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How to Select a Sustainability Certification for Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Established in 2004, GBI has since become a leader in advancing green building practices and developing a range of resources for those interested in sustainable building. The organization is committed to creating a future where buildings are designed and operated with resource efficiency and occupant health in mind.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. They told Kenyans to stop buying raw milk – the informal dairy traders’ standard product – because it was unsafe, and to start buying pasteurised, packaged varieties from large dairy producers instead.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum. Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. These employees have also expressed concerns for their health from long term exposure to this material,” the letter adds.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics.