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I-STEAM Pathways: Melding Mainstream Science, Indigenous Perspectives

3BL Media

Since being launched in 2020, Indigenous students hired onto one of the research projects through the U of A’s I-STEAM Pathways (I-STEAM) program could spend their summer studying water toxicity, regenerative agriculture, environmental policy or flood forecasting tools—just to name a few.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. In the past decade, Natura has planted several hundred million dollars toward rainforest protection and sustainable development. Company profile. million acres the 4.4

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. In Senegal, the government, via the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation, has partnered with local farmers practising regenerative agriculture. Rachel Pulfer is the executive director of Journalists for Human Rights.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

In “The 8 Th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness,” published in 2004, Covey identified the “industrial age paradigm” – in which controlling, extracting, and exchanging “things” is de rigueur – as the fundamental “problem.” This new paradigm of leadership has even reached the highest levels of policy development in the United States.

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Dignity First: Executive, Enterprise & Economic Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

“ The crises we face are not a science problem, they are a human problem.” – Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart, announcing Walmart’s commitment to become a “Regenerative Company” . It turns out that human na ture is the part of nature that citizens in developed economies have most painfully misunderstood. . Doug McMillon is right.