Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The writer of this piece spoke to Philip Simpson, commercial director at ReFood, about whether we face similar issues closer to home and what lessons can be learnt. When food is left to rot in landfill, it generates gases 21 times more harmful to the environment than CO­2. The important question, therefore, is how best to tackle it.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 23, 2020

There are innumerable lessons any and all of us can learn from John Lewis, the civil rights icon who passed away this past weekend. The post Reflections on the Legacy and Lessons of John Lewis appeared first on Defend Our Future. impact on civil rights was beyond measure. His courage and conviction were limitless.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Nearly two thirds said they were not confident the government would deliver on its net zero by 2050 target, with just 21 per cent confident the goal will be met. Understanding what 'net zero' means for different industries and sharing lessons and innovations across sectors is business-critical.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

While this downturn is unprecedented in cause and nature, there are still lessons to be taken from previous economic recovery and stimulus measures. In 2020, renewable energy will account for 21% of total electricity used in the U.S., In many parts of the U.S., Impact on emissions. Since 2008, U.S. up from 9% in 2005.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Circular business model lessons from IKEA, REI and Eileen Fisher Deonna Anderson Fri, 02/26/2021 – 00:30 Moving from a linear business model to a circular takes time, effort and trial and error. Here are four lessons about implementing and iterating circular business models from these retailers.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 6, 2020

This year, renewable energy will account for 21 per cent of total electricity used in the U.S, The post Canada can take clean stimulus lessons from Obama appeared first on Clean Energy Canada. These investments also paid off in reduced carbon pollution: since 2008, U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The original funding for the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme was announced as a short-term stimulus, for use in the 2020/21 financial year only," Trevelyan said last week. The government were very clear that the £320m announced in last November's Spending Review was additional to the originally allocated £2bn," he said. "The

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

These overarching goals are backed by a series of annual targets, such as plans to improve more than 4,000 kilometres of river during 2020/21, create nearly 1,200 hectares of habitat, and cut carbon emissions eight per cent a year, to put it on track to deliver net zero emissions by 2030.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Creates database of lessons learned for new courthouse projects and facility modifications. Writes curriculum for and conducts training of Facilities Services staff on lessons learned from previous projects. on November 21, 2019. Assists liaison with the Office of the State Fire Marshal. HOW TO APPLY.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Lessons from Hungary. This latest report from the Green Finance Institute outlines 21 financial products that will be piloted and launched later this year to help mobilise capital flows towards retrofitting to improve energy performance standards. Ready availability of private finance is critically important.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 5, 2023

SkySat image of Grenville Bay, Saint Andrew Parish, Grenada showing increased details on seagrasses in the region taken February 21, 2023. Leveraging Planet data and new techniques in AI, as well as lessons learned from the Blue Carbon Explorer, these insights can be used to better understand coastal habitats around the world.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Somalia, Haiti, Djibouti, Kenya, Niger, and Afghanistan were among countries highlighted, with the report finding that 48 million people across these areas are suffering from acute hunger, up from 21 million in 2016. The lessons for governments, businesses, and investors should be clear.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The industry recognizes the need to share lessons, which is one reason you've seen companies including Microsoft , Shopify and Swiss Re all publish playbooks about how they are selecting and valuing projects that have verifiable permanence. We have to cultivate partnership as we cultivate technology development," he said.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Channeling lessons gleaned from the corporate response over the past year, sustainability leaders at the GreenBiz 21 virtual event in February explored what went wrong and right within corporate supply chains and management practices — and how this knowledge might be applied to avoid future mistakes and improve business resilience.

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Solar Sister

MAY 15, 2018

And we don’t mean Twitter or Facebook… Growing from 10 to 3,000 entrepreneurs, Solar Sister has learned many lessons about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to recruitment of women in clean energy value chains.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

. “This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers,” Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. “[We] need leaders who know that by investing in others, they will be better off themselves.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 22, 2020

Moreover, the destruction of the advanced Mayan civilisation is a good lesson on the effect of drought and famine. On the other hand, agriculture itself is a source (comprising about 21 percent) of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions , which affects the productivity of agriculture negatively, and so ultimately humanity and the climate too.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 21, 2020

Fri, 08/21/2020 - 01:15. In this effort, leaders should include both their successes and lessons learned in their reporting. Why e-commerce retailers should increase transparency about their products. Deonna Anderson. When shopping online, consumers are able to see a lot of information about a product.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That's the hope of several early movers in circular economy investing, who shared their insights at the GreenBiz 21 virtual event in early February. . Partnerships with third-party leaders can help when trying to apply lessons to the rest of the business from initiatives around circular servers, recycling and reuse, Middaugh said.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The California Public Utilities Commission only launched a formal microgrids proceeding on September 19; opening comments were due October 21. "It’s Microgrid lessons from other utilities. The regulatory record on this topic is nascent compared to renewables or storage on their own.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 17, 2020

By Maruša Romih Current Situation in Numbers Speaking as someone who never had to worry about going to school and enjoyed almost all the lessons there, I consider myself lucky. This is especially true now, in the 21 st century, the era of digitalization. These are the places frequently forgotten by the developed world.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 16, 2020

So, gather your trash and learn how to reuse and repurpose it into your favorite instrument, and enjoy these activities on the first day of summer, Sunday, June 21. Here are some highlights of Make Music Day (MMD): 25×12: Live Online Lessons – Music teachers in the U.S. But this year due to COVID-19, all events are virtual.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Cultivating critical thinkers, conveying civic mindedness, and teaching students the skills needed to be successful in the 21 st century is extremely important. Educating students who will come up with solutions to those problems should be a goal of the public schools.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

How have sustainability executives responded to the crises and what lessons can be learned to enhance business resilience in the future? We should warn that we are seeing some of the same things that happened at the start of the outbreak happening once again, and maybe questioning whether lessons truly have been learned," Reith said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

We must not wait for the next crisis to remind us of this lesson once again.". ABC concluded that "the environmental impact of improving buildings standards, even just for new-build homes, is dramatic".

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2022

Which is perhaps the key lesson as governments set net zero targets. the Rio Declaration on Environment & Development, 27 principles that were to guide countries to a more sustainable path. Sustainability has undoubtedly risen in importance over the last thirty years, partly due to the foundations laid at Rio.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2020

It also proposes that the government should introduce a dedicated Net Zero Development Bank to finance energy efficiency schemes and bring an end to the duplication that currently sees BEIS operate 21 different grants. We're still reaping the consequences.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 1, 2022

The Block Island Offshore Wind Project, 5 kilometers off the coast of Block Island and 21 kilometers from the Rhode Island coast, was the first U.S. Maarten Wolsink, “Wind power and the NIMBY-myth: Institutional capacity and the limited significance of public support” Renewable Energy 21, no. Featured research. 3 (2022): 1–19, [link].

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ian Nelson While growing up, every trip to the forest offered McKay a lesson in where each plant loved to live, what it needed to thrive, and how humans could read them to know if the land was out of balance. Plants and animals were considered kin and teachers. Elected officials understand what’s at stake.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Average annual costs of worker support, 2020-35 (USD 2020) 12 Includes $12.5M each year 2020-2023, and a higher than average allocation in years 2024-2035. $40 40 million. 120 million. Investment performance needed, 2026-2035 average ($/tCO 2 e, USD 2020). $41 41 to $46. $17

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

Why e-commerce retailers should increase transparency about their products Deonna Anderson Fri, 08/21/2020 – 01:15 When shopping online, consumers are able to see a lot of information about a product. In this effort, leaders should include both their successes and lessons learned in their reporting.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 26, 2020

I got the idea after reading the entire series of books by Yuval Noah Harari , i.e. Sapiens , Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Creating a new ideology is not a new idea of mine and there are plenty of other smarties working on it (a ‘smartie’ or ‘schmartie’ is a smart person). In that we are unique on this Earth.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the course of her two-decade career teaching first and third grade in New York City public schools, Weiss infused nature and sustainability into her lessons. public pensions would have been about $21 million richer if they had divested from fossil fuels 10 years earlier. According to a 2023 analysis, six major U.S.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Ghislain Irakoze, 21. Lessons from being raised in bustling Kathmandu, the capital of developing nation Nepal, inform Shreshta’s work: "My dad always said, ‘Simple living, high thinking.’ As she advances in her career from a regional role to a national one, Goodman-Smith hopes to make change some day at the global level. Jesse Klein.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Jesse Klein Ghislain Irakoze, 21 CEO and Founder, Wastezon; Kigali, Rwanda LinkedIn | Twitter If you survived a garbage landslide, what would your next move be? Lessons from being raised in bustling Kathmandu, the capital of developing nation Nepal, inform Shreshta’s work: “My dad always said, ‘Simple living, high thinking.’

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