The risk of her awakening and messing up the still unfinished puzzle is low, right?!?

One of the perks of spending time in DC is checking out the holiday decorations. Lots of gorgeous LED lights making the White House sparkle.

Circularity will be as transformative to the retail industry as the invention of double-entry accounting, the cash register, the delivery truck, the internet and the phone app combined.

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I think we’re safe from artificial intelligence a while longer. AI just informed me that “No members of the House of Representatives voted against the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1973, as it passed unanimously with a vote of 355-4.”

FYI the #sustainability of #packaging depends on the material(s) used to make it, the need to the product, consumer behavior when the packaging is no longer needed, and the reuse/recycling infrastructure where the product is unpacked.

Ready for the GreenBiz conference to start here in Phoenix. Love talking retail, sustainability, circularity and complexity theory. If you’re here, come find me.

Anyone attending the upcoming Reverse Logistics Association conference in Vegas or the GreenBiz conference in Phoenix?

Taylor is a Trekkie!!!

It’s always fun to talk sustainable retail, circular economy and decarbonization strategies and then hop on a plane praying that the meeting results will exponentially offset the carbon intensity of the travel getting there and back.

Executives are still confusing sustainability terms. Everyone is describing the same elephant from different perspectives using different language.

The linked post defines five key terms: sustainability, CSR, ESG, circularity & regenerative.

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Cartoon by Lorne Craig.

Every retail role is now a sustainability role. Sustainability executives must understand the responsibilities of every other retail role (CEO, finance, marketing, supply chain, operations, etc.) & know how to influence and support them and their sustainability priorities.
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Retail executives, suppliers and consumers all define and talk about sustainability differently. This National Retail Federation (NRF) blog post from last year, “How to talk about sustainability with anyone,” advocates for more effective susty conversations.

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