Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Employee Engagement and Sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed our lives and what we deem as necessary. For many businesses, a remote workforce is the new norm. This article highlights 5 ways to motivate a return to the office through employee engagement and sustainability.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 5, 2020

The Economist presents a Sustainability Week Insight Hour webinar titled "The post-covid sustainability agenda: revolution, retreat or return to normal?" Will any lasting good for the environment come from the pandemic pause? Will any lasting good for the environment come from the pandemic pause?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2021

The global cry to address today’s environmental crisis has bestowed new responsibility on businesses to lower their environmental impact. Measuring sustainability as an internal business process requires proper selection of key sustainability metrics and a means of making effective process improvements.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

As consumer goods giant marks anniversary of industry-leading sustainability plan, chief executive Alan Jope promises beefed up new strategy and urges companies, governments, and NGOs to reject a return to 'business-as-usual' in the wake of Covid-19 crisis. But we should not be seeking to get the economy 'back to normal'.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What will it take for the world to finally rally around rapid, sustained climate action? Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Professor Dana R. This interview was conducted on February 1, 2024, and has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2020

As resilience takes more prominence post-coronavirus, restoring nature will be of utmost importance, argues CISL's Dr Gemma Cranston. This year biodiversity was expected to move into the spotlight - with a 'new deal for nature' being laid out at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in China.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 13: Putting Climate Action in the Hands of Businesses. SDGs are driving governments, individuals, universities, and businesses to adjust their practices to achieve benchmarks and secure a sustainable future by 2030. What is SDG 13? Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C SDG 13 Targets.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

Formula E's Alejandro Agag argues the pandemic and the global suspension of sport offers a warning of the urgent need to address the climate crisis. In countries which I am very close to - such as Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom - this pandemic is assuming dramatic proportions. Sadly, those streets will now be empty.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 22, 2020

In our pre-pandemic world, long-held views about the roles and responsibilities of government and business were already in question. The months ahead will test their ability to sustain this new level of conviction and extend it to another urgent challenge, one for which businesses have not been doing enough to prepare: climate change.

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

Welcome to Regen Notes, a fortnightly newsletter of regenerative news, stories and more, with a focus on the built environment, curated by Martin Brown. This post originally released on 19th January) Follow and subscribe to Regen Notes here. On a recent tutored session the question “What is it you need to know right now’?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2021

A total of 17 miles of tunnel sections had concrete and masonry repairs and 10 bridge sections had masonry and metalwork repairs carried out by a team of about 35 workers over the past two years, with a three-month break due to the Covid pandemic. Loch Katrine (image credit: Scottish Water).

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Sustainable Development Goal 13: Putting Climate Action in the Hands of Businesses. SDGs are driving governments, individuals, universities, and businesses to adjust their practices to achieve benchmarks and secure a sustainable future by 2030. What is SDG 13? Keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C SDG 13 Targets.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 30, 2021

For those who want to up their safety game beyond hand sanitizers and masks, there’s a new coverall bodysuit called BioRomper. Noah Friedman, Arielle Crawford, Ed McCabe and Evan Boyd launched the new product last October. The suit is designed to be worn over your normal clothes. Hugs and handshakes? Related: Bro.do

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2021

National Infrastructure Report publishes major new study that offer parameters for assessing investment plans against future Covid-19 behaviour change scenarios. How much will behaviour changes caused by the pandemic stick? And at the same time, there has never been a time where infrastructure planning has been so critical and urgent.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2020

Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause? If you were to believe the mainstream business media, there would be no question whatsoever that the twin crises of a pandemic and a recession have pretty much put the kibosh on sustainable business activity. The reality is that corporate sustainability is alive and well.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 27, 2020

Governments must use knowledge gained during this crisis to plan a more sustainable future, one that empowers everyone to use streets healthily and freely. The goal for planners and policy-makers should be to maintain some of these benefits we have begun to see on a permanent basis, once life begins returning to normal.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

Once life returns to relative normality, our economy must be far more robust and resilient than it is at present, argues WRAP director Peter Maddox. In other words, an ambitious approach to sustainability would deliver a sustainable economic outcome. Our economy must be far more robust and resilient than it is at present.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

— Emily Reichert Question: You’ve led Saint-Gobain through the Great Recession, it’s increased focus on sustainability, the digitization of the company, and now COVID-19. . This interview is part of Greentown Labs’ Climatetech Leadership Series, which profiles C-level executives from our most committed and climate-oriented partners.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond Elisa Niemtzow Fri, 10/16/2020 – 01:00 Business as usual for the luxury industry is over. Recent months have revealed several fragilities and also several strengths as the luxury industry navigates its future.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond Elisa Niemtzow Fri, 10/16/2020 – 01:00 Business as usual for the luxury industry is over. Recent months have revealed several fragilities and also several strengths as the luxury industry navigates its future.

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Unsustainable

MAY 31, 2020

Many forward-thinking individuals I have spoken to, and many writers who have proposed articles for publication, have either hinted at or outright stated the idea that the current pandemic is an opportunity. My biggest fear is that things will return to normal. To be clear, this is a human tragedy of unfathomable proportions.

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Better Ventures

JUNE 29, 2020

There is no going back to ‘normal’, normal wasn’t working. In doing so, it has exposed the fatal cracks in a labor and economic system built for profitability, rather than sustainability. In doing so, it has exposed the fatal cracks in a labor and economic system built for profitability, rather than sustainability.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 27, 2021

Have a feeling your device is on its last legs and dreading the day you might have to consider buying a new one? Although you can revive an old laptop by merely switching to a light-weight operating system, if you also replace the hard disk drive with a solid-state drive, you’ll have a machine that is just as fast as a brand new laptop.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 13, 2022

This is a crisis unlike anything that we’ve seen before,” Deven Upadhyay, CEO for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, told the Washington Post. The move would impact billions of dollars currently invested in oil, gas, or coal on behalf of California’s teachers, firefighters , and other public employees. billion and $4.1

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. The coronavirus pandemic is a classic Black Swan.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni Heather Clancy Mon, 06/29/2020 – 02:30 June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. The coronavirus pandemic is a classic Black Swan.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

What role does ESG play in the ‘new normal’? In recent weeks and months, as many of us have “sheltered in place” in the face of a global pandemic, each of us has come to grips with a valuable reminder of what’s truly important: family, friends and colleagues; security and safety; food and water; healthcare.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2021

Upcycling takes byproducts of a process — in this case, food production — that normally would be considered trash and incorporates them into new products for consumption. ” For Sheetal Bahirat, founder and CEO of Hidden Gems Beverage Company, the COVID-19 pandemic created upheaval in her upcycling business.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak declared a "new age of optimism" as he pledged to invest in infrastructure, innovation and skills in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a Budget speech today that was otherwise notable by its relative scarcity of support for the UK's net zero transition.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Our shopping guide makes it simple to find sustainably made, easy-to-purchase presents that you can feel good about giving over the holidays. Choose from shoes made from wool — supposedly these New Zealand sheep have a fabulous life — or, for your vegan bestie, choose shoes made from responsibly sourced eucalyptus fiber.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

JUNE 22, 2020

We find that investing in clean transportation, forest conservation and ecosystem restoration, clean energy, water and energy efficiency, low carbon agriculture, and sustainable industry supports over ten jobs per million dollars invested. Building Back Better: Investing in a Resilient Recovery for Washington State. READ THE FULL REPORT.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

There is something about this kind of co-ordinated, performative concern that too often seems like a sinecure for serious and sustained action. Yesterday's flurry of news announcements have provided a much needed jolt of optimism, hinting that this industrial revolution may yet materialise. Not so much. The public gets it.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

Supporting multimodal public transit in a post-pandemic future. The pandemic has also dramatically changed how we experience the urban environment and required us to re-envision how people navigate and interact with their locales. But, as we look forward to a post-pandemic public realm, could emerging mobility technologies help?

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

For millenia, the ancestral homelands of the Oceti Sakowin or Lakota - the proper names for the people commonly known as the Sioux - spread across an area equivalent to 159 million acres. The territory included present day North and South Dakota, stretching into parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana. million acres.

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