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Del Birmingham

First-ever Pilot to Verify Sustainable Beef in Canada Concludes - Yahoo Finance - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 03 Jun 16
     
    As one of the country's largest Canadian beef purchasers, McDonald's Canada, through the Pilot tracked the journey of nearly 9,000 head of Canadian cattle, or the equivalent of 2.4 million patties. The cattle spent their entire lives, from 'birth to burger', raised on or handled by verified sustainable operations.
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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.
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.
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Mexico to Launch 60-Company Test Cap-and-Trade Program · Environmental Leader... - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 Aug 16
     
    Mexico will launch a pilot cap-and-trade program with voluntary participation from up to 60 power companies, according to media ...
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The launch of a Natural Capital Protocol for businesses to identify, measure and value ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 28 Jul 16
     
    The Natural Capital Coalition launched the Natural Capital Protocol, a framework for harmonizing natural capital valuation across business sectors. The framework was developed over the last two years with input from more than 450 organizations and has been piloted by companies including The Coca-Cola Company, Dow Chemical, Nestlé, and others.
Del Birmingham

Iceland Carbon Capture Project Quickly Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Stone | Science | S... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 13 Jun 16
     
    pilot project that sought to demonstrate that carbon dioxide emissions could be locked up by turning them into rock appears to be a success. Tests at the CarbFix project in Iceland indicate that most of the CO2 injected into basalt turned into carbonate minerals in less than two years, far shorter a time than the hundreds or thousands of years that scientists had once thought such a process would take. Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/iceland-carbon-capture-project-quickly-converts-carbon-dioxide-stone-180959365/#GpYzrDcLOjF1tUZx.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter
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McDonald's: Sustainable Beef Options Are on the Horizon | Fortune.com - 0 views

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    McDonald's purchases 2.5% of all the beef produced in the European Union alone-is a key player in the launch of two sustainable beef pilot programs in the U.S. One will attempt to measure beef sustainability through the entire supply chain in a research initiative conducted by the Noble Foundation. The other is a $4.5 million matching grant program run by a group of researchers to test grazing practices that can lead to a negative carbon impact.
Adriana Trujillo

AT&T, EDF Toolkit Promises 28bn Gallons in Commercial Building Water Savings ... - 0 views

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  • cooling towers typically use 28 percent of their daily water for cooling
  • The Building Water Efficiency toolkit is the result of data and lessons from pilot projects that ran across the US during the summer and fall of 2012.
  • For its own operations, AT&T says it identified water savings opportunities of 14 percent to 40 percent per pilot facility and did so in a way that also made business sense.
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  • $100,000 to install but AT&T expects it to produce more than $60,000 in annual water and sewer savings, paying for itself in less than two years.
  • $4,000 equipment upgrade to expand free air cooling will result in about $40,000 in annual savings, the company says.
  • AT&T aims to reduce its approximately 1 billion gallon annual cooling tower water use by 150 million gallons per year by 2015.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 29 Aug 13
     
    US commercial buildings can collectively save up to 28 billion gallons of water annually by using a suit of tools produced by AT&T and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the organizations say.
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Natural Capital Coalition selects two global consortia to develop the Natural Capital P... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Jul 14
     
    The Natural Capital Coalition selected the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the International Union for Conservation of Nature to develop the Natural Capital Protocol, a methodology for companies to assess their reliance on natural capital. The organizations will also lead pilot projects with major companies to test the protocol.
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These Popular Clothing Brands Are Cleaning Up Their Chinese Factories | Mother Jones - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Apr 15
     
    Brands including Target, Levi's and Gap are teaming up with the Natural Resources Defense Council to make their suppliers' factories in China more sustainable. A pilot project involving 33 factories has already seen coal consumption reduced by 61,000 tons and chemical consumption by 400 tons, and saved the factories a total of $14.7 million.
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'Let's Make Air Pollution' Visible Campaign Aims to Improve UK Air Quality | Sustainabl... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Jul 15
     
    Deliver Change, a UK-based non-profit focused on sustainable technology projects, launched a campaign this week called "Let's make air pollution visible," which aims to bring together businesses, policy makers and local groups to solve the problem of air pollution in the UK. Deliver Change is also piloting its air-quality monitoring network, AirSensa, to collect data on air pollution in UK cities. 
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Some Google Street View Cars Now Track Pollution Levels : All Tech Considered : NPR - 1 views

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    Google has attached pollution sensors to a select number of its Street View cars as part of a pilot program, in partnership with environmental sensor network company Aclima. The project is intended to help civic leaders improve the well-being of their citizens by identifying highly polluted urban areas.
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Wendy's ditching chicken antibiotics in new test - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 12 Aug 15
     
    Fast food restaurant chain Wendy's is reportedly piloting the sale of chicken that does not contain antibiotics "medically important to humans" in select Missouri, Texas, and Florida markets, according to CNBC.
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China Plans a Market for Carbon Permits - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 12 Sep 14
     
    China expects to launch a national carbon market in 2016, drawing together regional pilot projects into a single unified marketplace. The new carbon trading system will be the world's biggest emissions market
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Carbon Credit Plan Aims to Save Kenyan Trees and Elephants-and Help Villagers - 0 views

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    Kenya-based Wildlife Works Carbon employs "wildlife rangers" on about 500,000 acres in and around two national parks to protect elephants from poachers. The company sells carbon credits to raise the funds needed to pay the rangers. The cash raised also goes to compensate landowners for leaving land and resources in their natural condition, and to fund educational and community projects. It's the country's pilot project as part of its belonging to the United Nations' Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program.
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Exclusive Pilot Program with Wind Energy Corporation Brings Clean Energy to Select Ford... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 Nov 14
     
    Ford will invest $750,000 to install wind sail and solar panel systems at 4 Ford dealerships, in partnership with the Wind Energy Corporation. The 20,000 kW-h of electricity generated annually will
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Fairphone Achieves First-Ever Fairtrade-Certified Gold Supply Chain for Consumer Electr... - 0 views

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    After almost two years of research and collaboration with a variety of partners, social enterprise Fairphone is pleased to announce it has successfully established the first pilot supply chain for Fairtrade-certified gold for the electronics industry. Fairphone is now the world's first Fairtrade-licensed consumer electronics manufacturer to support responsible gold mining in Peru with the production of the Fairphone 2.
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Trending: Desalination Tech 'On Ice' and in the Desert | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Dec 15
     
    This month, General Electric announced that it is developing a desalination technology that freezes seawater to separate salt crystals from water, at a 20 percent lower cost compared to conventional thermal evaporation approaches. Meanwhile, Veolia and Masdar unveiled a new renewable energy-powered pilot facility that also reduces the costs of desalination.
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The Body Shop Combats London Air Pollution with Cleantech Ad Campaign | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jun 17
     
    After London air pollution levels surpassed allowed limits for 2017 just five days into the new year, new initiatives to improve air quality and draw attention to the city's growing pollution problem have been popping up on the regular. In January, Ford announced that it was teaming up with local government to launch the Ford Transit Custom Plug-In Hybrid Van Pilot Program and the city has begun to roll out ultra-low emissions zones and fleets of hybrid and zero-emission buses to help drive London towards a zero-emission future.
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Levi's Automates Finishing Process, Saving Time and Cutting Chemicals - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 07 Mar 18
     
    Levi Strauss & Co. is piloting a new operating model that replaces labor-intensive manual finishing techniques with an automated digital laser-based system. Called Project Future-Led Execution or Project FLX, Levi's model shortens the time to market, and cuts chemicals from the finishing process.
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