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Sustainable Office Gifts: A Guide For Green Holiday Shopping

Green Business Bureau

If you’re wondering what to get your favorite coworkers while keeping your carbon footprint low, then here’s a must-have guide on sustainable office gifts! Be sure to buy from certified companies who practice sustainable and ethical sourcing and manufacturing. For the Organizers. Sustainable fitness gear is growing in popularity.

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Re-cooperativising the Co-op Bank? Shaun Fensom of Save Our Bank

Low Impact

And there’s another aspect to the co-operative model, which is that co-ops are neutral vehicles for a group of people or companies to work together without any one of them dominating, in a fair way. Most people know us as ‘Save our Bank’ but there’s a formal organisation called the Customer Union for Ethical Banking – itself a co-op.

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This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING

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ING maintains that it is making progress in its transition towards a lower carbon portfolio and says it strongly believes that engaging with its clients is where it can make the most impact, as opposed to exiting certain clients or sectors — though it has parted ways with several coal firms over this issue. In March last year, U.S.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

This article includes several eco-friendly office products and supplies that will lower your carbon footprint. And when it comes to buying coffee, the life-giving bean juice that we all love, you should always look for ethical brands with the Fair Trade label. gluten-free) and carbon neutral shipping on all deliveries.

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SDG 13: Climate Action

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There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Two examples of this are carbon capture , trapping CO2 before it is emitted and storing it elsewhere, and carbon credits/cap and trade programs , permits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of GHGs.

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Sustainability Regulations for Business: A Brief Review

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that focus on some of the more visible, day-to-day sustainability and environmental problems like waste, pollution and carbon emissions. But regulations are more than just policies and they shouldn’t be your only reason for being a sustainable, ethical business. Energy Use and Carbon Emissions. In the U.S., Similarly, the U.S.

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Sustainable Food and Eco-Friendly Food Packaging

Green Business Bureau

Many popular fruits and vegetables that stay in stock year-long like blueberries and kiwi are often shipped from other countries and contribute to tons of carbon emissions. Source from sustainable and ethical food providers. Businesses have an obligation to source both ethically and sustainably. Buy organic.

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