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Ginkgo Sustainability: Creating Healthy Spaces and Greener Buildings Through Biophilic Design

Green Business Bureau

“Connecting the Living and the Built Environment” Ginkgo Sustainability Inc. is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity.

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION? In the world of business, sustainability innovation can be defined as the process of evolving old business models and creating new ventures that realize economic value and generate positive environmental and social impacts simultaneously. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY?

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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: Incorporating Sustainability Into The Built Environment

Green Business Bureau

Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. Biophilic urbanism is more capable of optimizing the health of a city in different ways such as improving the city environment, providing economic growth for the municipality through stormwater management, and nurturing the mental health of society.[6] Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. 2] Wilson, E.

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New York Sustainability: Tax Credits, Grants and Green Funding

Green Business Bureau

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.

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Striving for environmental balance: nutrient neutrality to futureproof the development pipeline

Envirotec Magazine

This is particularly important because excess nutrients, when carried by stormwater runoff or treatment works discharge, can contribute to water pollution, leading to issues like eutrophication and harmful algal blooms. The paper announced a series of initiatives to tackle the issue and safeguard the environment.

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What we’re looking to fund for Cohort 11

Elemental Excelerator

Second, our nonprofit mission: Redesigning systems at the root of the climate crisis drives our work with startups, to help fast-track the sustainable and equitable deployment of technologies the world needs to help solve climate change. Reduce deforestation and restore biodiversity in our oceans and terrestrial ecosystems.

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Solar-powered innovation center targets LEED Gold in Toronto

AGreenLiving

Sustainability, indigenous culture and contemporary design come together in Perkins and Will’s design for the new $85 million Centre for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CITE) at Seneca College’s Newnham Campus. CITE presented the perfect opportunity to show how Indigenous knowledge can guide post-secondary education.