GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Stories of small farms pivoting their operations on a dime were easy to find in the early months of the pandemic: these farmers worked overtime to meet customer demand, added services such as online ordering and home delivery, and jumped into action to prop up community food banks struggling to serve an influx of the newly unemployed.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Vi Lyles of Charlotte, North Carolina, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California and Jenny Durkan of Seattle — working in their communities to create powerful dialogues and meaningful policy action. But the larger discussions about dismantling systemic racism are about how we will invest in people and communities.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

And mature mangroves can store nearly 1,000 tons of carbon per hectare, thus mitigating climate change while also helping communities adapt. The project, managed by Wetlands International, already has improved the district’s climate resilience, protecting communities from coastal flooding and absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

The ongoing coronavirus crisis has amplified the growing calls for resilient and adaptable infrastructure that effectively can operate during moments of crisis. Economically, the case for technologically advanced, resilient and sustainable infrastructure is clear. The economic benefits. That's a $4 return for every $1 spent.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Results show that Unilever continues to dominate as a recognized leader among the sustainability community, securing the leading position for the 10th year in a row, with Patagonia and IKEA following in the second and third spots, respectively. Over 700 experts were surveyed online across 71 countries in May. The time to act is now.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community. Dear Sustainability Community, I come to you again. I provided a quick glimpse of the anxiety and pain that the black community feels daily and actionable steps that the sustainability community could take to advocate for diversity and stimulate unprecedented change.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Non-Native energy companies and investors need to step outside their comfort zones to partner with local homegrown companies to assist with redevelopment for communities suffering from the collapse of the coal industry. The transition from coal can and must address these inequities. But these organizations can’t do it alone. As the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . Entrepreneurs are on the verge of creating an era that will be marked by abundance, sustainability and resilience.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

So it's allowed us to reintroduce to the world of the business community this notion of what it means to be resilient, and not just to be agile.". Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too. Risk & Resilience. Consider litigation. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

With nearly a half its land lying below sea level, the Netherlands knows a lot about water and how to make sure a city’s infrastructure is resilient to it, particularly flood risks and freshwater supply. But they also should look at how their use of water is affecting the community they are in, he said. . Melody Waintal. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 4, 2021

The first speaker, Steph Speirs, runs a company called Solstice that uses software and outreach to find good prospective customers for community-solar plans. Unlike Solstice's work to spotlight reliable customers to pay for community solar, Baker's challenges focus on goals other than utility profits. "We Renewable Energy.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 7, 2021

Here are 10 important bits to know about the planned federal investments for electric vehicles and EV infrastructure (and a reminder that we're hosting an event about many of these pressing topics, VERGE Electrify online May 25 and 26): 1. by 2030 since before the election. What's been floated now is an aspirational initial draft.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community. Because if we are going to help some people build companies in this, and they’re going to profit, as the entrepreneurs should, we’d like some of that to go back into those people, in those communities," he says. . Stories discussed this week. Funding biodiversity (31:14).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

In addition to sessions dedicated to the activities of the various Europump Commissions – Technical, Standards, Marketing, SME – a complement of invited speakers will also share their thoughts and expertise on a range of topical issues.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 7, 2020

Miniature forests are springing up on patches of land in urban areas around the world, often planted by local community groups using a method inspired by Japanese temples. Urban forests bring many benefits to communities beyond their impact on biodiversity. If your answer is bigger than a couple of tennis courts, think again.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Whatever your political leanings, the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States increases the odds of bringing America back into the community of nations addressing the climate crisis. It speaks to how addressing the climate crisis will lead to “a stronger, more resilient nation” as we take on “this grave threat.”

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

During the day I work in the energy sector supporting government and utilities design programs to perform outreach to and educate low-income and diverse communities. Communities in the crosshairs. Meanwhile, COVID-19, just like other structural inequalities, has had the most profound impact on communities of color.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play. Over the past months, it has become clear that resilience strategies for COVID-19 in cities could help us approach other threats as well.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

"Nationally, there’s a trend for trees to follow wealth," said Leslie Berckes, director of programs for Trees Forever, a nonprofit environmental group that works with communities across Iowa and Illinois to plant and care for trees. Building community by planting trees. I feel like I’m making a bigger impact," he said.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. As a not-for-profit dedicated to community energy services, MCE has tapped state subsidy programs, grants and other funding sources to extend the benefit of solar plus storage. "We

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

Because diesel-powered trucks and buses are responsible for a disproportionate amount of transportation-related carbon emissions and are also a source of air pollution, much of it in disadvantaged communities, who live closer to industrial areas or freeways. The bigger automakers are entering the market and playing catch-up. . Subscribe here.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 23, 2020

Nick is CEO at East Bay Community Energy and on the board of the California Community Choice Association. Nick will share some data about his community-choice aggregator’s changing load curve. Nick will share some data about his community-choice aggregator’s changing load curve. Let us know on Twitter.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

It is such a broad topic and there are so many different interpretations of what it looks like in practice. Sustainability encompasses everything from ensuring resilience in the supply chain, to focusing on driving down carbon emissions, through to the broader catchment thinking that looks at the water cycle holistically.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

For years, the two organizations competed for attention and dominance among corporate reporters, NGOs and the mainstream investor community. Such harmonized metrics are needed even within companies, where sustainability departments are communicating with far more stakeholders. The "conflict narrative" wasn’t without foundation.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing to promote events that are environmentally sustainable, resilient and restorative. Calendar listings can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 30, 2020

She chats about JPMorgan Chase's new financing commitment aligned with the Paris Agreement, how it's helping clients with their carbon mitigation journeys, and its strategy for supporting stronger community resilience. . Lessons in resilience from the produce industry. A 'Fixation' with fixing things (41:30) . Resources galore.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

If governments are serious about listening and responding to the needs of communities of color, they’ll make the improvement and expansion of our transit systems a top priority. When we neglect these systems, we’re neglecting these communities and in our common humanity, neglecting ourselves. Pull Quote. Transportation & Mobility.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Indeed, for many of the world’s largest companies, sustainability is seen as key to minimizing risk, increasing resilience, enhancing competitiveness and unlocking new opportunities. Such turmoil easily could have spelled the end, or at least the pause, of anything having to do with business and sustainability. Pull Quote. Featured Column.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 14, 2020

Yet here we are, at the start of the new fire season, and we’re just launching programs and soliciting proposals designed to add more resilience. This stop-gap measure is low-tech and dirty — but it should keep sections of communities online in a way that deployments of customer-sited energy assets wouldn’t. The value of resilience .

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2020

Focus on communities. These are times of community-level distress, manifesting in multiple ways. Community well-being is the most salient of all concerns that companies must attend to as part of their sustainability programs. This may be a promising approach for companies to engage in community-oriented projects.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

A former research scientist in clean energy and transportation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Gopal has a grant-making philosophy that focuses on electrifying the global economy quickly, resiliently and reliably with clean power. The second reason is its focus on job creation. Transportation & Mobility. Electric Vehicles.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Local energy resources have the potential to equitably distribute the benefits of clean energy in a way that provides jobs, resilience and savings to communities left out of our century-old electricity grid. electric grid. See if you qualify to attend Connect by visiting this link.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

Attention to scenario planning as recommended by the TCFD can facilitate greater focus on the adaptation and resilience challenges faced by organizations and, in turn, inclusion as ESG factors. Thus, adaptation of the supply chain to increase resilience represents an important ESG consideration. Pull Quote. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Companies that have restoration goals could financially sponsor initiatives with local communities, NGOs and other land managers and onboard Dendra as the technology partner to support the environmental managers and accelerate the restoration efforts," she responded via email. . There are many commercial drone companies, of course.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2021

Only 7 percent of companies in the latest review by the FSB "disclosed information on the resilience of its strategy." The question, then, is by only looking at financial impacts, do the TCFD recommendations do enough to ensure that corporations understand what to do to adapt and be more climate resilient? Driving adaptation.

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Resilience Climate change Investment Government 268

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It drew the attention of a number of friends, colleagues and veritable strangers who wanted to discuss the event’s themes, tracks and topics. This by itself is a complex topic. It was soon evident that the topic of sustainable finance was bigger than just ESG and investors. Not so fast. Sustainable finance can help.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Meanwhile, the so-called double burden of malnutrition is on the rise: hunger and malnourishment coexisting with overweight and obesity, often in the same countries, communities or even individuals. I am witnessing the increase in education ignite behavior changes in some communities: less meat; less waste; more conscious decisions. .

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