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Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy

GreenBiz

Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy. In 2018, the Land O’Lakes Sustain program, now part of Truterra , provided loans for the cooperative’s farmers to adopt sustainable methods such as water-reuse systems and manure separation technology. This isn’t the first sustainability innovation from Organic Valley.

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Chemicals used in plastic food packaging linked to 10% of preterm births in 2018

Grist

A class of chemicals commonly used in plastic food containers and cosmetic products may have caused about 10 percent of the United States’ preterm births in 2018, according to a study from environmental health experts at New York University. Phthalate exposure is just one way the plastics industry externalizes harms.

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Can organic farming feed the world?

Low Impact

Members of Lowimpact have become involved in the world of mutual credit, while Chris has tried to convince us that the future of farming is mixed, organic smallholdings rather than giant industrial farms using pesticides. Here, I’ll focus on organic farming. But there’s a couple of further things I do want to say in this blog cycle.

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Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy

Business Green

How Organic Valley is leading a growing trend designed to tackle Scope 3 emissions. In 2018, the Land O'Lakes Sustain program, now part of Truterra , provided loans for the cooperative's farmers to adopt sustainable methods such as water-reuse systems and manure separation technology.

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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5 Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future. Heather Clancy. Tue, 09/01/2020 - 00:02.

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Salesforce Stakeholder Impact Report

GreenBiz

As long-time proponents of stakeholder capitalism, we believe that organizations should have a mechanism to integrate ESG into their business practices and to communicate their impact, positive or negative, to their stakeholders.

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2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun

GreenBiz

Exxon’s 2018 revenues were half of what it made a decade earlier; in 2019, it was only $14.3 While businesses, community organizations, utilities and government agencies move away from dependence on fossil-fueled power generation, you can make that same shift, too. Last year, no fossil company made the top 10 list. Pull Quote.