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The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'

GreenBiz

"As lawyers, we're concerned, because if there is no federal preemption, then there will be a multitude of litigation against the companies with respect to activities that they take that may be considered to be negative due to the climate change," she said. Sponsored Article. The risks of not sharing. The power of metaphor.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

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What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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What does digital art have to do with sustainability?

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Beyond raising funds, the foundation aimed to raise awareness about the potential for digital technologies to address climate change, as well as their potential negative impact. Blockchain-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs) recently have made a big splash in the art world and beyond. Moving away from proof of work.

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This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact

GreenBiz

This wallet can tell you about its carbon impact. In early January, I covered personal care products company Aveda’s project to trace and verify the provenance of its vanilla supply using blockchain — and to allow consumers to peek into that information by later this year. Hence, Covalent’s ability to make a carbon-negative claim. .

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

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One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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The emerging “non-utilities”—EVs are helping new players in the energy marketplace.

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The emergence of non-utility market participants is being enabled by four forces that have begun to converge: advances in information and communications technologies; the movement towards sharing economies; new business models and ownership models; and blockchain-encrypted transaction systems. A diverse range of business models is available.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos.