Seeing Green
Celebrating progress in sustainable living — how we live, travel, eat, move, dress, play, clean… and more.
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Seeing Green - stories of progress, solutions and inspiration. Topics include: apparel, home, food, travel & tourism, sports & outdoors, beauty, personal care, electric vehicles and more.
Spotlight: Sustainable Dining / QSRs
Pivotal moment for restaurant sustainability. Starbucks doubles its Greener Stores. McDonald's franchisee tries plastic phaseout. Reusable bioplastic cups debut at Burger King (Finland). And much more…
Spotlight: Sustainable QSRs News Highlights
Starbucks and KFC goals for emissions reductions. Taco Bell/TerraCycle partner on packaging takeback. Shake Shack switches to certified "Carbon Neutral" milk. McDonald's phases out McFlurry spoons. Jollibee supports mangroves. And much more…
Spotlight: Sustainable Dining News Highlights
Spotlights on the often behind-the-scenes "enablers": food service, packaging, meal kits, delivery, and restaurant workflow and construction. Recent highlights from Sodexo, Chartwells, Metz, Sysco, Guckenheimer. GrubHub launches grants for stove emissions. Safe & Green's sustainable restaurant construction. Eco-friendly meal delivery. And much more…
Sustainable Food - Dining
Brands in the news: Restaurantware, LLC, Sodexo, Aramark, Taco Bell, TerraCycle, Starbucks, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dairy Farmers of America, Chartwells Higher Education Dining Services, DoorDash, DeliverZero, Uber Eats, McDonald's, 7-Eleven, Domino's, Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar, IHOP, Budderfly, Craveworthy Brands, Greener by Default and many more.
Sustainable Food - Dining
Brands in the news: KFC, Panda Restaurant Group, GridPoint, Chipotle Mexican Grill, McDonald's, Starbucks, Michelin, Winnow, Yum Bug, Picadeli, Blue Star Foods, Regent Taipei - Silks Hotel Group 晶華國際酒店集團 and many more.
Video: 5 in 5 (week in review)
Check out episode 15 of my new weekly video recap of five highlights in sustainable living news in five minutes curated from my #SustainableLife blog at greenlivingdoug.com. Today's recap includes: electric vehicles 2023 sales results and 2024 outlook, sustainability driving brand preference in the Beauty sector, sustainability as a differentiator in home sales, the GrubHub Food Trends Report sees the importance of sustainability in restaurants, and a new partnership to advance electric motorsports – on land and sea.
Sustainable Food - Dining
Brands in the news: Grubhub, Uber, Sodexo, TOVO, Panda Restaurant Group, Mush Foods, McDonald's, Starbucks, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Jersey Mike's Subs, Plantega, The Sustainable Restaurant Association, Deliverect, MERALCO, GridPoint, Planet Ark Environmental Foundation, Dinings SW3, iVvy and many more.
SustainableLife Turns 5!
HAPPY 5TH ANNIVERSARY to my #SustainableLife blog series -- a near-daily curation of headlines of progress across themes of sustainable living aiming to inspire and show the art of the possible!
Sustainable Food - Dining
Brands in the news: Eleven Madison Park, McDonald's, Starbucks, A&W Food Services of Canada Inc., Domino's, Pizza Hut, OmniFoods, Neat Burger, Uber, Zoomo, National Restaurant Association, International Food Information Council and many more.
Sustainable Food - Dining
Brands in the news: Yum! Brands, KFC, Burger King, IHOP, Impossible Foods, McDonald's, Starbucks, Panda Restaurant Group, Shake Shack, Taco Bell, SkipTheDishes and many more.
Sustainable Food - Dining
Brands in the news: McDonald's, Starbucks, Everytable, Huhtamaki, Michelin, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Gently, Veggie Grill, CRISP & GREEN® and many more.
