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What Is ESG and Why Is It Important for Your Business? (+ ESG Image Infographic)

Green Business Bureau

Criteria include avoiding cheap overseas and child labor, enforcing strong workplace health and safety practices, supporting LGBTQ+ rights, preventing sexual misconduct, looking after the well-being of employees, and running an ethical supply chain. Hence, consumers are asking questions about ethics more than ever.

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LuminAID: Women Offering Relief With Solar Energy

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Then, when disaster struck Nepal in 2015, over 2000 lanterns were used by affected people. This is true from some perspectives, but LuminAID has demonstrated that the entrepreneurial efforts of ethical women can rebuild humanity’s relationship with energy needs and the world that we live in.

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In Their Own Words: The Dirty Dozen Documents of Big Oil’s Secret Climate Knowledge

DeSmogBlog

At the American Petroleum Institute’s annual meeting, president Frank Ikard announces to industry leaders that President Lyndon Johnson’s council of scientific advisors has found that continued fossil fuel use would cause climate change by the year 2000, resulting in serious global impacts. He now runs The DisInformation Chronicle.

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Key phase of Everglades restoration project starts in November

AGreenLiving

By 2000, that figure was only about 260 billion gallons of water per year, resulting in a deteriorating ecosystem. But in the last 105 years, traffic has increased more than anybody could have foreseen, straining local ecosystems. ” With a 35-plus-year timeline and a $10.5

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. So, the values are "good" and "bad," "right" and "wrong," "moral/immoral," "ethical/unethical." First of all, what they are, for people who do not know or remember them, and how those came to be. We wrote them from New York.

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Storing value in a mutual credit world: Chris Cook

Low Impact

It’s both ethical, because of the risk sharing; and it works. Historically, 2000 acres might have contained 500 families with 4 acres each, and it was self-sustaining. But now the landlords can’t compete with big farms elsewhere, so landlords are losing money on their 2000 acres. I saw a very interesting talk by Simon Fairlie.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

Ultimately, he filed 21 internal ethical misconduct complaints against colleagues and top executives, including current NW Natural CEO David Anderson, later elevating his concerns to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the body that regulates NW Natural.