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To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air

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Jesse Klein. Offices might have to look for tactics from other industries in order to bring workers back to the office. Companies including the San Francisco-based vertical farm Plenty are already organizing workers in cohorts who come in on the same days so if an outbreak occurs, it will be contained to one set of workers.

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How Ocean Spray cranberries became America’s '100 percent sustainable' crop

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Jesse Klein. The questions range from the safety of workers to nuanced issues of greenhouse gas emissions, and they are categorized in three ways: "essential," "basic" and "advanced." . How Ocean Spray cranberries became America’s '100 percent sustainable' crop. Thu, 06/04/2020 - 01:45.

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Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream

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Jesse Klein. The lighting in the facility will use LEDs, all the vehicles on the property will be electric and the atmospheric heat systems Diageo will include for the comfort of workers are likely to use electricity rather than a fossil fuel source. Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream.

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Microsoft, Tiffany help carve out new responsible mining standard

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Jesse Klein. This group worked together with IRMA to create a standard that covers the major mining issues for the environment, workers' rights and community relationships. We don't want to talk about human rights or clean air or worker safety or how the mine is going to be cleaned up. Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:01.

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Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain

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Jesse Klein. At the end of each day, it’s the job of a kitchen worker to perform a "shrink analysis" on each ingredient — manually identifying, weighing and recording the leftover volume of each item. Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 01:00.

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How open data can help countries address climate emergency impacts

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Jesse Worker. The idea of making data open is nothing new, but for many countries the challenge of doing so and the investment upfront means that much of the critical climate-related data that governments need remains locked away or in unusable formats. Contributors. Risk & Resilience. Sponsored Article. Buildings damaged in a 6.5

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A green recovery would give young people the sustainable future they crave

Business Green

Young people have been hit disproportionately hard by the Covid-19 crisis, but a green recovery offers them a brighter future, writes ECIU's Jess Ralston. Of the 36,000 workers currently in the gas and electricity networks industry, 1,200 are young apprentices and colleagues. Young people have had a rough few months.