Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2022

WHY ECO FRIENDLY HOMES MATTER. Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable. HOW TO BUILD and RENOVATE A HOME TO BE MORE SUSTAINABLE. Let’s look at the major areas that determine how sustainable and eco-friendly a home is: Building Design & Materials.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. Energy Star offers a variety of certified electronics such as computers , monitors , TVs and telephones. 100% of HP’s original ink cartridges contain 5% – 45% post-consumer or post-industrial recycled plastic.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. Credit: Anne Rolfes Close-up of Norco town sign, showing an industrial facility next to homes. Jamaica Hawkins.

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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 20, 2020

As an organization, you may have already had a telework policy and the needed systems in place. million employees work at home, telecommuters can save the nation nearly 30 million gallons of gas per workday. A study conducted by Sun Microsystems found that office energy use is nearly twice that of home energy use.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

Realtors® and Home Buyers Going Green. With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. There is also a growing number of homebuyers desiring green homes. Why Green Homes Should Matter to Homebuyers and You.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. To address this, a TerraChoice report titled The Sins of Greenwashing: Home and Family Edition identified seven sins of corporate greenwash. USDA Organic.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Energy-Efficient Homes One of the most impactful steps towards eco-friendly living in Canada is ensuring that your home is energy-efficient. Start by investing in proper insulation, energy-efficient windows, and doors to regulate indoor temperatures, reducing the need for excessive heating or cooling.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 8, 2022

Seemingly small changes to make your home life more harmonious with the environment could ultimately make an appreciable difference. Here are practical innovations and forward-thinking solutions that can make it possible for you to help the environment at home. Power Your Home With Renewable Energy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

However, you can't call a product 'compostable' if someone can't compost it safely and in a 'timely' fashion at home. If not, or if the item will ultimately pile up in a landfill, burn in an incinerator or be recycled, then avoid the term and its siblings, such as 'oxo-biodegradable'. Made with renewable energy. Recyclable.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2021

The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn't the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with. Two other data points to mull, courtesy of the Global E-waste Monitor : Researchers figure just 17.4

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AGreenLiving

JULY 12, 2021

Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity Heather Clancy Mon, 07/12/2021 – 02:00 The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn’t the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. To address this, a TerraChoice report titled The Sins of Greenwashing: Home and Family Edition identified seven sins of corporate greenwash. USDA Organic.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 12, 2021

Circular economics and the $57B e-waste opportunity Heather Clancy Mon, 07/12/2021 – 02:00 The plastic waste problem gets plenty of attention, and for good reason: If we continue mismanaging this material as usual, there could be 7.7 Just as stunning: Plastic isn’t the fastest growing waste stream the world needs to deal with.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

A holistic and well organized sustainability plan will include several key components: Part 1: Sustainability Drivers – This section summarizes the aspects of your business that use scarce natural resources, contribute to climate change, cause environmental harm or produce useless waste. Do we use plastic bottles for water?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees. As such, you can use this Green Business Bureau article as your starter sustainability guide, to help you become a purpose-driven organization. Tip #3: Reduce waste, recycle, and compost.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2023

This case study highlights their commitment to sustainability, including their efforts to minimize their carbon footprint, promote paperless operations, and actively engage with environmental organizations. By encouraging the use of reusable bags, Hollow Brook aims to reduce single-use plastic waste and foster a culture of sustainability.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Plastic pollution is a worldwide problem, with piles of debris along coastlines, on roadsides, in landfills and floating in waterways. Environmentally conscious companies are looking for ways to clean up the mess while simultaneously seeking out methods to recycle plastic waste into other products.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We’ve all heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the continuing flow of oceanbound plastic. But what if something could intercept that plastic before it made it into the oceans? That’s the plan of SeaChange, a new organization that claims to have devised the technology to save our oceans from the plastic pollution crisis.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. Retail business sustainability trend #1: Rising fossil fuel prices call for energy-efficient retail. For this article we’ve analyzed the business landscape to identify such trends.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Supporting these findings, the Harvard Business Review reports 99% of large company CEOs want to address sustainability issues as a must for the future success of their organization. Regain your power, and use this article alongside the ISO 14000 family of standards to approach sustainability with an actionable manual to get things done.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2022

Bakeries are energy-intensive and create excessive amounts of waste during the packaging and baking processes. To meet food health and safety regulations, bakeries turn to single-use disposable items like plastic gloves and paper towels. And lastly, monitor the sales of your products. These items accumulate in our environment.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 1, 2020

To minimize personal auto usage, use public transportation for your daily commute. Alternately, look into electric cars if you’re in the market for a new vehicle. If you don’t already, start recycling. Capabilities of local recycling centers vary widely across the nation, so educate yourself on the regional process.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Workflow management software makes completing projects a more organized, digestible process which can alleviate stress your green teams may have. Besides enhancing project organization and reducing stress levels, using a workflow management tool increases connectivity, allowing team members to collaborate and exchange data easily.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Compared to vegetable production, livestock farming and the manufacturing of animal products requires more water, land, and energy. While plastic containers are durable and cheap to produce, they are derived from the world’s finite petroleum supply and do not break down into nature-friendly components.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Yet, it’s questionable whether the organizer’s efforts to recapture and recycle the helium after the event is effective. Having said that, even at an extraordinary price tag, the amount of helium used equates to a small percentage of usage for a single day in the country. Read more:Â .

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Is the trash from camping? Is it from fishing gear?

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For instance, according to studies from the National Institute of Health (NIH) , certain plastics found in consumer packaging can lead to cancers, diabetes, neurological disorders, hormonal imbalances, and other various ill-health effects caused by inhalation or direct contact. Waste recycling/recovery : Mechanical recycling.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. Each of these technologies will be given a Mr. Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. To become a committed green business, organizations must take responsibility and work to lower their overall GHG emissions. . According to the EPA, the largest source of GHG emissions in the United States is electricity and heat.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

The carbon footprint of a business is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by an organization. To become a committed green business, organizations must take responsibility and work to lower their overall GHG emissions. . According to the EPA, the largest source of GHG emissions in the United States is electricity and heat.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. GreenBiz Editors. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01. Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

US daylight saving changes, Qatari recycling islands, and Dutch offshore wind farms, all feature in this week's round up of green business news from around the world. Campaigners maintain the move could improve health, boost economic activity, and lead to lower energy demand and carbon emissions. or 2C of global warming.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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