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: Frugalpac
Frugalpac is a UK-based company that specializes in creating sustainable packaging solutions to help decarbonize the food and drinks industry. Frugalpac’s flagship product, the Frugal Bottle, is the world's first commercially available paper bottle for wine, spirits and olive oils that is both lightweight and significantly less carbon-intensive than traditional glass bottles.
Spotlight: ecoSPIRITS
ecoSPIRITS is on a mission to end single use glass in the spirits and wine industry by leading a transition to circular packaging technology. The company, founded in 2018, has developed the world's first low carbon, low waste packaging system for premium spirits and wine.
Spotlight: Sustainable Grocery News Highlights
Lidl study increases plant-based sales. Spotlight on grocery retailer sustainability efforts. Ahold's sustainability goals in focus. Greener grocery packaging, including Tesco's meat packaging. Publix supports fish traceability project. Regenerative organic products from Whole Foods. And much more.
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: Ulta Beauty, LUSH, Prevented Ocean Plastic, Babo Botanicals, Coty, L’OCCITANE Group, Berry Global, Inc., Weleda AG, Kering, CHANEL, Evolve Organic Beauty, Quadpack | Certified B Corp, Gerresheimer Glass, Inc., Guyenne Papier, Cosmopak USA LLC, TotalEnergies Corbion, Sulapac Ltd and many more.
Sustainable Food & Grocery
Brands in the news: ALDI USA, Albertsons, Sainsbury's, Lidl Ireland, Kroger, SPAR International, Tesco, Co-op, Asda, Waitrose & Partners, Marks and Spencer, Too Good To Go, Lidl Slovenija, Re:Water and many more.
Video: 5 in 5 (week in review)
Check out episode 16 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: new plant-based foods arriving in 2024; WTTC and Biosphere partner to help standardize hotel sustainability; Sheep Inc. reports surge in revenue driven by sustainability; Arket and Bundlee parter in children's clothing rental; and a continued spotlight on sustainable alternatives to traditional wine bottles. Plus, a bonus spotlight on the edible cup from Cupffee.
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: CHANEL, Prada Group, L'Oréal, Parfums Christian Dior, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc., L’OCCITANE Group, Gjosa SA, AXILONE GROUP, Eastman, Hourglass Cosmetics, Karma Wallet, Fig.1, Kao Collins, Texen, Sulapac Ltd, Joico, AMOREPACIFIC, Persistence Market Research Pvt. Ltd. and many more.
Video: 5 in 5 (week in review)
Check out episode 12 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 sustainable packaging in grocery retail, more brands launching recommerce initiatives, an environmental "impact receipt" for apparel, progress toward the world's first 100% SAF transatlantic flight, and a movement to lighten bottles in the wine industry.
Sustainable Spirits & Liquor
Brands in the news: Holistic Spirits Co., ALMAVE, Meili Vodka, Mother of Pearl Vodka of the Sea, Frugalpac, Packamama, Clif Family: Wine, Food, Farming, Clonakilty Distillery, Never Never Distilling Co., Broadland Drinks Limited, Anderson Valley Brewing Company, Organic Trade Association, Sustainable Wine Roundtable, Bay Cities, Napa Green and many more.
Sustainable Food & Grocery
Brands in the news: Amazon, SPAR Group, Lidl in Germany, ALDI USA, Carrefour, Albertsons, Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer, Asda, Abel & Cole | B Corp™, H-E-B and many more.
Sustainable Beverage - Spirits & Liquor
Brands in the news: Diageo, Bacardi, Distinct Distillers, ALDI USA, Frey Ranch Distillery, LOUIS XIII Cognac, Frugalpac, Patagonia Provisions, Aircohol, Amcor, Pulpex, Distillery 98, Free Flow Wines, Whitehall Lane Winery, Sustainable Wine Roundtable, Champagne Laurent-Perrier, Allagash Brewing Company, Lawson's Finest Liquids and many more.
Video: SustainableLife: 5 in 5 (week in review)
Check out episode 7 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 sustainable beauty packaging, consumers and sustainable homes, more electric vehicles (EVs) momentum, plant-based food for college students and the rise of Recommerce-as-a-Service.
Sustainable Beauty & Personal Care
Brands in the news: Ulta Beauty, Herbivore Botanicals, Good Time, The in-cosmetics Group, NielsenIQ, Sky Organics, Ulé, The Sustainability Consortium, Sulapac Ltd, Sarantis Group, JD.COM, STYLIDEAS, La bouche rouge, Paris and many more…
