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Smithfield Renewables

How to integrate renewable energy into your business

Renewable energy projects demonstrate that sustainability and profitability are not mutually exclusive.
Kraig Westerbeek
November 14, 2019

From renewable natural gas infrastructure to improving zero-waste-to-landfill standard, find out how Smithfield Foods is in position to meet its goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2025.


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Meijer Flashfood app

Meijer’s new app-based pilot program aims to reduce in-store food waste

The app, produced by Flashfood, Canada, allows customers to purchase close-dated fresh food items, including meat, produce, seafood, deli and bakery products at up to 50% off.
November 13, 2019
Meijer, Grand Rapids, Mich., is testing an app at a handful of its Metro Detroit supercenters that allows customers to purchase food nearing its best-buy date at a reduced price.
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Wageningen University & Research receives funds to improve vertical agriculture, animal welfare, water management

One project involves tower garden systems using LEDs and the other focuses on improvements in the welfare of pigs and chickens.
November 13, 2019
Wageningen University & Research (WUR), The Netherlands, received more than €8 million from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and participating bodies for two major research programs—one involving tower garden systems using LEDs and the other focusing on improvements in the welfare of pigs and chickens.
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Study: Global vertical farming market shows steady growth

Optimum usage of vertical space and energy utilization, ease in monitoring and harvesting of crops and limited availability of arable land are driving growth in the global vertical farming market.
November 13, 2019
The global vertical farming market generated $2.23 billion in 2018, and is estimated to generate $12.77 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 24.6% from 2019 to 2026, according to a report by Allied Market Research, Portland, Ore.
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Jensen Meat installs solar-powered cells

The high-efficiency solar panels, manufactured by SunPower, are estimated to produce 43% of Jensen’s power.
November 13, 2019
Jensen Meat installed solar-powered cells and an electric vehicle (EV) charging station at its Otay Mesa, Calif., headquarters manufacturing plant.
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McDonald’s to implement solar, wind energy to power restaurants

This investment means McDonald’s is said to add more renewable energy to the power supply than any other U.S. restaurant company to date.
November 7, 2019
McDonald's, Chicago, announced its commitment to energy efficiency and renewable energy with a large-scale virtual power purchase agreement.
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Study reveals more than half of CPG growth is from sustainability-marketed products

The research found that sustainability-marketed products delivered 50.1% of market growth from 2013-2018 while representing 16.6% of the CPG market in dollar sales in 2018.
November 7, 2019
NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB), New York, and IRI, Chicago, launched a new Sustainable Market Share Index, an in-depth analysis of consumer purchases of products marketed for their sustainable attributes.
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Scientists warn about current, impending, potential damage on Earth

With the exception of stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, since 1992, “humanity has failed to make sufficient progress in generally solving these foreseen environmental challenges, and alarmingly, most of them are getting far worse,” the study says.
November 7, 2019
Twenty-five years ago, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Mass., and more than 1,700 independent scientists penned the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” which called on humankind to curtail environmental destruction and cautioned that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided.”
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Sysco announces 2019 corporate social responsibility report

Sysco’s CSR strategy focuses on three key areas—people, products and planet.
November 6, 2019
Sysco Corp., Houston, Texas, published its 2019 corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, documenting the company’s progress toward the 2025 goals established in 2018.
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