The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As Oxford professor Dieter Helm points out in his latest book – Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy – we need to mend our ways in order to meet the needs of future generations. Through reform, we can create a more resilient and environmentally friendly food system.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails Heather Clancy Fri, 09/04/2020 – 02:00 Week in Review Stories discussed this week (4:08). Why placing environment, social and governance principles at the center of COVID-19 recovery places makes sense for resilience and the bottom line.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support. A fair COP?

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

PepsiCo accelerates efforts to build a more resilient and sustainable food system, reducing absolute GHG emissions more than 4 percent by 2030 across entire value chain and pledging to net-zero emissions by 2040. It’s about how you educate them, because it's right there, it's going to be in the booking tool.

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

The strength and breadth of the shortlist is testament to the remarkable levels of innovation, resilience, and ingenuity green businesses and executives have demonstrated over the past 18 months, as they have continued to advance the net zero transition, while pushing green business principles and clean technologies firmly into the mainstream.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

For book clubs and friends, gifts could include a white elephant exchange with books or items you already own. If the packaging material is Kraft paper, you can use it to wrap gifts or make gift tags. You can score usable clothes, household items, toys, tools and sometimes a rare treasure. Minimize unwanted mail.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

The recovery packages stipulated in the course of overcoming the impacts of the corona crisis can be an opportunity to channel needed investments into sustainable, green sectors and build back better. In fact, green energy has been more resilient against COVID-19 impacts than fossil fuels. To stay below the 1.5°C

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2020

Grocery stores suddenly had bulk bins to reduce wasteful packaging. In the face of an economic shock unlike anything modern society has ever experienced, perhaps it’s time for three new Rs: relief, recovery and resilience. But what about those next steps, recovery and resilience? The first thing Canadians need? Relief, and fast.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Hopes will also be high that ministers and civil servants on Whitehall are now digesting the report's many recommendations ahead of the Treasury's hotly-anticipated economic stimulus package, which is expected to emerge early next month. Nevertheless, Stark captured it pretty well yesterday with his plea for the government to "go for it".

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

With our fully compostable packaging, you’re adding soil nutrients, not paying to clog your landfill.”. Encourage community resilience and disaster preparedness. Book your no-cost initial consultation at [link] (either call or use the scheduling link). You’ll never worry about waste disposal again. Let’s reclaim that leadership!

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Agreeing a package that delivers the Paris Agreement and powers the UN climate process forward.?? First, adaptation and resilience, helping people, economies and the environment adapt and prepare for the impacts of climate change. And we will do that, working with all parts of the global economy and society.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2024

Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire. Make us feel something! 100 words on the dot. The winning drabbles will be published in Looking Forward in May, and the winners will receive presents!

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

We are looking for a Tech Lead – Site Reliability Engineer (m/f/x) with expertise in container orchestration and resilience engineering practices to join us remotely or in our Berlin office. – Available opportunities and support to advance your professional growth such as monthly learning days, hack days, and a free book policy.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2020

But several major new reports in recent days have stressed that longer-term policy stability, incentive programmes, and reforms crafted and enacted by the UK government over the coming weeks and months could prove just as important - if not more important - to the country reaching its 2050 climate goal that the much-debated stimulus packages.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Similarly, the spotlight is on green economic recovery packages, which are currently set to be less green than those committed after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, and are only expected to deliver 26 per cent of the additional emissions reductions necessary by 2030. We would also welcome the restoration of the historical commitment of 0.7

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. degrees C food system looks like, and define how their business model will need to shift to guarantee not only that we can stay within planetary boundaries, but also to ensure their business’ long term resilience.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 8, 2020

Don’t miss this one-on-one interview featuring GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower and well-respected sustainability consultant John Elkington, who recently published his 20th book, “Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism.” ” Register for the live event at 1 p.m. EDT May 14. EDT May 18.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

This year the awards attracted a huge number of entries from right across the UK's thriving green economy, underscoring the sheer breadth of talent, innovation, creativity, expertise and business-nous which is driving the country towards a greener, cleaner, and more resilient future. SMARTIES - Paper Packaging. Consultancy of the Year.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Birds can consume these resilient floating embryos from one body of water then deposit them in a different body of water, miles away, therefore ensuring species dispersion to counteract inbreeding risks. In fact, a lot of books then were full of hybrids. In other words, these killifish embryos hatch even after ingestion by waterfowl.

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Grist

APRIL 10, 2024

Over the past two-plus years, we’ve covered a huge range of climate solutions, from resilience hubs to solar grazing to the power of municipal budgets. We even started a book club. Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire. Make us feel something!

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2019

” Both the residential and commercial segments showed sequential growth in the quarter, including record bookings for PV for homes being built through partnerships with homebuilders ahead of California imminent solar mandate for new homes. “That part of the business is growing quite rapidly.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

This included a £20bn package to support carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), a renewed focus on nuclear (including the decision to reclassify it as environmentally sustainable) and a refresh of the Control for Low Carbon Levies mechanism on energy policy costs. the “U” in “CCUS”).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The huge support package could cost up to £150bn, or potentially even more depending on the volatile global gas market, and taxpayers are set to foot the bill for at least two years. Beyond the headline support package, major energy market changes are being planned too.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

But could it also perhaps signal hopes of delegating some responsibility for decarbonisation and climate resilience - and any setbacks along the way - to councils, cities, and regional governments? That means 2021 is now shaping up to be an even more important year for the green economy than it looked two days ago.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? Initiative: Does your company have an open-book management process that allows employees to access all financial and operational data? “[Open-book management] simply work. You can also check the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

This has exposed a lack of resilience in how many businesses operate, which in some cases is leading to a reappraisal of how they move their products or services from supplier to customer. This could be done through Mobility-as-a-Service applications, whereby transport providers offer "packages" similar to those from mobile phone providers.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. degrees C food system looks like, and define how their business model will need to shift to guarantee not only that we can stay within planetary boundaries, but also to ensure their business’ long term resilience.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

It is a jaw-dropping achievement for a company that is yet to deliver any of the thousands of vehicles on its order books, and an important milestone in the electric vehicle (EV) sector's transition from fringe market into market-shaping mainstream concern. Arrival is arguably the biggest success story in modern UK automotive industry.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

It is a jaw-dropping achievement for a company that is yet to deliver any of the thousands of vehicles on its order books, and an important milestone in the electric vehicle (EV) sector's transition from fringe market into market-shaping mainstream concern. Arrival is arguably the biggest success story in modern UK automotive industry.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

Failure to put sustainability at the heart of the new legislative agenda is a betrayal of the promises made just months ago at COP26, like aligning the UK financial sector with net zero, undermining our resilience at the very moment when we need to be shoring it up.". The gap between this government's rhetoric and action is becoming a chasm.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The ecosystem services that underpin the global economy should recover, providing greater climate resilience, enhanced natural carbon sinks, and improved food and water security. In the UK, the government's own accounting reveals just a slither of subsidies go towards activities that have a positive environment impact.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

What kinds of actions will produce the best results in terms of economic growth, improved health, lower emissions and greater resilience? In this first episode, we speak to Leah Stokes, assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of the new book Short Circuiting Policy.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Dubbed the 'Growth Plan' , the package of around 30 measures builds on Prime Minister Liz Truss's vision for a low tax and low regulation approach in the hope of driving economic growth and staving off warnings of a looming recession. Energy package costs £60bn for just 6m. The new Chancellor is borrowing big, basically.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There are reasons why President Biden called his green stimulus package the Inflation Reduction Act. If you are going to build more homes, you want those homes to be ultra-efficient, clean tech adorned, climate resilient, and located in walkable communities. There are reasons why the EU and the UK's Labour opposition want to copy him.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

This is part of a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing about building a new kind of economy, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. That’s where some of the hope lies. One last mad question.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Like many consumer products companies, the HP sustainability team is also focused on reducing the impact of its packaging — its goal is to eliminate 75 percent of single-use plastics by 2025. . All We Can Save , the book they birthed in September, features 41 powerful voices. So far, that effort has diverted 1.7 LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Low Impact

MAY 23, 2020

Today we’re explaining community wealth building, and reviewing a book: The Case for Community Wealth Building. We’re talking with CLES about just that – including mutual credit in the package that they’re rolling out to local authorities around the country. I found the ideas in this book exciting.

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