Fairsnape

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Within FutuREstorative I included a list of books that have inspired me on my sustainability journey. We need and we have, an updated library of climate change sustainability texts and novels. By the time you finish this book you will have become an Extinction Rebellion activist.

Climate change 112

Climate change Sustainability Biodiversity Politics 112

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A new report finds that an integrated approach to tackling biodiversity and climate change could unlock more effective solutions the interlocking crises. The level of interconnectedness between the climate change and biodiversity crises is high and should not be underestimated.

Biodiversity 81

Biodiversity Climate change Fossil fuels Policy 81

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our data, platforms, and services are powerful tools for addressing critical planetary challenges including climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarian emergencies. He has advised a wide array of governments, NGOs, foundations, startups, and corporations on their sustainability and social impact programs.

Sustainability 122

Sustainability Investment Climate change Biodiversity 122

Fairsnape

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This helped shape a lot of my sustainability thinking at the time, ( Time for built environment transition? ) Fast forward to Rob’s latest book, What If …From What Is To What If … What if we had undertaken that construction re-skilling back then?

Construction 60

Construction Sustainability Biodiversity Climate change 60

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It requires every vessel over 400gt to have onboard an approved ballast water management plan, a ballast water record book and an International Ballast Water Management Certificate. It states that oceans are crucial for global food security and human health, while also hosting huge reservoirs of biodiversity.

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Pollution Ethics Biodiversity Health 249

Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Joel Makower talks to the former Unilever boss about his new book, 'Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take'. An icon of sustainable business has a new book. Joel Makower: So, Paul, this is your first book. What inspired you to write a book? How do we change that dynamic?

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Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Sustainability Climate change 40

Green Market Oracle

MAY 31, 2020

Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is an opportunity to reflect on how can we better understand the human potential to preserve biodiversity, get closer to nature and guide our future actions. Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity is the first phase of a vast project designed to find and implement solutions for the future.

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Biodiversity Health Education North America 59

Business Green

MARCH 17, 2020

Forestry giant secures revolving credit facility with BNP Paribas to help drive sustainable forest management initiatives. Finnish forestry business UPM has become one of the first businesses in the world to link repayments on a €750m loan to its performance against long-term biodiversity and climate targets.

Energy Monitor 67

Energy Monitor Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity 67

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

After nearly a year of renovations, the Netherlands’ prized Naturalis Biodiversity Center — a museum and research center with one of the largest natural history collections in the world — has just reopened to the public. Naturalis Biodiversity Center reopens with a sustainable, future-proof renovation.

Biodiversity 28

Biodiversity Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability 28

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2021

75% of sustainability professionals polled by the Business for Social Responsibility believe that integrating sustainability objectives and practices into a business enhances its ability to address environmental degradation. The Benefits of Measuring Sustainability. What Does Sustainability Look Like as an Internal Process?

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Sustainability Organic Carbon-negative Carbon 168

GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Over the last few years, the golf industry has made strides towards being more "sustainable," but is it enough? So, what’s next?

Climate change 545

Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 545

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

New York sustainability: Urban sustainability that supports the green business. For the purpose-driven business operating within the New York district, this Green Business Bureau article looks at the New York sustainability agenda to detail the developments this city is championing to achieve urban sustainability.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Electric vehicle Innovation Stormwater 78

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Speaking at the launch of the book in Glasgow on 30 October, he shared some of his views on the measures that might constitute a successful COP, or a not-entirely-disastrous-one, at least. What’s needed, he suggests, is a form of transformational adaptation, that “acknowledges the need for system change”.

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COP Biodiversity Fossil fuels Politics 130

AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

20 must-read books about food systems Danielle Nierenberg Fri, 07/10/2020 – 00:50 With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men. ” by Ashanté M. .

Climate change 28

Climate change Politics Biodiversity Agriculture 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity Heather Clancy Fri, 06/12/2020 – 02:15 Week in Review Stories discussed this week. Our sixth report examining the evolving role of corporate sustainability leaders. Real-life lessons for trucking’s future. Sign up for the conversation at 1 p.m.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Energy Energy Incubators 36

GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

It is the first time I have spoken in my capacity as chair of the advisory board of Imperial’s new Leonardo Centre , a research facility for sustainable business, which will formally launch in June. Financial flows are changing, with public and private funding gravitating towards net-zero, sustainable investments.

Sustainability 381

Sustainability Biodiversity Resilience Health 381

Fairsnape

MARCH 3, 2022

The Regenerative Playbook landed at the World Book Day Zoom Regenerative special event on the 1st of March. It was inspired by the Content Coms Little Books series which have been such a force for good. I urge anyone who is looking to “go beyond sustainability with aspirational and transformational ideas” to download it.

Biodiversity 78

Biodiversity Sustainability Incubators Incubators 78

Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle to get companies to take sustainability seriously is essentially over. I’ve spent two decades arguing that sustainability is good for companies. I’d love to stop making the “business case” — ideally because sustainability, like previous business movements around safety and quality, no longer has to justify its existence.

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Climate change Law Sustainability Demand 148

Fairsnape

MARCH 30, 2022

The Regenerative Playbook landed at the World Book Day Zoom Regenerative special event on the 1st of March. It was inspired by the Content Coms Little Books series which have been such a force for good. I urge anyone who is looking to “go beyond sustainability with aspirational and transformational ideas” to download it.

Biodiversity 78

Biodiversity Sustainability Incubators Incubators 78

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc.

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Government Policy Innovation Waste 82

GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

The restoration plan, called the Patagonia Grassland Regeneration and Sustainability Standard, or GRASS for short, incorporated conservation science, planning, and monitoring into the management plans of wool producers. Biodiversity. The program attracted two early adopters, Patagonia, Inc., Corporate Strategy. Food & Agriculture.

Agriculture 348

Agriculture Investment Soil Ethics 348

Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

The the 15th annual Green Economics Conference is titled " Survival Solutions for the Crises: Climate, Economy and Biodiversity Loss " will take place on the zoom platform. Topics include the green economic recovery, no more business as usual, global reset, build back better, a just transition, diversity, holism, sustainability, and SDGs.

Biodiversity 52

Biodiversity Health Smart Cities Law 52

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It wasn’t just pandemic malaise…I was mostly working on a new book with the former Unilever CEO, the great Paul Polman. Our overall purpose with this book is to help leaders raise their ambitions and build companies that profit by solving the world’s problems, not creating them. and much more.

Climate change 78

Climate change Biodiversity Health Sustainability 78

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. This typically includes things like helping small-scale farmers cope with weather variability by introducing irrigation.

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COP Climate change Resilience Sustainability 130

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. This typically includes things like helping small-scale farmers cope with weather variability by introducing irrigation.

COP 130

COP Climate change Sustainability Construction 130

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Listening to and supporting Indigenous communities is an essential part of achieving global sustainability. Broaden your perspective with these 22 books by Indigenous authors. Make A Difference Day is a great opportunity for you to show your commitment to sustainability and the options are endless: Volunteer in your community.

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Education Organic North America Sustainability 155

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In particular, our exchange explored how food systems can be made healthier and more sustainable as we look to a future in which we’ll need to find a way to produce enough food to nourish as many as 10 billion people while staying within planetary boundaries. We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness.

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Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 534

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2024

The shortlist is announced ahead of the glittering awards ceremony and dinner on the evening of Wednesday 12th June, and finalists can now book their place and join around 600 top green business executives, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, campaigners in showcasing the achievements of the fast-expanding sustainable business community.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 53

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

Sustainability 520

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Sustainability and business 3.

Climate change 95

Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Fairsnape

JULY 23, 2019

And in doing so recognising that business as usual sustainability (BAUS) has not moved the needle on carbon, global climate temperatures or biodiversity. “faster change in our industry towards regenerative design practices” Reducing Impact no longer cuts it We need to move positive good of Regenerative Sustainability.

Construction 60

Construction Biodiversity Sustainability Carbon 60

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This new book, ‘A Small Farm Future’ published by Chelsea Green, outlines what a post-covid, post-capitalist society might look like, built around a repopulated countryside of small farmers. However, in this review, I won’t go into the details of farming covered in the book. But does it have to be that way?

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Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

This is part 1 of a conversation with John Thackara – senior fellow of the Royal College of Art, visiting professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, founder and director of the Doors of Perception sustainable design conferences, and author of many books, including How to Thrive in the Next Economy. I ‘m a sustainability person.

Biodiversity 82

Biodiversity Climate change Sustainability Waste 82

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

If I had to chalk it up to concrete moments of inspiration, I would say there are three books that really shaped my path toward working in climate change. Reading this book was kind of like the moment in The Matrix when Neo is given the choice of the red and blue pill. What inspired you to work fighting climate change? of global GHGs.

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Agriculture Soil Biodiversity Climate change 52

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Statement by Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the UN High-Level summit on biodiversity. We are on the brink of a world in which the orangutan and the black rhino can be found not in the jungles of Borneo or the savannahs of Africa, but confined to the pages of a history book. There is the very fact of this summit, the first of its kind.

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Biodiversity Africa Law Health 51

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Biomass power stations, such as Drax in northern England, burn wood pellets to generate electricity – which is treated in the EU and UK as a renewable energy source if the process meets certain sustainability criteria. They have sent MEPs a version marked with their corrections.

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Law Europe Carbon-negative Biodiversity 84

Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. Rather than fully tackle the nature of biodiversity, I’ll just refer to a good explainer here and say this: we humans are part of a web of life and everything that goes into the economy comes from that web and other natural resources.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 60