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Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

The importance of sustainable event planning. The time is now for event planners to host eco-friendly events using an effective sustainable event planning strategy. – Meet Green , The Environmental Impact of the Events Industry. . – Meet Green , The Environmental Impact of the Events Industry.

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

AGreenLiving

Their approach is to apply principles of biomimetics, or systematically applying the ecological laws of nature , to create products and manufacturing approaches that innovate across the entire manufacturing life cycle. And, therefore, to create ethically-sourced and locally-fabricated high-performance sustainable products.

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2nd Annual WCS Talks Exceeds Expectations

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

If you’ve attended many cleantech events, you’re probably familiar with this scene: a panel of men, with maybe a token woman thrown in — maybe not — addresses an audience of mostly men. Women in Cleantech and Sustainability turned that familiar scene on its head at our recent event, the 2nd Annual WCS Talks.

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What is litter?

Envirotec Magazine

If the average smoker discards just half of their unwanted cigarettes, that’s 3,600 butts a year, butts made of non-biodegradable cellulose acetate — a type of plastic. But cigarette butts do not degrade – and throwing them down the storm drain doesn’t solve the problem; it just moves it on for someone else to clean and sort out.

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Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics

GreenBiz

People have gotten used to having to jump quickly to change the system," EMF Chair MacArthur said Tuesday at the GreenBiz Circularity 20 virtual event. CLOs have to keep up with a rapidly evolving patchwork of state laws governing plastic use and disposal, driven by activists, regulators and consumers. Chief legal officers .

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6 Ways to Make Business Travel More Sustainable

Green Business Bureau

For example, choosing rideshare, selecting green certified accommodations, or using biodegradable travel products, is contributing in some small way to the bigger environmental cause. With these laws left at the state and municipal level, there is inconsistency across the country and a lack of consolidated effort to reduce plastic pollution.

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Finding a Sustainability Career in Business

Green Business Bureau

Environmental consultants are experts in sustainability and offer their knowledge and insight on the latest environmental standards, regulations and laws. Environmental scientists work to find the causes behind these types of events and determine remedies to eliminate them. Sustainability Engineer.