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Adriana Trujillo

Panera Bread Chases Chipotle Mexican Grill in the Sustainable Race (CMG, PNRA) - 0 views

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    Panera Bread has been using antibiotic-free meat for a decade, but unlike rival Chipotle, it's struggled to effectively communicate its green credentials to consumers. writes Andrew Marder. The company is introducing a communications strategy touting its produce, donations and community cafes for low-income families. "[T]here's a lot of value in the work that Panera is doing, and it just takes a few good ad campaigns to bring that value to bear on the bottom line," Marder writes.
Adriana Trujillo

Natural capital takes center stage at GreenBiz Forum 2014 | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    More businesses accept that they should account for water, fertile soil, forests, air and more. Far fewer are naming a price for these resources.
Adriana Trujillo

Why Sustainable Fashion Has to Be About Individual Style - 0 views

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    Fashion marketing is predicated on the assumption that clothes fall out of fashion from season to season and that consumers must keep buying to stay hip, writes Ceri Heathcote. Sustainable brands should make a stand and encourage consumers to dress for their personal style rather than for marketer-created fashion trends, Heathcote argues.
Adriana Trujillo

Supply Chains Are Key to Change for Sustainable Fisheries and Oceans - News Watch - 0 views

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    For sustainable fishing businesses to succeed and proliferate, a green, ethical approach has to spread throughout the supply chain, writes Monica Jain. "It is also important that businesses that value sustainability demonstrate that they are successfully carving out market share from traditional sources, providing investors with confidence in these businesses' ability to succeed and grow," she writes.
Adriana Trujillo

Natural capital takes center stage at GreenBiz Forum 2014 | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    More businesses accept that they should account for water, fertile soil, forests, air and more. Far fewer are naming a price for these resources.
Adriana Trujillo

Paper Bulks Up in Digital Era - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Americans renew their relationship with paper, ditching the cheap stuff for reading news to buy expensive stock for photo-based cards and albums.
Adriana Trujillo

Increasingly Homogeneous Food Supply 'Threat to' Health, Food Security · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Over the last 50 years, human diets around the world have grown ever more similar and the trend shows no signs of slowing, with major consequences for human nutrition and global food security, according to research carried out at International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
Adriana Trujillo

Scorecard Says Palm Oil Commitments Absent or Incomplete · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Twenty-four out of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food and personal care industries have inadequate commitments or lack commitments altogether for sourcing sustainable palm oil for their products, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
Adriana Trujillo

EU agrees watered-down deal on aviation carbon emissions | Environment | theguardian.com - 0 views

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    European lawmakers are poised to sign off on a law that would allow airlines to avoid paying carbon fees for long-haul flights terminating in Europe. The move disappointed greens, who said lawmakers had secured little beyond vague promises of future action in exchange for the move. "European governments have conceded again to international pressure without getting anything meaningful in return," said transport activist Bill Hemmings
Adriana Trujillo

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
Adriana Trujillo

Apple, eBay, Gap, Intel throw weight behind Climate Declaration | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    A group of 140 California firms have reiterated calls for legislators to deliver ambitious action on climate change with the release of a new declaration signaling their support for policies that serve to cut emissions and drive investment in clean tech.
Adriana Trujillo

Ecodesk Launches Conflict Minerals Monitoring Tool · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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  • As each supplier completes a declaration on its sustainability profile, data is automatically connected to a customer dashboard,
  • enabling businesses to analyze conflict mineral use by geography, industry and by individual smelters at a glance.
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  • Ecodesk says it can help customers and their suppliers report once, but share many times, through its profile-based platform, thus avoiding having to complete repeat questionnaires.
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    Ecodesk launched a monitoring tool for businesses to track conflict minerals in supply chain. They want it to be an eary warning system for non-financial factors in supply chain, providing an understanding of potential problems
Adriana Trujillo

China Now Handing Down Death Penalty to Worst Polluters - 0 views

  • Chinese authorities have recently given courts the authority to hand down the death penalty for serious cases of pollution
  • Public anger over China’s growth-at-all-costs policies has been growing steadily in response to the increasingly polluted air and water
  • public’s attitudes towards environmental protection found that up to 80 percent believe that environmental protection should be a higher priority than economic development.
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  • A recent analysis by the Health Effects Institute in Boston found that over a million people die prematurely in China every year as the result of air pollution.
  • Particulate levels in Beijing, Guangzhou and other Chinese cities often rise to as much as seven times the World Health Organization’s air-quality standard
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  • A protest over plans to build a petro-chemical refinery in Kunming
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    Chines courts are allowed to hand down the death penalty for serisous cases of pollution
Adriana Trujillo

Siemens Introduces CoMag for Industrial Water and Wastewater Treatment · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Siemens Water Technologies magnetite ballasted CoMag System, which is already helping municipalities to increase water and wastewater treatment plant clarification performance in confined footprints, is now available for industrial water and wastewater treatment applications.
Brett Rohring

Ford and Microsoft invest in $1 billion bond For climate projects | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

  • Ford and Microsoft were among investors in a $1 billion green bond launched last week to support "climate smart" investments in emerging markets.
  • Proceeds of IFC green bonds are used for private sector investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other areas that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as installing solar and wind power capacity and providing financing for technology that helps produce energy more efficiently.
  • IFC said in a statement that the bond transaction, jointly led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Crédit Agricole CIB and SEB, was heavily oversubscribed and sized to address the demand from "an increasing number of investors interested in climate-related opportunities."
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  • It marks the second $1 billion green bond transaction this year from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an Aaa/AAA rated global development institution and member of the World Bank Group.
  • Bond issues are seen as an increasingly important way to raise funds for green projects, with the green bond market now estimated at $346 billion after doubling over 2012.
Adriana Trujillo

Plastic Bag Reprocessing Plant Turns Waste into Useful Products · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    PlasRecycle has built the UK's first facility for reprocessing post-consumer polythene bags and packaging films to produce a plastic granulate that can be used for making new bags.
Adriana Trujillo

General Mills' Big Sustainable Sourcing Commitment - 0 views

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    General Mills will obtain 100% of its 10 most-used ingredients from sustainable sources by 2020, setting a green goal for more than half of the company's total raw-material purchases. "General Mills is committed to creating long-term value for our business, and our society," says CEO Ken Powell
Adriana Trujillo

GM Chooses Flywheel UPS for Detroit Data Center | Energy Manager Today - 0 views

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    General Motors' enterprise data center in Detroit cut energy consumption 70% by installing a flywheel for battery-free backup power and implementing in-row cooling techniques. The facility also achieved LEED Gold certification.
Adriana Trujillo

Shell, GE, Clean Energy Fuels to Build LNG Fuel Station for Cargo Ships · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Shell, General Electric and Clean Energy Fuels will begin construction next year on the US' first fuel station for liquefied natural gas-fueled cargo ships in Jacksonville, Fla., Bloomberg reports.
Adriana Trujillo

Sustainable Materials, Chemicals 'Top of Agenda' in 2014, Frost & Sullivan Says · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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    Materials market for energy efficient buildings, construction chemicals and flexible packaging will be the key growth areas in 2014 and beyond, according to Frost & Sullivan's predictions for the global chemical, materials and food industry.
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