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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame.

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Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom

GreenBiz

Roman Krznaric’s book " The Good Ancestor " is an important antidote to redirect our thinking away from apathy and fear. On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data?

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. Soil degradation.

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Event - New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources

Green Market Oracle

Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes. In the event that electrical conveyors are joined to the positive and negative sides, framing an electrical circuit, the electrons can be caught as an electric current - that is, power. Low efficiencies imply that bigger clusters are required, and that implies higher cost.