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Building Sustainability Checklist: 28 Tips to Make Your Building More Eco-Friendly.

Green Business Bureau

Building Sustainability Checklist: 28 Tips to Make Your Building More Eco-Friendly. Becoming a more sustainable business starts with having green buildings and infrastructure. A building is considered sustainable/green because of its design, construction, and operational characteristics. Sustainable operation and maintenance.

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Tech Startup Sustainability Guide: Running An Eco-Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

Tech startup sustainability. Tech startup sustainability means to be purpose-driven and sustainable. For the major tech giants Salesforce , Lenovo , and Microsoft , sustainability lies at the core of these organizations. Many benefits come from running a sustainable company. Tech startup sustainability: 6 top tips.

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Carbon offsets alone won’t make flying climate-friendly

Grist

In the presence of the sun’s rays, nitrogen molecules set of a chain of reactions that produce ozone and destroy free-floating atmospheric methane. Some of these reactions, like the methane destruction, help cool the Earth. During the day, those clouds can reflect sunlight, keeping the Earth cool. Others warm it.

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Four ways DuPont adhesives and resins advance EVs

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Seals and gaskets made with DuPont Vamac ® ethylene acrylic elastomer adhere well to metal; exhibit good sealing properties; and are resistant to water, glycol, and oil, as well as ozone and UV light. Lightweight yet safe, durable, and sustainable. Through attention to our sustainability goals, we help EV producers with theirs.

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How To Create A Sustainability Plan: Executive Guide To Becoming A Sustainable Business – Step 4

Green Business Bureau

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability.

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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

Related: 5 sustainable activities to make the most of a winter wonderland Rinks have long required both ice-making technical equipment and ice maintenance measures. CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Accordingly, ice rinks can be viewed as a sustainability conundrum, at least for the time being.

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Geoengineering’s gender problem could put the planet at risk

Grist

The hardware test was part of a bigger plan to see if strategically releasing aerosols might help cool the planet by reflecting sunlight. Working from a disused military airstrip in Norfolk, U.K., they would attach a 3,000-foot hose to a helium balloon, pump water into it, and spray the liquid into the atmosphere, where it would evaporate.

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