Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 11, 2021

But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) acceleration program is all about ways to capture and convert carbon dioxide into something useful. Inhabitat: Please give us just a little history about the Carbon to Value Initiative. Most business accelerators focus on community economic development.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Are they still referred to?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany — For 150 years, heavy industry has been the lifeblood of the German port of Wilhelmshaven, a hub for shipbuilding, plastics, coal and steel. This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe and was developed with the support of Journalismfund.eu.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Refer to Green Business Bureau’s article, How to Create a Sustainability Plan: Executive Guide to Becoming a Sustainable Business – Step 5 , for more guidance. Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ). Do we use plastic bottles for water?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We sat down with Rebecca John, the researcher and author of CIC’s report, to talk through the key documents that informed the investigation; all of the documents referred to in the report are publicly available on DocumentCloud. The documents, however, suggest otherwise. The following conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

Coastal armoring refers to the construction of hard structures like seawalls along coasts, and nearly 14 percent of American coastline is already armored. Clad in knee-high rain boots and carrying two shallow plastic crates, we approached the shoreline. That portion could increase to one-third by 2100 if current rates continue.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 references a family of standards structured to help organizations design, implement, and optimize an environmental management system (EMS), to reduce harm to nature from business operations. ISO standards are identified using multiples of 1000 (the family), and any number after refers to the specific standard (e.g.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Supply chain sustainability refers to a company’s efforts to consider the environmental and human impact of their product’s journey, beginning with the sourcing of raw materials to the storage and delivery of goods, and ending with product disposal, including every transportation link in-between.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

By real-time inventory management, we’re referring to an automated process of recording sales and purchases via software. For instance, the shoe retailer Rothy’s manufactures footwear from ocean plastic waste. Retail business sustainability trend #4: The war on single-use plastic demands retailers adopt sustainable alternatives.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Our food supply chain has a high carbon footprint contributing to climate change.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The argument goes that the companies that create and host fossil fuel company adverts are deliberately countering trends that should be eroding the public acceptability and influence of fossil fuel firms, while actively promoting the sale of high carbon products and activities. The biggest threat to our future is climate change," they write.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The argument goes that the companies that create and host fossil fuel company adverts are deliberately countering trends that should be eroding the public acceptability and influence of fossil fuel firms, while actively promoting the sale of high carbon products and activities. The biggest threat to our future is climate change," they write.

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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. Natural England executive director Tony Juniper said he expected COP15 to spark a rapid increase in the numbers of companies pledging to become nature positive.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

So while oil and gas exist in nature, we use man-made machinery to access it and turn it into everyday products like petrol and plastics. Human capital, meanwhile, refers to the knowledge, judgement and experience that we as humans contribute. "We've converted the things around us into physical capital that is used in production.".

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Connecting all of this is a walking route, a physical course through the landscape, variously referred to as a heritage trail, or a Dreaming track, or a songline. The country is not wilderness at all but crowded, dense with characters and plots, dangers and havens, rules and obligations laid down over millennia.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It most often refers to plants or plant-based resources which are specifically called lignocellulose biomass. Environmental change can truly have a ton of negative outcomes. A green economy is thought of together that is low carbon, asset conservative and socially far reaching.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. Randy asked, referring to TCEQ officials who have known about the area’s benzene problem for years. In fact, I’ve seen data that shows it might have a negative health benefit.”

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

To me, this was a particularly silly question, as I recently finished writing an article on the future of fossil fuels and oil prices were actually negative for the first time in human history. It is a modern form of dowsing for highly educated people, who never cross-reference actual findings with their past predictions.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

The roaring twenties refers to the 1920s, a time of unprecedented cultural, technical and economic prosperity in the Western World. What is this Roaring Twenties you are referring to? The Roaring Twenties refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society. So what kind of vulnerabilities is he referring to?

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. Plastics, for example (1). The body of a Tesla is made of plastic. Protective clothing against corona contamination is made of plastic. Protective clothing against corona contamination is made of plastic. That will take decades.

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Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2021

3) A gradual decline is preferred, because the alternative is a carbon crunch scenario. Plastics, for example (1). The body of a Tesla is made of plastic. Protective clothing against corona contamination is made of plastic. Protective clothing against corona contamination is made of plastic. That will take decades.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Espinoza refer to in their book Strategic Nature as “strategies of silence”: the role of PR agents has been to create and execute strategies for their clients while remaining completely invisible. Carbon footprint. And because oil and gas companies and their trade groups know that PR agents will carry out their work in the shadows.

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