Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION? In the world of business, sustainability innovation can be defined as the process of evolving old business models and creating new ventures that realize economic value and generate positive environmental and social impacts simultaneously. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY?

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

Build a resilient fashion brand company using sustainable fashion. Sustainable fashion has come to save the fashion industry. billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Hence, to be future leaders, fashion brands must consider the impacts business has on the environment, to set the standard for the new wave of sustainable fashion.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A new paper published in Nature Sustainability presents seaweed as a model solution for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, joblessness, hunger and environmental damage. Our research consolidates seaweed farming as an underpinning of a sustainable future,” said lead author Professor Carlos Duarte. “It

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

ESG and Sustainability. The terms ESG and sustainability are often used interchangeably, yet it is incorrect to do so. In this article, you’ll learn how ESG and corporate sustainability are similar, but also how they can be distinguished. What’s the difference between ESG and Corporate sustainability?

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It's time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain. Circularity and equity in cities: Mark Chambers, director of the mayor’s office of sustainability for New York, and Jose Manuel Moller Dominguez, founder and CEO of Algramo, comment on how brands can participate in motivating systemic change.

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More and more I’ve been hearing Sustainability people talk about their eco-anxiety. As Sustainability Professionals we need to keep abreast of the science, but not get sucked into the doom loop, so choose your sources carefully ( CarbonBrief is a go to for me), ration the bad news and block out the virtue signalling commentators.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 5, 2022

Trends in corporate sustainability have been mostly consistent — an expanding climate crisis, lightning-speed growth in clean tech, rising pressure from many stakeholders, and more. I’ve left out some large stories, because it’s unclear if they’re blips or part of a larger more permanent shift toward sustainability.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

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. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

Sustainable Construction: Builders Need to Go Green. Sustainable building practices are becoming increasingly common throughout the construction industry. This new emphasis on sustainable construction has created a robust green building and production network which is now one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Amidst the growing awareness about our planet’s climate crisis , there is now a burgeoning need for more sustainable food resources. As such, startup business AKUA is set to enhance the sustainability of the snack industry with its product line of kelp-based jerky and pasta. Kelp is also appealing because of its nutritional value.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Energy Transmissions Commission provides guidance on availability and use of biomass, warning sustainable sources are limited in volume worldwide. Truly sustainable biomass is limited in volume; so its use must be restricted to priority sectors where alternative decarbonisation options don't exist," said Turner.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2021

Our members continue to amaze us with their commitment to sustainability and their innovative green and social responsibility initiatives. We’ve selected five members who stood out, created great greener businesses and demonstrated their commitment to sustainability with tangible actions and results! HIT PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation. Knoxville, Tenn.,

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. 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. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

What’s Your Unique Sustainability Story? If your company has become a more sustainable and greener business, you have a powerful and beneficial story to share with your employees, customers, partners and investors. These commitments summarize your most important sustainability goals and how you will achieve them.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. Advanced Sorting Technologies Reducing the quantity of waste in landfills and fostering a more sustainable society are both possible with advanced sorting technology for waste management.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

CZAR Power builds an exceptionally smart and sustainable charging system that cuts the cost of power electronics in half and can be installed three times faster than other energy systems. Nfinite Nanotech ’s smart nanocoating enables sustainable packaging to keep products fresh and eliminate waste at scale. Manufacturing.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

And reduce plastic waste, while we’re at it? In addition to being far more sustainable, the MettleWood I-beam is 80 percent lighter and estimated to be about 50 percent cheaper, according to the startup. This wood technology also has the wide-ranging potential to replace various plastics, including in electronics and packaging.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Commissioned by recycling equipment manufacturer TOMRA, and carried out by London-based consultancy for sustainability Eunomia, the report says that a reduction of 2.76 Now is the time for real action to ensure societies stop wasting resources with all the related negative consequences.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sustainability Program Challenges. Despite the continued CEO efforts and rising customer, employee, investor and political interest, many businesses are struggling to integrate sustainability into the core of their operations. In 2019, a mere 16% of executives stated sustainability as a built-in business function.

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GreenBiz

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? Makower: So, what was the path from there to sustainable design? Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead. Joel Makower. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 02:11.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic, horrific as it's been, has been reasonably kind to the worlds of sustainable business and climate tech. There's enough progress to turn even the most hardbitten sustainability skeptic optimistic. Demand for sustainability professionals outstripped supply.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies are being adopted too slowly to achieve even the IPCC’s 2.0° But it could be a potential feedstock for everything from cement and building aggregates to polyurethane foams and plastics. upper limit for global warming, according to a new McKinsey study.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The Wild West of plastic credits and offsets Lauren Phipps Mon, 02/08/2021 – 01:30 This essay first appeared in Circularity Weekly , our free email newsletter. There’s a new kid on the block of sustainability claims being made by businesses: “plastic neutrality.”

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Producing metal by growing plants, or phytomining, has long been tipped as an alternative, environmentally-sustainable way to reshape – if not replace – the mining industry. Zinc, on the other hand, is essential for churning out paints, rubber, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, plastics, inks, soaps, and batteries. rufuschaneyi.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 14, 2021

In a bold move last January, Adidas acknowledged its contribution to plastic waste, noting the waste’s negative impacts on the world’s oceans. Adidas’s new Outdoor line stays true to this environmental commitment with clear sustainable features. You can wear head to toe Adidas while still dressing sustainably.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The two companies are raising money to benefit 4ocean’s Pound + Program, whose mission is to end the plastic pollution in our oceans. In its long-standing work with 4ocean, the brand has helped remove 20,000 pounds of plastic from the world’s oceans. Rum and beach bag collaboration is ending plastic pollution.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 13, 2022

New program will enable Canada Sporting Goods Association members to verifiably demonstrate their sustainability. Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with the Canada Sporting Goods Association (CSGA) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework and certification to Canada’s sporting goods industry.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 15, 2021

New program will enable Web Hosting Canada customers to verifiably demonstrate their sustainability. Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Web Hosting Canada (WHC) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework and certification to Canada’s business community. Green should not just be a buzzword.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The startup won $25,000 from the New Climate Ventures Sustainability Investment Prize at the 2023 Rice Business Plan Competition; took home the grand prize and audience choice award at the MIT $100K LAUNCH Competition ; and was selected for both the 2023 Cleantech Open Northeast and Venture For ClimateTech cohorts.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Rising living costs should be a starting point for empowering a system-wide change towards more sustainable lifestyles, argues Cogo's Jonathan Ward. When it comes to sustainability - and in particular, encouraging people to live more sustainable lifestyles - context is everything. But these cannot be achieved overnight.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The top 2020 trends in sustainability, according to GreenBiz readers. At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. We named eight of the biggest players in the space so sustainability professionals know what and who to watch out for.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

How 12 Emerging Leaders are embarking on sustainability career journeys. In early February, more than 1,200 sustainability professionals gathered online for GreenBiz 21. From marketing to engineering, the GreenBiz 21 Emerging Leaders represent a variety of professions in the sustainability field. Deonna Anderson. Natalie Gray.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

CARBONOVA Technology at a glance: Carbonova , located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is developing a solution to produce high-volume, superior carbon nanofibers for use in various market applications, utilizing greenhouse-gas feedstocks and turning them into a sustainable, valuable solid commodity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Energy giant to work with Econic to pioneer new uses for trapped carbon. Energy giant Drax is pushing forward with its plans to develop a new generation of carbon capture, usage and storage technologies at its power plants, yesterday announcing a partnership with Econic Technologies to develop new uses for its stored carbon.

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