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Adriana Trujillo

IBM Recycles 97% of End-of-Life Products · Environmental Leader · Environment... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 Aug 15
     
    IBM recycled, reused or resold almost 97 percent of the end-of-life products it collected for processing last year, according to the tech giant's 25th annual corporate sustainability report.
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Patagonia Out to Change the 'Filthy Business' of Denim | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Aug 15
     
    Knowing how conventional cotton is grown and denim is made, Patagonia has set out to change the industry. The company has partnered with Archroma on a new denim collection, launched this week, which is said to use 84% less water, 30% less energy and 25% less CO2 compared to conventional denim dyeing processes - as well as a campaign telling us all about it.
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Climate-smart cities could save the world $22tn, say economists | Environment | The Gua... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Sep 15
     
    Cities could save a collective $22 trillion and vastly reduce global emissions by embracing green building, better infrastructure and other environmental measures, researchers say. "Becoming more sustainable and putting the world -- specifically cities -- on a low-carbon trajectory is actually feasible and good economics," said Seth Schultz, a researcher for the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. 
Adriana Trujillo

Unilever and Walgreens Team Up with 'Me to We' to Provide... -- ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.,... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Sep 15
     
    Unilever launched Me to We-an initiative that enables consumers to collectively facilitate clean water provision in developing communities through their everyday purchases, in partnership with Walgreens. Customers can contribute to the cause by purchasing select Unilever TRESemmé, Suave or Caress products at their local Walgreens through September 30, 2015.
Del Birmingham

Patagonia Out to Change the 'Filthy Business' of Denim | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 07 Aug 15
     
    Knowing how conventional cotton is grown and denim is made, always-a-better-way outdoor apparel brand Patagonia has set out to change the industry. The company has partnered with chemical company Archroma on a new denim collection, launched this week - which is Fair Trade certified and said to use 84 percent less water, 30 percent less energy and 25 percent less CO2 compared to conventional denim dyeing processes - as well as a campaign telling us all about it.
Del Birmingham

San Francisco Program Provides a Roadmap for Eliminating Textile Waste - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 06 Jun 14
     
    I:CO launched its first ever I:CO City initiative with the city of San Francisco earlier this year. The launch creates a public, private and nonprofit infrastructure to make it convenient and rewarding for residents and businesses to recycle textile related items. In alignment with San Francisco's goal of zero waste by 2020, I:CO will serve as the lead textile collection and processing partner to divert waste from landfill and give it new life.
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Craft Brewers Dramatically Reducing Carbon Emissions by Sharing Kegs | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Oct 14
     
    By sharing a pool of kegs rather than owning their own, over 200 leading craft brewers have helped reduce their collective carbon footprint by over 3 million kg of CO2e in 2013. These findings, based on a study by John Heckman, Ph.D with PE International and commissioned by MicroStar Logistics, will be used as a benchmark to help the craft beer industry further minimize its carbon footprint each year.
Del Birmingham

New Analysis: America's Largest Companies are Jumping on Clean Energy Bandwagon and Sav... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 25 Jul 14
     
    The report, Power Forward 2.0: How American Companies are Setting Clean Energy Targets and Capturing Greater Business Value, shows that clean energy is becoming mainstream for U.S. corporations - with 60 percent of the Fortune 100 having goals for renewable energy or greenhouse gas reductions. Through these initiatives, the 53 Fortune 100 companies reporting on climate and energy targets have collectively saved $1.1 billion annually and decreased their annual CO2 emissions by approximately 58.3 million metric tons - the equivalent of retiring 15 coal-fired power plants.
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Nestlé USA Celebrating Easter with Expanded Commitment to Sustainable Cocoa |... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Mar 15
     
    Just in time for Easter, Nestlé USA has announced an expansion of its commitment to sourcing sustainable cocoa through its global Nestlé Cocoa Plan. This year, Nestlé in partnership with UTZ Certified, has purchased enough certified cocoa to produce its entire Easter chocolate collection, marking a first for a major U.S. candy manufacturer.
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Why American Eagle, H&M, Nike and Puma want your hand-me-downs | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Aug 14
     
    There's only so far that community or family hand-me-downs can go to address the booming issue of textile waste, so I:Collect (aka I:CO) created a global collection network to keep discarded clothing and shoes out of landfills.
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GM Renaissance Center Now Composts Food Scraps - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Aug 14
     
    General Motors began composting food scraps at its global headquarters, working with a local company to transform the waste into gardening soil. The company expects to collect 51,000 tons of food scraps by the end of 2014.
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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Feb 15
     
    Danish city officials announced the completion of what they claim to be the world's first neighborhood adapted for climate change in Copenhagen: the St. Kjeld neighborhood has been retrofitted with mini-parks, rooftop water collection, and raised sidewalks to direct excess water from extreme weather events and rising sea levels towards the harbor.
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KKR & Co. L.P. - Milestone Year for KKR's Green Portfolio Program, Delivering Nearly $1... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Oct 14
     
    Private equity firm KKR announced that Del Monte, Dollar General, Sealy, and the 24 other companies in its Green Portfolio Program have collectively avoided more than 2.3 million metric tons of GHG emissions from 2008 to 2013, generating $1.2 billion in new savings and revenues. Companies in the Green Portfolio Program agree to assess, measure, and optimize their environmental performance in ways that improve their businesses.
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GCR - Trends - France to pave 1,000km of road with solar panels - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 11 Feb 16
     
    France is moving forward with a "Positive Energy" initiative to add solar panels to 621 miles of road. The panels are glued onto the roadway and can handle the weight of six-axle vehicles. This stretch of road could collect enough energy for 5 million people. A Dutch company has already used solar panels on 328 feet of road in Holland.
Del Birmingham

The North Face Launches Refurbished Apparel Pilot - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 27 Jul 18
     
    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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Meet The Millennial In Charge Of Recycling New York's Fashion Waste - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 31 Dec 18
     
    FabScrap works with 135 labels across the city, collecting and recycling their textile waste including swatches and items of clothing.
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We Mean Business Coalition | 600+ leading companies are creating unstoppable climate mo... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 28 Sep 17
     
    Unprecedented momentum is being delivered by over 600 companies committed to bold climate action, through the We Mean Business coalition's Take Action campaign. The campaign brings together strategic climate commitments, facilitated by the We Mean Business coalition partners, which are collectively helping these companies tackle some 2.31 gigatons of Scope 1+2 emissions - equivalent to the total annual emissions of Russia. These initiatives are also helping companies to harness climate action as a driver of innovation, competitiveness, risk management and growth.
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ByFusion turns all types of ocean plastic into eco-friendly construction blocks | Inhab... - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 01 Aug 16
     
    The problem of ocean waste, particularly the plastic variety, is a big one, and many creative people are working on ways to clean it up. Finding ways to repurpose the plastic debris collected from the ocean is one component of that, and the U.S.-based startup ByFusion has responded with technology that recycles ocean plastic into durable construction blocks. This way, the plastic waste can be repurposed permanently, rather than being used to create another disposable plastic item that might wind up right back in our precious waterways.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 16
     
    Technology that compresses plastic waste items turns them into blocks suitable for construction, providing a permanent way to remove discarded plastic from the environment. The RePlast system developed by New Zealand-based inventor Peter Lewis is said to be nearly 100% carbon neutral and doesn't require the plastic to be sorted or washed.
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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."
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Space fishing: ESA floats plan to net space junk - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 25 Jun 14
     
    ESA's Clean Space initiative is looking at developing a satellite that can rendezvous with space debris and render it harmless by netting it like fish. According to ESA, there are 17,000 trackable objects larger than a coffee cup orbiting the Earth and many more down to the size of paint chips. This may not seem like anything very dangerous, but at orbital velocity, even a paint chip can hit like a bullet and a steel nut has the impact of a hand grenade.
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