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Revolutionary P&G Technology Restores Used Plastic to Virgin-Like Quality | Sustainable... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 28 Jul 17
     
    Taking plastics recycling to a whole new level, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has pioneered a new technology that restores used polypropylene plastic (PP) to 'virgin-like' quality. Developed in P&G labs, the patented technology is being licensed to PureCycle to deploy in a new recycling plant in Lawrence County, Ohio and will allow consumers to purchase more products made from recycled plastic.
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How General Mills, McDonalds and Kering are setting credible, courageous sustainability... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 31 May 18
     
    In a recent GreenBiz webcast, a panel of experts - including strategists from General MIlls, Kering and McDonald's - explained why going big on sustainability goals is increasingly a smart business strategy, as well as a good stewardship policy. They discussed the intersection of today's major frameworks, such as science-driven goal setting, the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTI), planetary boundaries, Sustainable Development Goals, and more, and provided concrete business cases from several organizations on how they are conducting this transition.
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Press release: AkzoNobel and Ministry of Foreign Affairs launch Human Cities Coalition ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 May 17
     
    AkzoNobel has launched the Human Cities Coalition, a multi-stakeholder group that is dedicated to accelerating progress against UN Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. The coalition is comprised of more than 150 stakeholders and 20 partners, including Arcadis, Philips, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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VF Goes "Fur Free" with New Animal Derived Materials Policy - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 May 17
     
    VF Corporation adopted its first Animal Derived Materials Policy, which sets guidelines for the company to eliminate the use of fur, angora, and exotic leather in all VF brand products. The company developed the policy in partnership with The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International.
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First global standard for sustainable procurement hits the market | GreenBiz - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 May 17
     
    After four years of development, the first international standard for sustainable procurement was launched late last week by the International Standards Organisation (ISO). The first standard of its kind in the world, ISO 20400 aims to help companies make better purchasing choices throughout their supply chains by establishing guidelines for companies to judge suppliers on ethical and sustainability issues.
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L'Oréal, PepsiCo Strike Up New Partnerships to Push Forward Sustainability Ag... - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 May 17
     
    Ushering the economy towards a more circular, sustainable model, global brands such as L'Oréal and PepsiCo are striking up new partnerships aimed at initiating change both at home and abroad, proving that there is indeed strength in numbers. L'Oréal and SUEZ have joined forces to improve environmental performance and optimize resource management throughout L'Oréal's value chain, while PepsiCo has developed a new Science-Based Target Initiative-approved target for GHG emissions.
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Banks like ING and DNB are backing away from pipelines | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Apr 17
     
    In recent weeks, the large multinational Dutch bank ING and Norwegian bank DNB announced plans to sell off their stakes in loans funding the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The divestments came as activist investors stepped up their calls for banks and other financial institutions to stop financing projects related to fossil fuels development.
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European Parliament Votes to Phase Out Palm Oil-Based Biofuels by 2020 | Sustainable Br... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Apr 17
     
    To counter the impact of unsustainable palm oil production, such as deforestation and habitat degradation, the European Parliament has approved a resolution to develop a single certification scheme for palm oil entering the EU market and phase out the use of vegetable oils that drive deforestation by 2020. It is Parliament's first resolution on the issue, but it is now up to the European Commission to act upon it.
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Fashion for Good Launches in Partnership with McDonough Innovation - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Apr 17
     
    A group of organizations - including C&A Foundation, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, McDonough Innovation, and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition - have launched the Fashion For Good initiative, which aims to help set the apparel industry on a more sustainable path using a Cradle to Cradle-inspired, circular approach to product development. The initiative will engage key players from across the fashion industry and will support the "scale up of technologies, methodologies, and business models with the potential to wholly transform the industry."
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In a Stunning Turnaround, Britain Moves to End the Burning of Coal - Yale E360 - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 21 Sep 17
     
    Britain is phasing out its coal-burning power plants, with the last one slated to be shuttered by 2025, if not sooner. It is a startling development for the nation that founded an industrial revolution powered by coal.
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FSC Announces the Bonn Initiative at COP23 - Press Releases on CSRwire.com - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 30 Nov 17
     
    FSC, IKEA of Sweden and SIG support the development of scientifically rigorous methodologies to quantify the climate benefits of FSC certification
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California's Scoping Plan: Setting a Path for Climate Targets - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 29 Dec 17
     
    The state Air Resources Board (ARB) adopted the extensive 2017 version to outline California's climate policy path to 2030 and detail how it will fulfill its landmark legislative mandate to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Developing a strong roadmap is important not only here but across the country and beyond because of California's global leadership role as a climate policy incubator and best practice exporter.
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SNL: Corporations seen helping to drive US renewables development | SNL - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 May 16
     
    Corporations interested in sustainability have become a major driver in the renewable energy industry, said experts at the North American Energy Markets Association meeting in Florida last month. "There is about 15 GW of latent demand for renewables that wants to be built by 2020 in order to meet the targets of Fortune 500 companies that have committed to some degree of renewable energy in their supply portfolios," said Invenergy Vice President of Sales and Marketing Craig Gordon. 3M, Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft are among the companies seeking power purchase agreements with renewables in the US.
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ADAPTATION: Vanuatu most vulnerable, Qatar least in new disaster risk ranking -- Friday... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 26 Aug 16
     
    The report ranks 171 nations in terms of their risk. It has two components: the exposure they face from extreme events like typhoons, drought and earthquakes, and their ability to deal with those catastrophes, or their vulnerability. Sea-level rise is a key driver of the assessment. Many of the top 10 nations facing high risks are located along coastlines.
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Green Building Entrepreneurs Think Sustainability is Key to Economic Growth - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Sep 16
     
    The building industry has become more analytical and data-driven as it has moved toward more sustainable forms of construction. Conventional construction is falling by the wayside in major markets because "people are just realizing that green building makes sense," said Nathan Taft, director of acquisitions for green builder Jonathan Rose Cos.
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Everglades' water at risk from sea-level rise, scientists say - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Dec 16
     
    Climate change and other hurdles mean it will take more water - and potentially more taxpayer money - to save the Everglades, according to new scientific findings released Thursday. The report to Congress warns that rising seas and warming temperatures are threatening to worsen damage already done by decades of drainage and pollution, caused by development and farming overtaking the Everglades. A recent report showed that climate change, pollution and other factors could increase the cost to restore the Florida Everglades. So far, restoration costs are pegged at $16 billion, but additional efforts, such as proposed reservoirs, could add to that cost.
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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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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.
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China Now Handing Down Death Penalty to Worst Polluters - 0 views

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  • Chinese authorities have recently given courts the authority to hand down the death penalty for serious cases of pollution
  • Public anger over China’s growth-at-all-costs policies has been growing steadily in response to the increasingly polluted air and water
  • public’s attitudes towards environmental protection found that up to 80 percent believe that environmental protection should be a higher priority than economic development.
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  • A recent analysis by the Health Effects Institute in Boston found that over a million people die prematurely in China every year as the result of air pollution.
  • Particulate levels in Beijing, Guangzhou and other Chinese cities often rise to as much as seven times the World Health Organization’s air-quality standard
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  • A protest over plans to build a petro-chemical refinery in Kunming
  • Adriana Trujillo on 10 Jul 13
     
    Chines courts are allowed to hand down the death penalty for serisous cases of pollution
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El Paso Zoo launches app to help save the rainforest - Financial and Business News - ME... - 0 views

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  • This is an environmental issue, but it is a consumer-driven issue. Palm oil is being produce because consumers are purchasing items with palm oil in them
  • the El Paso Zoo and El Paso Zoological Society have developed a scanning app that allows people to make informed choices about the products they buy."
  • The El Paso Zoo launched a free national smartphone application Thursday that scans the product's bar code on the back of the item to help consumers identify which ones use palm oil.
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  • You go to the app, scan the item's bar code, and then it will tell you which one has palm oil and which one doesn't. It is
  • Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13
     
    The El Paso Zoo launched a free national smartphone application Thursday that scans the product's bar code on the back of the item to help consumers identify which ones use palm oil. The El Paso Zoo Palm Oil Guide and Scanner app is currently available in the iTunes App Store for iPhones. An Android version will be available next month.
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