Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Reusing the building is the biggest carbon win you can have to avoid embodied carbon emissions during this critical next decade," said Brad Jacobson, principal at EHDD Architecture , the firm that designed the project. Everyone should do what they can to reduce their emissions and combat the climate crisis," Syphers said.

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Electricity Carbon-neutral HVAC Cooling 36

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The forces mobilising behind this include C40 Cities, Architecture 2030, the World Resources Institute's (WRI) Zero Carbon for All initiative, the World Green Building Council's Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment and the Global Alliance for Building and Construction's Global Call. "The operations at the U.K.-based

Carbon 43

Carbon Real Estate Carbon-neutral Sustainability 43

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A lack of coordinated policies, constant changes of direction, and a failure to build up delivery capability have left the UK "well off track" to meet its overarching emissions target, the leading think tank argues in its new report Net Zero: How the government can meet its climate change target. Net zero will not be like that.

Government 74

Government Climate change Policy Agriculture 74

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

McDonough: Last year, I opened the G20 in two tracks: climate and energy. I imagine that that was a critical piece of how you got into design and architecture as a profession. I got to think about these things deeply because I lived it. It became known as the first green office in New York City, which we did in 1984.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

A new programme from BlocPower is providing on-the-job clean tech and green building training to New Yorkers who live in neighborhoods with high rates of gun violence. Most of the work relates to greening the city's buildings - electric heat pump installations, weatherizations and solar panel and battery installations.

Startups 38

Startups HVAC Construction Cooling 38

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. Step 2: Create a sustainability committee or green team. Step 7: Leverage the GBB Scorecard to track progress and measure results. Are we evangelizing green business?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In May, Stripe named four young CO2-sequestration efforts it’s bankrolling with a combined $1 million, including Project Vestas (green-rock beaches) and CarbonCure (concrete). Logan Green, Co-founder and CEO, Lyft; San Francisco. Although they laid off nearly 1,000 employees, Green and co-founder John Zimmer declined their own pay.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They prioritize initiatives, track progress and report the status of those sustainability programs to everyone in the company. Sustainability Committee Leader, Green Team Leader. Many green team leaders have full-time jobs in another department. Sustainability Engineer, Research Scientist. Consulting and Independent Contractors.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 148

Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

As with all UK businesses, we are committed to ensuring that all possible efforts are made to save lives and tackle the current health crisis and resulting economic downturn. Steve Burr, Director, Black Architecture. Julie Hirigoyen, CEO, UK Green Building Council. Yours, Ron Cowley, CEO, Active Building Centre.

Resilience 48

Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 48

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

As such, you can use this Green Business Bureau article as your starter sustainability guide, to help you become a purpose-driven organization. Thinking about the main environmental challenges law firms face, we’ve got together a list of 13 green initiatives to help you create a more sustainable law firm.

Law 148

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They prioritize initiatives, track progress and report the status of those sustainability programs to everyone in the company. Sustainability Committee Leader, Green Team Leader. Many green team leaders have full-time jobs in another department. Sustainability Engineer, Research Scientist. Consulting and Independent Contractors.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you look at an aerial view of Hot Springs, Arkansas , you see a few rows of buildings squeezed in between wild, green mountains. Now run by the University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design, the garden started out as the personal project of philanthropist and lumber heiress Verna Cook Garvan.

Innovation 28

Innovation Health Demand 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In May, Stripe named four young CO2-sequestration efforts it’s bankrolling with a combined $1 million, including Project Vestas (green-rock beaches) and CarbonCure (concrete). Although they laid off nearly 1,000 employees, Green and co-founder John Zimmer declined their own pay. Global Leadership Coalition.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

We have determined a way forward on a decades-long conversation on funding for loss and damage - deliberating over how we address the impacts on communities whose lives and livelihoods have been ruined by the very worst impacts of climate change. "In Simon Stiell, executive director at the UNFCCC, said: "This outcome moves us forward.

Fossil fuels 38

Fossil fuels Climate change COP Global warming 38