Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

What is the ISO ( International Organization for Standardization) 14001 Standard: Principles, Definitions and Certifications. One particular option for the operations side of an organization is choosing the ISO 14001 certification as the primary choice. The ISO 14001 Certification Standards.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s critical for more businesses, organizations, and governments to take responsibility for their water usage and become informed water stewards. Despite this alarming reality, over 80% of wastewater resulting from human activities is simply disposed of and discharged into rivers and seas without any treatment or pollution removal.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

There is no industry standard or definition . However, there is no formal or standardized definition for plastics crediting, and such claims are inconsistently defined and applied differently from organization to organization. Here are five things to know about the emerging market for plastics credits: . Pull Quote.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But it's still the wild west, and these developments haven't resulted in a shared standard or even a definition that everyone agrees upon. In 1990, Congress passed the Organic Food Production Act.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

After years of debate over the definition of materiality, 2020 has brought a consensus that materiality is double — meaning that businesses should report on financially material topics that influence enterprise value as well as topics material to the economy, environment and people. This is covered by the SASB definition of materiality.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Veolia Water Technologies says the firm’s organic coagulant has helped to optimise the Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) at a large scale pet food production facility in the Northwest. I would definitely recommend Veolia Water Technologies for its products and its team.” Image credit: Veolia Water Technologies.

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U.S. Green Technology

JULY 26, 2021

Organizing an office party might not seem like the best way to spend your free time, but if you take into account all the benefits that come from this move, you’ll realize that this is definitely an idea worth considering. The main reason for hosting these kinds of parties is bringing all your employees together.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

The team noted that there are differing definitions of what constitutes a VOC, some of which are stricter than others, including the World Health Organization’s definition used in this research. Twenty semi-volatile organic compounds were identified in concentrations ranging from 10 to 35,000 parts per million.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success Peter Boyd Mon, 09/28/2020 – 01:30 Reaching the 2015 Paris Agreement goals requires bold action from all sectors and levels of our society. Why focus on the responsibilities of organizations and communities? High ambition on its own may sound good.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But digging into innovations being advanced by that organization — AGCO, based in Duluth, Georgia — reveals much about the potential future of technology for cultivating regenerative and precision agriculture. My focus is really to harness the energy of the entire organization. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2021

Today’s corporate treasurers, however, are redefining their role beyond risk mitigation, and they’ve become a surprising source of impact within their organizations, moving millions of dollars of cash and investments into low-income communities. Until recently, there was no playbook for this. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The report’s findings also echo earlier analyses that companies’ vague definitions of ‘regenerative’ – which can encompass a wide range of nature-friendly farming techniques such as no-till and organic farming – are undermining accountability.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The effort is part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact network: The think tank has helped organize key public and private stakeholders to push towards a circular economy for plastic in countries around the world, from the United Kingdom to Chile to South Africa. Kersten-Johnston added. What does that look like in the U.S.

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Highlights Represents near-term contracted cash flow expected to bolster near-term Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA Definitive Agreement for $7 million senior term loan facility with BDC.

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Highlights Represents near-term contracted cash flow expected to bolster near-term Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA Definitive Agreement for $7 million senior term loan facility with BDC S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

A Chinese study published in December aims to quantify the role of Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) – and its predominance as a way of measuring organic pollution – in causing unnecessary GHG emissions. COD is widely used as an indicator of organic pollution in wastewater. GHG estimates.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 8, 2024

If your greywater contains food debris and other organic matter, it must be treated in a septic tank before being reused. Such a system will require upfront costs, but the water savings you’ll enjoy definitely justify the initial expenses. Complete greywater recycling systems require pumps, filtration systems, and tanks.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health. There are also programs to encourage the voluntary phase out of certain PFAS by companies.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

This webinar will offer: Practical definitions of digital transformation for industrial manufacturers. Guidance for evaluating where your organization stands on a digitalized-operations scale. How Asset Performance Management and Analytics fit into digital transformation.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 9, 2022

ESG Definition. Sustainability Definition. Merriam-Webster definition of sustainable is: relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged. Expanded and Evolving Definition of Sustainability . Sometimes this is OK. Sometimes it causes confusion.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 17, 2023

Biobased definition. Bio-based materials are intentionally made from living organisms. Organic definition. Organic means to come from living plants and animals. Organic means to come from living plants and animals. Non-organic means to be built from non-living, synthetic chemicals.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Regulatory aspects : e.g. lack of licensing systems, lack of clearly set requirements for geothermal wells, uncertainty in standards to apply, variety of terms and definitions in different jurisdictions. Are Well Control organizations addressing this? How will training curricula and certifications have to be adapted?

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

The company recently launched an updated version of its publicly available smart water navigator , which helps organizations assess their water risks and come up with a plan and goals to address them. . Part of the purpose of the navigator is to close the gap between organizations’ water reduction targets and their results.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 29, 2020

Something’s definitely in the air, er, ground, when organic agriculture features in a Super Bowl ad. Anheuser-Busch InBev’s spot for its organic Michelob Ultra Pure Gold highlights the “monumental challenges” faced The post Tastes great, less carbon. ImpactAlpha, Jan.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

North American Environmental services firm GFL Environmental has entered a definitive agreement to acquire the solid waste and environmental solutions business of Terrapure Environmental and its subsidiaries for an aggregate purchase price of C$927.5 Photo credit: Advantage photography/Shutterstock.com.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

Credit: CNRL disclosures Neither Buffalo’s organization nor CNRL responded to detailed questions about the financial contribution. “I I definitely respect his right as an Indigenous person to have his own perspective,” Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Wilp, or house clans, of the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, said of Buffalo.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In that moment, Thomas founded Intersectional Environmentalist (IE), a mission-driven organization committed to dismantling systems of oppression by amplifying historically silenced voices in the environmental movement, along with co-founders Diandra Marizet, Philip Aiken and Sabs Katz. . They focus on nature. They focus on animals.

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Low Impact

JUNE 7, 2020

So if someone else wants to buy that smallholding, to become an organic smallholder, they’re going to have a huge price tag, because someone wanted to build a massive house. Definitely. The post Trying to make a living on an organic smallholding: Paul Jennings, ‘One-Planet’ smallholder appeared first on Lowimpact.org.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 17, 2021

One resolution that’s definitely worth keeping is […]. There are so many things you can choose to focus on during the next year. Whether it’s bettering yourself as a person or adopting a different lifestyle, it’s completely up to you. The post Best Ways to Go Green appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

A large part is the ability to sit down with likeminded organizations," she noted. . That was definitely a risk, but we thought it was very important that is was something that we talk about along the way, so we did measurements every year," Moore said. . Plus, disclosure. AMD decided to declare its progress year to year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions of businesses and organizations are placed into three categories: Scope 1 emissions. Indirect emissions created by the production of the energy that an organization buys. Greenhouse gas emissions that a company makes directly, caused by running machinery, driving vehicles, or heating buildings, for instance.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

Nasdaq offers definitions and criteria for each type of bond here.). As with any growing market, there’s a need for standardization of definitions and metrics. Sustainability bonds are used to finance projects that bring clear environmental and social benefits. By whatever name, money is pouring in. But that’s inevitable.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2021

Both organizations offer programs for young professionals or those new to sustainability. . Each has its own nuanced definition of what makes a building sustainable and approach for how building certification is achieved. WELL works at any scale, from a single interior space to an entire organization.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2021

There really aren’t many simple definitions of sustainability. Therefore, wouldn’t it be more effective if people could just glance at a good definition of sustainability, easily retain it in memory and know exactly what to do from there? Any definition first needs to clearly explain its target word. For example: Only 42.7

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Policy experts from our research team at the Clean & Prosperous Institute (CaPI) along with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) wrote the definitive Policy Brief, published for the first time today. The report is detailed and thorough, yet easy to read and ready to share.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Nuvoda (US) (category: circular economy): Nuvoda’s Mobile Organic Biofilm (MOB) technology operates as a hybrid of an attached biofilm and aerobic granular sludge process, enabling the simultaneous removal of nitrogen and phosphorous. It can simultaneously remove suspended solids and digest organic contaminants without the use of chemicals.

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