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Where Does All That Garbage Go?

When you throw that plastic water bottle into the recycle bin do you ask the question: where does all that garbage go? Hopefully, not into a landfill, the unfortunate destination of a huge amount of “recycled” trash. Hopefully, it gets sorted for serious recycling,...

Ief Winckelmans: The Missing Link Between Conservation, Business and Finance

by Blue Ocean Network

Recently, Laurence Fink, CEO of the world’s largest investment company BlackRock, issued a watershed, call to action. The message? Corporations need to pay attention to their “Societal Impact” or risk losing investment. On the same day,...

BlackRock to the World: Pay Attention to “Societal Impact”

by Robert Frerck

Laurence Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment firm, issued a challenge to his fellow chief executives–change your bottom line. In his annual letter to BlackRock investment recipients, Fink stated that these companies need to do more...

Life Beyond Plastic: Good News From McDonald’s

by Robert Frerck

Two Major Food companies have announced that they are going plastic free! Iceland Foods and McDonald’s Corporation take historic steps towards sustainability. Our recent post Tell McDonald’s No to Plastic Straws, documented the sustainability issues of the...

Big News from the Big Apple

by Robert Frerck

They turned the Empire State building green after the city made two major announcements last month. The first was that New York would divest its pension funds from investments in fossil fuel companies. The second and related announcement was that the Big Apple had...

Life Beyond Plastic: Tell McDonald’s No to Plastic Straws

by Robert Frerck

We recently did research on the environmental sustainability of famous theme parks in Orlando, Florida. In Life Beyond Plastics: Make Your Next Trip Sustainable, we compared firsthand experiences at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. Our aim was to determine...