Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2023

ISO 14001 certification to establish an effective environmental management system The International Standards Organization (ISO) has developed over 18,500 international standards, and of high significance is ISO’s environmental management system standards titled ISO 14001 (for ISO 14001 certification). Who is ISO 14001 designed for?

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 26, 2021

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. It is a primary data source for numerous companies, government agencies and non-government organizations. lower than consumption in 2019, and was approximately equivalent to 2012 oil consumption levels. This was 9.3%

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

A January 2024 study by the journal Renewable Energy found that thousands of tons of toxic air pollutants, from nitrogen oxide to volatile organic compounds, are emitted in the pellet-making process, especially in the southeastern United States where most pellet plants are located. The company is now looking to gain an estimated £31.7

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As far back as 2003, an organization called Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation hatched a plan to produce renewable energy in the Sahara for export to European markets. What’s changed in the past decade: Falling renewables costs and rising demand. The company admits the idea is nothing new. percent of U.K.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

A decade earlier, Real Goods Solar grew organically and through acquisition and pulled in tens of millions in revenue. Local, off-grid cannibis growers provided crucial early demand. Real Goods Solar ended its corporate life on the industry's periphery last month, penniless and trading for pennies.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

That’s unlike many other sectors, such as in organic agriculture. Given the scale of the climate crisis, we need a much more serious commitment on the part of policymakers and energy companies to phase out fracked oil and gas production entirely and in the interim to significantly lessen its resource demands and waste production.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2022, 48% of all new coffee products carried an ethical or environmental claim – which is close to double the number from almost a decade ago (2012). When choosing coffee beans to source for your coffee shop, look for certifications such as organic, Fairtrade , UTZ , or Rainforest Alliance. for a greener product.

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Green Technology

APRIL 20, 2023

Enrique has served on various building commissioning committees; most notably as Vice-Chair of the International Code Council (ICC) G4 Development Committee, which created the ICC G4-2012 Guideline for Commissioning. You will hear from such organizations as August Berres, First Note Finance inc., and many more.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2020

During the same webcast, Andrew Beebe, managing director of Obvious Ventures , noted that an additional factor in the rise of climate tech has been the overwhelming public demand for climate action. Apeel got started with a $100,000 grant from the Gates Foundation in 2012. They want to rebalance their portfolio for the future.".

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“The farms we work with are seeing a huge spike in demand [for direct sales],” Dan Miller, CEO and founder of the crowdfunding platform Steward , told me when we spoke by phone in early April. “But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yet Schläffler has continued to call Last Generation terrorists in one way or another; Schläffler also began describing the group as a “criminal organization,” and publicly calling for it to be investigated for organized crime. Just six months later, in May 2023, German police conducted nationwide raids on Last Generation activists.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 23, 2021

In 2012, New Hampshire was the first state to add a thermal requirement to its RPS, which resulted in the development of 50 new projects generating over 35 MW of electric-equivalent renewable thermal capacity. As we’ve seen with the development of solar technologies, organized mandates from our leading officer are proven to work.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

McKibben explained that an increasing number of wells will need to be fracked to produce the natural gas needed to fill the demand for LNG resulting from the growing number of export facilities. Methane or Crude Oil Could Affect Freshwater When the Bayou Corne salt dome collapsed in 2012, Courreges described the environmental impact to me. “If

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. And the biochar industry still faces hurdles in scaling up production and demand.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Having recognised the pitfalls of intensive farming, Yunnan is encouraging organic cultivation as its coffee industry booms This is the second of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. Recognising this, Yunnan is taking measures to promote organic coffee farming. Part one is available here.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

She joined college students, financial experts, faith leaders, and then-New York City Public Advocate Letitia James in front of the New York Stock Exchange to demand that the city’s five public pension funds factor the financial risks of climate change into their investment decisions.

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Green Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In July 2017 China, which is by far the world’s largest importer and recycler of scrap metals, plastic and paper, notified the World Trade Organization that it planned to effectively ban imports of 24 types of scrap , which its environment ministry called “foreign garbage,” by the end of the year. Immediately, organizations such as the U.S.-based

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

47 in 2012. Stiglitz:2012) Also by this author: Food Security vs Legalizing Cannabis Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and what it doesn’t do (Stiglitz, 2012). More equal societies have.3 3 Gini coefficients or below and most unequal societies have.5

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We have a well-defined future expansion plan to meet our customers’ demands. We see employee engagement as a significant opportunity and driver for sustainability within most organizations, and Sintavia appears to have a genuine sustainability culture. We have big expectations! How important is sustainability to your employees?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The UK organizers of the COP26 climate conference very publicly declined to offer international oil companies any slots in the conference or any formal role in the event, and oil companies without credible climate programs were also barred from sponsoring events at the high-stakes international talks currently underway.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

The main drivers of change are the demand for food, water, and natural resources, in the face of severe biodiversity loss and changes in ecosystem services. Further, the United Nations former secretary-general Ban Ki-moon endorsed the concept of planetary boundaries on 16 March 2012.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 2, 2020

One must make the social systems more efficient, she seriously demanded, while her people on their missions in poor countries were probably working on about a dozen social reduction programmes at the same time. The shapers are something like the junior organization of the World Economic Forum.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the EU, for example, the consumption of fossil fuels fell by 17% from 2022 to 2023 and this drop in demand also means falling prices, resulting in over-capacities and stranded assets. Outset According to a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Organization in Geneva, there are 6.5 degrees Celsius.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

and in February this year, representatives from five Canadian health organizations described it as the “ greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. ” [iii]. Similarly, the World Health Organization has pronounced it to be the defining health issue of the 21st century. [iv] The World Health Organization. Health Canada.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The consumer population is growing to include more eco-minded, socially conscious young buyers who are demanding businesses take accountability for their environmental impact. billion in tax revenues and accounted for 681,000 jobs in 2012. billion in wages and $5.5 Recycling Versus Trash Collection.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2022

This is particularly relevant with 'Generation Z' (members of society born between 1997-2012 and aged 10-25), who have been reported to only support brands with values that reflect their own and will happily change if these brands disappoint. We still have a way to go.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. After Yum entered Ukraine in 2012, MHP began supplying the nation’s KFCs through a chicken processing plant near Kyiv.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The greenest shoots of the economic transition demanded by the climate emergency are found in the transformatory and locally-led initiatives we see up and down the UK," said Clive Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

After graduating, she hatched the idea to combine her experience in social work with her knowledge of engineering through GRID Alternatives, “an organization that could have real impact in low-income communities.”. Raina Russo dependably organizes the live bi-weeky, interactive Twitter webinar #SolarChat as a valuable virtual solar forum.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

About 46,000 megawatts of power — enough to provide electricity to 9 million homes on a high-demand day — were taken off the grid last week due to power-generating failures stemming from winter storms that battered the state for nearly seven consecutive days. They would be demanding answers.”. Miguel Gutierrez Jr. /

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

JCB heir Jo Bamford may be more frequently discussed alongside his billionaire industrialist father, but he says he owes a life-long interest in sustainability to his mother, who has run Daylesford Organic Farm in the Cotswolds for some 50 years. The reason I started with buses is not because I'm in love with the bus," he says.

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