Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Listed below are the five main ways foods supply chains negatively harm our environment. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2022

Tip #3: Choose materials that do not include toxins : Even materials that are biodegradable and recyclable can negatively impact the environment. Work with sustainable and ethical suppliers. This tip also helps your organization become socially responsible by supporting your local community and economy.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Climate change and carbon reduction reporting. Thinking about these three focus areas, are they enough to infer whether an organization is sustainable or not? This definitional dilution has meant organizations issue sustainability strategies, incentives, and policies that may not be focused on the original object of sustainability.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Tip#1: Choose organic sustainable fabrics. Sustainable fashion has come to save the fashion industry. 8 sustainable fashion brand initiatives.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

At the global scale, this contributes to a higher carbon footprint, resource scarcity and environmental and economic imbalances between affluent nations purchasing meat products and the vulnerable regions where livestock and livestock feed are heavily produced. and these travel miles add up to huge amounts of carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 6, 2022

Yet, practices can lead to a vast amount of unnecessary waste, habitat destruction, and carbon emissions depending on how you choose to operate. The manufacturing of solar panels is extremely resource-intensive, demanding industrial materials, and spewing out carbon emissions from the burning of coal.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Two examples of this are carbon capture , trapping CO2 before it is emitted and storing it elsewhere, and carbon credits/cap and trade programs , permits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of GHGs.

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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. It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. USDA Organic. Green Business Bureau.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Why farmers’ markets are good for shopping ethically. By contrast, farmers’ markets have greater transparency and a much shorter chain between food production and consumer, making them a more ethical choice for shoppers. They aim to make ethical the new normal. How shopping at farmers’ markets can help.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Two examples of this are carbon capture , trapping CO2 before it is emitted and storing it elsewhere, and carbon credits/cap and trade programs , permits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of GHGs.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. CropLife has echoed COPA-COGECA’s arguments against pesticides reduction plans and the intensification of organic agriculture across Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The AGA has disputed scientific research linking gas stoves to childhood asthma, including a 2024 study from researchers at Stanford and Harvard, which connected tens of thousands of cases of childhood asthma to pollutants, including carbon monoxide from gas stoves. In the E.U.,

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. Yet, such negatives can be mitigated through the expansion of local fulfillment centers and consumer education on the importance of minimalism as previously discussed.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

According to the European Environment Agency , a tree can absorb an average of 22 kilos of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year. The internal guidelines aim to ensure that WPP’s agencies correctly advise clients on how to legally and ethically talk about their sustainability credentials.

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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. It’s an easy way to capitalize on the ethical consumer. Greenwashing is more than a question of ethics. USDA Organic. Green Business Bureau.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I wanted to see how much it knew and how well it could contextualise the broad and complex range of technologies under the climate tech umbrella - everything from clean energy to water treatment to e-bikes to carbon capture - and what it understood about corporate sustainability in general. Makower: How about the circular economy?

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

DarkBlack Carbon was only officially founded four months ago, but believes it is already primed to be a market leader for biochar in the UK "It's got everything, hasn't it?" says Liz Casely, co-founder of UK start-up DarkBlack Carbon. Moreover, the potential climate benefits of the biochar itself are hugely compelling.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us Ian Kearns Tue, 02/09/2021 – 02:00 A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. The initiative is the product of a nine-organization collaboration that has the backing of climate campaigner and former U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Dickinson College Score: 80.67 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania The very green Red Devils became carbon-neutral this past school year, with help from an LED lighting retrofit, the installation of a three-megawatt solar field on campus, and a campus-wide behavior change campaign.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Often, words which are vague, such as eco-friendly, green, organic or even natural, are used without being able to demonstrate how the product or service avoids a negative impact on the environment or society. BSI is fuelled by our mission, neutrality, expertise, and ability to bring the right people together.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

What role do metals exchanges have in driving a sustainable transition to a low-carbon economy? The LME tried to follow the lead of the market, we try and meet what they are trying to do rather than being an ethical standard setter - and that's complicated," she explains. "It Low-carbon premiums and green asset classes.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2022

Carbon Accounting, Carbon Offsets and Carbon Credits. What is carbon offsetting ? What is the difference between a carbon offset and a carbon credit ? Can carbon offsetting effectively mitigate climate change, or are we banking on a fruitless quick-fix solution ? What Is Carbon Offsetting?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The policies, procedures, ethics, values, attitudes, goals, code of conduct and employee behavior combine to define the culture of your business. A green culture is specific in that these sets of behavioral and procedural norms are deliberate in minimizing an organization’s operational impact on our natural world.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

What’s the difference between carbon offsets vs carbon credits? The voluntary carbon offset market is projected to reach $700.5 Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) – hence the need to understand the difference between carbon offsets vs carbon credits has never before been this pressing.

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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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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2024

Community organizations, environmental groups, and transit advocates are demanding the city of Ottawa ban fossil fuel advertising from public spaces. These ads are sponsored by an organization called Canada Action , and feature deceptive web addresses such as OurEnergyHelps.ca and ClimateActionCanada.ca. Ottawa, and CAPE.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Secondly, with regard to production, plastic bags contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Eco friendly bags reduce the carbon footprint of operations Most plastic bags are made of polyethylene – a substance made from crude oil refinement and natural gas processing.

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Low Impact

APRIL 30, 2021

Planning a sustainable funeral means rejecting environmentally damaging practices and finding more ethical and responsible options. million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, accounting for around 0.02 percent of world carbon dioxide emissions. We all like to imagine that we have a positive impact during our time on earth.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. According to Livestock’s Long Shadow , a United Nations report, world meat consumption has the highest negative impact on the climate.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Boredom turned into negative thoughts, and negative thoughts turned into depressing thoughts.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Many experts and nonexperts alike consider the idea of deliberately mucking about with Earth’s climate systems to counteract centuries of mostly accidental mucking about in Earth’s climate systems ethically dubious and potentially highly dangerous. How would disputes about the negative impacts of any geoengineering regime be adjudicated?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

John Bello (2018) Project Manager, Skanska; Portland, Oregon After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project.

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