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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Rosalind Brewer is the first African-American and woman to steer the company’s Americas operations as well its global supply chain, product and store development. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks. Company profile.

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These circular cities want to send landfills to the trash bin of history

Corporate Knights

It’s a global trend; Swiss-based sustainable building materials firm Holcim, which has developed a “Circular Cities Barometer,” counts Delhi, Lagos, Bogotá, Wuhan and Manila among the most circular cities in the world. On top of that is the climate case: the 4.9 million tonnes of CO2 emissions and 4.9

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Newlight Selects Black & Veatch To Design 'Aircarbon' Production Plant in Ohio

3BL Media

July 14, 2022 /3BL Media/ – Looking to significantly expand its regenerative practice of transforming air and greenhouse gas into a biodegradable, plastic-like material called “Aircarbon,” Newlight Technologies has chosen decarbonization solutions leader Black & Veatch to design the biotechnology company’s first commercial-scale plant.

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New Murals Celebrate the Farmers Behind Our Food

3BL Media

When it’s too hot and there is not enough rain, the cocoa pods cannot fully develop. They are committed to creating a healthier world through regenerative organic farming and plant-forward lifestyles. Their cocoa beans are Fairtrade and Organic certified. The siblings say the climate has changed a lot in Monte Plata.

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Dead Dolphins, Radioactive Mountains: Inside Florida’s Phosphorus Crisis

Sense and Sustainability

billion more gallons of wastewater were dumped into Tampa Bay between 2003 and 2007. In 2003, a top state regulator called Piney Point “one of the biggest environmental threats in Florida history.” Here, regenerative agriculture comes into play. Under state control after the plant’s closure, 1.1

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Climate Emergency Risks Stranding Women

Chris Hall

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee has integrated gender equality and climate action objectives into its bilateral allocable official development assistance (ODA), with total financing for climate ODA integrating gender equality reaching US$18.9

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

In that role, she was engaged in helping clients develop strategies for supply chain transparency disclosures and claim, emissions reporting and human rights. . "In It uses the Sustainable Development Goals as a guidepost for many of its policies and has aligned its business with eight of them. . LinkedIn | Twitter.