Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

She also fronts Shopify's Sustainability Fund, which has committed more than $32m to date to emerging clean technologies, and last year gave a TED Talk titled 'The billion-dollar pollution solution humanity needs right now'. What does a typical day working in sustainability look like for you? There is no typical day in my role.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

I made an announcement in my church that this plant was coming and I kind of gave them a gist of what it would entail and at first, you know how people just don’t kinda pay you any attention?” “And then once [Enviva] start building it, then they were saying ‘oh this is coming,’ and I told them ‘this is what I tried to tell you all about.’” .

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Through the daily grind, Keally found time to have a meaningful conversation about weaving together the Cleantech space, looking internally to find your path and opening doors through vulnerability. What have you learned about yourself and/or the renewables industry as we continue to face headwinds? What is your Cleantech journey?

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Charged

MAY 3, 2023

Q&A with Frank Menchaca, President of SAE International’s Sustainable Mobility Solutions The reliability—or rather, the unreliability—of public EV charging stations is nothing less than a scandal, and it’s holding back EV adoption. Charged : Public charger uptime is a huge issue—everybody’s up in arms about it.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Dawn and I were in the rehearsal room backstage in Edinburgh, Scotland, the day before Dawn’s talk at TED Countdown. I thought it was a beautiful, defining feature for her talk and recommended she embrace the bump on stage. It was here that I learned about Elemental (though it was called Energy Excelerator back then).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This proved to be very short-lived when she decided minutes before we were due to leave, to take up another lunch offer from someone else in the team. This proved to be very short-lived when she decided minutes before we were due to leave, to take up another lunch offer from someone else in the team. I am mixed race white and Asian.

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Grist

JUNE 7, 2023

” When he was young, people thought a lot about personal footprints. — a drabble by Claire Elise Thompson The spotlight One of the most frequent things we hear from our readers is that you want to learn more about what you can do about climate change. The vision Your dad protested this birthday party.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Murphey advised on all projects and policies that could build a more sustainable and prepared Kansas City. As a direct result of the vision and efforts of Dennis Murphey, Kansas City is at the forefront of sustainable environmental policy and actions,” said former Kansas City Mayor Sly James, who worked with Murphey for eight years.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

I'm talking about Scope 3 emissions, the carbon produced by a business's supply chain. We've been engaging with our supply chain to understand what the emissions picture looks like - who are our biggest emitters, what market segments are they in, do they have sustainability strategies in place and have they set targets?

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Low Impact

JUNE 28, 2020

How could we approach Transition groups about the potential of mutual credit (especially now that the coronavirus lockdown has decimated small businesses)? You might want to give a talk or a training; write a blog post, put it on Transition Network website. Get someone there to interview you. what could be done about that?

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2020

Charged spoke with Li-Cycle’s Co-Founder, President and CEO, Ajay Kochhar, who explained what his company is doing to build a sustainable battery recycling ecosystem. Kochhar chatted with Charged about the company’s history, its unique system for collecting and processing materials, and the future of the battery recycling ecosystem.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 30, 2017

She went on to reveal that the organizers had asked her to speak, but she gave away the opportunity, even though she’s the head of her department and could easily talk circles around others in her field. She rationalized her decision by saying, “He just knows so much more about this than I do.”. So, if it’s hard for you, be real.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

How sustainability vets align their work-life identities. As our professional colleagues in the Sustainability Veterans group expressed their sense of overwhelm and concern around the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter, we also reflected on how it relates to our lives, and vice versa. Ellen Weinreb. Mon, 08/10/2020 - 01:00.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 9, 2018

Every year in Silicon Valley, WCS Talks brings together bright minds, inspiring stories, and valuable wisdom. This year, more than 250 men and women gathered at Google’s new Sunnyvale campus for a lineup of 22 speakers at the fourth annual WCS Talks. WCS Talks showcases women’s unique views on leadership, business, and policy.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 2, 2020

7 roles to create sustainable success Ellen Weinreb Fri, 10/02/2020 – 00:30 There is a lot of talk right now about systems change, and for good reason: With so many people experiencing the effects of several major crises — the pandemic, the recession, racism and the ongoing climate crisis — we have a narrow window of opportunity for change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

"In other words, ‘eco friendliness' is part of the personal brand of nearly half of the American population," said Suzanne Shelton, president and CEO of Shelton Group and a leading expert on sustainability communications. "If Sustainability professionals are mostly aware of this, according to Shelton. General marketing claims.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the permafrost that Kivalina sits on and that forms the banks of the river that sustains their community is melting and eroding into the water, threatening their drinking water treatment system and creating potential health problems. A bridg e to the mainland was only recently completed. Credit: Suzanne Tennant.

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Andrew Winston

JUNE 11, 2018

Passenger electric cars get all the press, especially when someone launches one into space. More recently, UPS made an important announcement about its plans to roll out 50 new midsize electric delivery trucks in Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles. But something important is going on in the world of commercial vehicles as well.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

As energy consultants developing energy solutions, it may feel difficult to look away from the bombardment of messaging about death and economic downfall, and videos of divisiveness and hatred. It may feel difficult to look away from the bombardment of messaging about death and economic downfall, and videos of divisiveness and hatred.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Young and her collaborators are working on a version of the future where we live sustainability and in harmony with nature. Young plays on nostalgia and twists the senses to get people to think about climate change. And her weapon of choice? Catherine Young at swissnex Climate Change Couture. Young is a designer of experience.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. With over 500 initiatives to choose from – compared to B Labs 250 – GBB raises the bar in sustainability certification.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Engaging Middle America in recycling solutions. A few weeks ago, I wrote a GreenBiz piece about what Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can teach us about the moment we’re in right now, based on our latest polling of Americans. And we’re really worried about getting our basic needs met. Suzanne Shelton. Wed, 08/26/2020 - 01:00.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. There is no marked trail leading north from the town of Broome, Australia. There is only the beach, deep red and wide as a highway. Daniel Roe, who in his mid-40s is one of the clan elders, builds a fire and invites everyone to sit down.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Stuart Kirk's insistence investors do not need to worry about climate risk fundamentally misunderstands both climate change and risk. The sneering impressions of environmental campaigners may have been all his own work, but the argument he espoused is one shared by many investors and top executives.

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Grist

MAY 1, 2024

The spotlight Tending a garden is about as hands-on as climate solutions get. For every plant the company sells, it donates one to a community project, said campus engagement lead Rosalie Bull. On a basic level, putting plants in the ground helps sequester carbon. This spring, around 2,000 went to Wild Visions.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And while AM applications can be found across many industries, the Automotive and Aviation industries have embraced the innovation, time-to-value, and sustainability aspects of AM that have quickly changed the manufacturing paradigm. How did you get started in Additive Manufacturing and what part has Sustainability played in your career?

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Before European settlers arrived, the land Pepperwood now stewards sustained around 100 trees of varying sizes and species per acre. I wanted to protect these ecological linchpins, but I also picked up that chainsaw three years ago to repay a childhood debt. I love all trees, but I’m especially moved by oaks.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. We cannot continue business as we have done in the past,” he went on. “If New Narrative’.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 19, 2021

Co-Founder, Center for Urban Resilience and Environmental Sustainability . I learned about WCS through one of my contacts at WRISE. Since my entire career is centered around environmental sustainability, WCS is a great fit. It is very rare that I don’t know someone within my own network or someone who knows someone else.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Co-Founder, Center for Urban Resilience and Environmental Sustainability . I learned about WCS through one of my contacts at WRISE. Since my entire career is centered around environmental sustainability, WCS is a great fit. It is very rare that I don’t know someone within my own network or someone who knows someone else.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 20, 2022

Among many other things, we talked about what’s new for EDICT this year and how the growing program empowers a symbiotic relationship between interns and employers in the climate ecosystem to create a more diverse and inclusive environment. Like many people, my first summer college internship changed my life.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A week after the 9/11 attacks in the US, I attended a community environmental engagement workshop in a Teesside town. She rambled on for so long about how 9/11 was going to impact the world negatively, and whether environmental issues mattered any more in the aftermath, that no-one in the room seemed inspired to do anything.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Industry Voice: Dow's sustainability director Jihane Ball argues the case for a flexible and ambitious UN treaty to tackle plastic pollution worldwide I've worked across many roles over the last 17 years with the materials science company Dow. No matter what the role, sustainability has been at the core.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 11, 2023

Drax, the company that runs Britain’s biggest power station, stands accused by residents of “brazen politicking” in a closely fought by-election contest in Selby and Ainsty, North Yorkshire. Drax, which says it supports over 6,000 jobs in the North of England, is the UK’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 23, 2020

We believe partnerships are paramount to the success of the entrepreneurs we support and we are fortunate to work with dozens of corporations that have announced bold science-based climate and sustainability goals. ER: How do you think about sustainability and its role in business?

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Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Waking up yesterday to hear that someone had felled the 300 year old sycamore that sat in a dip in the wall along this stretch was a real shock to the system. The lesson from the sycamore gap tragedy is we need to communicate Sustainability at a level that people can relate to. felling one tree is a tragedy.

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