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The Beacon Design Collective: Graphic Design With Sustainability and Social Justice In Mind

Green Business Bureau

Achieving carbon neutrality and effective stakeholder communication The Beacon Design Collective has focused their sustainability efforts on achieving carbon neutrality, and effective stakeholder communication and engagement, as we discuss. is zealously planting trees. In addition, Dani and her husband share a smart car.

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? Spinning CO2 into clothes

Climate Tech VC

fashion industry , which accounts for ~10% of global CO2 emissions —more than aviation and shipping combined. Read more about the industry’s footprint in our sustainable fashion deep dive ]. In the meantime, Rubi aims to capture the CO2 from industrial processes and use it to make apparel inputs carbon-negative.

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Coldplay team up with biofuels giant Neste to help slash world tour emissions

Business Green

The band has long voiced its concerns around the climate impact of major global concert tours, which require transportation of vast amounts of equipment and staff around the world, and in 2019 the group said it would not be touring again unless it could find lower carbon solutions.

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Allbirds creates a plant-based leather

AGreenLiving

Made with rubber, vegetable oil and other natural ingredients, this leather alternative, aptly named Plant Leather, has 40 times less carbon impact than animal-derived leather and 17 times less carbon impact than synthetic leathers made from plastics. The runoff from leather production negatively impacts air and water quality.

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2020 was the year that…

GreenBiz

Sustainable fashion became material. Fashion is another long-simmering environmental story that has finally reached a boiling point. In 2020, several new developments help put sustainability in fashion. Adidas and H&M Group teamed up for a project to recycle old garments and fibers into new items for major brands.

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Global Briefing: UN calls for rapid acceleration in European CCS deployment

Business Green

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers

GreenBiz

Clean beauty and fashion are trendy. Some of the biggest contributors to the plastic crisis are the cosmetics and fashion industries. . In fashion, similarly, going the extra mile takes an innovative approach. Companies are investing in nature-based climate change solutions such as planting trees to draw down carbon.