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The Year In Energy Prices

R-Squared Energy

Russia’s invasion is the primary reason for prices shooting up above $120/bbl, a price level that has only ever been seen once before, in 2008. For prices to surge so high in late spring and summer is highly unusual, and again something we haven’t seen since 2008. Finally, I would add that these are spot prices, not retail prices.

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How cosmetics retailer Lush is making purposeful profit through circularity

GreenBiz

How cosmetics retailer Lush is making purposeful profit through circularity. But the accelerated growth of the retail industry has come at a cost. With a growing range of naked products came an opportunity to evolve a new retail experience with the rollout of Naked Shops in Milan, Berlin, Hong Kong and Manchester. Katrina Shum.

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Recovered paper market faces perfect storm, says Recycling Association chief

Envirotec Magazine

The most glaring example is the crash of October 2008 when prices fell to nothing, but eventually recovered. Retailers and manufacturers are responding by looking at ways to do this. “As an industry, we have ridden similar challenges before. “If you look on the horizon there are reasons to be positive. .

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Gasoline Prices Have Probably Peaked For Now

R-Squared Energy

For the week ending March 14, 2022, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported a weekly retail average gasoline prices across all grades of $4.41 Previously the highest weekly average reported took place in July 2008, when crude oil prices reached nearly $150 a barrel. However, since reaching $4.41/gal,

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Why Google, BASF and Sephora are coming together on safer chemistry

GreenBiz

Last year, for example, Sephora became the first major cosmetics retailer to broadcast its policy on chemicals. The for-profit firm Scivera , launched in 2008 in Charlottesville, Virginia, offers a subscription database SciveraLENS, with color-coded grades for chemicals based on their inherent hazards. The innovation puzzle.

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Mythbusting sustainable business practices

Envirotec Magazine

There’s a lot of speculation on carbon at the moment and it feels like 2008 all over again – where it’s so new and complex and changing so quickly that there is limited understanding. Businesses should challenge their retailers on how they can help them save water, to reduce their water bills and carbon footprints.

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3 Reasons Why Going Solar Can Save You Money

Mosaic

residential solar costs have fallen about 60 percent since 2008. per year, inverter replacements at years 10 and 20, and retail electricity rates increasing 2.18% per year (national average utility bill increase of 2.18% is based on EIA data for the last reported 20 years, nationally (1997-2017). In fact, according to the U.S.

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