GreenBiz

OCTOBER 22, 2020

But, please, it’s time to refine the dialogue: While tree-planting events in parks or schoolyards make for great photo opps, we should devote far more time to acts of restoration and conservation. As a verified tree-hugger, I’m encouraged. This grant is just one of our many commitments to reforestation and water replenishment.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

With $100 million in new funding raised in 2020, BrightFarms plans to construct greenhouses in every major market by 2025. Plenty , based in San Francisco, had an eventful final quarter of 2020 and is riding that momentum into 2021. This BrightFarms greenhouse produces more than two million pounds of leafy salad greens per year.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

With $100 million in new funding raised in 2020, BrightFarms plans to construct indoor farms in every major market by 2025. Plenty , based in San Francisco, had an eventful final quarter of 2020 and is riding that momentum into 2021. This BrightFarms greenhouse produces more than two million pounds of leafy salad greens per year.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2022

The grand prize winner for this contest, to be named in 2025, will suck up $50m in backing; $30m more will be distributed among the runners-up. Check out VERGE 22 — the climate tech event — taking place October 25-27, San Jose, CA. Want to learn more about how climate tech can help us address the climate crisis?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With its "transformative" $11.4bn plan to build new EV and EV battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky by 2025 announced last week, Ford is embarking on the first leg of that journey. As GreenBiz senior transportation analyst Katie Fehrenbacher reported earlier this year, the US is turning into a hot spot for EV manufacturing.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Which is why GreenBiz Group is pleased to announce GreenFin 21 , the launch of a new annual event, virtual for now, taking place April 13-14. GreenFin will join our other annual event brands — GreenBiz , Circularity and VERGE — on the sustainability conference calendar. I hope you’ll join us for this landmark event.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

GPAP in Indonesia is helping the government deliver its national target to reduce ocean plastic waste in Indonesia 70 percent by 2025 and to be plastic waste-free by 2040. Launched in 2018 with the Canadian and UK Governments, GPAP is now helping countries across ASEAN and West Africa to tackle ocean plastic waste.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

That's the hope of several early movers in circular economy investing, who shared their insights at the GreenBiz 21 virtual event in early February. . Also about one year ago, Nestlé launched its $2 billion sustainability fund , to support companies developing innovative packaging and recycling technologies through 2025.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In 2021, the chair of the California Board of Agriculture, Don Cameron, told GreenBiz , "We're going into next year with the reservoirs extremely low. We've gotten really lucky in this event, because we've gotten a great snowpack - a second reservoir sitting there waiting for us. As 2022 turned into 2023, that deluge came.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. People have gotten used to having to jump quickly to change the system," EMF Chair MacArthur said Tuesday at the GreenBiz Circularity 20 virtual event.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

1 reason that a consumer is not an IKEA customer is accessibility,” Angela Hultberg, head of sustainable transportation at IKEA, said last week on the virtual stage of GreenBiz Group’s clean economy conference, VERGE 20. The company plans to make 100 percent of its last-mile deliveries be zero-emission by 2025. . “The No.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Structural change will require government action such as California’s SB 1383 , which commits the state to reducing organic waste by 75 percent by 2025. I heard a bunch of exciting ideas in the panel, during my conversation with Goldstein and in emails I received after the event.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

He noted that the virtual release event had the potential to reach the 450,000 people that the company employs, much more than was typical at in-person releases in the before times. Ellis said he hoped the event would help those in attendance “feel really proud of the company that they work for.” How are you all doing that?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

"Nitrogen is what's driving all of these harmful algae blooms in Florida, the red tides, the brown tides, the blue-green algae … and the dying coral," Brian Lapointe, a research professor at Florida Atlantic University, who conducted the 30-year study on nutrient pollution and coral death, told GreenBiz.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The World Economic Forum launched a campaign "to increase private-sector investment in natural climate solutions to the tune of one gigaton of emission reductions per year by 2025." Seemingly tepid stuff — particularly at a global event where the phrase "last best chance to save the planet" seems to be uttered roughly 24/7.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

It's the circle of life but not quite a circular economy," said GreenBiz co-founder Joel Makower, during the website's Circularity 20 Digital event Tuesday. This article originally appeared at GreenBiz. Post-consumer recycled plastics look about as budget-friendly as diamonds next to cubic zirconia.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors. That’s only a sampling of the ambitions of the sixth class of the GreenBiz 30 Under 30. The GreenBiz 30 Under 30 candidates for 2021 were nominated by GreenBiz readers and community members around the world and selected by the GreenBiz editorial team.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight. People have gotten used to having to jump quickly to change the system," EMF Chair MacArthur said Tuesday at the GreenBiz Circularity 20 virtual event.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Here are 10 lessons that fleet leaders have learned and shared at VERGE 22 (for other learnings, check out this GreenBiz report on electrifying global delivery and logistics fleets): 1. The company says that by 2025, half of FedEx Express' new package and delivery fleet purchases will be of zero emission vehicles. Read more here. ].

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 GreenBiz Editors Mon, 05/17/2021 – 00:01 Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities. That’s only a sampling of the ambitions of the sixth class of the GreenBiz 30 Under 30. View original post here: The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. Clean energy for Native American communities.

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GreenBiz

MAY 28, 2020

Additional covenants include 10 percent of company ownership being held in a Turquoise Share, which funds community benefits in the event of profit distributions or sale of the company. Cholla will stop one of three units this year and the rest by 2025. And executive compensation is capped relative to the lowest-paid employee. .

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As with virtually all gatherings of the climate community during the COVID age, this year’s Climate Week was convened as an online event — one hosted from more than 20 countries across myriad time zones rather than its usual host city of New York. . Two energy-centric campaigns managed by the Climate Group welcomed new members this week.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As with virtually all gatherings of the climate community during the Covid age, this year's Climate Week was convened as an online event - one hosted from more than 20 countries across myriad time zones rather than its usual host city of New York. This article originally appeared at GreenBiz.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. I think farmers are starting to realize that it's ultimately the consumer who's starting to care more and more about this," Kolling told GreenBiz last summer. and Canada.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In 2009, developed countries made a collective commitment to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate finance for developing countries between 2020 and 2025. Over the past five years, the United States has suffered $600 billion in direct losses from climate and weather-related events. Yet just $2.5 billion, or 0.07

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