Food waste is a major issue within our food system. Globally one third of all food produced by weight is lost or wasted. Food waste includes all of the lost or discarded food across all stages of the food system from farm to fork. Making it a major issue to be solved, which is why…
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Fix Food Waste, Fix Climate Change
This Thursday Citizen Good’s Caroline Bates is joining Andy Young from Achieve Goal 12 and Jeff Macdonald CSO of Bulbshare to share their recent learnings on the topic of food waste. It’s the latest huddle from the Future Food Movement, a community bringing together people from across the food and drinks industry for collaboration, learning…
MRS Sustainability Summit 2022
We hope you enjoyed our panel session at the Sustainability Summit today. We wanted to share some resources and findings that might be useful for those who want to learn more on the challenge of plastics, some of which we referenced in our session. We’ve also included a few topics we covered beyond the conference…
Sustainability Summit 2022: Tackling the plastic challenge through citizen collaboration
We’re delighted to be hosting another panel for the Market Research Society Sustainability Summit 2022 on 17th November. We’ll be discussing the challenge of plastics and how citizen collaboration can help brands drive impact on addressing this massive issue. Just a few days ago, Greenpeace’s latest plastics report reminded us how big this challenge is…
Our new more sustainable website
We’re excited to share our new Citizen Good website. We’ve chosen to redesign our site to reduce its environmental impact. The environmental impact of websites We know that people don’t often think about the environmental impact of digital technology – while they are busy streaming movies or keeping lots of tabs open whilst searching for…
Brands investing in Nature
Over recent weeks, we’ve seen some big leaps in the role of businesses stepping up and taking more responsibility for the environment and climate change. The ‘climate clock’ continues to tick and the impact of biodiversity loss and climate-related impacts are increasing all the time. We’ve seen some challenger brands increasing desire to do more,…
Beyond Carbon
The harsh reality is that we have left things too late. Carbon dioxide (CO2) lingers in the atmosphere for 500-1000 years and even if we are able to remove CO2 from all areas of our lives e.g. transport, food production and energy we will still have too high a concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere….
Creating impact through sustainability
Most consumers 76% say they want the brands they buy to make the world a better place and 67% said the brands they buy make them a better person. We’re delighted to attend the Market Insight Forum tomorrow in London and host a panel of founders & business leaders to hear about how they have…
The dark side of Chocolate
Channel 4 documentary Dispatches went undercover in Ghana where children as young as 10 have been working gruelling hours to supply cocoa beans to Cadbury – Britain’s favourite chocolate brand. Their undercover investigation, Cadbury Exposed: Dispatches, revealed illegal conditions on farms that support Cadbury’s ethical farming scheme Cocoa Life. Cocoa Life was set up by…
Creating impact through sustainability
Most consumers (76%) say they want the brands they buy to make the world a better place and 67% said the brands they buy make them a better person. We’re delighted to attend the Market Insight Forum on 8th June in London and host a panel of founders & business leaders to hear about how they have built a…