DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2019, the company was caught spying on reporters and helping orchestrate an operation to denigrate Carey Gillam , a book author and contributing writer for The Guardian. . Screenshot of court document published by law firm Baum Hedlund. FTI Consulting has a history of targeting reporters.

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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. . To obey the law, To be ethically responsible, To give to philanthropic causes. . Law is born from society wanting to operate with a rudimental moral grounding.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues. California, boasting an economy bigger than all but four countries, has enacted its own aggressive carbon transparency laws.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Earth Day organizers educated people about the value of sorting through their trash and advocated for community recycling programs. Corporations responded by creating the first anti-litter organization, Keep America Beautiful, founded in 1953 by the American Can Company and the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 24, 2024

My journey into this topic started when an Ohio community organizer told me someone made a liquid deicer out of radioactive oilfield waste for home driveways and patios, which was supposedly “Safe for Pets” and had been selling at Lowe’s. law, it is still considered nonhazardous. much of it toxic and radioactive. And yet, by U.S.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

More than half of the participants turned out to be unfamiliar with the meaning of mitigation in its climate change context, instead associating it with law or insurance, where the term refers to minimizing losses. The takeaway from the study: “many of the terms were unfamiliar or perceived as needlessly complex.”.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Organizations are motivated by pressure from their employees, their customers, their investors, other stakeholders, and their own values — as well as growing clarity about the opportunities (and requirements) of the big economic and tech transitions already underway (like, say, decarbonizing the whole world). Political spending.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war. section 7).

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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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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

This article describes my view on how a project-driven company should be structured and organized using the latest in 21st century thinking. I use an idea on energy-independence services to show how I would shape my own business, starting with the why (purpose) all the way to the how (non-negotiables) and the what (organization).

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

As a team we have a diverse set of customers and stakeholders ranging from internal engineering teams, to global customer support, sales, and of course end users or organizations who sign up to download imagery or task a satellite. Have you always wanted to get into software engineering? First, trust the process.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. This is called photosynthesis.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. She sees the greenwashing the company uses to push its project as a form of gaslighting.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

The environmental law non-governmental organization, which has bought shares in Shell, claims the company’s 13 executive and non-executive directors failed to adopt and implement a climate strategy that truly aligns with the Paris Agreement and says this is a breach of their legal duties under the UK Companies Act.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Organic straws, food containers made from bamboo, banana leaves used to package fresh produce, and reusable shopping bags. Intentional implementation of ocean conservation by EVERYONE.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The open letter, organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Clean Creatives campaign, comes just days before the annual UN climate talks (COP27) open in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Egypt, as this year’s host country for the summit, has hired Hill+Knowlton Strategies to help organize the event and lead on global communications.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 7, 2021

Metrus Energy is seeking a Business Development Manager who is excited about Metrus’ value proposition and is ready to independently build their own book of business in the east coast. Ability and desire to independently build your own book of business. And can you sell it? Experience and Qualifications.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A simple overview that provides you with some of the basics to shape, create and reform your company, organization or business. The same applies to a company, organization or any group of people for that matter. Gradually, in any company, entropy manifests itself by means of an increasingly complex organization.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

A simple overview that provides you with some of the basics to shape, create and reform your company, organization or business. The same applies to a company, organization or any group of people for that matter. Gradually, in any company, entropy manifests itself by means of an increasingly complex organization.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 21, 2020

Metrus Energy is seeking a Sales Director who is excited about Metrus’ value proposition and is ready to independently build their own book of business. Ability and desire to independently build your own book of business. Are you passionate about doing your part to help reduce emissions and enhance corporate sustainability?

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

This brings me to business, and a warning: no organization can avoid values shifts. Morals changed, and then laws. There are “DC visit” days organized by a few focused NGOs, and they’re always hoping for bi-partisan climate solutions. They don’t appreciate being handed a disaster movie for them to live with for 70 to 80 years.

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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. But we were not required to by law. That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. McDonough: I had two things occur simultaneously in 1989.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In October of this year, the captain of that supply ship, Giuseppe Sotgiu, paid a heavy price for his decision: an Italian judge sentenced him to a year in prison for violating humanitarian law. Those captains who, unlike Sotgiu, abide by humanitarian law and decide to bring the migrants to Europe sometimes face dire consequences.

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Low Impact

JUNE 24, 2020

Eating sustainably often involves growing at least some of your own food (or at least sourcing it from local, organic producers), but supplementing this with foraged wild produce is another important component to an ethical diet. Also bear in mind that wild foods can be polluted by human activity. Woodlands or forests. Coastlines.

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Ethics Agriculture Sustainability Pollution 75

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.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 4, 2021

Develop and maintain standard product price books for our energy storage products. We’re actively committed to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive environment not only within our own organization but also within the renewable energy industry. Develop and manage an energy storage product standard and product roadmap.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 11, 2020

we can deepen our resilience and co-create resilient communities, organizations and a more resilient society. This pandemic is exposing all of us to significant traumatic distress and placing us at risk for a host of stress and trauma-related health consequences in addition to the risk of contracting coronavirus.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. Funding for New York-based organizations can cover a significant subsidy of the total service costs. (followed by Boston and Seattle).

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Best practice is to organize your documents in an electronic data room hosted on your own server, on your counsel’s Extranet, or via another service provider, such as Box.com or Carta. You may be worn out from all the coffee chats, but there’s still more to do: due diligence. Document Checklist 1. along with copies of all relevant filings.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

It seems like almost everyone in solar comes from either real estate, finance, or law. I prioritized learning, because I always felt that the day I stop learning in an organization would be the day I get bored. One of my favorite books and movies is the Big Short. From foreign service to renewable energy.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to Chapter 15 of the in 2017 published book Sustainable Asia , Sustainable Societies and Municipal Solid Waste in Southeast Asia by C. According to a statement published by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People’s Republic of China in 2019, China is in the process of revising its Solid Waste Law.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. But by using a provision in state law that allows operators to apply for multiple extensions to plugging inactive wells, he claimed he was able to offload the problem wells and stay in the oil business.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 86

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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