Ambitious partnership... Expanding on its previous work, Lidl US has partnered with WWF to identify opportunities to accelerate sustainability at an international level.: https://ow.ly/nByH50SxmsR #foodretail #grocery #lidl
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What a fantastic start to 2024 and continued global dairy journey. Last week we finally managed to bring some of the pieces together across multiple parts of the ALDI North and South businesses led by the ALDI south commercial team and our supplier partner FrieslandCampina this was a first for our business! Global commercial teams along with the global and local sustainability teams met with key Friesland personnel for a sustainability workshop, whilst being hosted at one of the owner's farms (thank you family Hartman: https://www.mvhartman.nl/ !). Hosting at the farm for the day made for a great location and bought perspective into play 😊 🐮 Buying has moved on from just discussions on product and price, with a drastic shift to what ‘makes up’ the inputs in products that are procured. Key topics around animal welfare, climate (carbon) and biodiversity were high on the agenda, and it was great to hear from some amazing experts in their field and discuss future ways of working with a partner on the journey together. A massive thanks to Dieuwer van Staveren, Rasa Buermeyer and Ruben Wanders for the continued commitment - persistence pays off 😊! Good to see the commercial side pushing for more action - León Fernando V. and Michael Messingschlager whilst getting commitment right from the top (Anke Ehlers and Mireille Einwachter - thanks for spending the day with the group!) making sure sustainability is incorporated into viable commercial actions. Looking forward to the next steps!! #teamdairy, #thereisnobox, #thebigpicture, #makeyourmark
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I'm very excited to announce our collaboration with Storebrand, who have invested into a portfolio of carbon removal projects. Storebrand is a Nordic financial group offering services in pensions, savings, banking and insurance. Taking action to scale and develop carbon removal strongly aligns with their purpose— building a future worth looking forward to. They have invested in a well-balanced portfolio that combines nature-based, hybrid, and nascent engineered methods. This includes forestry, biochar, enhanced rock weathering and direct air capture. This mixed-methods approach aligns with best practices, allowing them to deploy short- to medium-permanence carbon removal while also investing in the scaling and development of newer, highly durable storage solutions. We are excited to collaborate with a value-aligned company like Storebrand and look forward to the road ahead in this partnership. #carbonremoval #cdr #sustainability #climatechange #netzero
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🚨BREAKING: we’ve lodged a #greenwashing complaint against Australia’s biggest supermarkets, Coles Group, Woolworths Supermarkets and ALDI Stores Australia, for selling salmon that’s causing the extinction of Australia’s living dinosaur - the Maugean Skate. The big supermarkets slap “responsibly sourced” claims on salmon, but there’s nothing responsible about Tasmania’s salmon industry. It’s polluting the endangered skate’s last remaining habitat, Macquarie Harbour, with waste matter and uneaten fish food. Consumers have a right to know if the salmon they are buying could be responsible for the first extinction of a shark or ray in modern times. Coles, Woolworths and ALDI – #SaveTheSkate and #StopSellingExtinction! Find out more about the supermarket’s greenwashing and the complaint we lodged together with our friends at Living Oceans Society, Neighbours Of Fish Farming and Bob Brown Foundation: https://lnkd.in/gaEfkiFQ
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Lessons from Patagonia 🥊 In 2023, Patagonia ranked as the most respected brand in the United States and the love just keeps on flowing as they’re now making food products through Patagonia Provisions. Jen Berliner is the Head of Marketing, Sales, and E-commerce at Patagonia Provisions. She brings a wealth of experience and passion for regenerative agriculture, a transformative practice that not only nurtures our planet, but also revolutionizes the way we approach food production. In this episode, we delve into the power of regenerative agriculture and why Patagonia, a brand renowned for its environmental stewardship, is championing this cause through Patagonia Provisions. Here are some key themes explored in this episode: 💬 Messaging Innovation: Discover how Patagonia Provisions markets a brand that is leading the way in sustainability and environmental consciousness. 💬 Always Educating: Learn about the commitment to educating consumers on the importance and benefits of regenerative agriculture. 💬 Extending a Brand: Hear how Patagonia Provisions pushes the boundaries of its origin category, expanding its influence and impact. 💬 Simplifying the Complex: Understand how Jen and her team make complex concepts accessible and engaging, ensuring that people not only understand but also care deeply about regenerative agriculture. Learn how Patagonia Provisions is paving the way for a more sustainable future and learn Jen’s secrets to leading a challenger brand within Patagonia. 🤘🏻 Full conversation here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gvndbZTD
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Lessons from Patagonia: Leading a Challenger Brand from Within 🎥 Watch today: https://bit.ly/3KooZJS In 2023, Patagonia ranked at the most respected brand in the United States and the love just keeps flowing as they're now making food products through Patagonia Provisions. We're thrilled to announce a new Listen Loudly episode featuring an inspiring conversation with Jen Berliner, the Head of Marketing, Sales, and E-commerce at Patagonia Provisions. Jen brings a wealth of experience and passion for regenerative agriculture, a transformative practice that not only nurtures our planet, but also revolutionizes the way we approach food production. In this episode, Jen and our host Bethany delve into the power of regenerative agriculture and why Patagonia, a brand renowned for its environmental stewardship, is championing this cause through Patagonia Provisions. Here are some key themes explored in this episode: 🥊 Messaging Innovation: Discover how Patagonia Provisions markets a brand that is leading the way in sustainability and environmental consciousness. 🥊 Always Educating: Learn about the commitment to educating consumers on the importance and benefits of regenerative agriculture. 🥊Extending a Brand: Hear how Patagonia Provisions pushes the boundaries of its origin category, expanding its influence and impact. 🥊Simplifying the Complex: Understand how Jen and her team make complex concepts accessible and engaging, ensuring that people not only understand but also care deeply about regenerative agriculture. Tune in to learn how Patagonia Provisions is paving the way for a more sustainable future and learn Jen's secrets to leading a challenger brand within Patagonia! 🎥 https://bit.ly/3KooZJS
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Digital Connector | Tech for Good with Regen/Civic/Brands with Purpose/Minnesota | Ashoka Fellow | White House Champion of Change (Obama)
Is free to try the way to go?? (Oh, but in exchange for first-party data.) For those who say discounting just cheapens your brand, the reality at least with food products is that without a discount *most* people are extremely resistant to trying something new. There is also the reality that organic (and in this case regeneratively grown wheat) ingredients require a price premium to be profitable. So, there is big hump to get over. IF the product tastes better, people might well pay that premium over and over ONCE they have tried it at price parity. The German real-world "fair trade" coffee test comes to mind - only when the discount made the fair trade brand equal in price to the conventional labelled coffee, did fair trade fly off the shelf (link in comments). So, how do you get people to at least try your brand's new to them product? I'm a big fan of Social Nature which has over a million people signed up ready to try new natural foods by receiving a discount they bring into a store. It's a way to get people used to buying X new product at Y store and boosts the chance that the product will sell through at a rate that keeps them on the shelves of a retailer. What Paul Lightfoot's Patagonia Provisions is using here is the reverse - Go to X store, buy the product and with a picture of the receipt (and I assume the opportunity to opt-in to ongoing email and/or text communication with the brand), they will reimburse you electronically. The Aisle tool they are using is new on my radar and definitely worth a closer look. Another notable approach is Makeena which uses receipts for loyalty tracking and more no matter where you buy the product (I believe) off the shelf. The challenge for smaller brands not yet on a shelf or many shelves is how to get creative with efforts to get people to try your product without selling a deep loss. That's where the DTC post-check model from GoodCarts comes into the mix. Today, with the discretionary income crunch, it appears to be a time where deeper discounts are required to get *new* first time customers. The challenge is how to offer those online without all of your existing customers searching Google at check-out and finding codes when they already planned to buy anyway. The codes from GoodCarts aren't public, so check it out and in literally 15 minutes with our Shopify app you can be generating free visibility for your brand (of any size) that day: https://goodcarts.co Tiffin ✌️, Annalea Krebs 🌎, Karen Frame, Caroline Grace, Heidi Traore, Patrick Sheridan, Corinne Shindelar, Gage Mitchell, Chloë Thomas, Kyle Peters, Kate Fosson, Daniel Scharff, Anthony Corsaro (AC), Kyle Krull, Saida Abdala, Kate LaBrosse, Jordan Buckner
Do you, or could you, shop at Sprouts? We'd like to give you free Patagonia crackers! Signup for your free box of crackers here: https://lnkd.in/gPshEnAJ (redeemable at Sprouts Innovation Stations)
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Writer, speaker, advisor and entrepreneur on sustainable business strategy and communications, climate tech and beyond
10 years ago, I scooped the story that McDonald's said it would begin sourcing "verifiable, sustainable beef" for its hamburgers. At the time, the fast-food giant didn’t have a definition of "sustainable beef" or a timetable for when it might achieve its self-described "aspirational goal" of buying 100 percent sustainable #beef for its 34,500 restaurants worldwide. A decade later, I set out to assess what’s happened since that announcement: what McDonald’s has achieved over the past 10 years, and what it takes to transition a sprawling industry toward more sustainable outcomes. What I found over several months of reporting illuminates what happens when a well-intentioned company bumps up against the realities of transforming complex, global supply chains. It also portrays a large, slow-moving industry that, perhaps like cattle, seems to spend a great deal of time ruminating on what beef sustainability means, and on how to prod a sizable herd of sometimes stubborn players to move in a new direction. Part 1 of my new three-part series, "Planet Beef," is just out. I hope you find it, well, meaty. Via GreenBiz Group https://lnkd.in/gV_Xh4ZU Marion Gross Jenny McColloch Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) Ruaraidh Petre Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (CRSB) WWF Jason Clay Luke McKelvie Kendra Levine Rémi ROCCA Dr. Jennifer Molidor Center for Biological Diversity National Cattlemen's Beef Association #sustainableagriculture #mcdonalds #sustainablebusiness #supplychainsustainability #cattlefarming
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International MBA, Expert in Food & Beverage Packaging Development and Sustainability. Innovator and Problem solver. Strong passion for Food
Sustainable Pet Food packaging is Key to meet consumer demands while taking care of Environment and Resources
The Pet Sustainability Coalition has selected Ahlstrom as a 2023-2024 Top Performer for outstanding leadership in sustainability! 🏆 🌱 This award signifies that out of the PSC's Accredited companies Ahlstrom is one of the top scorers. Our team continues to work diligently on our sustainable PawPrint® pet food packaging papers - so much so, we are starting to look more and more like our pets! 🐾 Learn more about Ahlstrom's PawPrint®: https://lnkd.in/dUB7uEZy See you at Super Zoo 2023! 👉🏼 www.superzoo.org #WePurifyandProtect #sustainability #innovation #foodpackaging
Ahlstrom as a 2023-2024 Top Performer for outstanding leadership in sustainability
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Ellers Farm Distillery is now a B Corp®! We are so happy to be joining a global community using business as a force for good. We’re also thrilled that our commitment to creating a positive impact on society and the environment has been recognised just 18 months after producing our first bottle of Dutch Barn Orchard Vodka. We’ve learned a lot through the B Corp certification process. Sustainability has always been a core focus of our business, but the rigour of the B Impact Assessment has helped us to put good practice in place from the early days of our business. Below, we’ve highlighted a few of the ways we’ve tried to increase our positive impact on the environment, employees and local community: 💷 For positive employee impact we created a unique profit share model by which 20% of the company’s profits will be distributed to employees. This avoids the complications of employee shareholder models while ensuring a portion of the wealth created by the business is distributed to those who work for the business. 🌴 In an effort to both engage employees and impact climate projects around the world, we have a Climate Positive Workforce subscription in partnership with Ecologi. Through this programme we have supported the planting of over 5,000 trees around the world to date. 🍎 And to positively impact nature surrounding the distillery, along with a dozen volunteers, our employees planted 2.5 acres of apple trees in the adjacent fields. These trees not only remove carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, but create a biodiverse habitat that benefits local pollinators, birds, and mammals. A big thank you to our employees and our Yorkshire B Local community for their support throughout this process. We’re going to make sure we celebrate this achievement, but it won’t be long before we’re looking for more ways to improve our positive impact! B Corp UK B Lab #bcorp #bcorpcertified #bethechange #businessasaforceforgood #sustainability #spirits #distillery
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Change Agent, Servant-Leader, Strategic Advisor, Systems Engineer, Consortia Member @ QED-C | Quantum Ecosystem, Data Hog/Connoisseur, Aspiring Prompt Engineer
Sustainable practices in the seafood industry have global implications, as oceans do not recognize national borders. International cooperation and adherence to sustainable fishing standards are crucial to address issues like illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and to ensure the health of the world’s oceans. #Sustainability in the seafood industry is essential for protecting the environment, ensuring economic stability and growth, and securing social well-being. It requires a collective effort from governments, industries, communities, and consumers to make responsible choices that support sustainable fisheries and aquaculture practices.
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