Greenability Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

Here are seven easy strategies for organic control of pests, weeds and disease that you can try now. Likewise, many from this growing cohort of urban homesteaders have a personal preference for non-chemical and/or organic practices. The post Try 7 organic strategies to control garden pests appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Low Impact

JUNE 16, 2021

Members of Lowimpact have become involved in the world of mutual credit, while Chris has tried to convince us that the future of farming is mixed, organic smallholdings rather than giant industrial farms using pesticides. Here, I’ll focus on organic farming. But there’s a couple of further things I do want to say in this blog cycle.

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GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

Her comments came during an event organized by the WSLA Alumnae Group to recognize 10 "accomplished, audacious and courageous" women — in the words of president Rochelle Routman — as part of the 2021 Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards. "We Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

How Organic Valley is leading a growing trend designed to tackle Scope 3 emissions. Last year, Danone announced a partnership with rePlant Capital that would donate up to 40 per cent of its $50m impact fund to Danone's farming partners, with the goal of supporting the conversion to regenerative or organic farming methods.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. Harmonia, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the South region, also features domestic composting, and diverts almost half its organic waste from MSW collection and treatment systems. São Paulo has three sanitary landfills.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We'll be acting as the organization's media partner to build awareness for the next edition of its awards program. The organization's mission aligns well with GreenBiz’s values of championing corporate climate action that is informed by diverse communities and recognizes the intersection between climate change and racial justice.

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Home Energy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Businessman and author Philip Crosby is so right—the fabric of quality is the culture of the company; all else is woven into that fabric. A quote attributed to business management guru Peter Drucker says, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” ” The quote was made famous by Mark Fields, president at Ford Motor Company.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

A new study led by Flinders University appears to reveal a novel way to degrade and potentially remove toxic organic chemicals including azo dyes from wastewater, using a chemical photocatalysis process powered by ultraviolet light.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

When I started poking around to identify other for-profit ventures in the business of land conservation, two other organizations that have been working with Microsoft jumped to mind, both of which provide technology for mapping and measuring forests : Pachama and Silvia Terra. . Sponsored Article. Subscribe here. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JULY 14, 2020

In addition to a review of the current literature, the team interviewed sustainability leaders in 24 organizations across the United States. Leading organizations have made a solid business case for providing workplace charging and other EV related employee incentives or benefits. Key strategies to maximize benefit.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But digging into innovations being advanced by that organization — AGCO, based in Duluth, Georgia — reveals much about the potential future of technology for cultivating regenerative and precision agriculture. My focus is really to harness the energy of the entire organization. Sponsored Article. Innovation. Food & Agriculture.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

The list will highlight the most innovative and aggressive companies, cities, governments and organizations buying and advocating for zero- and low-carbon vehicles, as well as using other technologies that can significantly reduce transportation emissions. . Fill out this form with more information about your/their organization.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 15, 2021

Organic Valley loans dairy farmers funds for renewable energy Jesse Klein Thu, 04/15/2021 – 00:45 Agriculture sustainability improvements have long-term positive outcomes both for the planet and the farmer’s wallet, but the upstart costs can be a preventative obstacle. This isn’t the first sustainability innovation from Organic Valley.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

The genesis of this solution dates to around six years ago, when Lawrence Haddad, who leads the nonprofit Global Alliance on Improved Nutrition , was editing an article on nutrition. The dashboard also likely will be used by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization as part of its 2021 Food Systems Summit. . Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 8, 2020

As of mid-September, the stock market had welcomed at least 82 initial public offerings this year by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) — organizations that collectively raised more than $31 billion. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5 Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Heather Clancy.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Organic Agriculture 410

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Arvia. Solution Arvia is a leading electrochemical oxidation expert and has developed a range of water treatment systems which target persistent organic chemicals such as 1,4-dioxane. Our Ellenox system uses electrochemical oxidation to mineralise organic pollutants.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

An article by three Brazilian researchers published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research aims to contribute to progress in this field by proposing a novel perspective on particle morphology. The other authors of the article are Professor Geórgia Labuto and Cristiano Rezende Gerolin, a former researcher at UNIFESP.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If a farmer wants to transition a farm from conventional practices to organic or regenerative ones, costs are associated with that transition. These factors are different for organic and regenerative farmers, so the numbers often don’t work, resulting in loans being denied or unaffordable. Sponsored Article. Food & Agriculture.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

A campaign led by Friends of the Earth and allies calling on Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling Roundup and other glyphosate-based products has been supported by over 100 organizations and over 157,000 consumers. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Organizations such as rePurpose and The Plastic Bank, as well as third-party organizations such as Verra’s 3RI Initiative, are selling claims to plastics credits in exchange for a financial investment in initiatives to collect plastic from the environment or establish infrastructure to prevent further plastic leakage into waterways and oceans.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

With that in mind, rather than signing off with my usual list of essential reads, I’ll end with links to pieces about individuals and organizations combating racism and promoting diversity in food and agriculture. This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sponsored Article. Civil Eats has a longer list.

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Agriculture Organic Education Law 395

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

That pain point was the inspiration for a new climate data project launched this week that will be spearheaded by the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit host organization for thousands of the most influential open source software and data initiatives in the world such as GitHub. Sponsored Article. Pull Quote. Technology. Featured Column.

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Organic Policy Politics Climate change 352

Home Energy

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The goal of this rebranding is to hone our new format into a valuable benefit of the Building Performance Association’s (BPA’s) membership, serving as one of the organization’s flagship informational and educational resources.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I’ll let Bond describe the purpose of this new organization, pulling from his moving and passionate presentation at GreenBiz 21. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. You can watch his entire 10-minute talk here. Social Justice. State of the Profession.

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Organic Sustainability Startups Resilience 422

GreenBiz

AUGUST 21, 2020

A whole organic free range chicken on Crowd Cow costs $5 per pound; the equivalent non-organic product in Safeway goes for $1.49 My point isn’t to question the value of organic methods. This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sponsored Article. Price is one issue. More details at Steward.

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Agriculture Organic Demand Retail 384

GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple said it is also working with respected organizations such as Verra, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the U.N. A Vox article highlighted that "buying offsets is something anyone can do if they have the money." Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

Their mission is to work with JPMorgan Chase’s existing commercial relationship specialists to accelerate the flow of capital available to organizations that can play a role in decarbonizing other companies and industries. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article.

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Carbon-neutral Organic Carbon Investment 377

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This article originally was published in the BSR Insight. While the potential positive environmental impact of a shift to a circular economy is enormous, few organizations are considering the social implications for the more than 60 million people in its value chain. Sponsored Article. Annelise Thim. Fri, 10/09/2020 - 00:15.

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Fashion Retail Pollution Resilience 479

GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

The organization expects there to be 169 zero-emission commercial vehicles available for purchase, or soon to be available, in North America by the end of 2020; that's a 78 percent increase from the number of zero-emission commercial vehicles available at the end of 2019. Sponsored Article. Subscribe here. Transportation & Mobility.

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Electricity North America Transportation Demand 437

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

More than 1 million acres of forests have been lost since 1990, leaving the global stock at near 10 million acres, according to a July report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). But the companies interviewed for this article have differing strategies for how to handle suppliers that don’t comply with their mandates.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In our current environment — where legitimate news organizations are branded as "fake news," actual fake news is tough to spot and Americans are in the streets and on social media demanding change from governments and companies — certifications can be a trusted, trustworthy "spokesperson" that brands, and Americans, can rely on.

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Packaging Organic Climate change Sustainability 476

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly becoming incorporated across all aspects of organizations, including business strategies, operations and product/service offerings. Despite this backdrop, many boards have not incorporated climate awareness into their organizations yet. Nidia Martínez.

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Climate change Organic Sustainability Resilience 470

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

All of us means the private sector, governments and civil society (community groups, NGOs, labor unions, indigenous groups, charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, professional associations and foundations). How much time do you spend on positioning your organization as a water stewardship leader? Sponsored Article.

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Home Energy

MAY 30, 2019

We are a national industry association organized under the 501(c)(6) section of the IRS code. On April 2 we announced the formation of the Building Performance Association (the Association) at the National Home Performance Conference in Chicago.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2020

Why Nature’s Path went ‘regenerative organic’ Heather Clancy Thu, 05/21/2020 – 00:46 The term “regenerative agriculture” has become two of the biggest buzzwords in nature-based climate solutions. But how many farms and food companies can say they follow both regenerative and organic practices?

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