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Could rewilding our cities bolster urban climate resilience?

Business Green

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs.

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How to Select a Sustainability Certification for Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Green America uses the power of consumer choice and business practices to help build an economy that values people, planet, and peace over profit. Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). LEED for Residential Design and Construction. Zero Energy Certification.

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Soy scandals: Green groups raise alarm over deforestation impact of corporates' soy supply chains

Business Green

Millions of hectares of "critical habitat" in the Cerrado, the Atlantic Forest, the Gran Chaco, and Chiquitania in South America and North America's Great Plains have been razed for soy fields, the conservation organisation said, describing soy farming as "one of the leading causes of biodiversity loss and climate change."

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

Green Business Bureau

Resolutions to global challenges such as climate change, poverty, inequality, biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, resource depletion, racism, and exploitation need the backing of our economic system. The minimum wage is not enough to meet the basic needs of employees – to cover housing, energy, food, and childcare costs.

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What Is ISO 14000? Certification Checklist and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

Regain your power, and use this article alongside the ISO 14000 family of standards to approach sustainability with an actionable manual to get things done. Progress is continuously monitored using a cycle of continuous improvement, otherwise known as the Plan-Do-Act-Check cycle (explained later in this article).

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Loss of biodiversity. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ‘out of thin air’ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Sustainability. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Water scarcity. Animal suffrage.