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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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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. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. The key thing, though, is that it is really about ecological health down to the molecule. We wrote them from New York.

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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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Green Realtor® Guide: Marketing Eco-Friendly Homes and Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

energy use is roughly the same as it was in 2000 despite a 30% boost in economic growth. Non-toxic, sustainable, and ethically-sourced building materials are equally important in minimizing environmental impact and health risks. Reduction in health risks via non-toxic, green building materials. Green Building Materials.

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What Is Toxic Fast Fashion and How Does It Impact the Environment?

Green Business Bureau

This has been the common practice for years without consumers blinking an eye; however, trends are shifting and consumers are demanding more ethical goods. This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. . When the first H&M location was opened in the U.S.

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ESG Reporting: What Is ESG Reporting and Why Is It Important?

Green Business Bureau

Social : Customer relations, employee relations, labor, employee wellbeing, community relations, health and safety, supply chains, human rights, and work-life balance. Losses can be far greater, as experienced by the pharmaceutical company Bausch Health (formerly known as Valeant). Yet, note that this is an average figure.

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What Is Toxic Fast Fashion and How Does It Impact the Environment?

Green Business Bureau

This has been the common practice for years without consumers blinking an eye; however, trends are shifting and consumers are demanding more ethical goods. This consumption demand has driven fashion retailers to producing almost twice the amount of clothing than they did in 2000. . When the first H&M location was opened in the U.S.

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