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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials.

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'Business exists to address challenges': Ingka Group's Karol Gobczynski on net zero problem-solving

Business Green

The head of climate and energy at Ingka Group, which owns the majority of Ikea stores, sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the company's sustainability plans and why investment now will secure the company's future profitability. A large part of Karol Gobczynski's working day is spent futuregazing.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

With humble beginnings as a small business selling to Vancouver’s dock workers in 1918, Watson Gloves is now Canada’s largest manufacturer and distributor of gloves to the industrial and retail market. The brand prioritizes using organic, renewable, and recycled materials whenever possible. Operating in most major U.S.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility. There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Joel Makower.

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Inside Eastman's moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

Business Green

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. At first glance, the sprawling industrial site, covering roughly 900 acres in Kingsport, Tennessee, appears to be just another chemical manufacturing facility.