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Adriana Trujillo

New Doc from Nat Geo, C&A Highlights Business Case for Organic Cotton Production | Sustainable Brands - 1 views

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national Geographic cotton organic add environmental news ROI

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 May 16
     
    Cotton is planted on 2.4 percent of the world's crop land and yet it accounts for 24 percent and 11 percent of the global sales of insecticide and pesticides, respectively. Organic cotton represents less than 1 percent of the global total annual crop, but National Geographic, international clothing brand C&A, and activist and filmmaker Alexandra Cousteau believe that needs to change. A new 60-minute documentary, For the Love of Fashion, emphasizes "the need for a paradigm shift in the cotton value chain."
Del Birmingham

Inside Interface's bold new mission to achieve 'Climate Take Back' | GreenBiz - 0 views

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GreenBiz Joel Makower Interface other company news bold mission climate goals

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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

For Every $1 Spent On Reducing Food Waste, Companies Save $14 | Co.Exist | ideas + impact - 1 views

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Fast Company WRI UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 Champions 12.3 reducing food waste impact business case financial savings

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  • Del Birmingham on 10 Mar 17
     
    A new report by WRI and Waste & Resources Action Programme found that, on average, for every $1 a company invested in food loss and waste reduction-through training programs, providing equipment like scales to quantify food, and improving storage and packaging-they received a $14 return on investment.
Adriana Trujillo

Solar crowdfunding trend is heating up | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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crowdfunding trend ROI Business Case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Jan 14
     
    There's a new twist on crowdfunding solar projects. SolarCity and Mosaic are engaging businesses and consumers
Adriana Trujillo

REI hits the roof to put a ceiling on data center cooling | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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Business Case rei hits roof ceiling cooling

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Jan 14
     
    Outdoor retailer REI is saving 1.8 million KW-h per year after installing energy-efficient cooling systems at its Seattle datacenter. The project reduced energy consumption tied to cooling by 93% and had a payback period of less than 1 year.
Adriana Trujillo

Green financial investments: Banks, companies, funds meet at U.N. on climate solutions. - 0 views

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investments companies banks funds climate other company news Business Case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Jan 14
     
    Major institutional investors are increasingly mindful of the risk that carbon-intensive assets could lose their value if climate regulations become tougher, Tim McDonnell argues. That could be good news for clean energy investment, even though spending on that sector declined in 2013.
Adriana Trujillo

Sierra Nevada Brewing Achieves 99.8% Waste Diversion | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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sierra brewing diversion sustainable waste Business Case

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  • Del Birmingham on 22 Nov 13
     
    Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is the first to receive the US Zero Waste Business Council's platinum certification - the highest possible rating - for successfully diverting 99.8 percent of its waste.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Dec 13
     
    Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is the first to receive the US Zero Waste Business Council's platinum certification - the highest possible rating - for successfully diverting 99.8 percent of its waste.
Adriana Trujillo

Green group spends $1M touting lawmakers' clean energy work | TheHill - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Nov 13
     
    The League of Conservation Voters is spending $1 million on a TV ad campaign in support of five lawmakers with strong track records on clean-energy issues. The lawmakers, all Democrats, deserve recognition for their efforts, the group says.
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainability Leads to Cost Savings, Revenue Growth · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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sustainability cost savings revenue business case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 27 Nov 13
     
    nability programs are producing cost savings, revenue growth, competitive advantage and environmental benefits across corporate America, writes Harold L. Sirkin, a senior partner of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), in a Businessweek management blog.
Adriana Trujillo

Nike fires starting gun on water-less dye factory - 03 Dec 2013 - News from BusinessGreen - 0 views

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nike dye factory other company news energy business case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 09 Dec 13
     
    Nike opened a waterless dying facility in Taiwan that requires 60% less energy than traditional factories.
Adriana Trujillo

Whole Foods, Walgreens and other retailers see the light on retrofitting | GreenBiz.com - 1 views

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foods retailers Business Case

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  • lighting retrofits [PDF] can save upwards of 30 to 50 percent of lighting energy, as well as 10 to 20 percent of cooling energy. Intelligent controls with sensors at each fixture can lead to even greater saving
  • The store in Raleigh, N.C., achieved total energy savings [PDF] of 25 percent over a baseline store, and nearly 50 percent savings in lighting energ
  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Dec 13
     
    By adding thoughtfully planned and well-timed daylighting fixtures, big-box stores see significant energy savings.
Adriana Trujillo

GM Facility Solves Tough Waste Challenge - 0 views

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GM waste Business Case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Dec 13
     
    General Motors achieved landfill-free status at a 1.8 million square foot manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York. The company now manages 109 landfill-free facilities in total.
Adriana Trujillo

Kodak Technology to 'Save 265 Million Liters of Water Annually' · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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kodak technology water Business Case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Dec 13
     
    Kodak's Sonora Process Free Plate technology could save up to 265 million liters of water in a year, the company says.
Adriana Trujillo

How GSA is driving building efficiency with FirstFuel | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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building efficiency Business Case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 04 Dec 13
     
    Remote audits from FirstFuel have already helped the government identify $14.5 million in energy savings. That's just the beginning.
Adriana Trujillo

Coke Expands Hybrid Fleet · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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coke fleet hybrid business case

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Dec 13
     
    Coca-Cola will convert 100 of its Chevrolet Express service vans into hybrids using technology from XL Hybrids. The move is expected to reduce fuel consumption up to 20% and avoid 4,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the vans' lifetime.
Adriana Trujillo

Framework emerges to build the business case for natural capital | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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NGO natural capital resources nature business

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 02 May 14
     
    After months of consultation with stakeholders, the Natural Capital Coalition has published the first draft of a suggested framework to help businesses account for the value of natural resources such as water, soil, forests and even clean air in strategic decision-making.
Adriana Trujillo

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

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disney golden oak facility hurdles

shared by Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • 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

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'energy management ROI case study Nissan

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  • Del Birmingham on 08 Nov 13
     
    A Nissan vehicle plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, improved the plant's energy performance by 7.2 percent in gaining the SEP certification. The new system saves the facility $938,000 annually; Nissan's investment, $331,000, was recovered in just four months. - See more at: http://www.justmeans.com/#sthash.61g5GUht.dpuf
Adriana Trujillo

Turning Innovative Financing Into Principled Action: The Case for Safe Drinking Water | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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climate change risk environmental news add water

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Apr 15
     
    This year's World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report lists water as the number one risk in terms of impact. The impact of water can already be seen and felt across different parts of society, especially recent droughts in the western United States and Brazil, which have made international headlines, and are evidence of an underlying problem.
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