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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. RECYCLED PLASTIC. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECYCLED STEEL.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2022

Greentown Labs

Conduit Tech builds software and machine learning technologies that integrate home-specific insights and data into the HVAC sales process. Electricity. Alma Energy leverages geothermal exploration to deliver scaled renewable energy production at economic levels. Manufacturing. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. Credit: Anne Rolfes Close-up of Norco town sign, showing an industrial facility next to homes. Jamaica Hawkins.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

It’s used to gain a financial advantage that’s often short lived and can expose businesses to long-term financial risk. As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. In this Green Business Bureau article, we define corporate greenwash. What is corporate greenwash?

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers.