Posts tagged chemicals
Ask an Advocate Anything: Mike Schade, Mind The Store
Ask an Advocate Anything: Mike Schade, Mind The Store

Chemicals advocate Mike Schade has a warning for retailers: The market is moving to transparency and safer materials, and you should be ahead of that trend.

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BlogKellen KleinJames, campaigners, advocates, advocacy, ask an advocate, pollution, companies, campaigns, dialogue, conversation, collaboration, packaging, chemicals, chemistry, chemicals of concern, Mike Schade, Mind The Store, regulation by retail, market campaigns, transparency, safer chemicals healthy families, risk management, hazard, risk, green chemistry
Fist Bump: Kayaks, Fleece, and Market Forces
Fist Bump: Kayaks, Fleece, and Market Forces

REI raises the bar with their sustainable purchasing standards – and hikes up the incentive for lower-impact products in the outdoor industry and beyond.

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BlogKellen KleinKellen, Fist Bump, REI, Outdoor Retail, Market Forces, sustainability, sustainability leaders, outdoor industry, force for good, sustainable procurement, sustainability standards, supply chains, environment, upstream, upstream impacts, chemicals, environmental impacts, social impacts, regulation by retail, supplier standards, millennials, responsible manufacturing
The New Retail Regulatory Norm, and What Business Needs to Do About It
The New Retail Regulatory Norm, and What Business Needs to Do About It

Increased globalization and U.S. political dysfunction have accelerated the establishment of a new norm of regulatory action—not regulation by law, but regulation by retail.

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