GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. We as human beings and our planet are all connected. My environmental work in Microsoft’s datacenter communities has certainly been disrupted by the global crisis.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn the benefits and challenges of running a company internship program, intern project ideas that will bring long-lasting benefits to your company, and strategies for facilitating intern engagement and ensuring quality work. Evaluation and Feedback: Monitor Performance and Offer Guidance.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2022

What is Community Education and Outreach? Community Education and Outreach (E&O) refers to the provision of resources and services of a specific expertise to people who may otherwise lack access to them. while “Outreach” refers to the direct engagement and activities to get community members excited and involved. Mentorship.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2022

With this in mind, in Europe, the Green Sports Alliance have brought large football organizations together to push for environmentally friendly ways to enjoy these games. In this article, we highlight 5 main ways the sports industry can implement a more sustainable design. Offer composting bins in areas where food is served.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Plus, the tens of thousands of edible creatures in the oceans offer a broader palette of flavors and textures to imitate compared with land mammals or fowl. We want to offer people the best plant-based meat alternatives in terms of taste, texture, flavor and nutrition," Pohl said. "To

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Green building certifications. Companies who are GRI Community members get a 25% discount. General business sustainability certifications.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Reporting on environmental, social and governance (ESG) is an up-and-coming way for companies to prove that they have a positive impact on society and the planet. internal diversity, community impact), and Governance (i.e. This article will discuss concrete steps your company can take to improve your current ESG score.

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

When we started Better Ventures in 2011, we had a lot of explaining to do. Mission-driven companies can attract and retain the best talent because they offer employees something many other companies cannot: meaning and purpose at work. This is increasingly important to Millennial and Gen-Z workers. Let’s take a look at the numbers.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

Paying farmers living wages AND funding community development.” . Builds or creates community. You and your kids will make new friends in the organic community garden and certified nontoxic natural playground.”. Join an online eco-friendly social network just for residents of this Net Zero community.”. “We

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Planet Pulse

JULY 27, 2022

With this continual expansion also comes the fragmentation of local temperate forests, degrading habitat connectivity and decreasing forested areas which are culturally, ecological, and recreationally significant in the southeastern United States. Urban expansion in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been rapidly occurring since 1987.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

An Article by Ferguson : It’s never too late to make a resolution. Offer to provide a water or HVAC system assessment. Looking for sustainable product certifications, like EnergyStar or WaterSense labels, is a great way to ensure that HVAC and plumbing customers will save for years to come. Offer routine maintenance visits.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

San José’s bold new plan for climate-friendly transit Elizabeth Stampe Tue, 10/13/2020 – 00:22 San José is rolling out the green carpet for biking, thanks to the city council’s unanimous passage of the Better Bike Plan 2025. Paramount across communities was concern for safety. It felt safe.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2020

San José’s bold new plan for climate-friendly transit Elizabeth Stampe Tue, 10/13/2020 – 00:22 San José is rolling out the green carpet for biking, thanks to the city council’s unanimous passage of the Better Bike Plan 2025. Paramount across communities was concern for safety. It felt safe.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

During the three-day event, they hopped into roundtable discussions, offered insights in the event chat and learned about the ever-changing sustainability field. Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Natalie Gray. Systems Specialist, Omnidian.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development. With high interest and long wait times for developers seeking approval, officials and industry members now want to find ways to make the process by which utilities study project viability more efficient. Assessing costs.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2021

Ecosystems for good: How collaborator networks achieve sustainability Golnar Pooya Tue, 07/06/2021 – 02:00 Crowds, clouds, collaborators and competitors: Digital ecosystems are uniting disparate participants to target bigger and better outcomes. Case in point: sustainability.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Addressing this disconnect is at the core of the new thinkPARALLAX white paper, " The New Era of Reporting: How to Engage Investors on ESG ," which examines the pitfalls of sustainability reporting in the past and present and offers a better way forward for corporate sustainability practitioners. Giving investors what they want.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This month Starbucks is opening its first international Greener Store, in Shanghai, designed to showcase sustainability in the way that Starbucks Roasteries provide an "immersive coffee experience." In the same way that us working with the U.S. Food and wellness and community betterment are other themes there. "By

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 6, 2020

He’s brought together a group of people to form Mutual Credit Services (MCS) to start to build this federation (new website coming soon). Each ledger can then federate to another ledger, and the ledgers aren’t strictly linked, they’re just connected by messages about trades. ‘I Why did you switch to the MCS idea?

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The net zero transition depends on copious amounts of graphite, lithium, cobalt, and other materials that provide the building blocks for energy efficient buildings, electricity transmission infrastructure, solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, wind turbines, and myriad other technologies.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

He explained to me how mica moves through the community. Making connections. On the ground in Jharkhand, Calder set out to understand the human impact on the communities themselves. "We At one point, Calder visited a local school and met with the children in the community. But there can be moments of joy.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new programme from BlocPower is providing on-the-job clean tech and green building training to New Yorkers who live in neighborhoods with high rates of gun violence. He first learned how to install solar panels, although he much prefers the drafting and design involved in transitioning buildings to cleaner energy.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Transportation planning can lead to better outcomes by focusing on three parallel strategies: Identify what solutions look like. Subways are incredibly expensive to build. In most places, transit either shares the right of way with cars or is delayed by traffic signals and cross traffic. Invert the order of planning.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

The advocacy group for immigrant workers did not receive information about the pandemic in Spanish or data about the impacts on the communities it serves until at least six weeks into the crisis, she added. Even with such bridge-building attempts, by August at least 35 Arkansas poultry plants experienced COVID-19 outbreaks.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Air pollution, tall buildings, building materials, lack of green spaces and wind all contribute to trapping heat from the sun, traffic and industry and result in the creation of Urban Heat Islands (UHI). There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

An in-depth article by the website Carbon Brief argues that the fuel is unlikely to be taken up universally, particularly as “the volume required to satisfy all the possible applications for low-carbon hydrogen would likely far exceed the amount available, even if production is significantly scaled up.”. Credit: Gaia Lamperti.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 25, 2022

Climate models clearly show how human activities are changing the climate, but they offer only a limited view of how a changing climate is also changing us. Connecting the climate and social spheres. This model connects behavioral factors and processes, such as opinion and cognition, to actions that influence emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

And below, we provide memories of Bruce from many of his friends and collaborators in the sustainability community. Bruce was engaging, warm, thoughtful and way farther along the journey in sustainability and environmental, health and safety issues than most people I spoke with back then. Bruce Klafter was all of those things.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 18, 2022

With this in mind, here are ways you can educate yourself on climate change: Reading articles, books, and watching documentaries. Alternatively, articles and climate change books would be an excellent choice if you prefer reading. Some community colleges offer short-term environmental courses. Taking classes.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

And yet, the coronavirus pandemic, for all the havoc it has wrought on the industry, has pushed the sustainable business agenda even further, forcing business leaders to reevaluate their role in society and better articulate their value, not just in terms of money, but also in terms of corporate purpose and the way they contribute to the world.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

And yet, the coronavirus pandemic, for all the havoc it has wrought on the industry, has pushed the sustainable business agenda even further, forcing business leaders to reevaluate their role in society and better articulate their value, not just in terms of money, but also in terms of corporate purpose and the way they contribute to the world.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

To prevent additional layoffs as the pandemic dented sales, Barra took a temporary pay cut, and GM pivoted with partners to build ventilators and masks. The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

In essence, getting society on board with the net zero transition can accelerate emission reduction efforts, make it easier to deploy low carbon technologies and infrastructure, and reduce the overall cost of building a net zero emission economy. And the report offers some interesting, if potentially controversial, answers.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. We as human beings and our planet are all connected. As I get the chance to meet in virtual roundtables with community members, it can easily get pretty discouraging.

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