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Top Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Businesses

The Environmental Blog

Sustainable businesses tend to consider the important roles of the environment and how to protect nature for a successful business. In that way, sustainability can be achieved and maintained while facing various business challenges. Below are the top marketing strategies for sustainable businesses.

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Water-Efficiency is No Longer a Pipe Dream: How companies are addressing the global water shortage

Sustainability Consulting

According to the Pacific Institute , prolonged droughts can also kill off fish and wildlife, produce extreme wildfires, reduce agricultural output, diminish rural communities’ supply of water, and strain the energy system. However, thermoelectric power water withdrawals account for 49 percent followed by agriculture at about 36 percent.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. Cascade Steel’s electric arc furnace (EAF) is more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly than traditional blast furnaces. Insulation is one of the most important factors that play into your home’s energy efficiency.

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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

Every major tire manufacturer globally is raising its game — not only in terms of performance in the face of bigger, heavier electric cars but also in terms of environmental impact. Virtually every tire manufacturer is making at least token efforts to increase the usage of sustainable materials like guayule.

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? Spinning CO2 into clothes

Climate Tech VC

Now the CEO of Rubi Laboratories , Mashouf wants to clean up the industrial sector and create processes that harness the powerful systems of the natural world to create a sustainable manufacturing ecosystem. cotton) and the energy needed to process fabrics and manufacture the garments themselves (e.g., spinning, weaving, and knitting).

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Greenwashing terms to avoid at any cost

Business Green

Oh, what a tangled web they weave when businesses set out either to deceive consumers or aspirationally advertise green credentials they haven't earned. Greenwashing not only backfires and turns off discriminating shoppers and shareholders, it can also subject a business to legal trouble and hefty fines. Degradable / Biodegradable.

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‘We can’t recycle our way out’

Grist

Common constraints include the high costs of building and powering processing facilities, the purchase of expensive chemicals, and the challenge of reliably sourcing materials uncontaminated with food scraps, dyes, or other types of plastic or garbage. Whether some of the newer chemical recycling proposals will actually succeed is a question.