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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

Coffee companies claiming to be "ethical" or "sustainable" that refuse to pay a living wage to the farmers are fueling this longstanding human and environmental crisis. . In 2012, Starbucks reported its average price for green beans was $2.56 Changes in rainfall patterns and temperature weaken coffee plants and reduce yields.

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Let?s get together: Intel?s 2030 commitments include ?shared? climate and social goals

GreenBiz

kilowatt-hours of energy from 2012 to 2020 (beating its goal of 4 billion kWh). . For example, it has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 39 percent over the past decade, achieved its zero waste to landfill aspiration and has saved more than 4.5 It has also restored more than 1.6 billion gallons of water. Corporate Strategy. Technology.

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Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life

GreenBiz

This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute On the supply side, we only partner with ethical and sustainable brands who manufacture natural toxin-free clothing using organic agricultural practices, which regenerate natural systems,” Butler said. “We

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Community solar groups donate over £100,000 of profits to local coronavirus aid efforts

Business Green

Cornwall-based CfR has helped 30 urban and rural groups switch on more than 35MW of community solar since 2012, supporting the financing of projects with a cumulative capital value of more than £56m. Three out of four of the fundraising projects announced last week used the Ethex platform to raise "over £3.5

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

With Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute gala, 2012. So, the values are "good" and "bad," "right" and "wrong," "moral/immoral," "ethical/unethical." Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. It is slow but worthwhile.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

He filed 21 internal complaints in 2012, then bumped them up to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC), the group that regulates utilities in the state, later that year. In late 2012, several months after Dye took his complaints to OPUC, NW Natural fired him. Systemic Failures of Oversight.

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Sustainable funerals: Part 1 – with Ethical.net

Low Impact

Planning a sustainable funeral means rejecting environmentally damaging practices and finding more ethical and responsible options. However, since signing the Oslo-Paris (OSPAR) agreement, the UK government halved crematoria’s mercury emissions by 2012. They aim to make ethical the new normal. More sustainable cremation.