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Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about

GreenBiz

Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about. For nearly two decades, Flowers, a recent awardee of the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant ," has been bringing attention to failing water and waste sanitation infrastructure in rural areas. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 01/06/2021 - 01:30. Read an excerpt here.).

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Return of the original Corporate Knight

Corporate Knights

But while at Scripps, he quickly became passionate about the next problem he wanted to tackle through the private sector: climate change. And things will change, as they usually do, when the catastrophe gets unbearable.” For 2002, it’s King of the Castle.”. million subordinate voting shares.

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What’s next: Powering a plane on corn syrup and other green innovations giving us hope

Corporate Knights

Founded in Burnaby in 2002, GF just announced it has raised US$130 million, bringing its total capital to $300 million. GF hopes the technology will be commercialized by decade’s end, calling it “the vaccine of climate change.”. That’s enough to start construction of a demonstration fusion plant in the U.K.,

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How the plastic industry lied about recycling for decades

Corporate Knights

A report released last week by the nonprofit Center for Climate Integrity, or CCI, chronicles a “decades-long campaign of fraud and deception” from Big Oil and the plastics industry to promote recycling as a solution to the plastic pollution crisis. Today, the U.S. recycling rate for plastics sits at about 5 or 6 percent. Today, the U.S.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. Since 2002 (the year we published our first Best 50 list), Best 50 companies have rewarded their shareholders with 128% higher returns than the overall composite index.

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Young Americans Have High Appreciation and Expectations for Science, but Misinformation Threatens the Future

3BL Media

An increase in the severity of climate change effects (51%). Beyond the pandemic, Americans want science to prioritize solutions for clean water supply and sanitation (61%), air quality (53%), equal access to quality healthcare (50%) and the effects of climate change (48%). million pounds of plastic waste.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. Slater helped to formulate the second version of the GRI’s sustainability reporting guidelines, published in 2002.

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