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New Volta Zero electric truck designed for safety and sustainability

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Startup Volta Trucks has revealed its first vehicle, a purpose-built fully-electric 16-ton commercial vehicle designed specifically for inner-city parcel and freight distribution. The truck’s exterior body panels will use a sustainably sourced natural flax material and biodegradable resin. Gross vehicle weight is 16,000 kg.

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Finding a Sustainability Career in Business

Green Business Bureau

The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Energy Manager. Consulting.

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Green Your Workplace With These Eco-Friendly Office Products and Supplies

Green Business Bureau

Your business needs a lot of stuff in order to run – paper, ink, computers, coffee, toilet paper, lightbulbs and the list goes on. But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. The office, the place where hard work happens and great ideas are born.

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Sustainability Guide for General Contractors: Sustainable Construction and Renovations

Green Business Bureau

General contracting businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including new customers and sales growth. . Attracting new customers has become more complicated since consumers often consider how eco-friendly and green a business is before making a purchase decision. Recycled Steel.

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Finding a Sustainability Career in Business

Green Business Bureau

The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Energy Manager. Consulting.

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Sustainability Guide for General Contractors: Sustainable Construction and Renovations

Green Business Bureau

General contracting businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including new customers including sales growth. . Attracting new customers has become more complicated since consumers often consider how eco-friendly and green a business is before making a purchase decision. Recycled Steel.

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Entrepreneur offers greener option to pet cremation

Greenability Magazine

When the final day comes for a beloved pet, there is now a gentler option to cremation that is also easier on the environment, using less energy for a smaller, aftercare carbon footprint. In August, Jarrod Hammond opened Heartland Pet Aquamation in Kansas City to offer pet aquamation, an alternative to cremation.