Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

They ask “How will this lower my carbon footprint, energy consumption, waste, and resource use?”. A Yale study found nearly 2/3 of the American public recognizes climate change is real. Here are example messages and points to make: Comfort/Convenience. Sustainability Marketing For Green Products And Services. Deep Greens.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

I don’t love the use of “ESG” in the title here — publishers choose titles and I didn’t object, knowing it would get more views that way, since it is now the term everyone uses. This article got some good debate on my LinkedIn post. ” every day. They shouldn’t.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 3, 2020

And it’s been a watershed year personally — marked by the birth of my daughter, Lily, in April — and I feel profoundly grateful for your support. Becoming a mother has sharpened my focus; I feel a heightened sense of urgency to help make this planet more livable and more equitable for all children.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2.

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Low Impact

JUNE 13, 2021

In part 1 we talked about what the future might hold for humanity, and here we talk about what our responses might be. I’d be surprised when your book comes out, if it doesn’t have a big readership, because people will think that now is the time that we have to learn about this stuff. That’s why your work is inspiring to me.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

(I doubt many of my readers missed this news item, but late in August, the Business Roundtable — CEOs from the country’s biggest companies — put forward new principles of business. Below was my take on it in HBR. This latter story is what I’ll focus on here, but, oddly, these stories are all connected.

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Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

(I doubt many of my readers missed this news item, but late in August, the Business Roundtable -- CEOs from the country's biggest companies -- put forward new principles of business. Below was my take on it in HBR. This latter story is what I’ll focus on here, but, oddly, these stories are all connected.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Could a similar thing happen here, or is it already beginning to happen? And who is taking responsibility for guarding these shoots of new life? And who is taking responsibility for guarding these shoots of new life? Where are our sacred forests? How are we protecting and regenerating them?

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

And with September fast approaching, that means it’s almost time for conference season - in particular, the annual whirlwind that is New York Climate Week! Pack your bag and prep your schedule with us so you’re ready to board the bus for NYCW. 💼 Find or share roles on our job board here. Happy Monday!

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

[I posted this last month for my sustainability column for MIT Sloan Management Review. Here’s my own personal “Groundhog Day” experience. Global action on climate change is shifting regulatory landscapes and markets. Global action on climate change is shifting regulatory landscapes and markets.

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Unsustainable

MAY 18, 2019

With last night’s defeat in Australia of the Labor Party to the Liberals against all odds, and the best of News Polls, and predictions, this contemplation of the Virginia creeper might just have to sustain us for the near future. A society that would be leading in climate change and care for the environment.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Business Secretary Alok Sharma's speech at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue provides a strong indication of the government's green recovery plans, argues the REA's Dr Nina Skorupska. The Petersberg Climate Dialogue a month ago brought with it a lot of welcome, albeit unexpected, news for the renewable energy and clean technology industry.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Yesterday morning the Climate Change Committee (CCC) took the surprise move of pulling forward the release of a crucial component of its imminent new report on the UK's medium-term carbon targets. The letter from CCC chair Lord Deben cleared the path for Boris Johnson to approve a new target. Within hours he had done just that.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

Ten years ago, when DeSmog journalist Joe Fassler began writing a novel, he never imagined it would have anything to do with climate or the environment. The result is “ The Sky Was Ours “ (Penguin Books, April 23), a modern retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus. Fiction is extremely solitary. You have a team.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ahead of the Prime Minister's promised new green recovery package, a new report from the business advocacy group outlines a raft of near-term policy interventions that could put the UK on track to reaching net zero emissions. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

economy is increasingly rocked by climate chaos. This happened within the context of a broader, ongoing debate over the collective adherence of state commissions to narrow interpretations of economic and legal principles, which critics claim are “exercising a chokehold on meaningful climate progress.”.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For me, it is one of those moments to stop and think, and celebrate all my friends and all the wonderful things that I have had a chance to participate in. Makower: Let’s talk a bit about how you got here. McDonough: My parents were in Japan, both speaking Japanese, because my father was a Japanese language officer for Gen.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

Happy Earth Day (and Earth Week, and Earth Month) — a time of year when sustainability is elevated in the global consciousness, and my inbox is full of vaguely greenwashy PR pitches. members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution. The spotlight Hey there, Looking Forward fam.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In my role at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (a Swiss-based foundation on a mission to advance nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable), I am constantly inspired by the passion and commitment of our partners across these sectors.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Read Part One here. One factor she encountered there was climate change. It's really intimidating for folks to open up there, to open up their books or have you talk to their employees or go into their mines. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 02:11. Second of two parts. For one thing, mica is everywhere. "If Making connections.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. All of which is to say that absolutely nothing here is without agency. There is no marked trail leading north from the town of Broome, Australia. There is only the beach, deep red and wide as a highway.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. Especially the combination of these technologies can virtually annihilate all climate issues related to food within five to ten years.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 13, 2019

[Re-posting this from my HBR column. To solve the world’s biggest challenges, such as climate change and inequality, the business community will have to play a critical role. Note: all CEO quotes here are from the study). The new report revolves around a single idea: we’re not moving fast enough.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“I belong here,” I reminded myself, as I drove toward the checkpoint to gain entry to the groundbreaking event for the $2.9 Such developments require new pipelines, and constructing pipelines in the wetlands is one of the main drivers of the state’s land-loss crisis.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's and Sir David Attenborough's addresses to the UN Security Council meeting on climate security. Boris Johnson's address to the UN Security Council on Climate and Security, 23 February 202 1. We haven't always agreed about how to achieve that goal. I couldn't disagree more profoundly.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Read Part One here. ” One factor she encountered there was climate change. “It’s really intimidating for folks to open up there, to open up their books or have you talk to their employees or go into their mines. For one thing, mica is everywhere.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nor does it refer to a topic that was of unequivocal scientific concern at the time: The “greenhouse effect,” or what is now known as climate change. This impressive history shows for just how long climate issues were known by Shell personnel,” said Ben Franta, senior research fellow in climate litigation at the University of Oxford.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

A constant stream of negative news risks giving rise to hopelessness and nihilism, it is argued , which benefits nobody and undermines efforts to tackle the very real problems the world still faces. Yet, for all our apparent progress, there are some hard truths which urgently need confronting.

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Michael Grossman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

I do, however, have a bone to pick about how we communicate the threat of the climate crisis and inspire action among 7.5 I’m hardly the first person to point out that for all of the brainpower that exists behind tackling the climate crisis, we sure are maladroit when it comes to advocacy. Climate change is emotionally neutral.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A personal essay on how the climate crisis is reshaping everything and why COP28 matters much more than you think We've passed the point of no return. Quit single use plastic, My low key cocaine habit. None of my friends are okay. Liz Lawrence - None of my friends I'm scared of the Santa Clarita fires, I wish that it would rain.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 2, 2020

Here’s a brilliant article explaining what we mean, by Norbert Häring. So that you don’t have to do it, I have watched it, until my capacity for cliché intake was exhausted at about the middle of the film. The world is run by and for billionaires. There is a dark plan behind it.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

While still daunted by the epic and tragic scale of the climate crisis, this community has been buoyed by the way in which their work has already helped deliver both plummeting clean technology costs and a decoupling of greenhouse gas emissions and global GDP. And it's coming from the unlikeliest of quarters.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 29, 2020

I’m reposting this one from the fall about the need for companies to get proactive on lobbying for climate action. This article is what led to my larger piece about climate leadership which went up on HBR last week. The business world has recently started acting on climate change in earnest. It’s about time.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2020

Some enlightened companies may have welcomed the climate strikes movement, but not many see themselves as an 'Activist Company' willing to give over store space to help protestors make their placards. BusinessGreen : How did Patagonia come to decide to embrace the climate strikes? So the climate strike for us was a natural thing to do.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 19, 2024

This is my attempt to wrangle some kind of framework around the various critics out there. Has the pullback on talking about climate and equity issues slowed action within companies? [ Over the last year-plus, I’ve done a lot of thinking, writing, and speaking about the so-called anti-ESG movement. It’s a complicated thing.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young activists that fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. Aditya Mukarji , is from New Delhi India, In March 2018 he began waging war on plastic straws. Within just five months, he had already helped replace more than 500,000 plastic straws at restaurants and hotels in New Delhi.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Sustainability has finally mainstreamed (which is my grand conclusion for this year’s HBR article, coming out in a few days). I can’t even keep up with the news in a given week. Almost One-Third of Europe’s Largest Listed Companies Have Pledged to Reach Net-Zero by 2050… here.

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