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Why IBM sees blockchain as a breakthrough for traceability | GreenBiz - 0 views

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But the fact is that the blockchain is building some serious credibility within the world's biggest banks and financial services firms - they helped fuel more than $1 billion in investments between 2014 and 2016. That visibility has given both established and emerging companies the confidence to experiment. In mid-October, for example, Walmart announced a collaboration with IBM and Tsinghua University in Beijing focused on using the blockchain as a mechanism for authenticating food sources and keeping tabs on all sorts of related data - including the originating farm, batch numbers, processing plant information, expiration dates and storage temperatures.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">But the fact is that the blockchain is building some serious credibility within the world's biggest banks and financial services firms - they helped fuel more than $1 billion in investments between 2014 and 2016. That visibility has given both established and emerging companies the confidence to experiment. In mid-October, for example, Walmart announced a collaboration with IBM and Tsinghua University in Beijing focused on using the blockchain as a mechanism for authenticating food sources and keeping tabs on all sorts of related data - including the originating farm, batch numbers, processing plant information, expiration dates and storage temperatures.</div>

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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.)
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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?’”
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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.
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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.
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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."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"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."</div>

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These Shoes Are Knit From Recycled Water Bottles | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 0 views

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Two weeks ago, this new shoe was three plastic water bottles. After ground-up bottles are turned into recycled filament fiber and delivered to a factory, a San Francisco-based startup uses a proprietary process to 3D-knit the fiber into a seamless, essentially waste-free shoe.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Two weeks ago, this new shoe was three plastic water bottles. After ground-up bottles are turned into recycled filament fiber and delivered to a factory, a San Francisco-based startup uses a proprietary process to 3D-knit the fiber into a seamless, essentially waste-free shoe.</div>

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

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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

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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: <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/iceland-carbon-capture-project-quickly-converts-carbon-dioxide-stone-180959365/#GpYzrDcLOjF1tUZx.99" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/iceland-carbon-capture-project-quickly-converts-carbon-dioxide-stone-180959365/#GpYzrDcLOjF1tUZx.99</a> Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! <a href="http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv</a> Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter</div>

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DeepMind AI slashes cooling costs at Google's data centers - 0 views

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Deep learning AI has been put to work in intelligent drones, sequencing genomes, learning the tactics of the ancient Chinese board game Go, and even keeping cats off the lawn. Now, Google has set its DeepMind system loose on its massive data centers, and drastically cut the cost of cooling these facilities in the process.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Deep learning AI has been put to work in intelligent drones, sequencing genomes, learning the tactics of the ancient Chinese board game Go, and even keeping cats off the lawn. Now, Google has set its DeepMind system loose on its massive data centers, and drastically cut the cost of cooling these facilities in the process.</div>

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New Process Efficiently Uses Solar to Produce Hydrogen - 0 views

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Now, a company called HyperSolar claims to have developed a commercially-scalable method of producing hydrogen using only sunlight and water.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Now, a company called HyperSolar claims to have developed a commercially-scalable method of producing hydrogen using only sunlight and water. </div>

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Amping Up Innovation: 20 Purpose-Driven Brands Rise to the Challenge of New Made to Mat... - 0 views

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Target updated its Made to Matter product standards, which now require the 20 participating brands to meet at least one of its sustainability-driven criteria. The criteria include reducing waste and packaging, integrating circularity principles into production processes, eliminating the use of additives and "harsh" chemicals, and more.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Target updated its Made to Matter product standards, which now require the 20 participating brands to meet at least one of its sustainability-driven criteria. The criteria include reducing waste and packaging, integrating circularity principles into production processes, eliminating the use of additives and "harsh" chemicals, and more.</div>

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FEMA: Caught Between Climate Change and Congress - Bloomberg - 0 views

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is responsible for handling America's response to extreme weather events such as wildfires and floods, but some experts say the agency isn't adequately factoring climate issues into its strategic planning processes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Federal Emergency Management Agency is responsible for handling America's response to extreme weather events such as wildfires and floods, but some experts say the agency isn't adequately factoring climate issues into its strategic planning processes. </div>

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Beverage Packaging Generates Less Waste, GHGs · Environmental Management & En... - 0 views

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Leahy-IFP's Space Saver bag-in-a-box beverage packaging uses 50 percent less energy during production, generates 22 percent less post-consumer solid waste and 7 percent less process greenhouse gases, compared to 64-oz. plastic bottles, the company says.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Leahy-IFP's Space Saver bag-in-a-box beverage packaging uses 50 percent less energy during production, generates 22 percent less post-consumer solid waste and 7 percent less process greenhouse gases, compared to 64-oz. plastic bottles, the company says.</div>

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Interface confirms 100 per cent renewable-powered factory has come online - 07 Feb 2014... - 0 views

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Interface announced that its Dutch manufacturing facility now runs on 100% renewable energy, sends zero waste to landfills, and uses almost no water in its manufacturing processes. Interface has pledged eliminate any negative impact it has on the environment by 2020 under its Mission Zero strategy.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interface announced that its Dutch manufacturing facility now runs on 100% renewable energy, sends zero waste to landfills, and uses almost no water in its manufacturing processes. Interface has pledged eliminate any negative impact it has on the environment by 2020 under its Mission Zero strategy.</div>

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Finance Execs Need to Get More Involved in Sustainability Reporting - 0 views

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Financial executives should become more involved in their company's sustainability reporting efforts, according to a new report. The report, from Grant Thornton and the Financial Executives Research Foundation, found that financial executives are not as involved in corporate social responsibility matters and reporting as they should be, even though the finance function's involvement in sustainability reporting adds credibility and confidence in the measurement, data collection and analysis processes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Financial executives should become more involved in their company's sustainability reporting efforts, according to a new report. The report, from Grant Thornton and the Financial Executives Research Foundation, found that financial executives are not as involved in corporate social responsibility matters and reporting as they should be, even though the finance function's involvement in sustainability reporting adds credibility and confidence in the measurement, data collection and analysis processes. </div>

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Levi Strauss tests 100% recycled water in parts of its jeans production | Guardian Sust... - 0 views

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Levi Strauss has created a process for using 100% recycled water in parts of its garment production, Michael Kobori, vice president of sustainability at the company, has told the Guardian.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Levi Strauss has created a process for using 100% recycled water in parts of its garment production, Michael Kobori, vice president of sustainability at the company, has told the Guardian. </div>

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Levi's Jeans Save 770 Million Liters of Water · Environmental Management & En... - 0 views

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Levi's Water<Less jeans collection, designed to reduce water used in the finishing process by up to 96 percent, has saved over 770 million liters of water since its launch in 2011, the company announced.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Levi's Water<Less jeans collection, designed to reduce water used in the finishing process by up to 96 percent, has saved over 770 million liters of water since its launch in 2011, the company announced.</div>

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Innovators tap the value of wastewater | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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Bear Republic is taking things a step farther: In January, it was the first brewery to buy Cambrian's EcoVolt system, which uses electrically active organisms to clean wastewater for reuse while creating a high-quality biogas that helps offset the heat and electricity needed for Bear's production process

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Bear Republic is taking things a step farther: In January, it was the first brewery to buy Cambrian's EcoVolt system, which uses electrically active organisms to clean wastewater for reuse while creating a high-quality biogas that helps offset the heat and electricity needed for Bear's production process</div>

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Levi's Wellthread stitches design together with worker well-being | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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The new Levi's Dockers Wellthread process creates a pattern for sustainability in clothing production

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The new Levi's Dockers Wellthread process creates a pattern for sustainability in clothing production</div>

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Pepsico recycles snack food waste into energy and fertilizer | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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A biogas process being used in Turkey reduces plant operations while providing potato farmers with more sustainable soil nutrients.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A biogas process being used in Turkey reduces plant operations while providing potato farmers with more sustainable soil nutrients.</div>

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Kodak Technology to 'Save 265 Million Liters of Water Annually' · Environment... - 0 views

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Kodak's Sonora Process Free Plate technology could save up to 265 million liters of water in a year, the company says.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Kodak's Sonora Process Free Plate technology could save up to 265 million liters of water in a year, the company says.</div>

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Bio-Tec Patents Environmentally Friendly Plastic Method · Environmental Manag... - 0 views

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Bio-Tec Environmental has patented a method of creating a layered polymeric plastic or composite. The biodegradable-plastics company has been granted US Patent 8,222,316 and foreign equivalents for this process. Products that combine the patented method with Bio-Tec's patent-pending formulations are under development, the company says.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Bio-Tec Environmental has patented a method of creating a layered polymeric plastic or composite. The biodegradable-plastics company has been granted US Patent 8,222,316 and foreign equivalents for this process. Products that combine the patented method with Bio-Tec's patent-pending formulations are under development, the company says. </div>

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Investors Urge Biotech, Food Industry to Stay Out of GMO Labeling Fight · Env... - 0 views

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Environmentalist and shareholder advocacy groups have filed resolutions urging Monsanto, DuPont de Nemours and Dow Chemical Company to stop using corporate funds to fight a referendum in Washington that, if it passed, would require special labels on raw and processed foods made from genetically modified crops.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Environmentalist and shareholder advocacy groups have filed resolutions urging Monsanto, DuPont de Nemours and Dow Chemical Company to stop using corporate funds to fight a referendum in Washington that, if it passed, would require special labels on raw and processed foods made from genetically modified crops. </div>

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Ikea Plugs-In More Onsite Power in Emeryville, CA Store as its Fuel Cell System Expands... - 0 views

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IKEA, the world's leading home furnishings retailer, today announced it officially has 'flipped-the-switch' on a fuel cell system installed at its retail location in Emeryville, CA - one of two San Francisco-area stores for the Swedish company. Consistent with the IKEA focus on emerging energy technologies, this project represents the first IKEA endeavor globally to convert biogas into electricity through a clean electro-chemical process

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">IKEA, the world's leading home furnishings retailer, today announced it officially has 'flipped-the-switch' on a fuel cell system installed at its retail location in Emeryville, CA - one of two San Francisco-area stores for the Swedish company. Consistent with the IKEA focus on emerging energy technologies, this project represents the first IKEA endeavor globally to convert biogas into electricity through a clean electro-chemical process</div>

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