The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Businesses from all industries are developing innovative solutions to build an eco-friendly future. The industrial sector produces 50% of the total air pollution (and the percentage doesn’t include the damage done to the environment through landfills and polluted streams.) Businesses are the worst polluters worldwide.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2022

This article discusses the sustainability challenges and solutions for dry cleaners and provides a guide for becoming more sustainable. The developed SYSTEMK4, the wet cleaning system which innovated the dry cleaning industry to be environmentally friendly and safe. Plastic and hangers . Dry Cleaning Operations and Machinery.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2022

In this article, we answer those questions. Depending on the type of business you are and the industry you’re in, you might consider any of the following types of green certifications: Overall Green Business Certifications. Commercial Green Building Certifications. Energy – How much energy do we use?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 22, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we’ll take a brief look at how you should account for business emissions at the corporate and product level, using the GHG Protocol’s scope emission classification system. Scope 2 : Are the indirect corporate emissions released from the energy purchased by an organization. Scope 2 emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. Credit: Anne Rolfes Close-up of Norco town sign, showing an industrial facility next to homes.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

The industry is moving toward sustainable construction. This article is a guide on how a general contracting business can become more environmentally friendly, offer eco-friendly options and reap the benefits of being a sustainable business. HOW TO BUILD and RENOVATE A HOME TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE. Energy Usage and Electricity.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. Advocating.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

This article is a guide on how a general contracting business can become more environmentally friendly, offer eco-friendly options and reap the benefits of being a sustainable business. Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. Energy Usage and Electricity.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US Ali Hasanbeigi Wed, 03/31/2021 – 01:00 From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. This article includes several eco-friendly office products and supplies that will lower your carbon footprint. This article includes several eco-friendly office products and supplies that will lower your carbon footprint.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, the LWA’s Horticulture Campaigns Coordinator Rebecca Laughton explains why we have to produce and trade a greater percentage of food locally. We set out below twelve reasons why industrial supply systems, including supermarkets, processors and mass catering, are driving environmentally harmful practices.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

The nursery and greenhouse industry is by no means a main contributor to environmental issues but it is beneficial for all businesses to adopt environmentally sound practices. When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint).

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This article outlines 20 sustainable business practices your company can implement to make your offices more sustainable (ordered from low cost, high impact to high cost, low impact). LED lights are by far the most efficient type of lighting on the market, using 75% less energy and lasting 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This article outlines the importance of sustainable sophistication in the home textiles realm, explores various aspects of achieving it, and provides valuable insights on getting started on your own journey towards a more sustainably sophisticated home. What is Recycled Polyester? What is Cupro Fabric?

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Recycling our waste has become an expected practice across multiple industries with those not participating in the practice severely damaging their company image and reputation. The sustainability industry commonly uses the term “Zero Waste” as the ultimate goal for businesses trying to lessen their local environmental impact.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Holocene.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 7, 2022

Understandably, the larger a company is, the more waste it produces, the more resources it uses, and the more energy it consumes. This article will look at the damaging effects of both large and small businesses and how small business owners, in particular, can take action to reduce their carbon footprint to help protect the environment. .

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2021

All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values. Today’s article will cover Step 6, a blueprint for a sustainability plan. May include meetings with press and industry analysts. Monitor and Manage Initiatives.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In a substantial article in IEEE Spectrum , Voelcker explains how the Aptera team has updated its design, and why the Apterans feel energy efficiency is an overlooked issue in the EV world. million to build three prototype vehicles. As soon as Aptera builds its prototypes, it will submit them to a full crash-testing regimen.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

The nursery and greenhouse industry is by no means a main contributor to environmental issues but it is beneficial for all businesses to adopt environmentally sound practices. When it comes to waste, plastic was found to have the highest relative environmental impact in the nursery system (about 80% of the value of the total footprint).

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

The public market offering and the capital gained during the process will be crucial for AeroFarms to reach the next level of its growth and to achieve several strategic expansions, including improving operational and energy efficiency, adding into new products (right now it's focusing on berries), and maintaining its social impact. "We

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

After seven days in its facilities, the grown result is a nontoxic, fully home- and marine-compostable material that protects and insulates a variety of products — everything from candles to industrial servers. . Turning pineapple leaves into textiles that benefit 'people and planet' . Producing just 2.69

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2020

With Direct Air Capture, atmospheric CO2 can also be used as a feedstock to create low-carbon products like plastics and concrete. This article is taken from Carbon Engineering. With DAC, atmospheric CO2 can also be used as a feedstock to create low-carbon products like plastics and concrete. For the original, click here.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

These and other properties have made them an all-but-indispensable ingredient in a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and they have been used since the 1940s with applications including textiles and clothing, electroplating, fire-fighting foam, and ammunition. And there are many of them (more than 4,000 on the global market).

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. Energy Star. Sin #3: The Sin of Vagueness. USDA Organic.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The buildup of dust can weaken HVAC system efficiency, causing it to work harder and use more energy to heat or cool your home. According to the Department of Energy, replacing a clogged air filter with a clean one can lower your HVAC system’s energy consumption by 5% – 15%. Check for HVAC Leaks.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The consequences of penalties and fines outweigh the costs of hiring a sustainability communications firm or simply building in other safeguards to prevent greenwashing, Shelton added. Made with renewable energy. If your factory runs on 40 per cent wind power, say so specifically, the agency advises. What does that even mean?

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With consumers becoming more socially and environmentally conscious, CSR has become a must for building and maintaining a positive brand image and attracting customers, employees, and investors. the environment, and society, and adopt the renewable energy source that provides the greatest benefit to their company and society.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

A circular economy isn’t just about fixing environmental wrongs, though: Evidence shows it can bring big opportunities and positive impacts across industries, sectors and lives. Take the textiles industry. The Action Agenda demonstrates five opportunities associated with the shift to a circular economy: 1.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MAY 14, 2021

Renewable energy, energy storage and other technologies can help growers not only minimize their electricity bills – a substantial operation expense for the typical indoor farm – but also give them a leg up in the State’s licensing process. I. Environmental Impacts of Cannabis.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. Energy Star. Sin #3: The Sin of Vagueness. USDA Organic.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

“It is likely that the majority of microplastics come from the fragmentation of larger pieces of plastic litter in the environment,” says a 2019 report from the Royal Society,1 and the tendency of discarded litter to degrade or fragment is helped along by things like UV radiation, physical erosion and temperature changes.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values. Today’s article will cover Step 5, a blueprint for a sustainability plan. Every industry and every business uses resources and energy differently.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. Two other data points to mull, courtesy of the Global E-waste Monitor : Researchers figure just 17.4

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a green realtor® passionate about the planet’s future and our own, you can play an important role in delivering the message of sustainability to homeowners and support a greener, healthier real estate industry. Energy efficiency. Green, non-toxic building materials. Home renewable energy systems. Resource conservation.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 28, 2021

Video production has arguably become one of the most influential industries in the world, meaning media companies need to be more conscious about the impact they have on people and the environment. This article will discuss the top green initiatives for video production sustainability. Improve Utility and Building Energy Efficiency.

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