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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

DeSmogBlog

With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. Senegal, for instance, banned imports of frozen chicken in 2006, making local production essential to KFC’s entrance into the country. as clients.

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The Environment: Looking Towards the Future with UW's Kristiina Vogt

Living Green Technology

Professor Vogt is an expert on carbon and nutrient cycles at the ecosystem level and has worked around the world. This is followed by health, then culture, and finally economics. Washington State appears to have proactively worked at managing the disposal of e-waste going back to 2006. Or, more generally, the Pacific Northwest?

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Rum and beach bag collaboration is ending plastic pollution

AGreenLiving

Mount Gay Rum, the oldest running rum distillery in the world, paired up with Sea Bags, a Portland, Maine-based company who has been making totes and bags from recycled sail cloth since 2006. It also makes regular donations to marine conservation organizations. The team also includes actor and environmentalist Adrian Grenier.

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The link between climate change and the health of Canadians

Clean Energy Canada

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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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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What Is ISO 14000? Certification Checklist and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

Supporting these findings, the Harvard Business Review reports 99% of large company CEOs want to address sustainability issues as a must for the future success of their organization. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

It’s a recurring theme that somehow the livestock sector and eating meat is detrimental to the environment, that it is a serious negative in terms of the climate change discussions,” Hsin Huang, Secretary General of the International Meat Secretariat (IMS) , told his audience.