Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

On November 7, the U.S. Department of Energy.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 21, 2020

With 5,000 chickens, 200 pigs and six acres of vegetables, it’s a minnow in an industry dominated by an increasingly small number of producers and processors. . Soon his digital business outgrew the barn and had to be moved into a newly constructed hoop house. Avrom Farm sits in the hills above Green Lake in central Wisconsin.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

Fortunately, I work for a supportive company that requested modification from building management to convert a small conference room to a part-time pumping room. Many building standards developed decades ago have had only small incremental updates over the years. Corporate Social Responsibility. Equity & Inclusion.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Join us for a conversation about the power of companies (big and small) coming together to tackle the climate crisis, and hear why Global Optimism and Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge—a bold commitment to become net zero carbon by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. . Better Together: The Climate Pledge.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Not so long ago, business was business. And, whether due to ideology or cynicism, few expected anything more from the business world. We want you to look at your core business practices. It’s not just about diverse hiring [policies]. If your algorithm has a bias built in, that’s no bueno. That’s going to lose us money.".

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

As well as reading up on environmental issues and topics surrounding sustainability, it is also useful to familiarise yourself with the environmental consulting projects that are undertaken by impactful businesses like Arup. and small steps should be taken to tackle it from your perspective. Don’t burn energy. Eat less meat.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We will help fund BIPOC social entrepreneurs spearheading startups and small businesses focused on innovating toward a clean economy through an intersectional lens. GreenBiz.org is the response to a range of confounding challenges so many of us have voiced in both public and private settings. And how we can all get there together.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods , is dragging the packaged food business into the 21st century. . JourneyAI, the software from Journey Foods, is designed to recommend the most suitable almond flour or vegan butter alternative, helping the business save time, money and resources in the formulating or reformulating process.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

5 ways businesses can take action to reduce environmental racism. Businesses continue to lead on climate in the absence of U.S. The business role in climate justice . Business has an important role to play in helping to bring climate justice and racial equity front and center while shifting the finance for the energy transition.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2021

The bond proceeds also will be used to create a lending platform for underbanked small and microbusinesses, given that close to 85 percent of the company’s sales are related to these relationships. Part of what seduced us was that it had this element of working with small landowners and farmers," Arnt said. Pull Quote. Carbon Removal.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It may well be the most dynamic and impactful aspect of sustainable business today. It’s no small matter. Ultimately, all of this relies on lots of data — ESG data — being compiled by a relatively small number of firms whose ratings can wield outsized clout among investors. Who owns it? Is it accurate?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Research on advanced geothermal exploration techniques has been included in the list of topics eligible for funding under Phase 1 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs. Source: U.S.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Sanda Ojiambo thinks businesses can thrive while upholding values that are becoming increasingly important to consumers and stakeholders. And as CEO and executive director of the United Nations Global Compact, she is at the helm of a movement navigating that intersection of business growth and honoring social justice movements. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Sciencebasedtargets.org reports on its website, "More than 1,000 businesses are working with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce their emissions in line with climate science. We need to put a lot of zeros on the "More than 1,000 businesses" in order to get to a net-zero carbon economy. That does not happen by itself.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

This week, as the full fleet of GreenBiz weekly newsletters focuses on the topic of net zero, I thought it might be helpful to start off with some simple questions that seem to encircle that goal. The Science Based Targets initiative is working on what it calls "the first global standard for net-zero business.". But that could change.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

By comparison, everything else seems small and suddenly insignificant. When people are sick, suffering and dying — with little certainty about when or how it will end — how can we be expected to focus on a project deadline, a business meeting or a PowerPoint presentation? For some of us, that includes our work. An opportunity to adapt.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Although the sample sizes are small, systems analysis aims to show stakeholders, like power plant operators, what to expect when cotreatment happens at a much larger scale (image credit: WVU Photo/Paige Nesbit). And an energy producer’s business is focused on producing shale gas and oil — they don’t want to care about water.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

Food safety is an essential part of any food business, but with upcycled food, it’s even more of a hurdle. The new certification from UFA is a step toward making the process easier and more streamlined for future businesses. . How Hidden Gems works with restaurants is a small step towards shifting the focus of those ingrained systems.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

The State of Green Business 2021. Adapted from the 14th annual State of Green Business report, our annual report card on progress by the world’s largest companies. Such turmoil easily could have spelled the end, or at least the pause, of anything having to do with business and sustainability. Two words: business fundamentals.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

For most of those years, those visions and proposals were relegated to a relatively small group of academics and activists toiling in a world unto themselves. It’s become clear that the current system works only for a relatively small slice of humanity, and that the planet and vast populations are suffering as a result.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now. For a business to be considered a leader on climate it must respond to the climate crisis with ambition, deliver on that ambition with action and speak up to secure wider change through advocacy. To date, nearly 300 companies have joined the Business Ambition for 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

With misconceptions remaining around the topic of sustainable business practices and given the increasingly challenging economic landscape we find ourselves in, there’s a risk that the offsetting of carbon emissions could be overlooked by large and small businesses. So what exactly are those misconceptions?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

And on July 21, Apple committed to become 100 percent carbon neutral across its entire business, supply chain and product life cycle by 2030. . In spite of their respective success, all three developers have different business strategies. Yet the price per credit dilemma still keeps many landowners from implementing carbon projects.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 22, 2022

Many business owners today want to become more sustainable. They want to become a greener business. They know it’s good for business. There are serious sustainability challenges that are stopping many business owners from becoming a green business. Small Business Sustainability Misconceptions .

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This would be a very interesting topic for research work also. To identify the problems, barriers, restrictions, and opportunities for Solar Systems, business tools i.e Business Analysis. These analyses can also be used to examine business solutions in case of some problems and organizational capabilities.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

In partnership with the city of Chicago, we built Chicago PPE Market , a platform that provides small businesses and nonprofits access to a network of local manufacturers and suppliers of PPE at cost-controlled rates, helping them protect their staff and prevent further spread of the virus. Pivot your business. Pull Quote.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Gift the go-getters in your office sustainable business cards such as these 100% recyclable cotton cards from Moo or Botanical Paperworks plantable business cards that biodegrade and grow into herbs and wildflowers. This also supports the small business owners in your community. See why green business is good business.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The story: Online marketplaces that connect consumers with small-scale producers have boomed during the pandemic. That can be a challenge for small restaurants, but it makes more sense for a centralized operation such as REEF, which just raised $700 million. Let’s drive straight in. Our two-tier food system. Food & Agriculture.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2020

Many may find their companies’ post COVID-19 business strategies are no longer aligned with ongoing or planned sustainability programs. Develop coalitions with other businesses. A critical part of community involvement should be the support for small and micro businesses in the area. . Display creativity.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Understanding the business models of current start-ups in the space is also important – 50% of these companies offer a product, 28% a service and 22% are technology providers. Thankfully, many of the main topics in the circular economy are far less technical comparted to the highly specific specialized jobs in the wind and solar sectors.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Is there a way that civil society, government and businesses can come together to prioritize development of gene-edited crops that deliver social and environmental benefits as well as economic ones? Yet these initial advances belie the technology’s potential. No wonder people were angry. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

You've got a much broader base of people who are interested in talking about these topics, coming from a much broader array of disciplines," said Mohin, including "an investor relations person, a corporate secretary, a general counsel, a financial controller, a marketing communications person and an HR person. Sometimes it got contentious.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 10, 2023

Sustainability is a crucial topic these days. Read on to find out how to use your website to create sustainable solutions: for event planning, small businesses, and non-profit organizations. Eliminate Business Cards In a recent study, it was found that 88% of paper business cards are often discarded within a week.

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GreenBiz

MAY 13, 2020

The important piece of that is this is where you as a business and as a company and as a brand can take a look and understand something, that if it comes at you as a surprise, it’s a threat. Further, Shelton said, businesses need to get involved in the right way and start rethinking sustainability so that they’re not doing the bare minimum.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the spring of 2020, many small farms across the U.S. But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand." The Green Bronx Machine joined community farms, urban farms and small family farms in offering a lifeline to their communities. America is hungrier than ever for sustainable food systems.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Programme delivered as part UK government campaign to help small and medium-sized businesses halve their emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by mid-century. Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy," said Google UK managing director Ronan Harris.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

It is all high-risk business, and as such, it is not always successful. The basic business idea of GRASS was to improve management practices on ranches and produce a certified wool product that would attract buyers willing to pay more for sustainably grown wool. Pull Quote. Corporate Strategy. Food & Agriculture. Biodiversity.

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