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. Look to keep your educational efforts light so that your employees don’t feel lectured. Employee education is an initiative that’s championed by Starbucks. Download Now.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. Through education we can understand these common marketing traps.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 20, 2021

Businesses across the board are shifting to sustainability to lessen their impact on the planet and meet consumer demand. This has caused a revolution in the business from the norm of high production at the lowest cost for maximum gain to now better, longer lasting, more ethical products. . Do’s and Don’ts of Sustainability Marketing

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Qin and Horvath found in their 2022 study published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling that in the U.S., Education campaigns focused on increasing food labeling knowledge could help lessen confusion and reduce food being thrown out prematurely. Resources, Conservation and Recycling , 180 , p.106156. and Miller, S.A.,

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

GRI certification is valid for two years and can be renewed by completing Continuing Education Units (CEUs). As an independent, third-party organization, GBI serves as an educational resource and certification provider for green construction projects around the world.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Can you find ways to recycle or upcycle waste materials? Where do you install recycling bins and for what materials and waste? In other words, how can the use of everyday materials in the office be substituted with more sustainable, recycled, and reused materials? You need to identify instances where this is happening.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 18, 2022

Effectively executing your certification project and plan will demand an investment of time, from yourself and your employees. Such solutions will deliver training and educate your team. Companies that are greener tend to be perceived as more ethical, reliable and responsible. Challenge #3: Lack of Time. Elevated Brand.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Fossil fuels are demanded throughout the entire food supply chain and consume 30% of the world’s available energy. Our food supply chain does not educate the consumer on the importance of healthy living and sustainably sourced ingredients.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 5, 2020

For example, blockchain platform Provenance helps trace and certify supply chains to enable ethical procurement decisions. Lenzing Group, producer of Tencel, also uses a closed-loop production process and sustainable dyeing technology in which solvents needed to make the fiber are recycled over and over again to produce new fibers.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As consumers become more knowledgeable and passionate about climate change and planet wellbeing, businesses will have to cater to this demand and adjust their operations to have a lower environmental impact. This is especially true with the growing number of young consumers, most of whom prefer doing business with ethical, green companies.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

To operate indefinitely, a retail brand must meet environmental, social, and economic demands. The retail industry is built from supply and demand, meaning traditionally, financial success is thought to hinge on economies of scale. The aim is to match business supply with demand to prevent resource and stock waste.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As seen with other businesses going green, healthcare facilities implementing sustainable and ethical practices reap many benefits including: Lower utility bills and other operational costs. Proper sorting also improves the efficiency of waste and recycling processing and lowers the costs required for special treatment of hazardous wastes.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Not all textile waste is suitable for some form of recycling and if clothes contain toxic chemicals, their potential for safe recycling and circularity is at best restricted, and at worst impossible. Fast fashion is the term for the high-turnaround, low-cost, trendy clothing and accessories created to maximize profit and meet demand.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

In the National Association of Home Builders 2021 edition of “What Home Buyers Really Want” , the national survey showed that the demand for green homes is primarily driven by the desire for lower utility costs. There is also a growing number of homebuyers desiring green homes. repairing insulation leaks), and sustainability products (i.e.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

ChatGPT: AI has the potential to accelerate the transition to a circular economy by: Optimizing waste management: AI can help optimize waste collection, sorting and recycling processes to reduce waste and increase resource efficiency. Over the past 60 days - ChatGPT was launched only on Nov. Does AI have a role in accelerating circularity?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Not all textile waste is suitable for some form of recycling and if clothes contain toxic chemicals, their potential for safe recycling and circularity is at best restricted, and at worst impossible. Fast fashion is the term for the high-turnaround, low-cost, trendy clothing and accessories created to maximize profit and meet demand.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. Yet, decent pay is more than just a question of ethics, it makes good business sense too. Why is meeting this initiative important?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This concentration of energy and resources is then lost into landfills, with a textile recycling rate of 14.7% With this in mind, brands such as Reformation , Zady , Petite Lucette , and United By Blue are taking steps to minimize the industry’s carbon footprint and implement ethical practices too, without compromising style.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2022, 48% of all new coffee products carried an ethical or environmental claim – which is close to double the number from almost a decade ago (2012). Join names like Starbucks, Dunkin’, Mcdonald’s, and hundreds of others in this effort to keep up with the demand for coffee in a sustainable fashion.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Governments and businesses would be wise to take their cues from higher education" Katie said. 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.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Recycling your old cell phones is an easy way to help gorillas. A recycling company called ECO-CELL partners with primate conservation groups including Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE), the Jane Goodall Institute and the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Go here to read the rest:Â .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

I think one of the things that also distinguishes the pledge is a commitment to sending these market signals, the demand for the products and services that companies need to help us decarbonize." . "The Climate Pledge is a call to urgent action," Hurst said in a February interview. "I

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