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Adriana Trujillo

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.
Del Birmingham

These Popular Clothing Brands Are Cleaning Up Their Chinese Factories | Mother Jones - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 24 Apr 15
     
    A few basic (and often profitable) changes in a factory's manufacturing process can go a long way in cutting down pollution. That's the takeaway from Clean by Design, a new alliance between NRDC, major clothing brands-including Target, Levi's, Gap, and H&M-and Chinese textile manufacturing experts.
Adriana Trujillo

How Biking Improves Employee Productivity - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Exercising before work raises an employee’s productivity by an average of 15 percent.
  • we should consider the difference between an expense and an investment
  • that seven of the top ten causes of death are related to transportation.
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  • a UK Traffic Advisory Unit found that organizations that implemented cycling strategies received a return of between $1.33 and $6.50 for every $1 spent in cycle promotion, resulting from increased productivity.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 13
     
    Exercising before work raises an employee's productivity by an average of 15 percent.
Adriana Trujillo

6 things one utility now knows about electric vehicles | GreenBiz.com - 1 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • SCE customers lease or own more than 12,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEV), which represent about 10 percent of national EV sales. Because California leads the nation in EV adoption, other utilities and stakeholders in the auto industry may find the information from the white paper useful.
  • The Southern California region and SCE’s service territory in particular is seeing significant uptick of early plug-in vehicle adoption,”
  • Adriana Trujillo on 28 Aug 13
     
    Currently, SCE customers lease or own more than 12,000 plug-in electric vehicles (PEV), which represent about 10 percent of national EV sales. Because California leads the nation in EV adoption, other utilities and stakeholders in the auto industry may find the information from the white paper useful.
Adriana Trujillo

FedEx, United bet it's (finally) time for jet biofuels to take off | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Jul 15
     
    Aviation biofuels are on the rise again thanks to airlines like Virgin, Southwest and United, as well as buy-in from manufacturers and logistics providers Boeing and FedEx.
Adriana Trujillo

Green Building Elements | From brick and mortar shops to city planning, we cover sustainable trends in construction, renovation, and more. - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 24 Jun 15
     
    Canadian architect Michael Green wants to build a 35-story wooden skyscraper in Paris that would be carbon neutral. He and some partners have submitted the proposal as part of the Reinvent Paris competition, a revitalization project in the city. Green said constructing the building would highlight the advantages of wood in the construction of tall buildings
Del Birmingham

Trending: Activists, Shareholders Continue to Rail Against Companies Lagging on Sustainable Palm Oil | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 15 Apr 15
     
    This week, stakeholders continued to take action to pressure companies into turning over a new leaf when it comes to their sourcing practices - around what has become known as Conflict Palm Oil.
Brett Rohring

5 reasons the thirst for water technology will grow in 2014 | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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  • Here are five factors driving the urgent need for better global water efficiency.
  • 1. Population trends translate into bursting demand
  • The United Nations figures that 1.2 billion people (about one-fifth of the world's population) are challenged by water scarcity
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  • The bottom line is that water availability will be a major investment consideration in business expansion plans around the world.
  • Just one example from the United States: In Chandler, Ariz., Intel has negotiated a unique relationship with the city to clean and return water tainted by its wafer manufacturing operation back to the local aquifers. Chandler owns the technology to do this, but Intel has helped make that investment possible. Both sides benefit
  • 2. Sanitation, irrigation needs transform wastewater treatment
  • most wastewater is still wasted: in high-income countries, the treatment rate is 70 percent, but it falls to just 28 percent for lower-middle-income nations and 8 percent in low-income economies.
  • 3. Utility costs are rising quickly
  • 4. Distribution networks are aging rapidly
  • Overall, the World Bank estimates the annual global value of water lost by utilities at $14 billion. The average U.S. utility pours up to 30 percent down the drain through leaks or un-billed usage.
  • 5. Data centers guzzle more water
Adriana Trujillo

5 reasons 2015 will be the year of the energy tipping point | GreenBiz - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 08 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 08 Jan 15
     
    There's been a lot of talk in 2014 about the "utility death spiral" and suppositions that utilities as we know them will cease to exist. I'm not entirely sure we've seen the last of the utility industry, but I feel certain a year from now we'll look back on 2015 as the year a lot shifted in how each of us individually acquire and manage our energy consumption. Here's why.
Adriana Trujillo

2014: The year water rose to the top of public consciousness | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 08 Jan 15
     
    2014 was the year the water issues went mainstream, propelled to the forefront of challenges facing the public and private sectors. Here's what to expect in 2015:
Adriana Trujillo

2014's Top 10 Clean Energy Developments - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 14 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Jan 15
     
    2014 was an exciting year for clean energy. And we're not just talking about Rocky Mountain Institute and Carbon War Room merging in strategic alliance. Sure, that was exciting news, but there were many other remarkable clean energy developments that are helping bring us closer to a clean, prosperous, and secure energy future. Based on an informal poll of the RMI staff we list our top 10:
Adriana Trujillo

Year in Review: One Company's Waste Becomes Another's Bioplastic | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jan 15
     
    From tomatoes and paper pulp to lignin and sugar beets, it seems like researchers played with just about every fauna they could find in the search for the next great bioplastic feedstock this year.
Adriana Trujillo

5 lessons for businesses from 2014 | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jan 15
     
    As 2014 comes to a close and we launch into the new year with new ambitions challenged by changing operating realities, we share our most important lessons of the past year for the sustainable business community. The implications extend far beyond, of course.
Adriana Trujillo

What gets sustainability execs excited for 2015? | GreenBiz - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Jan 15
     
    As 2014 ends and 2015 begins, we asked members of the GreenBiz Executive Network, our member-based, peer-to-peer learning forum for sustainability professionals, to look ahead and share what they think will be exciting in the new year.
Adriana Trujillo

Green envy: mainstreaming of responsible consumption means green products now out-perform in retail | Marketing magazine - 0 views

www.marketingmag.com.au/...ow-out-perform-in-retail-55402

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Aug 14
     
    Consumers want green products, and they're willing to boycott brands that fail to deliver them, writes Bridget James. "Consumers, enabled by information, are becoming the regulatory body of the market, and their new values are driving green growth globally," she asserts
Adriana Trujillo

Smarter cities and systemic change: 2015 sustainability predictions | GreenBiz - 0 views

www.greenbiz.com/...015-sustainability-predictions

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 15 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Jan 15
     
    While 2014 ushered in big breakthroughs in fields from solar energy to smart cities, 2015 will present a crossroads for larger-scale sustainability progress.
Adriana Trujillo

Bookmark this: 10 useful green resources for 2015 | GreenBiz - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Jan 15
     
    From a real-time view into deforestation to an innovative approach to delivering fresh food while minimizing waste, here are sites to watch this year.
Adriana Trujillo

Keeping Up with the "Clean Label" Movement - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 17 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 17 Nov 15
     
    Companies and consumers are increasingly gravitating toward "clean labels" that include simple, transparent and jargon-free information about products, often including their health and environmental impacts, writes Andrew Winston. "Neglecting the clean-label movement will cost you customers and workers; avoiding it as a purposeful strategy could destroy the company or a few careers," Winston warns
Del Birmingham

The five ethical stories that will define the next decade | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...decade-china-antibiotics-water

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shared by Del Birmingham on 12 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Del Birmingham on 12 Jan 16
     
    From the use of antibiotics in farming to China's environmental tipping point - a look at the issues that could define the next ten years
Adriana Trujillo

The State of Green Business: The circular economy revs up | GreenBiz - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 18 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 Feb 16
     
    Why Dow, Coca-Cola, Google and many other big companies are joining the quest to cut waste by continually cycling materials back through supply chains. 
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