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Adriana Trujillo

The App That Will Make Sustainable Energy Cool - 0 views

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  • The app is designed to inspire, empower and motivate a generation of global citizens to take positive action around the world
  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Oct 13
     
    When you ask kids about their favorite things, sustainable energy probably doesn't top the list. But a new movement and mobile platform called mPowering Action might change that.
Adriana Trujillo

Method and Gotham Greens Partner to Build World's Largest Rooftop Farm in Chicago -- CH... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Oct 14
     
    Sustainable cleaning products company Method intends to build the world's largest rooftop farm at its Chicago manufacturing plant. The plant was designed by William McDonough + Partners and is expected to achieve LEED-platinum certification.
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Carbon dioxide levels reach global milestone - 1 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 07 May 15 - No Cached
  • Del Birmingham on 07 May 15
     
    Worldwide levels of carbon dioxide - the gas scientists say is most responsible for global warming - reached a significant milestone for the month of March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday. The global monthly average for carbon dioxide hit 400.83 parts per million in March, the first time the average surpassed 400 ppm for an entire month since such measurements began in the late 1950s, NOAA said.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 May 15
     
    Global carbon dioxide levels averaged 400.83 parts per million in March, marking the first time that atmospheric carbon has remained above the 400 ppm threshold for an entire month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "It's both disturbing and daunting," said NOAA chief greenhouse gas scientist Pieter Tans. 
Adriana Trujillo

Madrid upgrades city infrastructure with Philips lighting in the largest street lightin... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 07 Jan 15
     
    Philips provided the government of Madrid, Spain with 225,000 LEDs and other energy efficient lights to help the city upgrade 100% of its existing street lighting. The project is the world's largest street lighting retrofit and will reportedly result in energy savings of 44%.
Adriana Trujillo

Making concrete green: reinventing the world's most used synthetic material | Guardian ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Mar 16
     
    James Cook University researchers are teaming with Australia's Fibercon company to create a greener concrete by using recycled plastic to reinforce it. "Using plastic to reinforce concrete instead of steel can reduce carbon dioxide production by about 50%," said Rabin Tuladhar, associate dean of engineering at the institution. "However, with recycled plastic, you can save 50% more carbon dioxide than you could with virgin plastic -- because you are using plastic that has already been made and repurposing it."
Del Birmingham

Investigation Exposes Animal Abuse at U.S. Supplier to World's Largest Meat Company - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 12 Sep 18
     
    new undercover video shot by a Mercy for Animals (MFA) investigator at Tosh Farms, a JBS pork supplier based in Franklin, Kentucky, exposes what the animal rights group calls the "malicious and systemic abuse of mother pigs and piglets."
Del Birmingham

Only 13% of World's Oceans Remain Wild - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 27 Jul 18
     
    A new study has unveiled humanity's sweeping impact on the world's oceans. Commercial fishing, climate change, agricultural runoff and other human-caused stressors have wiped out nearly 90 percent of Earth's marine wilderness, researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Queensland, Australia revealed.
Del Birmingham

Spinning spoiled milk into an environmental revolution - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 19 Feb 19
     
    n Italian fashion designer is spinning the country's spoiled milk into clothing.
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From London to Shanghai, world's sinking cities face devastating floods | Environment |... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 05 Oct 18
     
    London, Jakarta, Shanghai and Houston and other global cities that are already sinking will become increasingly vulnerable to storms and flooding as a result of global warming, campaigners have warned ahead of a landmark new report on climate science.
Adriana Trujillo

Wal-Mart, America's Largest Grocer, Is Now Selling Ugly Fruit And Vegetables : The Salt... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 16
     
    Over the past few years, so-called ugly fruit and vegetables have been gaining a host of admirers. Now, Wal-Mart has officially joined the bandwagon. Starting this week, America's largest grocer says it is piloting sales of weather-dented apples at a discount in 300 of its stores in Florida.
Adriana Trujillo

How Oslo Plans to Achieve the World's Most Ambitious Emissions Targets | Sustainable Br... - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Nov 16
     
    Oslo, Norway has a much more ambitious plan than most when it comes to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The city plans to cut its emissions in half compared to 1990 levels, in only four years - faster than any city or country has made changes in the past. At the same time, if we want to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, it's the pace we need.
Adriana Trujillo

The relationship between corporations and climate change | World Finance - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Mar 16
     
    Companies are increasingly seeing climate risks as a major bottom-line threat and viewing corporate sustainability as a must-have rather than an optional extra, writes Matt Timms. Finding effective environmental strategies and messaging remains a challenge, but a growing number of success stories are making it clear that CSR doesn't have to come at the expense of profitability. "[B]usinesses have a responsibility to acknowledge what many consider to be the defining challenge of our time," Timms argues.
Brett Rohring

Terrorist Tungsten in Colombia Taints Global Phone-to-Car Sales - Bloomberg - 0 views

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  • Tungsten, in particular, is in high demand.
  • The dark, heat-resistant and super-hard metal is inside the engines of some of the most popular cars in the world. It’s used for screens of computers, phones, tablets and televisions. It helps mobile phones vibrate when they ring. Semiconductor makers use the metal to provide insulation between microscopic layers of circuitry.
  • Tiger Hill rises above the rain forest in an area ruled by armed FARC fighters more than 220 kilometers (137 miles) from the nearest road, town or police station.
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  • The mine is illegal in three ways: It’s inside a forest preserve, it’s banned by Colombian law because it’s on an Indian reservation, and it’s run by the FARC, which is classified by Colombia, the U.S. and the European Union as a terrorist organization.
  • While Tiger Hill is illegal, it’s the only known tungsten mine in Colombia, according to the police and Environment Ministry officials responsible for regulating mining.
  • China produces the most tungsten -- about 85 percent of global output -- authorities there impose tight controls on the metal to assure domestic manufacturers have enough. That’s forcing companies to scour the globe for mines elsewhere, the USGS says.
  • Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and Samsung Electronics Co. purchase parts from a firm that buys from the company that imports tungsten ore from Colombia, company records show.
  • the Environment Ministry’s director whose jurisdiction includes much of Colombia’s Amazon region, says the shippers are hiding the tungsten ore’s true origins.
  • “They falsify the source of illegal metals,” Melendez says. “This is how they launder tungsten.”
Brett Rohring

Are 90 Companies Responsible For Nearly Two-Thirds Of Global Warming? - 0 views

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  • A new study from the Colorado-based Climate Accountability Institute suggests that 90 companies are responsible for almost two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
  • The top 90 emitters include 50 investor-owned energy companies like BP, ExxonMobil and Shell, along with 31 state-owned companies and some nation-states themselves. 83 of the 90 are coal, oil and gas producers and the remaining seven are cement manufacturers.
  • Based on studies published during the past several years, the IPCC found that in order to have at least a 66 percent chance of limiting global warming to, or below, 3.6°F above pre-industrial levels, no more than 1 trillion tonnes of carbon can be released into the atmosphere from the beginning of the industrial era through the end of this century.
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  • The IPCC report estimates that we’ve already used 531 billion tonnes of that budget as of 2011 by burning fossil fuels for energy as well as by clearing forests for farming and myriad other uses. That means we’re on the wrong side of the carbon budget, with 469 billion tonnes left.
  • "It increases the accountability for fossil fuel burning," climate scientist Michael Mann told the Guardian. "You can't burn fossil fuels without the rest of the world knowing about it."
Adriana Trujillo

The world's first net-zero energy skyscraper rises in Indonesia | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Apr 14
     
    The Pertamina Energy Tower's curved façade is precisely calibrated for Jakarta's proximity to the equator to mitigate solar heat gain year-round.
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3 reasons the world is moving beyond shareholder value | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 12 Sep 14
     
     cracks are beginning to appear in the shareholder value edifice and are leading to a renewed examination of the factors that should shape investor decisions. Three factors are driving this re-assessment.
Adriana Trujillo

How The World's Largest Company Thinks About Social Responsibility - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 10 Jul 14
     
    Big companies can get big results by leveraging their supply chains, says Kathleen McLaughlin, president of the Walmart Foundation. "Our goal to sell more sustainable products really means making the entire supply chain more sustainable for people and planet, end-to-end," she explains
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Why the world's biggest companies are investing in recycling | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 19 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • $5 million and $10 million each into the fund: Colgate Palmolive, Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Keurig Green Mountain. PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Walmart and the Walmart Foundation.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Aug 14
     
    the Closed Loop Fund, a budding $100 million effort by a group of large companies to invest in recycling infrastructure and, in the process, put more recycled materials into manufacturing supply chains. Along the way, it aims to give a boost to recycling in the United States at a time when rates are leveling off but the demand for recycled feedstocks is picking up.
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