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Adriana Trujillo

COP21: Challenges from UN, MIT Seek Climate-Resilience Solutions from Around the Globe ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Dec 15
     
    On Tuesday at COP21, the MIT Climate CoLab announced the launch of a series of online contests to help strengthen the resilience of vulnerable countries to respond to climate-related hazards. The suite of contests are part of the UN Secretary-General's Climate Resilience Initiative: Anticipate, Absorb, Reshape (A2R), a global, multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at accelerating action on the ground to enhance climate resilience of the most vulnerable countries and people by 2020. 
Adriana Trujillo

Tallying the ROI of resilient buildings | GreenBiz - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Oct 15
     
    "The payback for resilience efforts can be measured in many ways," ULI noted, "including cost savings from preventing damages and reducing operating costs, as well as revenue enhancements from improved marketing, company brand and project image."
Del Birmingham

On Slopes of Kilimanjaro, Shift In Climate Hits Coffee Harvest by Daniel Grossman: Yale... - 1 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 27 Dec 16
     
    Rising temperatures and changing precipitation are taking a toll on coffee farms worldwide, including the plantations around Mount Kilimanjaro. If the world hopes to sustain its two billion cup-a-day habit, scientists say, new climate-resilient species of coffee must be developed.
Adriana Trujillo

GOP votes down funding for global climate fund | TheHill - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Jul 16
     
    Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee rejected an amendment on Tuesday that would allow the federal government to allocate funds toward the UN Green Climate Fund. "The Green Climate Fund is the only multilateral institution that supports clean, resilient development around the world," said Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., adding that the US should be leading the initiative.
Adriana Trujillo

New Industry Partnership Focused on Climate Change | World Cocoa Foundation - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jun 16
     
    The World Cocoa Foundation launched a public-private partnership to help build resilience for adaption to climate change in the global cocoa supply chain.
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This eco-village is designed to be fully self-sufficient, from energy to food to waste ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jun 16
     
    A company created by Stanford University is developing a self-sustaining community in the Netherlands. The 25-home neighborhood will produce its own energy from biogas, solar and geothermal sources and will grow its own food. ReGen Villages describes its focus as "[d]esirable, off-grid-capable neighborhoods comprised of power positive homes, renewable energy, water management, and waste-to-resource systems that are based upon on-going resiliency research -- for thriving families and reduced burdens on local and national governments."
Adriana Trujillo

Florida Power and Light's smart grid success story | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Oct 13
     
    As more utilities make reliability and resiliency their twin mantras, none has had more success than Florida Power & Light
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  • Adriana Trujillo on 07 Nov 13
     
    The goal of President Barack Obama's newly signed executive order related to climate change is to improve disaster-management efforts during severe weather events and other disasters, according to these articles. It establishes a task force that will look at how federal funds are allocated for building projects and suggest ways to make infrastructure more resilient
Adriana Trujillo

Rome seeks collaborators to confront its water woes | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Jul 15
     
    At the height of the Roman Empire, Rome's water management infrastructure was the envy of civilizations the world over. Today, while the city still enjoys abundant high-quality water sources, rainstorms of increasing intensity cause flooding that can hinder the city's ability to function. Exploring holistic, systems-based approaches to urban water challenges is an essential component of Resilient Rome's strategy process.
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FACT SHEET: President Obama Announces New Actions to Bring Renewable Energy and Energy ... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Sep 15
     
    President Obama announced that an additional 15 U.S. cities (19 cities were committed prior to this update) have signed onto the Compact of Mayors-a global platform that helps cities accelerate their sustainability and climate change resiliency efforts. The president set a goal to have at least 100 U.S. cities signed onto the Compact of Mayors by the end of November 2015.
Adriana Trujillo

How ConAgra sets the table for climate resilience | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Oct 14
     
    Here's an inside look at the food giant's sustainability menu, including engaging employees, reducing food waste and sharpening the supply chain.
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Scientists Say Climate Change Should Propel Nuclear Energy to Prominence · En... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 Feb 16
     
    Nuclear energy's resilience was never more apparent than during the COP21 climate talks in Paris. It was there that a famed environmentalist and the one who has cautioned against the effects of global warming said that the carbon-free energy form should figure a lot more prominently into utility power generation. Read more: http://www.environmentalleader.com/2016/02/11/scientists-say-climate-change-should-propel-nuclear-energy-to-prominence/#ixzz40U6A0Uhv
Del Birmingham

Low-Carbon Growth Is a $26 Trillion Opportunity. Here Are 4 Ways to Seize It. | World R... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 06 Sep 18
     
    We are on the cusp of a new growth era, one where growth is driven by the interaction between rapid technological innovation, sustainable infrastructure investment and increased resource productivity. Ambitious climate action across key economic systems-energy, cities, food and land use, water and industry-can lead to higher productivity, more resilient economies and greater social inclusion. It is the growth story of the 21st century.
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

Clothing to dye for: the textile sector must confront water risks | Guardian Sustainabl... - 0 views

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  • Dye houses in India and China are notorious for not only exhausting local water supplies, but for dumping untreated wastewater into local streams and rivers.
  • cotton and polyester, the two most mass marketed textiles
  • Waterless dyeing should be the textile industry's holy grail
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  • Its process modifies cotton's molecular structure and allows dye to settle within the fibres without requiring the massive discharge of water,
  • Cotton comprises 45% of all fibres used within the global textile industry, so a sharp reduction in water consumption would be a huge process improvement for this sector.
  • ColorZen
  • polyester is the prime candidate because dyeing performs best in an airless environment with pressurised high hea
  • can finish cotton fabric using 90% less water and 75% less energy.
  • AirDye
  • a sliver of the water and energy compared to traditional dyeing processes,
  • Instead of water, the company's technology uses air to disperse dye
  • lasts
  • r and is more resilient to chemicals and washings.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Aug 13
     
    Technology is being developed to reduce water use in dyeing but the use and abuse of water to dye clothing continues
Del Birmingham

On the front lines of climate adaptation: Part 1 | Sustainable Industries - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 24 Jul 13
     
    Now that climate change is directly impacting the well-being and safety of many communities, the conversation has officially shifted from mitigation to adaptation.
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Starbucks, Unilever Push White House to Follow Through on Climate Action Plan | Sustain... - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 08 Nov 13
     
    One year after Superstorm Sandy devastated the East Coast, 20 major U.S. brands including Starbucks, Unilever and Mars, Inc. are calling for the White House to follow through on climate change preparedness efforts outlined in the Climate Action Plan announced by President Obama on June 25.
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NRG Energy Sets Ambitious Sustainability Goals, Breaks Ground on Grid-Resilient New Hea... - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 08 Dec 14
     
    NRG Energy, Inc. has announced ambitious sustainability goals as part of its continued corporate growth strategy. NRG says it estimates that its new carbon-reduction goals will avoid approximately 3 billion tons of CO2 emissions by 2050.
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