Green Business Bureau

JUNE 27, 2022

WHAT IS A SUSTAINABILITY SCORECARD? The key to becoming a sustainable business is to have a sustainability scorecard that tracks progress and measures results. SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT. Your score determines what level of sustainable business performance you’ve reached.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2021

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2020

The Relevance of Gemba Walk to Sustainable Businesses. For sustainability, leaders can confidently implement sustainability initiatives because it truly fits the purpose and not just because it feels good or right to do so. Secondly, it is not the time for quick fixes. How to Make The Gemba Walk a Fruitful Exercise.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2021

Scientists have converted plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring using genetically engineered bacteria. According to research published in the journal Green Chemistry , genetically engineered E-Coli bacteria has been used to convert terephthalic acid (TA) from plastic waste into vanillin. They warmed microbial broth to 37°C for a day.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 1, 2023

Plastic debris poses a huge threat to both marine life and coastal communities, with millions of tons entering our oceans every year. Attending local beach clean-ups helps keep plastics out of our waterways while creating an opportunity for social engagement with fellow members of the community.

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Low Impact

MAY 5, 2021

Our friends at Ethical.net continue to explore sustainable funeral options, including green burials, coffins, burial sites, wakes and more. A sustainable, natural burial differs from a traditional burial in involving no embalming. Sustainable wood coffins. Are you planning for a green funeral? Catch up on Part 1 here.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sustainability Program Challenges. Despite the continued CEO efforts and rising customer, employee, investor and political interest, many businesses are struggling to integrate sustainability into the core of their operations. In 2019, a mere 16% of executives stated sustainability as a built-in business function.

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The Environmental Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Our oceans, teeming with life, are under siege by a silent threat – plastic pollution. Millions of tons of plastic waste enter the marine environment every year, wreaking havoc on marine ecosystems and the creatures that call them home. Entanglement in plastic debris is another major threat.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 24, 2020

The Terrex Free Hiker Parley shoes are constructed using a sustainable combination of the company’s Boost technology and Parley for the Oceans’ recycled plastic material. Adidas unveils lightweight hiking shoe made from ocean plastic. Adidas Images via Adidas. Adidas Images via Adidas. Read the original post:Â .

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 18, 2019

To better manage plastic waste , Los Angeles is in talks with Technisoil, an innovative manufacturing company, to viably incorporate plastic into the city’s roads. Typically viewed as an ecological scourge, plastic waste can also be seen as a valuable resource when repurposed. What are some advantages to these plastic roads?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The ethanol is then dehydrated to create ethylene by Technip Energies, which is then polymerized by Borealis to become EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) in a form of solid small plastic pellets - which can then be used to make the foam used in the shoes.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

The two groups have combined already-established and community-led marine debris and plastic waste interception programmes from the Dominican Republic with a UK volunteer network producing sustainable eye protection. A clean-up organised by Parley (photo credit: ParleyfortheOceans).

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Just being more conscious about conserving natural resources, reducing pollution, and protecting wildlife through […]. In this day and age when the effects of climate change are so evident in our lives, becoming environmentally conscious is something that we should all strive for.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Read on to learn about the best eco-friendly and sustainable holiday gifts of 2020 for parents. Gift your parents a matching pair of jammies made from sustainable fabrics like organic cotton to keep them warm (and give them an excuse to take cute holiday photos).

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Anyone who has made efforts to go zero-waste or plastic-free knows how difficult it can be to maintain those goals while finding meaningful presents for loved ones. Watch packaging When it comes to gifting, watch out for extra packaging, especially plastic foam and molded, unrecyclable plastic.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 12, 2022

Green business certifications, also known as “sustainable business certifications”, are valuable programs that can help companies demonstrate their sustainable operations, products, services and practices to employees, customers, partners and investors. . Organic and Sustainable Food Certifications. Is it hazardous?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 13, 2020

For this year’s Bangkok Design Week, which took place in February 2020, Thai design firm Plural Designs created the Everlasting Forest Pavilion, a temporary, tunnel-like structure built of biodegradable materials that promotes sustainable ideas and products to the public. The pavilion also includes a rest zone.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. The team hopes that selling a consumer product will allow it to scale up its pilot system for making alcohol, so that the company can expand into alternative fuels, plastic-making chemicals, or other markets.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

Across the world, people are voting with their feet for sustainable choices. At Google, we've seen searches for online sustainable goods increase by five times in the last five years. At Google, we've seen searches for online sustainable goods increase by five times in the last five years.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 19, 2022

turned a sharp eye on the issue of plastic waste, the growing problem of electronic waste remains underappreciated. After traveling to Europe and beyond to learn about successful waste management business models, he founded a local business to handle e-waste pollution of all kinds. While the world has (rightly!) Where It All Began.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

A growing band of major fashion retailers have pledged to achieve net zero emissions and overhaul their design and manufacturing processes to make the notoriously resource intensive industry more sustainable. The collection is, in theory, a taster of Asos' entire product range if the retailer is to achieve its 2030 sustainability goals.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Plastic pollution is a major climate threat and now there’s a unique solution. It is the world’s first mobile industrial-grade plastic trash upcycling platform. It works by creating sustainable building materials out of recycled products. Miniwiz Images via World Design Organization.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health. The question is, how can your business promote sustainable waste management, and achieve zero waste ? How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution?

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 26, 2019

For folks who read — and write — about sustainability, dire projections are revealed every day. Between rainforest fires and ocean pollution, much of the news is grim. Way to cut down on plastic packaging! This cactus plastic begins breaking down in a month when placed in soil and only a few days in water.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2021

Petite Lucette Launches a Sustainable and Circular Fashion Brand . Launched in 2014, Petite Lucette is a sustainable and circular fashion brand founded by French sisters, Anaïs and Clémence. Petite Lucette further combats the plastic crisis by shipping orders in recyclable boxes with recycled tissue paper.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2020

There’s no doubt about it — we are in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. We’ve all seen the viral images of turtles with straws stuck up their noses, or whales washed up with bellies full of plastic bags. And one of the biggest contributors to this plastic crisis is the space we operate in: the cosmetics industry.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 22, 2020

While every day is the perfect day to honor Mother Earth, Earth Day is an opportunity to implement a new sustainable practice, create something beautiful or protect limited resources. Related: Earth Day 2020 goes digital Pick up garbage Garbage is not only an eyesore, but it can hurt wildlife and pollute waterways , too.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

To help combat the world’s waste problem, here are 10 ways to engage your employees for World Cleanup Day and for your long-term commitment to sustainability. Identifying areas of improvement as well as potential new revenue streams through waste recycling/upcycling opportunities. Conduct a Waste Audit.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 28, 2021

The World Needs a More Sustainable Fashion Industry. Sustainable fashion is our only option. The future of our planet, maintaining adequate resources, and protecting human rights all depend on our toxic fashion industry evolving to a more sustainable and circular fashion industry. Demand for Sustainable Fashion.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

To ensure the development is sustainable, the team aim to identify at least one local teacher or mentor in each community to continue the project. Photo credit: Vikki Farrell This focus on sustainability is evident throughout the carefully considered project.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. Use the links below to navigate this guide: The need for sustainable packaging: Giving perspective to our waste crisis. Consumers seek sustainable packaging solutions.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Oluwatosin (Tosin) Folorunso is a Master’s student of Global Sustainability, an entrepreneur, and content writer for Green Business Bureau. She is passionate about finding innovative methods to solving solid waste pollution with a focus on plastic and textile waste.

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Green Tech Challenge

MARCH 1, 2019

Not only is this one of the most polluting industries on the planet - it is also very unnecessary. This article might come off as a darker note of the feel-good vibes of sustainable innovation - bear with me, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Slowly but steadily, the industry is embracing the era of change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Samsung: Solar-powered TV remotes and upcycled smartphones. It was no surprise then that electronics giant Samsung placed sustainable home technologies at the heart of its CES announcements this year. Plus the remotes will also be manufactured from 24 per cent recycled plastic content.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2021

Samsung: Solar-powered TV remotes and upcycled smartphones. It was no surprise, then, that electronics giant Samsung placed sustainable home technologies at the heart of its CES announcements this year. The remotes will also be manufactured from 24 per cent recycled plastic content.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As always, equity and access is at the forefront of our mission to fund critical solutions for climate change, particularly in communities affected by the compounding effects of pollution, vulnerable infrastructure, and limited economic opportunities. Upcycling textile waste in collaboration with leading brands and supply chain partners.

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