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What happens when a climate activist, Shell exec and an investor share the same stage?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 15, 2021
A case study at TED Countdown, a climate conference that took place weeks before COP26
GreenBiz
Episode 289: How to be a 'climate positive' business
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Plus, good cop and bad cop developments ahead of the COP26 climate negotiations
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$350 billion of energy efficiency investments would save money, create jobs, protect the climate
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 7, 2021
Here are a few of the key possibilities pending before Congress
Educating girls: The overlooked solution to climate change
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Sponsored: To solve the climate crisis, accelerating education and digital equity for women and girls may be the best place to start
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.
Indigenous tribes are key to the US reaching its climate goals
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 11, 2021
In some parts of the country, tribes are investing in renewable energy, which also supports tribal self-determination and economic development
This artist is turning off the tap on plastics
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Ben Von Wong has partnered with over a dozen environmental nonprofits including WWF, Oceana Global and Greenpeace to offer concrete opportunities for action
Could a ‘carbon coin’ solve the climate crisis?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2021
What if there was a way we could fund the climate transition by creating a new global currency, off the books of national and corporate accounts
The case of the underperforming circular economy
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2021
The path to circularity lies not in high-altitude resolutions, pledges and manifestos. Rather, progress resides through the decidedly less glamorous earthbound work
Can accountants save the earth? Don’t count on it.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The idea of converting every type of impact into dollars, euros, yen or other currency is alluring. But it doesn't add up
How Adidas and ThredUp are prolonging the life of shoes and apparel
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 8, 2021
The shoemaker is accepting shoes, apparel and accessories from any brand, in any condition
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
Join our amazing panelists, Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable and International Broadcaster; Brenda Laurel, PhD, Principal, Neogaian Interactive; Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal, Dreamscape Global; Archie Kasnet, CEO, Regenerative; and Bruce Armstrong Taylor, The Climate 4.0 Project, to discuss how today's AR/VR and related AI-enabled technologies can be effectively applied, using data from such sources as NASA and NOAA, to both improve and accelerate urban sustainability planning and design.
How DFW aims to catalyze climate action for the airport industry
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2021
One airport's efforts to embed sustainability have taken off
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How ESG programs can combat the great resignation
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2021
It's not too late for a company to double down on well-being initiatives and community outreach as one way to keep the people they have
4 sustainability strategy questions food companies should be asking
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Food companies need to start asking themselves the hard questions about their supply chains like who is it helping and hurting and how can it change
How financial institutions engineered climate injustice and the clean energy colorline
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Methods of investing, lending, and risk assessment must change to prioritize equity
When AI and ESG collide
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
The corporate world’s embrace of AI will strain ESG strategies far more deeply than most of us think
How adding rock dust to soil could help drive carbon into the ground
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Researchers are finding that when pulverized rock is applied to agricultural fields, the soil pulls far more carbon from the air and crop yields increase. More studies are underway, but some scientists say this method shows significant benefits for farmers and the climate
Companies won't reach their science-based targets without suppliers on board
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2021
There is a close correlation between the companies managing their supply chains and setting science-based targets. In order to meet net-zero targets, companies must include their supply chains in their environmental strategies
The market for next-gen materials is growing
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Innovators in the space have seen more than $1.29 billion in investments since 2015
Why saving peatlands can help stabilize the climate
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Peatlands make up 3 percent of the earth’s landscape, yet absorb large amounts of carbon and harbor surprising biodiversity
With grid modernization overdue, don't overlook virtual power plants
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 15, 2021
Strain on electricity grids from climate disasters puts this software-driven approach in new context
The White House effect, redux
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2021
What can a president do about climate change despite a plodding and dithering Congress? We're about to find out
Improving water security helps reduce the gender gap in Mexico City
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Green infrastructure can alleviate the burden on women during drought
Hydrogen in buildings: The poster child of tech-crastination
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Green hydrogen has its place, but it's not ideal for decarbonizing buildings
As climate emergency first responders, care workers are demanding federal support
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
Home care workers rarely get the recognition or resources they deserve for their labor and efforts
What investors should know about B Corps, PBCs and BS
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 6, 2021
There are a lot of acronyms in ESG-land. This one is brought to you by the letter B
The path to eliminating exposure to harmful 'forever chemicals'
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 13, 2021
The chemicals have been detected in indoor air, and at troubling levels in drinking water supplies throughout the U.S. and around the globe
What you should know about carbon removal purchase agreements
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 23, 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
What do these ‘net-zero’ emissions pledges really mean?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Will it really be enough to stop climate change
Walmart digs into regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
The giant global retailer has a long supply chain that it needs to decarbonize
Soil health practices are paying off
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 1, 2021
A new report shows that regenerative agriculture practices are good for incomes, soil health and the environment
Pet sustainability, or the truth about cats and dogs
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
One of the biggest environmental impacts is associated with the food for meat-eating pets, a product category that contributed at least 64 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually as of 2017
8 Climate Week developments that can help 'get it done'
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Of the dozens of declarations and commitments that landed in our inbox last week, some stood out
Investing in nature gives industry a competitive advantage
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Industry leaders need to change the measures of growth, bring the true value of nature into market pricing and ensure demands on nature do not exceed the ability to supply
Wildfires redraw the landscape for corporate tree planting
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Companies are mostly funding tree-planting initiatives to reforest areas that have been burned in wildfire. Is that the right thing to do
Remora is ready to roll with carbon capture for trucks
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The startup has a long list of multibillion-dollar logistics corporations signed up as pilot accounts, including Ryder
Big money flows into long-duration energy storage
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
Long-duration energy storage is the linchpin technology that will let the economy run off of intermittent renewable energy sources and backup power after grid disruptions.
Why environmental justice research needs to include disability
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
Disabled people make up more than 25 percent of the U.S population but remain left out of most environmental justice research
How the U.S. can achieve climate commitments
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2021
It's time to embrace an all-of-society strategy
Atlanta community resilience project seeks to become model for energy equity
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 11, 2021
The Breaking Barriers initiative is developing two resilience centers in Atlanta, one on the campus of a historically Black college that will be backed by a solar-powered microgrid with battery storage
How much do crops contribute to emissions?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 14, 2021
Food production generates more than a third of manmade greenhouse gas emissions — a new framework tells us how much comes from crops, countries and regions
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