Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

The importance of sustainable event planning. The time is now for event planners to host eco-friendly events using an effective sustainable event planning strategy. If you’re an event planner, you should organize your events so that they impact the community, the environment, and the economy positively.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Corporate Sustainability versus CSR. As businesses continue taking steps to be more purpose-driven, conscientious and responsible, the terms “corporate sustainability” and “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) are thrown around a lot, often without clarity and without knowing what these terms mean.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

In a disproportionate number of low-income black neighborhoods, redlining, segregation and weak zoning laws have led to the proliferation of junk food outlets and a lack of healthy alternatives. Food deserts — or "food swamps," which one researcher argues is a better term — are linked to obesity and other health problems. .

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Agriculture Organic Education Law 495

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 7, 2021

Clean Energy Field Organizer | Iowa Environmental Council | Des Moines. The Iowa Environmental Council is a 501(c)3 nonprofit environmental law and policy organization that educates, advocates, and builds coalitions to make Iowa a better place to live, work and explore. Previous campaign and/or issue organizing experience .

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Organic Energy Energy Education 40

GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. In October, the commission published " Chemical Strategy for Sustainability: Towards a Toxic-Free Environment." Thu, 01/14/2021 - 01:00. and elsewhere.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle to get companies to take sustainability seriously is essentially over. Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues. But it still gets constantly questioned.

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Climate change Law Sustainability Demand 148

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Here is an AASHE summary of 2860 sustainability focused academic programs comprising 672 organizations in 27 countries including 52 U.S. can be searched by Sustainability Topic, Academic Discipline and Office or Department. can be searched by Sustainability Topic, Academic Discipline and Office or Department.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 16, 2019

Vermont Law School (VLS) offers three environmental masters degrees. A master's degree from VLS is different from other law degrees. Instead of studying theories about how policies work, VLS master's candidates learn the law and how to use it to effect change. MASTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY (MELP) Climate change.

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Law Agriculture Policy Climate change 40

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

He compared it to the Indian Act of 1876, a notorious federal law that attempted to erase the culture of First Nations peoples. Credit: CNRL disclosures Neither Buffalo’s organization nor CNRL responded to detailed questions about the financial contribution. “I The IRC received $250,000 from CNRL in 2022 alone.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

Sustainable Law Firms. Law firm sustainability is a strategic business shift that aims to prevent socially and environmentally damaging operations in the legal industry. This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The IRMA standard is a chance to put mining onto a new path of sustainability and accountability. percent across categories such as fair labor, occupational health and safety, community health and safety, security arrangements and cultural heritage preservation. It scored at least 50 percent in more than a third of the chapters.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. But one thing is clear: If businesses want to achieve long-term sustainability, they must work to overcome these obstacles.

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Sustainability Global warming Health Organic 296

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The second, known as the Sustainable Use Regulation, or SUR, would see pesticide use halved by 2030. DeSmog’s findings follow a sustained lobbying effort by industry to derail both laws.

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Europe Law Agriculture Biodiversity 134

EDF + Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Even if “sustainability” is not in your job title, you can center climate action at work. When Ciara Imani May grew frustrated by the tremendous waste in the hair care industry, she designed a new, zero-waste organic material alternative. Turning anxiety into action is good for our mental health.

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Organic Waste Waste Fossil fuels 57

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Since then, leading industry associations and agrochemical companies have used their lobbying might to push back against core European measures aiming to lead the transition to a more sustainable way of farming. Europe’s Green Deal. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Defend Our Future

JULY 11, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Organic 52

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

They were led by José Bové , a left-wing activist famous for his skirmishes with the law and his tremendous moustache. The GMOs he destroyed were created by inserting genes from other organisms — say a stretch of DNA that confers resistance to a particular herbicide — into a plant’s genome. Not because I agree with everything he said.

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Methane Biotech Agriculture Government 465

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

At new and expanding facilities, from northern Europe to Pennsylvania and Louisiana , Shell is suggesting that more chemical and plastics manufacturing can help usher in environmental solutions , sustainability , and even diversity. Yet the Shell-Henkel collaboration would replace only about 1.5 Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 96

Defend Our Future

AUGUST 14, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

Solar Energy Monitor 52

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 52

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.". But "it doesn’t feel like anything is changing.". As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 441

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest development in this years-long fight came on Monday, when the European Commission’s scientific expert group, the Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF), pushed back against including gas and nuclear in the EU taxonomy, an official guide on sustainable investments. The Push for Gas and Nuclear.

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Investment Sustainability Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 94

Fairsnape

JUNE 3, 2020

What if … we applied all the good thinking on regenerative sustainability, regenerative economics and regenerative environments to a city as a means of emerging from the Covid 19 lockdown? Welcome to RESTORD 2030. RESTORD is a vibrant small to medium sea board city, at the foot of the Central Mountains with a Mid-European climate.

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Health Biodiversity Education Law 103

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 24, 2021

Energy and Sustainability Community Program Manager | Sonoma County | Santa Rosa, CA. Bring your energy and sustainability knowledge and program leadership experience to the County of Sonoma and become the next Energy and Sustainability Community Program Manager! About the Energy & Sustainability Division.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

Despite years of progress by leading corporations toward ESG, corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental health and safety (EHS) and sustainability goals, the reality is that board members overseeing these companies are still trying to discern how all of this applies to them.

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Education Climate change Government Demand 510

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 12, 2023

One or more positions may be filled (in the organization advertised and/or in other organizations), if appropriate to the position. Knowledge of the techniques used in interpreting and analyzing human health and/or environmental data and other scientific information. Skill in presenting both orally and in writing.

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Education Health Organic Law 40

Michael Grossman

JUNE 24, 2020

Still, our premium price point, while underlining our commitment to sustainable sourcing, has made it harder to attract a more diverse audience. How do I create a brand that appeals to a broader spectrum of people who share our values around sustainability and climate change? Signed, Colorblind.

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Organic Climate change Sustainability Education 130

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Danielle Purifoy.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 543

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 1, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. SDGs are driving governments, individuals, universities and businesses to adjust their practices to achieve benchmarks and secure a sustainable future by 2030. A sustainable, peaceful and prosperous future is not possible unless it is built upon a foundation of equity.

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Education Sustainability Health Government 117

Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Launched by CGI and the UNFCCC, the Sustainability Exploration Environmental Data Science (SEEDS) programme is an exciting research initiative to challenge the thinking and practice around sustainability, provide predictive analysis and viable solutions to tackle this critical issue. m2 on the ground. m2 on the ground.

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Pollution Organic Sustainability Health 96

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

However, the government’s response has largely ignored this scientific advice by failing to propose the specific policies needed to make sustainable diets easy and affordable. It also proposes a programme of trials to develop “interventions to encourage and enable healthier and more sustainable diets”.

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Government Sustainability Health Seafood 78

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. It urges European decision makers to “protect our health and the environment, and to make our agriculture resilient”. Sustained Pressure.

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Agriculture Europe Biodiversity Law 95

Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The business world is increasingly and genuinely inspired by the idea of building more sustainable businesses. That can put them on the wrong side of policy changes needed to bring about the more sustainable world they often have publicly committed to building. Lots of collaborating on this one!].

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Politics Policy Government Law 88

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Sustainability Careers. The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Some roles are very specialized and may require a degree or certification in a specific sustainability field. So how do you pursue a career in sustainability?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Federal Policy Director (FPD) will play a key role in working with us and our 270+ member companies to identify, develop, and secure passage of new laws, regulations, and investments that will accelerate the growth of the clean transportation industry. Experience organizing outcome-oriented events. About CALSTART. Qualifications.

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Policy Transportation Organic Law 40

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

“Litigation has a key role to play in light of this lack of ambition from states and other stakeholders,” said Maria Antonia Tigre, director of global climate litigation at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. While not a silver bullet solution, she told DeSmog, litigation is certainly “part of the answer.”

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Government Fossil fuels Climate change Ocean acidification 71

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 1, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality. SDGs are driving governments, individuals, universities and businesses to adjust their practices to achieve benchmarks and secure a sustainable future by 2030. A sustainable, peaceful and prosperous future is not possible unless it is built upon a foundation of equity.

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Education Sustainability Health Government 78