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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. What is corporate greenwash?

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. What is corporate greenwash?

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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12 good things that happened for the environment in 2019

AGreenLiving

Robots rejuvenating reefs As we learned in the classic yet highly disturbing film 2001, not all robots are trustworthy. This cactus plastic begins breaking down in a month when placed in soil and only a few days in water. This is amazing, considering less than two percent was recycled in 1995.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Most scientists increasingly lament the overcrowding found throughout Western forests and call for ecological thinning — the selective cutting of smaller trees and undergrowth — typically followed by intentional fires to reduce the fuel load and recycle nutrients. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S. The implications extend nationwide.

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

The campus community diverted nearly 70 percent of all waste this past school year (up from 56 percent the previous year), thanks to student-driven recycling audits. This coming November, ASU is planting 1,000 native trees in its carbon sink forest (which now includes a climate tower, replete with weather- and soil-measuring equipment).

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