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Adriana Trujillo

Dunkin' Donuts Shareholders Want Company To Look Into K-Cup Waste - Consumerist - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 May 17
     
    The amount of trash produced by K-Cup pods sold for home and office coffee brewing by Dunkin' Donuts may not be worth the revenue, say some of the chain's shareholders. One investor has called on the board of directors to provide a report on the issue by October.
Adriana Trujillo

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.
Adriana Trujillo

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.
Adriana Trujillo

Report: U.S. Meat Industry Linked to Largest Gulf Dead Zone Ever - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 17
     
    According to a report issued this week by the NGO Mighty Earth, the U.S. meat industry is largely responsible for what has become the largest "dead zone" ever in the Gulf of Mexico. While past studies have showcased the meat and poultry sectors' impact on both the environment and public health, Mighty's study sheds light on the large agribusiness companies the NGO says contribute to the Gulf's ongoing environmental degradation attributed to algae blooms.
Adriana Trujillo

Deforestation Puts Almost $1 Trillion in Assets at Risks Worldwide - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 01 Dec 17
     
    According to a report issued today by CDP, deforestation is leaving as much as $941 billion in assets worldwide at risk as they are linked to commodities tied to deforestation.
Adriana Trujillo

Maine becomes the first state to ban styrofoam - CNN - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 May 19
     
    Maine has issued a statewide ban on styrofoam food containers, becoming the first state to do so. The ban will go into effect January 1, 2021.
Adriana Trujillo

Starbucks Issues First-Ever U.S. Corporate Sustainability Bond, Aimed at Driving Social... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 May 16
     
    Starbucks announced last week that it completed the underwriting of an initial public offering of senior notes, including its first-ever U.S. Corporate Sustainability Bond. The coffee giant said it will use proceeds from $500 million in 2.45% Senior Notes to help enhance the sustainability programs centered around its coffee supply chain management programs through a variety of eligible sustainability projects.
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainable sustainability: Travel Weekly - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 25 Aug 16
     
    Tourists are increasingly being guided by sustainability when making travel decisions, according to a recent report. "They want to go to a place where they think companies are taking care of their business and the environment," says Barbra Anderson, founding partner of consulting firm Destination Better.
Adriana Trujillo

AIR POLLUTION: EPA issues final version of Cross-State rule -- Wednesday, September 7, ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Sep 16
     
    The Environmental Protection Agency's final Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which will curb nitrous oxide emissions from power plants in 22 states, debuted this week. Acting EPA air chief Janet McCabe said the "common-sense actions" will benefit millions of people.
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

San Francisco Just Issued The Country's Broadest Ban On Styrofoam - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 30 Jun 16
     
    San Francisco just took a major step to save the environment. The city's Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an ordinance to ban the sale of polystyrene - more commonly known by its brand-name "styrofoam" - on Tuesday. It's the broadest ban on the product in the country, according to Mother Jones. "The science is clear," London Breed, Board of Supervisors president, said in a statement in April. "This stuff is an environmental and public health pollutant, and we have to reduce its use." Starting January 1, 2017, vendors will no longer be able to sell polystyrene products, from food packaging and coffee cups to packing peanuts and pool toys, according to Science Alert. And starting July 1, styrofoam fish and meat trays in supermarkets will also be banned.
Adriana Trujillo

Finelite Cuts Waste 84% in 7 Years · Environmental Management & Energy News ·... - 0 views

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  • cut its waste production by 84 percent between 2005 and 2012 through using reusable packaging, Sustainable Plant reports.
  • about $27,000 a year in garbage disposal costs, the article says
  • Adriana Trujillo on 26 Aug 13
     
    Finelite, a manufacturer of high-efficiency lighting systems, cut its waste production by 84 percent between 2005 and 2012 through using reusable packaging, Sustainable Plant reports. Through such innovations as replacing bubble wrap used to protect products with crinkled paper and so-called lean packaging, the company saved about $27,000 a year in garbage disposal costs, the article says.
Brett Rohring

Ford and Microsoft invest in $1 billion bond for climate projects | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Ford and Microsoft were among investors in a $1 billion green bond launched last week to support "climate smart" investments in emerging markets.
  • Proceeds of IFC green bonds are used for private sector investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other areas that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as installing solar and wind power capacity and providing financing for technology that helps produce energy more efficiently.
  • IFC said in a statement that the bond transaction, jointly led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB, was heavily oversubscribed and sized to address the demand from "an increasing number of investors interested in climate-related opportunities."
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  • It marks the second $1 billion green bond transaction this year from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an Aaa/AAA rated global development institution and member of the World Bank Group.
  • Bond issues are seen as an increasingly important way to raise funds for green projects, with the green bond market now estimated at $346 billion after doubling over 2012.
Adriana Trujillo

General Mills: Statement on responsible palm oil sourcing - 0 views

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    To help ensure our purchases do not contribute to deforestation of the world's rainforests or negatively impact the communities that depend on them, we will source 100 percent of our palm oil from responsible and sustainable sources by 2015 (a commitment we first made in 2010).
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General Mills: Animal welfare policy - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 15
     
      General Mills announced plans to source 100% of its eggs from cage-free operations in the United States
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5 reasons 2015 will be the year of the energy tipping point | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 08 Jan 15
     
    There's been a lot of talk in 2014 about the "utility death spiral" and suppositions that utilities as we know them will cease to exist. I'm not entirely sure we've seen the last of the utility industry, but I feel certain a year from now we'll look back on 2015 as the year a lot shifted in how each of us individually acquire and manage our energy consumption. Here's why.
Adriana Trujillo

Predictions for Five CSR Trends in 2015 - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 07 Jan 15
     
    As we close out 2014, here are Silicon Valley Community Foundation's predictions for what's ahead for CSR in the coming year:
Del Birmingham

Clean Energy: A Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity - Ceres - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 06 Aug 14
     
    To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to invest $44 trillion in clean energy by 2050 - an average of $1.2 trillion per year for the next 36 years. Yet global investment in clean energy was just $254 billion in 2013, down from $286 billion in 2012 and down from the record $318 billion in 2011. We have a long way to go to achieve the Clean Trillion goal. There are, however, several signs of progress.
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FSC Forest Stewardship Council U.S. (FSC-US) · Newsletter - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 10 Nov 14
     
    The Forest Stewardship Council issued leadership awards to individuals and organizations that it considered to be champions in forest conservation. Winners included Kimberly-Clark (CEF member), Scholastic, the World Wildlife Fund's Global Forest and Trade Network, and more.
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Whole Foods Market® takes stand on key agricultural issues with Responsibly G... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Oct 14
     
    Whole Foods launched the Responsibly Grown rating system, which evaluates produce based on environmental and health impacts. Products will carry a "good," "better," or "best" label based on their rating.
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