Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

That is the top line conclusion of a new report published this morning by the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), which analyses nearly 170 companies working in carbon-intensive industrial sectors, including mining giant Rio Tinto, packaging company DS Smith, chemicals powerhouse BASF, cement manufacturer LaFarge Holcim, and steel major Tata Steel.

Carbon-negative 81

Carbon-negative Climate change Carbon Global warming 81

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Two examples of this are carbon capture , trapping CO2 before it is emitted and storing it elsewhere, and carbon credits/cap and trade programs , permits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of GHGs.

Climate change 88

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 88

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Two examples of this are carbon capture , trapping CO2 before it is emitted and storing it elsewhere, and carbon credits/cap and trade programs , permits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of GHGs.

Climate change 78

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Resilience 78

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We’ve been able to shift many environmental projects’ approaches to the home-scale, like home gardens, yard tree plantings and home recycling campaigns. . We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

Sustainability 491

Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 491

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. This research demonstrates why businesses choose to use greenwash tactics.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In recent months, we have seen game changing commitments from companies such as Microsoft to go carbon negative by 2030 and BP announcing a move away from fossil fuel extraction to grow their investments in renewables tenfold. Sustainability and regeneration have never been so high on the business agenda.

Retail 68

Retail Plastics Carbon-negative Sustainability 68

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. A tarnished brand reputation and negative consumer perspectives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were. This research demonstrates why businesses choose to use greenwash tactics.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Often, words which are vague, such as eco-friendly, green, organic or even natural, are used without being able to demonstrate how the product or service avoids a negative impact on the environment or society. Environmental claims, which are not backed up with independent third-party certification, do require further scrutiny.

Sustainability 36

Sustainability Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Recycling 36

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Tip #3: Choose materials that do not include toxins : Even materials that are biodegradable and recyclable can negatively impact the environment. Tip #4: Purchase products and materials that are recyclable : In 2018 over 292 million tons of waste was produced in the US, and only 69 million tons of that was recycled.

Sustainability 147

Sustainability Biodegradable Recycling Recycling 147

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. Demonizing carbon?

Carbon-negative 36

Carbon-negative Carbon Recycling Recycling 36

Green Business Bureau

JULY 6, 2022

Yet, practices can lead to a vast amount of unnecessary waste, habitat destruction, and carbon emissions depending on how you choose to operate. The manufacturing of solar panels is extremely resource-intensive, demanding industrial materials, and spewing out carbon emissions from the burning of coal. Tip #2: Recycle panels.

Sustainability 147

Sustainability Recycling Recycling Solar Power 147

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The policies, procedures, ethics, values, attitudes, goals, code of conduct and employee behavior combine to define the culture of your business. Stressed employees are less productive, and will provide lower levels of customer service – negatively affecting business outcomes. Download Now.

Retail 148

Retail Sustainability Organic Education 148

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.

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Waste Waste 148

Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I wanted to see how much it knew and how well it could contextualise the broad and complex range of technologies under the climate tech umbrella - everything from clean energy to water treatment to e-bikes to carbon capture - and what it understood about corporate sustainability in general. Makower: How about the circular economy?

Sustainability 36

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 36

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Consumers also want more clarity on how to correctly dispose of and recycle the items they purchase and packaging waste. If plastic is necessary within your supply chain , be sure it’s curbside recyclable. Note plastics #1-#7 are curbside recyclable.

Retail 78

Retail Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

At the global scale, this contributes to a higher carbon footprint, resource scarcity and environmental and economic imbalances between affluent nations purchasing meat products and the vulnerable regions where livestock and livestock feed are heavily produced. and these travel miles add up to huge amounts of carbon emissions.

Policy 148

Policy Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Packaging 148

Ecotech

AUGUST 5, 2019

Eco-friendly packaging consists of packaging materials that are made from recycled materials, reusable, compostable, biodegradable, recyclable, toxin and allergen free, or those that are manufactured in an environmentally friendly way. It’s Better For Environment. It Consists Of Biodegradable Materials.

Packaging 40

Packaging Biodegradable Recycled materials Carbon-negative 40

AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We’ve been able to shift many environmental projects’ approaches to the home-scale, like home gardens, yard tree plantings and home recycling campaigns. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 28

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Yet, decent pay is more than just a question of ethics, it makes good business sense too. Hold unconscious bias training to help employees understand how such biases work and how they can negatively affect team members and team interactions. Do you and/or your company create a reclamation project to recycle or reuse products?

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Businesses can reduce their carbon footprint by running their business in a more eco-friendly building that conserves energy, promotes recycling, reduces waste and enables sustainable business practices. So what is an eco-friendly building? What are the benefits of an eco-friendly building? How do I make my building more eco-friendly?

HVAC 89

HVAC Construction Cooling Sustainability 89

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. The campus community diverted nearly 70 percent of all waste this past school year (up from 56 percent the previous year), thanks to student-driven recycling audits. The Golden Bears are also retrofitting an art museum into Berkeley’s first zero-carbon building.

Cooling 52

Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 52

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate. From a historical perspective however, warning about the negative effects of our food consumption are commonplace. The replicator is a machine that can create and recycle virtually anything.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78