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Sustainability Guide for General Contractors: Sustainable Construction and Renovations

Green Business Bureau

Composite is a combination of wood waste and recycled plastic, giving it the appearance of wood but with some of the properties of plastic. Linoleum is a floor material made from natural materials such as linseed oil, sawdust, and pine resin. It has two different flushing settings, one for liquid waste and one for solid waste.

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Sustainability Guide for General Contractors: Sustainable Construction and Renovations

Green Business Bureau

Composite is a combination of wood waste and recycled plastic, giving it the appearance of wood but with some of the properties of plastic. Linoleum is a floor material made from natural materials such as linseed oil, sawdust, and pine resin. It has two different flushing settings, one for liquid waste and one for solid waste.

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Eco friendly Plastic Bag Alternatives for Sustainable Retail Businesses

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Eco friendly bags for retail to remove sinlge-use plastic waste Eco friendly bags for retail address the damaging environmental impact of the common, single-use plastic (polyethylene) bag. These plastic bags aren’t biodegradable, meaning they reside in the environment and take up to 1000 years to break down. For instance, ~0.48

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

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Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The campus community diverted nearly 70 percent of all waste this past school year (up from 56 percent the previous year), thanks to student-driven recycling audits. The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

The Ottawa-based startup is bringing to scale a process that generates hydrogen by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, then storing it within seawater, mimicking the ocean’s natural processes to create a carbon sink. Transform Program Leader, Fight Food Waste Co-op Research Center; Brisbane, Australia. Heather Clancy.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

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It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects.

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

AGreenLiving

The Ottawa-based startup is bringing to scale a process that generates hydrogen by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, then storing it within seawater, mimicking the ocean’s natural processes to create a carbon sink. It’s seeking to capture no less than a gigaton of CO2 per year by 2035.