All CSR & Sustainability articles – Page 157
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Patagonia has announced an investment in Beyond Surface Technologies (BST),...
Patagonia has announced an investment in Beyond Surface Technologies (BST), a chemical company that uses sustainable technologies, based on natural substances, to produce high-performance textile treatments. The investment, the details of which have not been disclosed, has been made by Patagonia through its $20 Million & Change venture fund, created ...
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Patagonia wants to give its contribution to the completion of...
Patagonia wants to give its contribution to the completion of the Patagonia National Park, located in the Patagonian region, shared by Argentina and Chile. The outdoor brand has presented Mile for Mile, a 15-minute film celebrating the Patagonian landscape through the sport of trail running, in an effort to attract ...
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Greenlight Planet, a company delivering innovative energy solutions to people...
Greenlight Planet, a company delivering innovative energy solutions to people with no access to electricity, is now entering the outdoor market by offering three versions of its Sun King lamps in the U.S. Greenlight Planet developed in 2005 from an idea by T. Patrick Walsh, a student of the University ...
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Patagonia has announced an investment in Beyond Surface Technologies (BST),...
Patagonia has announced an investment in Beyond Surface Technologies (BST), a chemical company that uses sustainable technologies, based on natural substances, to produce high-performance textile treatments. The investment, the details of which have not been disclosed, has been made by Patagonia through its $20 Million & Change venture fund, created ...
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Vaude was among six companies nominated for the Boldness in...
Vaude was among six companies nominated for the Boldness in Business Award in the corporate responsibility/environment category. Antje von Dewitz, Vaude's chief executive, was in London for the awards ceremony last month. The prize was awarded by The Financial Times and Arcelor Mittal, the steel and mining company. The nominations were ...
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Chaco is partnering with American Rivers, a U.S.-based non-profit organization...
Chaco is partnering with American Rivers, a U.S.-based non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring national rivers, on a film project documenting conservation efforts in the Grand Canyon. The short film will make its debut at the 5 Point Film Festival in Carbondale, Colorado, at the end of April. In ...
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Bergans of Norway is looking for 30 outdoor enthusiasts to...
Bergans of Norway is looking for 30 outdoor enthusiasts to test prototypes for the new Ecodear jackets, developed in partnership with Toray, the Japanese high-tech textile group. Applicants have to fill out a questionnaire on the Ispo Open Innovation platform. In the course of the project, testers will discuss product ...
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Sherpa Adventure Gear has announced it is sponsoring the 2015...
Sherpa Adventure Gear has announced it is sponsoring the 2015 Restore Vision Expedition team, which will provide free eye care to villagers in the Upper Gorkha, a remote and impoverished region of Nepal, on May 1-10. The brand will supply functional outdoor clothing for the expedition's eye surgeons, technicians and ...
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Houdini is launching Houdini Travel, a tour operator for sustainable...
Houdini is launching Houdini Travel, a tour operator for sustainable travel, in cooperation with Pure Ski Touring and Carl Lundberg, a certified mountain guide. Houdini Travel will be starting with two ski trips to Tarfala and Abisko, in northern Sweden. Environmentally-friendly criteria are based on the choice of closer destinations ...
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Prana, the yoga and outdoor apparel brand acquired last year...
Prana, the yoga and outdoor apparel brand acquired last year by Columbia Sportswear, obtained accreditation for its social compliance program with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) last month. It underlines Prana's commitment to promoting and complying with international labor standards through its supply chain, by using FLA's workplace code of conduct. ...
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Bluesign has reminded bluesign-certified manufacturers and brands that they are...
Bluesign has reminded bluesign-certified manufacturers and brands that they are to have no long-chain C8 durable water repellents (DWR) in their products or supply chains as from Jan. 1. However, the Swiss certification company also mentioned that the positive list of bluesign-approved chemical products (bluesign bluefinder) includes several short-chain DWR ...
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Haglöfs has won the Sustainability Brand of the Year award,...
Haglöfs has won the Sustainability Brand of the Year award, from the Swedish trade magazine Sportfack. It was presented at Swesport, the Swedish outdoor and sports trade show, which ran in Stockholm on Jan. 11-12. In 2013, Haglöfs defined an array of ambitious sustainability goals that would be achieved in ...
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Acting through Amazon EU, which is its European organization, Amazon...
Acting through Amazon EU, which is its European organization, Amazon has become the first online retailer to join the European Outdoor Conservation Alliance (EOCA). The retail giant first approached EOCA last July.
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Adidas ranks third among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations...
Adidas ranks third among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World. Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based media and investment advisory company, announced its tenth-annual list of the world's most sustainable companies, also known as the Global 100, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21. The ...
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Hydro Flask is donating $100,000 to three charities based in...
Hydro Flask is donating $100,000 to three charities based in Bend, Oregon: Neighbor Impact Head Start, Oregon Adaptive Sports, and Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA). Hydro Flask itself is based in Bend. The three non-profit organizations were chosen because of the positive contribution each makes within the Central Oregon community, ...
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VF Corporation and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the...
VF Corporation and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have announced they have distributed loans to three garment factories in Bangladesh - Arunima Sportswear, Olio Apparels, and Radisson Apparel – totaling $1.3 million, under a new program for funding fire and building safety improvements. Through the ...
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Chaco, part of Wolverine Worldwide's Performance Group, has made a...
Chaco, part of Wolverine Worldwide's Performance Group, has made a donation of $46,945 to the American Camp Association (Aca) for its “Send a Child to Camp” scholarship fund, which will allow around 100 under-privileged children to enjoy a camp experience. Chaco has raised more than $68,000 dollars for Aca's “Send ...
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Primaloft has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). It will...
Primaloft has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC). It will contribute data and resources to support the Higg Index. More than 140 companies are already members of SAC, incluing global members and retailers such as Adidas, Nike, VF Corp., C&A, Gap and H&M.
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Fjällräven has made a “Down Promise” that all its new...
Fjällräven has made a “Down Promise” that all its new products will only use ethically produced down feathers of the highest quality. After several years of work on this increasingly sensitive issue, the Swedish company says it is now working with one supplier who shares its views on animal welfare, ...
