Business Green

MARCH 26, 2024

Check out all the finalists for the UK's most prestigious green business awards BusinessGreen has today announced the finalists for the UK Green Business Awards 2024, the UK's most prestigious celebration of the best of the green economy.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Sustainability challenges in agriculture Outdoor agriculture (pasture and cropland) occupies around half of the planet’s habitable land, and so-called modern agricultural practices have enabled the production of increased food volumes at relatively low prices. Again, accurate monitoring and control is vital. billion people by 2050.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Partner Insight: Vodafone's Nicki Lyons shares key insights from the recent Vodafone Business UK Customer Sustainability Summit on how businesses can harness technology to reach their decarbonisation goals Climate change has the potential to seriously disrupt our lives. Every business has the potential to make a real difference.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 31, 2023

ISO 14001 certification to run an effective environmental management system ISO 14001 certification is designed to help businesses run an effective environmental management system (EMS), to reduce an entity’s impact on our natural world via operating more sustainably.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 20, 2022

This report demonstrated that ESG investments make good business sense. Customers and employees are also demanding business with a purpose. As such, we’re seeing an ideological shift in the business realm where responsibility goes beyond the profit line. That is, ESG can be used interchangeably with the term sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Creating a sustainable home doesn’t necessarily mean you have to purchase the latest green gadgets and install solar panels on your roof. Read on to learn about several renovations and improvements for sustainable homes. Leaky ducts can dump conditioned air into attics and crawl spaces, wasting energy and lowering HVAC performance.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

In this defining year, many businesses have already made new commitments to go further and faster to cut emissions or end deforestation. Nature's cost of doing business needs to be quantified. All businesses depend on nature and the resources it provides. Nowhere is this clearer than in our food systems.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

The sustainable oyster reef in Dornoch Firth will help to purify the water and could act as a carbon store. The restoration project began in 2014 as part of the whisky distillery's sustainability strategy, and is set to continue for the forseeable to assess the restored reef's climate benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

Your business needs a lot of stuff in order to run – paper, ink, computers, coffee, toilet paper, lightbulbs and the list goes on. But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. Here are some eco-friendly office products that you just can’t do without.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

UKRI offers funding to four major scientific projects across UK exploring net zero cities, agricultural resilience, and biodiversity loss. Currently, the UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries, with 40 per cent of monitored species having declined in abundance in recent decades," he said. "We

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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.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A 2021 survey of corporate occupiers of buildings commissioned by JLL revealed that 83 per cent believe that climate risk is financial risk, 79 per cent anticipate that carbon emissions reduction will be part of their corporate sustainability strategy by 2025, and 42 per cent felt their employees would demand green and healthy spaces to work in.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

🚗 Vertical: Transportation and Energy investment declined, but remained on top. Redwood Materials received a $2bn loan from the US Department of Energy in Feb 2023. Ascend Elements received a $480m grant from the US Department of Energy in Oct 2022. 2 spot behind Energy Storage, which rose from no.2 2 to to no.1.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

From reducing carbon footprints to minimizing waste, there are numerous steps one can take to establish a more sustainable and environmentally conscious lifestyle. Energy-Efficient Homes One of the most impactful steps towards eco-friendly living in Canada is ensuring that your home is energy-efficient.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Our members continue to amaze us with their commitment to sustainability and their innovative green and social responsibility initiatives. They lead by example and demonstrate how business can be used as a platform for good. Operating in most major U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Olam International's Andrew Brooks sits down with BusinessGreen to reflect on the food giant's recent sustainability wins and share the firm's priorities for the years ahead. Covid-19 made it challenging to deliver some of our on-the-ground sustainability programs. BusinessGreen : What recent green achievement are you most proud of?

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast. South to burn them overseas in its power plants.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 3, 2023

As energy demands increase for heavier and longer-distance transport, the energy efficiency equation for fossil based-fuels becomes harder to displace. So far, electrification and hydrogen-based options have struggled to achieve sufficient energy densities. Engines are optimized for fossil fuels.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Biodiversity. COP is the decision-making body responsible for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the UNFCCC. Energy transition. This refers to the global energy sector's shift from energy consumption and production based on fossil fuels to low carbon sources. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Critics, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that the plan is thin on details around how the government intends to scale up energy efficiency improvements, boost green skills, decarbonise heavy industry, and encourage people to embrace lower carbon diets. work with business to deliver cost reductions for clean technologies.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Decrease water usage by 20 percent at high-risk sites and 15 percent overall by 2025 (per metric ton of product made).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Far from delivering reported savings of £1.5bn, for example, the 2010-2015 Coalition Government's 'red-tape cutting' initiatives have increased regulatory burdens on business by at least £3.1bn, the report estimates. It also gives numerous examples of the damaging side-effects of the push to deregulate planning.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The analysis, published late last week, reveals net inflows into ESG ETFs in 2020 powered past the the $31bn of inflows recorded in 2019, reaching a level 10 times bigger than the $9bn seen in 2018. Yet as clean-energy flows take a larger share of the pie, they increase the volatility of overall ESG investing.".

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

If you ask your professional teams whether your shiny new office development built to the highest sustainability standards will be zero carbon, you might hear 'well, that depends'. Scope 2 is what someone else produces for you like the gas that is burned in a power plant and shipped to you as electricity. Not exactly reassuring.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Small-scale growers, selling via farmer-focussed supply chains, are better able to deliver public goods due better calibrated supply and demand and to customer understanding of issues such as seasonality, waste and packaging avoidance and trade-offs between crop damage and agrochemical use.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual. Earths to sustainably support our current resource use. Textile production (including cotton farming) uses almost 100 billion cubic meters of water per year, about 4 percent of global freshwater withdrawal.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

In the UK, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare, foodbanks have faced unprecedented demand and producers are now calling for a 'land army' to prevent fields of crops from going to waste. Greater digitalisation could be one way of improving the sustainability of the system. This can lead to huge amounts of food waste.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

The features of a sustainable food management system. Sustainable food management is a systematic approach that concentrates on reducing wasted food, supporting local communities and employees, and mitigating the environmental impact of operations over the complete life cycle of food items.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

This is because water quality is heavily affected by the state of the tide, which presents a significant monitoring challenge in the lower reaches of many rivers. With a tidal range of up to 7m, the River Thames presents a number of monitoring challenges.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Based out of Huntingburg, IN, with multiple showrooms around the country, furniture manufacturer OFS sets the bar high for sustainable production, protecting the environment and setting an example for other companies. Replanting and maintenance of the forest led to the current 7,100 acres held and monitored by OFS and the Menke family.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Farmers must avoid the pitfalls of a "false choice" between nature protection and food production, as building nature recovery into Britain's agricultural practices is the only way to put both society and the economy on a sustainable footing, Natural England chair Tony Juniper is expected to say later.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In the latest addition to its 'green recovery' package, the European Commission yesterday unveiled a flurry of crucial green strategies, targets, and policies, ranging from new green building and renewable energy programmes, to tighter rules governing chemical use and methane emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Hence, certified B Corps often experience bottom-line benefits helping the business thrive. What is B Corp?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Business interest in plant-based food is growing, but many consumers are still in the dark over the environmental sustainability of their eating habits. Fortunately, fresh research published today by WWF UK suggests the vast majority of British people do want to eat healthier, more environmentally sustainable food.

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