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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

But heightened awareness about environmental and social issues over the past year has made these initiatives more timely than ever. Akamai awarded points for actions completed during the month, and allowed offices and employees to tag and challenge each other through the online platform to encourage higher levels of participation.

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Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’

DeSmogBlog

More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature. Tags: Physicians for Social Responsibility fracking Dr. Sandra Steingraber public health Read time: 7 mins By Tara Lohan , The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator.

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EU Digital Product Passports aim to track items through the product life-cycle

Envirotec Magazine

The unprecedented quantity of Extended Producer Responsibility legislation that has been greenlighted so far this year – across Europe – no doubt signals a new level of environmental awareness on a governmental, rather than merely social level.

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Game on: New study shows which sports teams have the greenest fans

GreenBiz

It developed the sustainability-minded audience by capturing a list of terms that someone interested in sustainability may use in their Twitter bio, or by tagging accounts that a climate activist may follow. To reach these rankings, Zoomph’s platform started with about 342 million anonymized profiles.

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

In the world of business, sustainability innovation can be defined as the process of evolving old business models and creating new ventures that realize economic value and generate positive environmental and social impacts simultaneously. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY?

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Revealed: Fossil Fuel Giants Are Using British Influencers to go Viral

DeSmogBlog

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. The former BBC presenter has also promoted the series on his personal social media channels.

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L&Q launches pioneering £300m sustainability-linked bond

Business Green

Unlike green or sustainable bonds, funds raised through sustainability-linked bonds are not tagged to a specific use for the proceeds with the funds raised able to be used for general corporate purposes. Ahmed noted that raising funds to deliver projects that would enable the firm's to meet its 2050 net zero ambition remained a challenge. "We