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5 days ago | trellis.net | Elsa Wenzel

After nearly a decade of spurring Lululemon’s embrace of innovative materials and secondhand sales, Esther Speck is stepping away. Speck, who joined the Vancouver athleisure wear giant in 2015 as vice president of global sustainability, spent the past two years as its senior vice president of global sustainable business and impact.

5 days ago | trellis.net | Heather Clancy

Send news about sustainability leadership roles, promotions and departures to [email protected]. Inter IKEA Group, which makes the wide range of home goods sold in IKEA stores, has officially named the former head of its textile supply chain strategy as its new chief sustainability officer. Lena Julle, who has been with IKEA for more than 30 years, had been acting CSO since September 2024, when Pär Stenmark stepped aside to prepare for a new, as-yet-undeclared, role within the company.

6 days ago | trellis.net | Tensie Whelan |Chisara Ehiemere

When you think of the biggest polluters of greenhouse gas emissions, health care may not be top of mind. But the health care system is responsible for 8.5 percent of GHGs in the U.S. and about 5 percent globally. At the same time, health care systems are increasingly affected by the climate change impacts of those outsized emissions.

6 days ago | trellis.net | Heather Clancy

Outdoor retailer REI Co-op kept 90 percent of the discarded packaging and other waste generated at its 190-plus stores, distribution centers and warehouses out of landfills or incinerators in 2024 — delivering early on a 2025 goal and edging out other national chains including Walmart and Target that have made similar commitments. REI’s long-term vision is to become a zero-waste operation, although the 24 million-member co-operative hasn’t published a target date for its ambition.

6 days ago | trellis.net | Elsa Wenzel

By 2040, Target wants to reach net zero climate emissions and design 50 branded product collections “for a circular future.” More immediately, the Minneapolis-based retailer intends to craft its Universal Thread clothing for circularity this year. Target’s move in that direction included embedding digital product passports (DPPs) into millions of units of Universal Thread apparel at the end of 2024. Target’s DPP approach involves a QR code printed on a tag near the garment’s brand label.