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Fast Fashion: the second biggest polluter on Earth

Envirotec Magazine

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. The fashion industry is reliant on water. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’.

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Digital technology, green finance in vogue among fashion’s sustainability trendsetters

GreenBiz

Digital technology, green finance in vogue among fashion’s sustainability trendsetters. The key to long-term success in the fashion industry is to start trends and continually push the envelope — a philosophy that also applies to its ESG priorities. Phylicia Wu. Wed, 08/05/2020 - 01:00.

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When you think climate change, you need to think about water

GreenBiz

Ecolab is creating technology that businesses can use to calculate and reduce their water usage. In a similar fashion, British asset management company WHEB is making sure each company it invests in is not only in the process of going zero-carbon but addressing social issues in tandem. WHEB: Water issues are social issues.

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PV Plant Owned by First Solar Is Being Paid to Help Balance Chile’s Electric Grid

GreenTechMedia

Chilean grid operator Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN) has added First Solar’s 141-megawatt Luz del Norte PV power plant to its list of generators approved to provide grid services. That’s a task usually assigned to fossil-fired power plants and hydroelectric dams, or, in a growing number of cases, batteries.

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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

GreenBiz

The notion of power utilities and telecommunications companies combining or working together is not new. Both small and large utilities, telcos and cellular companies ("cellcos") have carefully tried partnering in a typically limited fashion. Telco plus utility = Energy savings and modernized infrastructure. Richelle Elberg.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. After saving water and energy in its fiber processing, Ananas Anam uses excess biomass to create compost and add nutrients back to its farmers’ soil.