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Adriana Trujillo

An Accidental Cattle Ranch Points the Way in Sustainable Farming - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Nov 13
     
    Some amateur ranchers use free-ranging cattle as part of land management, and they are finding they can make money by selling grass-fed beef. TomKat Ranch aims to emulate the migratory patterns followed by wild herd animals, allowing land time to recover between grazings. "Ranches can be working landscapes if people understand how animals and land work together," says Wendy Millet, a ranch director who once worked at the Nature Conservancy.
Adriana Trujillo

Lululemon, Patagonia Pledge End to Endangered Forest Fiber Use · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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  • Designer Eileen Fisher, apparel companies Quiksilver, Prana, Patagonia, Lululemon Athletica and other global clothing brands with revenues totaling more than $4 billion have partnered with environmental organization Canopy to develop purchasing policies that aim to end the use of endangered forest fiber. The companies along with 14 eco-designers are working to craft forest-friendly purchasing policies that track which forests their rayon and viscose fabrics are from. The group also will work to eliminate controversial forest fiber from their supply chains.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 04 Nov 13
     
    Designer Eileen Fisher, apparel companies Quiksilver, Prana, Patagonia, Lululemon Athletica and other global clothing brands with revenues totaling more than $4 billion have partnered with environmental organization Canopy to develop purchasing policies that aim to end the use of endangered forest fiber. The companies along with 14 eco-designers are working to craft forest-friendly purchasing policies that track which forests their rayon and viscose fabrics are from. The group also will work to eliminate controversial forest fiber from their supply chains.
Adriana Trujillo

Edelman ends work with coal producers and climate change deniers | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Sep 15
     
    Public relations firm Edelman, in an internal note, says it will no longer do business with producers of coal or organizations that seek to discredit climate change. "When you are trying in some way to obfuscate the truth or use misinformation and half-truths, that is what we would consider getting into the work of greenwashing, and that is something we would never propose or work we would support our client doing," said Michael Stewart, president and CEO for Europe. 
Adriana Trujillo

GM, Michelin put brakes on deforestation linked to rubber | GreenBiz - 1 views

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deforestation add other company news rubber

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Jul 17
     
    Last year, Michelin announced it no longer would procure rubber from deforested lands. It set about working with suppliers and regional governments to encourage sustainable forestry. Michelin's zero deforestation policy led other tire makers Bridgestone, Goodyear and Continental to also begin working towards zero deforestation in rubber procurement. Now, GM is also adopting a zero deforestation stance in its tire procurement policy. The largest U.S. automaker (in market capitalization) in June declared that it would buy only tires with rubber sourced from sustainably grown forests. In addition, the company announced plans to work with other automakers and tire manufacturers to come up with an industry response
Adriana Trujillo

Ahh…Coke refreshes its sustainable packaging strategy | Packaging Digest - 0 views

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coke sustainable packaging other company news

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 20 Apr 17
     
    Coca-Cola is working to stay ahead of consumers' sustainable packaging needs via such innovations as the recyclable PlantBottle, as well as by working with suppliers and maximizing the use of renewable materials, said Sarah Dearman, the company's head of sustainable packaging. "Our suppliers play a critical role by working together to advance innovation to help enable all parties to meet their goals," she said.
amandasjohnston

India hopes to work with Trump regime on solar norms | Business Line - 0 views

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  • amandasjohnston on 23 Jan 17
     
    India is delaying a decision on asking for a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organisation against domestic content regulations in renewable energy programmes run by eight states in the US as it is hoping to work out a "mutually beneficial'' solution with the new regime under Republican leader Donald Trump. "New Delhi is still hopeful that it could work out a compromise with Washington on the flexible implementation of the WTO verdict against it in the solar power programme dispute. It may decide not to ask for a panel against US renewable energy programmes if it gets an assurance from the Trump administration on leniency in the solar case," a government official told BusinessLine.
Del Birmingham

Green buildings make you work smarter and sleep sounder, study reveals | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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the guardian environmental news green-buildings benefits workers productivity

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  • Del Birmingham on 28 Dec 16
     
    People working in green buildings think better in the office and sleep better when they get home, a new study has revealed. The research indicates that better ventilation, lighting and heat control improves workers' performance and could boost their productivity by thousands of dollars a year. It also suggests that more subjective aspects, such as beautiful design, may make workers happier and more productive.
Adriana Trujillo

EPA stops work on climate rule compliance program | TheHill - 1 views

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epa climate add environmental news compliance CPP trump

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Dec 16
     
    The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped working on a voluntary compliance program for power plants looking to cut emissions under the Clean Power Plan. The Trump administration has pledged to overturn the CPP.
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."
Adriana Trujillo

Apple Working With WWF China to Manage Sustainable Forests - Bloomberg Business - 1 views

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apple other company news add wwf china forests

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 11 May 15
     
    Apple is working with the World Wildlife Fund to preserve as much as 1 million acres of Chinese forests and will also promote clean energy and sustainable manufacturing practices in China and elsewhere. "Apple is in a unique position to take the initiative toward this ambitious goal. It is a responsibility we accept," CEO Tim Cook said. 
Adriana Trujillo

How cap-and-trade helps forests and businesses grow together | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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environmental news add forests cap and trade

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 19 Aug 14
     
    Carbon markets are working, but challenges remain for making carbon markets work to support forest owners and businesses.
Adriana Trujillo

Martín von Hildebrand: An audacious plan for the Amazon | Ensia - 0 views

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    Martin von Hildebrand, founder of the Fundacion Gaia Amazonas, is working to establish an ecological corridor protecting 333 million acres of rain forest stretching from Colombia to the Brazilian coast. That will involve finding ways to work with the loggers, miners and farmers already active in the area, he says. "We have to look at those areas where there already is something like oil, or like agriculture, or like cattle ranching and approach it from a sustainable point of view," he explains. 
Adriana Trujillo

If Unilever Can't Make Feel-Good Capitalism Work, Who Can? - Bloomberg - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 04 Oct 17
     
    Unilever has worked hard to be a sustainable, environmentally conscious business, but whether the $170 billion conglomerate can turn that into profits in today's competitive market remains to be seen, according to this analysis. "Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder," said CEO Paul Polman.
Del Birmingham

Apple's Forests Now Sustainable Enough to Cover the Paper Used in All Packaging - Environmental Leader - 1 views

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Environmental Leader Apple forests sustainable cover paper packaging other company news

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  • Del Birmingham on 28 Jul 17
     
    Apple says that 320,000 acres of working forest in China have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and that the company is now protecting and creating enough sustainable working forest to cover the paper use in its packaging for all products.
Adriana Trujillo

Apple's sustainable forestry strategy branches out | GreenBiz - 1 views

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apple forestry add other company news forest paper

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 17
     
    Apple announced that the Forest Stewardship Council has certified 320,000 acres of working forest that it supports in China. The 320,000 acres of certified working forest reportedly covers 100% of Apple's product packaging needs.
Adriana Trujillo

WaterStillar readies roll-out of scaleable solar water distiller - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 15 Oct 15
     
    A solar distillation system uses vacuum tube solar collectors to mimic nature's process and produces clean water from nearly any source at low cost. The system by WaterStillar Water Works functions even on cloudy days, although at a slower rate, and can be scaled up to produce as much as 2,642 gallons of drinking water per day. 
amandasjohnston

Students Across the Country Tell PepsiCo: "We Won't Work for Conflict Palm Oil" - Rainforest Action NetWork - 1 views

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palm oil rainforest environmental news NGO RAN

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    Every Fall, college and universities across the country welcome companies on their campuses to provide networking opportunities for students. These events can include career fairs, interviews, and industry specific networking gatherings. One such company is PepsiCo, major user of Conflict Palm Oil and top corporate laggard in Rainforest Action Network's Snack Food 20. "Pepsi's palm oil supply chain is saturated with rainforest destruction, human rights and labor abuses, and species extinction," said Adam Stackable, an Oklahoma student, "I won't work for a company that uses Conflict Palm Oil." Adam and several other students confronted a Pepsi recruiter at Oklahoma State University and delivered a letter urging the company to take action to address the egregious practices in its supply chain.
Del Birmingham

Brazil's Congress moves ahead to end nation's environmental safeguards - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 10 May 16
     
    A Brazilian Senate Commission is quickly, and surreptitiously, moving forward a constitutional amendment (PEC 65) that would end the need for environmental assessment approvals for public works projects in Brazil ranging from Amazon dams to roads and canals, and oil infrastructure.
Adriana Trujillo

Wegmans looks to cut food waste with new state regulations in the works - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Mar 17
     
    Wegmans Food Markets and other grocers, businesses and communities are working with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture to cut 50% of food waste by 2030. Municipal and state efforts to reduce waste are being accompanied by grocers' food-donation and recycling programs.
Adriana Trujillo

How Biking Improves Employee Productivity - 0 views

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  • 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.
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    Exercising before work raises an employee's productivity by an average of 15 percent.
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