All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 137
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Italian ski resorts to introduce tighter restrictions in view of reopening
Italy’s Technical Scientific Committee (CTS) has recommended tighter restrictions for ski lift operations connected with the ongoing pandemic. Ski resorts in the country are currently shut but are due to reopen on Jan. 7. The guidelines that regional authorities submitted did not fully convinced the committee at the end of ...
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ArticleBioLite reaches 1 million lives with clean energy
In an open letter posted on the company website, Jonathan Cedar, BioLite co-founder and CEO, recently shared a major milestone in his company’s history: 1,400,941 people are living with clean energy access through BioLite products as of this year. According to Cedar, this achievement, already reached in September 2020, is ...
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U.S. Conservation Alliance announces fourteen new members
The Conservation Alliance, a U.S. coalition of like-minded companies that pool their resources to fund and advocate for the protection of North America’s wild places, has welcomed 14 new member organizations, adding to its growing list of more than 250 companies committed to conservation. In addition to outdoor-related companies Dometic, ...
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TÜV Süd introduced vegan product certification
TÜV Süd, a globally active auditing and testing company headquartered in southern Germany, has introduced vegan product certification to ensure that apparel, footwear and textiles are neither made of nor finished with animal-derived materials – such as leather, fur, fibers (wool, silk), glue, dyes and chemical substances (beeswax, carmine dye ...
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ArticleYouth Alpine Interrail: Young adults campaign for more sustainable mobility
As part of the Youth Alpine Interrail project, young adults traveled by train through the Alps in the summer of 2018 and 2019 and addressed climate protection and sustainable mobility. On Dec. 9, 2020, they and other young adults discussed with representatives of environmental and spatial planning ministries what is ...
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News briefsFjällräven announces recipients of 2020 Arctic Fox funds
With the Arctic Fox Initiative, Fjällräven annually awards funds to several non-profit organizations and projects that aim to preserve nature or wildlife and are either associated with taking climate action or encouraging more people to go outdoors and appreciate nature. Fjällräven believes that great ideas need collective support to be ...
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News briefsPomoca is the first manufacturer of touring skins to eliminate all PFCs
Starting this season, Pomoca, the Swiss touring skin manufacturer that is part of the South Tyrolean Oberalp Group, reduces its ecological footprint and offers full transparency of its production chain. The brand has completely eliminated environmentally harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals, known as PFCs, from its entire range of skins. ...
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ArticleSalewa introduces new “Committed” label for sustainable products
The South Tyrolean mountaineering brand Salewa will introduce a new label for particularly sustainable products in the winter season 2021/22. “Committed” is a clearly visible symbol designed to inform customers about sustainable aspects when making their purchasing decisions. The hangtag label will identify equipment that stands out for its particularly ...
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News briefsFourth U.S. search and rescue organization acquires RECCO helicopter detector
Teton County Search and Rescue (TCSAR), located in Jackson, Wyoming, is the fourth search and rescue organization to be operational in the U.S. with the RECCO SAR helicopter detector. The detector will be used to search for missing people in the outdoors year-round, the non-profit organization said. The ski patrols ...
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ArticleVaude presents new “Detox” CSR report
With its latest sustainability report, Vaude has launched an entire website that fully lists and explains in detail all of the company’s past, present and future actions. By voluntarily signing the Greenpeace Detox Commitment, Vaude had already made a clear commitment in 2015 to gradually eliminate chemicals of concern by ...
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Picture opens three new stores in France
Picture Organic Clothing, the French brand of sustainable outdoor clothing, opened three new franchised stores in France earlier this month. The stores are located in Saint-Etienne (east-central France), Montpellier (southern France) and La Rochelle (southwestern France). In an interview with Sport-Guide.com, Florian Delobre, Picture’s retail manager, explained that the brand ...
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A new U.K. alliance for sustainable transport
Nine groups have joined forces in the U.K. to launch the Sustainable Transport Alliance, a new partnership that will work to promote sustainable mobility. The Sustainable Transport Alliance has been established by: Bus Users UK; the Campaign for Better Transport; Collaborative Mobility UK (CoMoUK); the Community Rail Network; the Community ...
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ArticleFESI welcomes new EU Work Plan for sport in light of post-pandemic recovery
The Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) has welcomed the publication of the EU Work Plan for Sport, which is meant to guide EU cooperation on sport policy for the years 2021 to 2024, and announced that, together with its members, it looks forward to working with the ...
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ArticleRapala to launch new sustainability strategy
Rapala VMC Corporation, a Finnish manufacturer of fishing lures, equipment and tools, has unveiled a new strategy aimed at one of the first fishing tackle companies to act upon a set of seriously ambitious environmental objectives. This includes actions already implemented over recent years as well as a series of ...
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ArticleÅre Skidfabrik invests for the future
As previously reported, the Swedish ski manufacturer Åre Skidfabrik recently expanded its facilities near the ski resort of Åre. It has now been revealed that the expansion was part of the company’s largest single investment in its 40-year history. In addition to the 50 percent larger production area, this also ...
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The North Face rejects Christmas gift order from Texas oil and gas firm
The North Face (TNF) allegedly refused to take an order for about 400 jackets from Innovex Downhole Solutions, an oilfield services group based in Houston, Texas. According to reports by WTVM, Innovex intended to offer North Face jackets, customized with the Innovex logo, to its employees as Christmas gifts, but ...
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Amplid goes CO2-neutral
German snowboard brand Amplid, currently best known for its lightweight splitboards for backcountry access, has signed an agreement with the Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation to calculate its current CO2 emissions. Through this cooperation, the snowboard brand supports the foundation in planting trees on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which bind CO2. The ...
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Tearfil chooses DuPont Sorona for performance staple yarns
Tearfil, the Portuguese specialist in textile yarns, will use Sorona fibers to develop sustainable and high-performing staple yarns for the apparel industry. Sorona is made up of 37 percent renewable plant-based ingredients. Compared with Nylon 6, Sorona uses 30 percent less energy, and releases 63 percent less greenhouse gas, according ...
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ArticleArc’teryx aims for Fair Trade certification
With a goal of having 80 percent of its products certified by Fair Trade USA by 2025, Arc’teryx has announced plans to convert three production facilities in Vietnam to Fair Trade CertifiedTM in the coming year. The move comes as part of the company’s response to the global garment workers’ ...
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News briefsOutdoor Master launches sustainable ski goggles with bamboo-made straps
Outdoor Master has launched a limited-edition series of ski goggles, in partnership with Stevie Gee and Simon Beck, which the California-based company claims are the world’s first sustainable ski goggles. The lenses in the new eco-friendly, artist collaboration goggles are made of sustainable materials extracted from cotton, which makes the ...
