence of debt bondage on fishing vessels operating in New Zealand’s waters. The report traces the controversial seafood sources to popular U.S. retailers and restaurants.

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Despite strong sales numbers and a strong brand, McDonald’s is experiencing a crisis of brand perception.

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IPS reports that in January, Sierra Leone became one of the first West-African countries to launch an online mining database. The database is said to increase transparency of the country’s mining operations. The system will contain all data on mineral rights, statuses and payments recorded by the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources that pertain to [...]

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Safeway recently announced that the Safeway brand Skipjack (chunk-light) canned tuna will be responsibly caught using free-school purse-seine methods. This method of using purse-seiners spots tuna schools by using radar and sonar. The company will transition to this method by the end of the year. The tuna fishing industry is addressing the negative ecosystem impacts [...]

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The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which has been collecting GHG emissions data from companies for nearly a decade, recently released a report which revealed that there is a gap that exists between the carbon reduction performance of companies and that of their suppliers.

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Apple released details of its supply chain performance, via an extensive “Progress Report.”  Our friends at Supply Chain Matters provided a link to the report, and to a list of all of Apple’s suppliers.

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When Apple, Inc. – or for that matter, any other company – publishes the names of its suppliers, it’s a pretty good sign that the company is putting pressure on its supply chain to up the ante on sustainable practices. But the pressure doesn’t just come from the company alone. In effect, a supplier list [...]

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From the development of new urban mobility technologies, waste diversion to a commitment to greener cars, the new GM going forward is a new company as its CSR report reveals.

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