GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Another good friend of mine told me on the phone that he never thought I was a radical, "so liberal," after reading my book about corporate sustainability ("The Battle to Do Good"). I passed on a very interesting New York Times article about health care to a buddy. His integrity and caring attitude permeate the whole organization.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

For example, PETA considers docking tails of sheep to be inhumane, yet it is long-standing practice that arguably improves the health of animals. As chief conservation officer of TNC at the time, I can say that I was not very happy with these practices, but I thought some of the allegations were overblown. Corporate Strategy. Biodiversity.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2022

For the Organizers. Use what you already have around the home or office to create a chic upcycled organizer! You can use patterned wrapping paper and old cereal boxes to create a nifty file/magazine holder or a desk organizer. Find endless DIY bookmark ideas on Pinterest. For the Fitness Buffs. For the Fashionistas.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Tara’s book How to Save Your Planet One Object at a Time is a guide to sustainable living told through everyday objects. These highly compressed gases possess properties of gases and liquids that permit interesting chemical reactions without the need for organic solvents, which endanger both health and the environment.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Organize a company carpool program. Implement more eco-friendly ways of flying by booking direct flights. Book with airlines that are committed to lowering their carbon footprint either through carbon neutrality plans, using cleaner fuels , using more eco-friendly materials and upgraded, more energy efficient aircraft.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. McDonough: I had two things occur simultaneously in 1989.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 2, 2022

What if a single action could: get troubled teens off the streets and into something productive—and develop their entrepreneurship skills in the process…provide fresh local organic food to inner-city people with no other access to quality produce…clean up a blighted neighborhood vacant lot and spark a caring community spirit?

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This new book, ‘A Small Farm Future’ published by Chelsea Green, outlines what a post-covid, post-capitalist society might look like, built around a repopulated countryside of small farmers. However, in this review, I won’t go into the details of farming covered in the book. But does it have to be that way?

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The shopping craze also adds to the global issue of sweatshop labor and worker abuse , and often threatens shoppers’ mental health through overconsumption, overspending and impulse buying. Organize an item swap with friends to exchange an item you don’t need for something used. to people in need.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 5, 2020

Environmental organizations have released statements — us included. These organizations are based either in Minneapolis or nationally. Do some research to find organizations fighting for Black lives in your community. This is all too familiar. A Black man was violently murdered by a white police officer. We need to do more.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

But award-winning investigative DeSmog journalist Justin Noble is working to change that with his new book Petroleum-238 , which exposes an unsettling secret at the heart of the industry (read an excerpt here ). Noble onstage at his book launch in Brooklyn. Oil and gas companies across the U.S. Where does this waste come from?

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2025

I was there to write my book about the psychology of facing planetary crises. It is also reflected in the fields of social neuroscience, relational psychology and motivational interviewing in the public health sector. In the autumn of 2014, I was sitting in a tiny shed at a writing residency in Point Reyes, Northern California.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Learn how to create a regenerative, natural ecosystem at this free Green America webinar with Owen Wormser, author of a new book, Lawns into Meadows: Growing a regenerative landscape. Wormser will explain how to plant an organic meadow using the basic practices of meadow design and take you on a meadow tour from 3 – 4 p.m.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Instead, ExxonMobil and other oil companies paid hundreds of millions to Atlas as the organization was working to cast doubt on climate science. Atlas funneled money to the network’s more than 500 member organizations around the world for advocacy, lobbying, and political influence.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We outline many of these steps in our new book, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take.) The organization, after intense pressure from some members, has acknowledged that climate change is real, but that’s a low bar.) Measuring the Gap in Public and Private Talk. Follow Andrew on Twitter.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 20, 2024

For the Organizers Use what you already have around the home or office to create a chic upcycled organizer! You can use patterned wrapping paper and old cereal boxes to create a nifty file/magazine holder or a desk organizer. Find endless DIY bookmark ideas on Pinterest.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2022

A new book, Unconventional Water Resources , published by Springer and compiled by experts at various UN organizations*, says these potential supplies can help many of the 1 in 4 people on Earth who face shortages of water for drinking, sanitation, agriculture and economic development.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2019

They use the GBB apps to organize their initiatives and track their progress. That’s a big win in our book.”. Businesses and individuals need to do their part to neutralize mankind’s negative impact on our planet’s health. Company managers at School Specialty had been taking ad-hoc steps all along to improve sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Yes, good CSR practices can create a socially sustainable organization. The benefits of CSR.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

The official Earth Day organization has been assigning yearly themes since at least 1980, and Planet vs. Plastics is hitting in the year when U.N. “We’ve had research for 30 years now saying that plastics are dangerous to our health,” said Aidon Charron, director of End Plastic Initiatives at EarthDay.org. .

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We already have proven, successful policies on the books that can help. Our push to extend the ITC is about accelerating the growth of energy sources that preserve the climate and public health. Abigail Ross Hopper is president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade organization for the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

10) Use what you already own – think candle jars for planters, mason jars for organizing office supplies or kids’ art supplies, or repurposed glass jars for bulk goods. Being immersed in nature is proven to have a positive effect on health and well-being and positively impacts creativity, focus, and productivity.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

Clearly, we are still in a precarious situation in the UK, both in health and economic terms, with borrowing likely to exceed £400bn for the current financial year, the highest figure seen outside wartime. Secure additional funding for best practice standards and Defra's 'Quality Protocol' revisions for the organics industry.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Such materials can contain caustic or toxic chemicals which harm human and environmental health. This tip also helps your organization become socially responsible by supporting your local community and economy. Science-based targets are therefore vital for any organization that’s serious about sustainability.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

20 must-read books about food systems Danielle Nierenberg Fri, 07/10/2020 – 00:50 With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men.

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Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Thank you so much to National Geographic for sending me the book called: Oceans. oceans #protectouroceans This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans—coming this April from Disney & National Geographic—explores the health of our. The Threats to our Sea and What Can Be Done to turn the Tide. The post Oceans.

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Grist

APRIL 21, 2023

This point is repeated ad infinitum in tips about how to talk about the climate crisis, in books, articles, and guides for public officials. If action is seen as unpopular, it could dampen organizing as well as politicians’ willingness to pass legislation to tackle emissions. One problem?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

Poor neighborhoods have a right to local, healthy, organic food.”. “50 They might recycle and buy organic, but haven’t scrutinized their own lifestyles much. In 2020, the US health/sustainability market was $355 billion and growing 10% per year. Enjoy fresh veggies from our organic greenhouse all winter.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Stanley, a founder of the environmental organization Upland Grassroots, recalls telling Silliboy, vice chief of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Nation, “This will be worth it someday.”. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2022

In fact, the mission of the company “is to create the best Fairtrade certified organic cotton bags by always being sustainable , ethical, traceable and transparent.” Related: Cariloha luxury textiles use organic, sustainable bamboo Its approach towards this goal is multifaceted, starting with the materials sourced for its product line.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Can your organization say the same? An organization set up for better information flow, one that empowers on-the-ground employees to notice and talk about looming problems, will be better prepared for (or able to avoid) surprises. Our new book, Net Positive , lays out how to build a business with that goal.). (Our

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. USDA Organic. What is corporate greenwash?

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This model gives the structure organizations need to meet the economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic demands of Business. . The book titled Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (1953), supports this idea. In this book, American economist Howard R. The success of the CSR pyramid boils down to the model’s simplicity.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This model gives the structure organizations need to meet the economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic demands of Business. . The book titled Social Responsibilities of the Businessman (1953), supports this idea. In this book, American economist Howard R. The success of the CSR pyramid boils down to the model’s simplicity.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Among the accomplishments of these organizations over the last 20 plus years was an early focus to bring new clean energy technologies to underserved communities. Lew’s relentless drive and determination and his dedication and sense of purpose have made CEG one of the premier clean energy organizations of our time.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S. I use a nebulizer now.

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