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Parsing Panera's plan to nudge consumers toward low-carbon meals

GreenBiz

In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide. The change I referred to earlier is happening at Panera Bread, where many menu items now have a "Cool Food" badge attached to them. . A few years later, the label was gone. Now restaurants are acting, too.

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NuScale’s Federal Safety Approval Moves US Modular Nuclear Reactors a Step Closer to Reality

GreenTechMedia

NuScale was founded in 2007 with the goal of building the world’s smallest light water reactor , one that can use normal water as opposed to “heavy water,” or deuterium oxide — water with a greater atomic weight that is expensive to produce and can be difficult to source.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4

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Bush Brothers counts on water reuse to reduce local impact of bean production

GreenBiz

Water, specifically, stopped being an afterthought for Bush Brothers after the 2007 drought in Chestnut Hill. While the water is clean enough to be used in food processing, most of the recycled water is pumped into the heating and cooling systems, as these represent the largest uses of water in the plant, according to Evoqua.

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The Current System of Electric Billing No Longer Makes Sense

GreenTechMedia

electric heating and, in particular, cooling, dwarf other categories of power consumption in the home, even on a year-round basis. Heating or cooling efficiency actions that reduce a residence’s peak load, such as a more efficient air conditioner, can pay out handsomely against both NCP- and CP-based rates. For most of the U.S.,

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UN: Pandemic causes dip in building emissions, but long-term outlook bleak

Envirotec Magazine

While the level of emissions within the sector are 10 per cent lower than in 2015, reaching lows not seen since 2007, this was largely due to lockdowns, slowing of economies, difficulties households and businesses faced in maintaining and affording energy access and a fall in construction activity.

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GHG Protocol: Scope 2 Emissions Explained

Green Business Bureau

They’re the result of bought energy, such as electricity, steam, heat, and cooling. Cooling : Cooling agents – such as chilled water – provided by a third party will contribute to a business’s scope 2 emissions. This partnership was made from the business decision to fit solar panels throughout stores in 2007.