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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

But we were not required to by law. That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. It is really hard. How exciting.

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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

I’m from the US originally, and I came here with the Peace Corps about 12 years ago, and I’d read Bernard Lietaer’s books, and visited Berkshares and other places. But no laws were being broken, so we ended up doing an international petition, and eventually the public prosecutor said that there was no Kenyan law that we were breaking.

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The Biggest Sustainability Stories of 2019 (and what to watch for in 2020)

Andrew Winston

In the well-publicized book The Uninhabitable Earth , author David Wallace-Wells made the case that panic may be warranted , showing what warming of 3, 4, or more degrees Celsius could look like (and it’s not pretty). Senate to pass common-sense gun laws. It’s hard to say, but this year we did get some high-quality doom.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

AGreenLiving

But we were not required to by law. That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. It is really hard. How exciting.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. The charismatic "unboss," as he has called his role, has been at Novartis since 2007, with a stint at Sandoz.

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'Reconcile development and preservation': Inside Natura & Co's alternative vision for the Amazon

Business Green

One way the firm is working with communities is through its effort to grow the number of natural ingredients on its books, Behar says, explaining the drive to establish new value chains around tropical plants, nuts, and berries is designed to deliver economic benefits to traditional communities while simultaenously tackling deforestation.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Raised in Pittsburgh and one of the youngest multinational leaders, Narasimhan is fond of sharing books that inspire him on Twitter. The charismatic “unboss,” as he has called his role, has been at Novartis since 2007, with a stint at Sandoz.