Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Ginkgo Sustainability to offer GBB members living wall and living roof solutions and services. Earn GBB Ecopoints, earn LEED credits and enhance building aesthetics. “ – Christian Mahlstedt, President of Ginkgo Sustainability. Improve physical and mental health of residence.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Landmark legislation passes into law, but concerns remain over how new Environmental Land Management System will be enacted. From next year the government will launch a seven year transition period to phase in the new ELM scheme, which will see payments calculated based on the extent to which landowners deliver approved public goods. "The

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Arbitrary Targets Are Not The Solution’.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

The good news is, farmers across the country are already working to implement sustainable practices! Food insecurity According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , one in four young adults in 2020 faced food insecurity, with Gen Z adults being twice as likely. However, our work doesn’t stop there.

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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. ” — Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at HEAL. Europe’s Green Deal.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

These included “showing the general public that French agriculture is sustainable and respectful of the environment” and that “it takes into account the expectations of society and younger generations”. France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. With that broad context, let’s look at 8 fascinating developments in sustainability from 2019. People are taking notice.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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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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Business Green

MAY 25, 2022

Ministers at the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) believe existing EU laws are too focused on legal interpretation rather than science, hindering the development and marketing of precision bred plants and animals. Outside the EU we are free to follow the science," said Environment Secretary, George Eustice.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

Last year, it committed to selling its multimillion-pound investments in oil and gas companies, after years of student campaigning, and more recently it launched an ambitious Sustainability Strategy. However impressive its sustainability credentials are, Oxford cannot achieve climate justice while retaining these links.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. And better, more plentiful green space boosts people's health and wellbeing and lessens the burden on our already stretched NHS.". "We Far from it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

WWF and ClientEarth lodge complaint with the Office for Environmental Protection over Environment Agency's failure to impose sanctions on farmers who breach pollution laws. But despite the widespread breaches of environmental laws, just only one civil sanction was applied. But it's not enough for regulations to simply exist.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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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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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some commentators in the sustainability sphere report a dawning realisation that climate change can no longer be simply “solved”, in the sense of it being possible to slow it down to a degree that will allow our civilization to continue in a more or less recognisable form.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice president of nature and water cycle, explained that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

That alone will be of significant concern to green economy, given the government is set to spend the months through to the end of the year trying decide whether to keep or amend thousands of EU-derived UK environmental laws. Given agriculture accounts for almost 70 per cent of England's land mass, or around 8.9

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vandersat’s innovative products help customers better measure and understand water management and crop health in major markets. We are excited to announce that Planet has entered into an agreement t o acquire VanderSat , a leading provider of advanced earth data and analytics.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The authors say this poses a wide range of direct and indirect threats to human, animal and plant health. Water contamination is aggravated by synthetic dyes, which in light of water scarcity issues, makes dyes a fundamental environmental and sustainable development issue. China, India and Bangladesh combined discharge around 3.5

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Scientists know, for example, that at least 3,200 plastic chemicals pose risks to human health or the environment. more than $900 billion in health expenses annually. Because so many plastics and petrochemical products are traded internationally, some endocrinologists and public health authorities believe a global approach is needed.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said: "The Dasgupta Review comes at an opportune time for the world economy, with many governments thinking about how to embark on a more equitable, greener, and sustainable development path. As the report makes clear, it is our most valuable resource.".

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ecopreneurship is a new way of doing business – a way to create sustainable business models, and work together with (and for) the environment. There’s no shortage of sustainable outcome gaps that need bridging, and market solutions are preferable to state and policy mandates in many of these cases. Sustainable Agriculture.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

With this in mind, the Green Business Bureau wanted to help you understand your options for sustainability certification, and with that, learn how to become B Corp Certified. With over 500 initiatives to choose from – compared to B Labs 250 – GBB raises the bar in sustainability certification. What is B Corp?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Since then, meat industry players have shifted from emphasising the supposed sustainability of organically-produced meat to painting meat as an answer to ecological challenges like climate change. Meat companies themselves have also stepped up their climate-friendly advertising.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: Climate Tech VC At Better Ventures , sustainability has been a core pillar of our investment thesis from the beginning. Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. Insight Engines.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode. The letter argues that the city may have violated the law. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground. Out in 5 yrs.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues. There are situations where subsides make sense; and not just because they are easier to pass into law than pricing mechanisms.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. Eric Soubeiran, the company's vice-president of nature and water cycle, explains that weaning the company off intensive farming is at the core of its new sustainability mission.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The industry claims that forests that are felled sustainably — for construction, say, or for burning to produce electricity in utility-scale power plants — can provide jobs and energy, stimulate the economy, and even reduce society’s net carbon emissions. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Several years of sustained funding increases are necessary to build the appropriate federal, state and local capabilities to maintain environmental justice effectiveness. In Fiscal Year 2019, EPA’s EJ budget was $5.2

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