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Del Birmingham

PepsiCo takes on Coca-Cola with Latin American water plan | Guardian Sustainable Busine... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 28 Dec 16
     
    PepsiCo has announced it will restore and protect a handful of watersheds in Latin American countries in which it operates, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala. The company announced plans to "replenish" all the water used during manufacturing in high water risk areas by returning it to the watershed from which it was taken.
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."
Del Birmingham

Average American consumes 50,000 pounds of raw materials annually for the stuff they buy - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 12 Dec 13
     
    on average, each of us in the U.S. uses 25 tons of raw materials every year to produce our stuff and our energy. That is the weight of about 20 cars. By comparison, the average Chinese person uses 12 tons and the average Indian only 4 tons of raw materials per year.
Del Birmingham

See How Humans Have Reshaped the Globe With This Interactive Atlas | Science | Smithsonian - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 13 Oct 14
     
    From deforestation to irrigation to species loss, the expanding human population has been dramatically re-shaping the face of the Earth. These interactive maps bring together a wealth of satellite imagery and other data sets to create an atlas of humanity's influence on the planet.
Brett Rohring

How Hasbro, Lego and Mattel stack up as green toy makers | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Millions upon millions of games, dolls, trinkets and other baubles are churned out for the entertainment of children around the world.
  • As the titans that make them start considering their complete environmental footprints, they are making big strides in protecting the planet's natural resources, albeit by disparate approaches.
  • by 2020 Hasbro plans to reduce waste to landfill by 50 percent, energy consumption by 25 percent, GHG emissions by 20 percent and water consumption by 15 percent.
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  • Between 2008 and 2012, the company says, it reduced non-hazardous waste by 40 percent, energy consumption by 19 percent, GHG emissions by 32 percent and water consumption by 31 percent.
  • Hasbro is also working to reduce its packaging material, eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from packaging, increase recycled content and source paper responsibly.
  • This year the company eliminated PVC from new product packaging and says it's on track to nix it from all packaging by the end of this year.
  • It also exceeded its 2011 goal to derive at least 75 percent of paper and board packaging from recycled material or from sources that practice sustainable forest management. By 2015, Hasbro plans to increase that number to 90 percent.
  • it also did away with the plastic bags in which game instructions were wrapped, removing 800,000 pounds of material worldwide from its waste stream.
  • Lego has worked for decades to eliminate PVC as well as phthalates from its toys, all of which no longer contain these substances.
  • Next year the cardboard used in the new boxes will carry FSC certification
  • Over the next few years Lego's parent company, Kirkbi, is investing $547 million to build a wind farm off the coast of Germany.
  • By 2020, the company will contribute to the world at least the same amount of sustainable energy as the company consumes.
  • "Today we recycle about 90 percent of our waste, and with zero waste as our long-term ambition we will continue to make progress on this agenda,
  • in 2010, Mattel's Hot Wheels factory in Malaysia began using local sources and 100 percent compostable residual sugar cane fiber as an alternative packaging material for the plastic insert tray of the Hot Wheels 9- and 10-pack car assortments.
  • Mattel established a sustainability target to improve our packaging material efficiency by 5 percent by 2015.
  • the company has reduced its energy consumption by 33 percent, CO2 emissions by 38 percent, water consumption by 54 percent, volatile organic compound emissions by nearly 70 percent, non-hazardous waste generation by 30 percent and hazardous waste generation by 16 percent.
  • Mattel canceled its contracts with Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), who were complicit in rainforest destruction, and instructed its suppliers to avoid wood fiber from controversial sources, including companies 'that are known to be involved in deforestation
Adriana Trujillo

How Carnegie uses sugarcane to make greener textiles | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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carnegie textiles bio based com

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  • BioBased Xorel
  • create the world's first bio-based interior textile that doesn't compromise performance, value or aesthetics.
  • In 1981, Carnegie introduced a polyethylene (PE) textile under the brand name Xorel that, at the time, was one of the few healthier alternatives to vinyl (PVC) for interior panels, wall coverings and upholstery. Thirty years later, that product has received an eco-friendly update with the launch of BioBased Xorel, an interior textile made from plants.
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  • BioBased Xorel
  • BioBased Xorel,
  • BioBased Xorel is comprised of 60-85 percent polyethylene sourced from sugarcane instead of fossil fuels
  • but our goal is to source the polyethylene for the entire product line from plants in three years.  
  • We achieved this while keeping the price, aesthetics and performance exactly the same
  • Using a rapidly renewable material reduces our company's dependence on the planet's finite fossil fuels resources
  • sugarcane uses 60 percent less energy and generates 40 percent less greenhouse gas emissions when compared to making petrochemical ethylene
  • sugarcane plant naturally captures carbon dioxide
  • PE takes 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere
  • Sugarcane has a much higher yield per acre than corn
  • doesn't require genetic modification
  • Cradle to Cradle certified program
  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 13
     
    Carnegie has been on a seven-year journey to create the world's first bio-based interior textile that doesn't compromise performance, value or aesthetics.
Adriana Trujillo

New Disney Facility in Santa Clarita Faces Hurdles - The Hollywood Reporter - 0 views

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  • removal of 158 oak trees
  • Planning and the Environment
  • We’re considering our options.”
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  • The Ranch, which will take up 58 acres of Golden Oak Ranch
  • an 890-acre piece of land owned by Disney that already hosts about 300 days of production each year.
  • six soundstage buildings
  • 2,854 people and contribute $533 million in annual economic activity throughout Los Angeles County.
  • Full build-out, though, could take years, even after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the project during a vote Tuesday. Still ahead are meetings with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • SCOPE and other environmental groups have been addressed
  • plant 1,600 new oak trees in the area, and argues that 637 acres of Golden Oak Ranch will remain a natural backdrop area. Disney also touted several “green design features” for reducing energy consumption, traffic and storm-water runoff.
  • Plambeck, though, isn't satisfied,
  • "to a voluntary project condition that places a conservation easement over the remaining undeveloped portions of the Golden Oak Ranch as a condition precedent to any permit issuance."
  • not develop 637 acres,
  • but if that's the case, why won't they put it into a conservation easement to assure everybody of their intentions?"
  • The Sierra Club, for example, has taken a neutral position on the
  • SCOPE
  • Santa Clarita Organization
  • Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13
     
    A local environmental group slams the plan for the just-approved 58-acre facility, which will eventually employ 2,800 people but faces months of hearings before breaking ground
Del Birmingham

The Tusk at Hand - 0 views

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NGO NRDC crushing confiscated elephant ivory Times Square poaching Illegal trade

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  • Del Birmingham on 19 Jun 15
     
    Pulverizing ill-gotten ivory at public "ivory crushes" constitutes an important step toward saving endangered elephants. 
Adriana Trujillo

Extracting carbon from nature can aid climate but will be costly: U.N. | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Mar 14
     
    A new technology called bio-energy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS, could potentially eliminate the equivalent of China's total carbon emissions from the planet's atmosphere, dramatically slowing the rate of climate change, according to a draft U.N. report. The system, which involves capturing and burying carbon emissions from burning biomass, has not yet been tested at scale but is increasingly seen as "an essential component" of any effort to tackle climate change, the report notes.
Adriana Trujillo

How California Could Power Itself Using Renewables - Pacific Standard: The Science of S... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Aug 14
     
    California could ditch fossil fuels altogether by midcentury at a cost of $1.1 trillion, and would earn back most or all of that price tag through climate benefits and fuel savings, a new report suggests. Going 100% renewable would also save 10,000 lives and $100 billion in health care costs due to reduced pollution, the report found
Del Birmingham

Ocean Dead Zones Are Getting Worse Globally Due to Climate Change | Science | Smithsonian - 0 views

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Smithsonian study ocean dead zones climate change worse water runoff algae

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  • Del Birmingham on 12 Nov 14
     
    Nearly all ocean dead zones will increase by the end of the century because of climate change, according to a new Smithsonian-led study. But the work also recommends how to limit risks to coastal communities of fish, crabs and other species no matter how much the water warms.
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainable Rice Platform Launches Global Rice Cultivation Standard | Natural Resources... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 10 Nov 15
     
    The Sustainable Rice Platform launched the first global standard for reducing the environmental impacts of rice cultivation. The standard has 46 requirements that address biodiversity, labor rights, worker health, and more.
Adriana Trujillo

Back to the future with nature's own construction materials? - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Oct 15
     
    Europe's construction industry has a crucial role in cutting carbon emissions and energy consumption. But getting companies to ditch traditional building materials for greener, bio-based alternatives remains an uphill struggle. They are more costly and questions remain over safety, reliability and durability The concept of building with bio materials is nothing new - mud and grass has been used in some countries for centuries.
Del Birmingham

The World is Running Out of Sand | Science | Smithsonian - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 11 Sep 17
     
    When people picture sand spread across idyllic beaches and endless deserts, they understandably think of it as an infinite resource. But as we discuss in a just-published perspective in the journal Science, over-exploitation of global supplies of sand is damaging the environment, endangering communities, causing shortages and promoting violent conflict.
Adriana Trujillo

Albertsons commits to UN's sustainable goal - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 13 Jun 17
     
    "We recognize that the well-being of people and the sustainability of our oceans are interdependent," said Buster Houston, director of seafood at Albertsons Cos., in a prepared statement. "As one of the largest U.S. retailers of seafood, we are committed to protecting the world's oceans so they can remain a bountiful natural resource that contributes to global food security, the livelihoods of hard-working fishermen and the global economy."
  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jun 17
     
    Albertsons has committed to preventing and reducing marine pollution, working to cut down on ocean acidification, taking better control of overfishing practices and other initiatives under the United Nations' sustainable "Oceans Goal." The retailer has also become part of the Seafood Task Force, which targets unregulated and illegal fishing
Adriana Trujillo

New REI Email Tests Consumers' Power On National Monuments And Public Lands Policy - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Jul 17
     
    REI stepped up the fight to preserve public lands with an email blast to its customers, and it was very successful. In uncertain federal times, brands continue to take stands - and they are moving merchandise right along with policy.
Adriana Trujillo

66 million trees planted in 12 hours in India | MNN - Mother Nature Network - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 17
     
    The Madhya Pradesh government in India spearheaded an environmental campaign last weekend in which some 1.5 million volunteers planted 66 million trees in 12 hours along the banks of the Narmada River. India, the world's third-largest generator of carbon emissions, has committed under the Paris Agreement to increase its forests by 12% by 2030.
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