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Adriana Trujillo

Tesla unveils battery to 'transform energy infrastructure' | The Japan Times - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 May 15
     
    Electric car manufacturer Tesla has revealed a battery for the home that can store power from solar panels, be used in case of a power outage and potentially transition solar-powered homes to be off the grid entirely. "The goal is complete transformation of the entire energy infrastructure of the world, to completely sustainable zero carbon," said the company's founder, Elon Musk. 
Del Birmingham

Inside Interface's bold new mission to achieve 'Climate Take Back' | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Interface reconstituted its Dream Team, “a collection of experts and friends who have joined with me to remake Interface into a leader of sustainability,” as Anderson wrote in the company’s 1997 sustainability report.The original team included Sierra Club executive director David Brower; Buckminster Fuller devotee Bill Browning, then with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI); community and social activist Bernadette Cozart; author and entrepreneur Hawken; Amory Lovins, RMI co-founder and chief scientist; L. Hunter Lovins, RMI’s other co-founder; architect and designer William McDonough; John Picard, a pioneering consultant in green building and sustainability; Jonathan Porritt, co-founder of Forum for the Future; Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael; Karl-Henrik Robèrt, founder of The Natural Step, a sustainability framework; and Walter Stahel a resource efficiency expert. (Additional members would be added over the years, including Biomimicry author Janine Benyus.)
  • One example is Net-Works. Launched in 2012, it helps turn discarded fishing nets into the raw materials for nylon carpeting in some of the world’s most impoverished communities.
  • But Ray Anderson’s sustainability vision was always about more than just a “green manufacturing plant.” He wanted Interface to be a shining example, an ideal to which other companies could aspire, a test bed for new ideas that stood to upend how business is done — and, not incidentally, an opportunity to stand above the crowd in the world of commercial flooring.Climate Take Back is the noise the company wanted to make.
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  • The mission is that we will demonstrate that we can reverse the impact of climate change by bringing carbon home,” says COO Gould, who is expected to ascend to the company’s CEO role next year, with the current CEO, Hendrix, remaining chairman. “We want to be able to scale that to the point where it actually does reverse the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.”
  • There’s a small but growing movement to use carbon dioxide molecules to build things — plastics and other materials, for example — thereby bringing it “home” to earth as a beneficial ingredient, as opposed to a climate-warming gas in the atmosphere.Interface’s commitment to “bring carbon home and reverse climate change” is a prime example how the company intends to move from “doing less bad” to “doing more good” — in this case, by not merely reducing the company’s contribution to climate change, but actually working to solve the climate crisis.
  • tansfield believes Interface is in a similar position now. “We know now what the biggest issues of our generation — and frankly, our children's generation — are, and that's climate change, poverty and inequality on a planetary scale, on a species scale. We are bold and brave enough, as we did in '94, to stand up there and say, ‘If not us, who? And if not now, when?’”
  • The notion is something Benyus has been talking about, and working on, for a while: to build human development that functions like the ecosystem it replaces. That means providing such ecosystem services to its surroundings as water storage and purification, carbon sequestration, nitrogen cycling, temperature cooling and wildlife habitat. And do so at the same levels as were once provided before humans came along.
  • Specifically, Climate Take Back includes four key commitments:We will bring carbon home and reverse climate change.We will create supply chains that benefit all life.We will make factories that are like forests.We will transform dispersed materials into products and goodness.
  • Del Birmingham on 06 Jun 16
     
    "Climate Take Back," as the new mission has been named, is the successor to Mission Zero, the name given to a vision articulated in 1997 that, for most outside the company, seemed audacious at the time: "To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: People, process, product, place and profits - by 2020 - and in doing so we will become restorative through the power of influence."
Adriana Trujillo

Businesses Overlooking $447B in Financial Value from Strong Environmental Performance |... - 1 views

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    According to new research by Accenture, CDP and Hermes Investment Management, over 40% of global companies may still not be seeing the forest for the trees: Four in 10 telecomm and consumer goods companies reporting to CDP are failing to capture or report any financial value from strong environmental performance. The largest emitters in the global economy account for a cumulative $447bn opportunity from climate change, yet 42% of these companies have not yet quantified the potential value.
Adriana Trujillo

New Doc from Nat Geo, C&A Highlights Business Case for Organic Cotton Production | Sust... - 1 views

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    Cotton is planted on 2.4 percent of the world's crop land and yet it accounts for 24 percent and 11 percent of the global sales of insecticide and pesticides, respectively. Organic cotton represents less than 1 percent of the global total annual crop, but National Geographic, international clothing brand C&A, and activist and filmmaker Alexandra Cousteau believe that needs to change. A new 60-minute documentary, For the Love of Fashion, emphasizes "the need for a paradigm shift in the cotton value chain."
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For Every $1 Spent On Reducing Food Waste, Companies Save $14 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 10 Mar 17
     
    A new report by WRI and Waste & Resources Action Programme found that, on average, for every $1 a company invested in food loss and waste reduction-through training programs, providing equipment like scales to quantify food, and improving storage and packaging-they received a $14 return on investment.
Adriana Trujillo

REI hits the roof to put a ceiling on data center cooling | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Outdoor retailer REI is saving 1.8 million KW-h per year after installing energy-efficient cooling systems at its Seattle datacenter. The project reduced energy consumption tied to cooling by 93% and had a payback period of less than 1 year.
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Green financial investments: Banks, companies, funds meet at U.N. on climate solutions. - 0 views

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    Major institutional investors are increasingly mindful of the risk that carbon-intensive assets could lose their value if climate regulations become tougher, Tim McDonnell argues. That could be good news for clean energy investment, even though spending on that sector declined in 2013.
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Green group spends $1M touting lawmakers' clean energy work | TheHill - 0 views

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    The League of Conservation Voters is spending $1 million on a TV ad campaign in support of five lawmakers with strong track records on clean-energy issues. The lawmakers, all Democrats, deserve recognition for their efforts, the group says.
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Sustainability Leads to Cost Savings, Revenue Growth · Environmental Manageme... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Nov 13
     
    nability programs are producing cost savings, revenue growth, competitive advantage and environmental benefits across corporate America, writes Harold L. Sirkin, a senior partner of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in a Businessweek management blog.
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Nike fires starting gun on water-less dye factory - 03 Dec 2013 - News from BusinessGreen - 0 views

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    Nike opened a waterless dying facility in Taiwan that requires 60% less energy than traditional factories.
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Whole Foods, Walgreens and other retailers see the light on retrofitting | GreenBiz.com - 1 views

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  • lighting retrofits [PDF] can save upwards of 30 to 50 percent of lighting energy, as well as 10 to 20 percent of cooling energy. Intelligent controls with sensors at each fixture can lead to even greater saving
  • The store in Raleigh, N.C., achieved total energy savings [PDF] of 25 percent over a baseline store, and nearly 50 percent savings in lighting energ
  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Dec 13
     
    By adding thoughtfully planned and well-timed daylighting fixtures, big-box stores see significant energy savings.
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GM Facility Solves Tough Waste Challenge - 0 views

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    General Motors achieved landfill-free status at a 1.8 million square foot manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York. The company now manages 109 landfill-free facilities in total.
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Kodak Technology to 'Save 265 Million Liters of Water Annually' · Environment... - 0 views

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    Kodak's Sonora Process Free Plate technology could save up to 265 million liters of water in a year, the company says.
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How GSA is driving building efficiency with FirstFuel | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Remote audits from FirstFuel have already helped the government identify $14.5 million in energy savings. That's just the beginning.
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Coke Expands Hybrid Fleet · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environm... - 0 views

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    Coca-Cola will convert 100 of its Chevrolet Express service vans into hybrids using technology from XL Hybrids. The move is expected to reduce fuel consumption up to 20% and avoid 4,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the vans' lifetime.
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    More than 4,800 fuel-cell electric vehicles were registered in California as of May, and 36 retail stations were open to the public with 28 more funded, according to a California Air Resources Board report released July 31. An estimated 47,000 fuel-cell electric vehicles are expected to be on the roads by 2024.
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The North Face Launches Refurbished Apparel Pilot - 1 views

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    VF Corporation brand The North Face launched a pilot program this summer to sell refurbished apparel online, extending product life. Called The North Face Renewed, the collection targets consumers looking for affordable gear who also want to reduce their environmental footprints.
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New MSC Report Spotlights Certification's Role in Delivering the SDGs | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jun 17
     
    The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has released a new report highlighting the positive impact certification can have in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The MSC Global Impacts Report 2017 details more than a thousand examples of positive change being made by certified fisheries to safeguard fish stocks and marine habitats.
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No country for coal gen - Below 2°C and regulatory risk for US coal power own... - 1 views

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    Phasing out unprofitable coal plants could save U.S. consumers $10 billion a year by 2021 and boost the country's competitiveness, according to a new report by Carbon Tracker launched today. No Country for Coal Gen: Below 2°C and Regulatory Risk for U.S. Coal Power Owners is the first study to look at the economics of each U.S. coal power plant and provide investors with a tool to support a rational closure program to keep global warming below 2 C°.
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Honolulu Industrial Companies Score Cost Savings with Water Contract from Veolia - Envi... - 0 views

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    There are a projected $35 million in cost savings over the initial contract term through 2023. Industrial customers benefit from considerable cost savings using reclaimed water by lowering operating costs of chemicals and labor.
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