In August 2015, the City of Aspen, Colorado joined Burlington, Vermont and Greensburg, Kansas as the third city in the United States to operate entirely on energy from renewable sources...
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Annie’s Inc. is a subsidiary of General Mills, headquartered in Berkeley, California. Annie's is known for their Mac and Cheese and commitment to organic ingredients. Their 2016 Sustainability Report states that 60 million pounds of organic ingredients were purchased and 88% of Annie’s sales came from “Certified Organic” or “Made with Organic” products. In addition, Annie’s announced a plan to “add ~20 farms and ~3,000 acres of domestic organic dairy production over the next 3 years” as part of their Organic Valley partnership.
Starting in 2011, Starbucks adopted a new policy requiring all new building construction conform to certain LEED standards. Thirty major cities in the United States have implemented similar policies mandating certain new building construction meet LEED standards with additional cities adopting similar policies each year...
Jackson Family Wines is a family owned winery founded by Jess Jackson in 1982. The California based business now operates with 1500 employees in California, Oregon, Italy, France, Chile, Australia, and South Africa. The company formally began sustainability monitoring and operations in 2008. Jackson Family Wines publishes a robust sustainability report for a privately held company. Water conservation plays an important role in the overall sustainability strategy at JFW.....
On May 14th, 2015 the University of Washington board of regents voted to divest all endowment funds, approximately $2 billion, from companies whose primary profit comes from burning coal for energy creation...
Conservation easements emerged in the 1990s as a vehicle for private land conservation in which property owners placed a legally enforced mandate on their land to restrict certain types of development in perpetuity...
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is a nonprofit that created the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) as a sustainability self-reporting framework for universities and colleges...