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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. We are one piece of a big puzzle,” she says, estimating that two-thirds of the investment required to achieve net-zero by 2050 will come from the private sector.

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A Science-Based Determination: The Fastest Path to Decarbonizing Buildings Is a Digital Technology-First Approach

3BL Media

C, we must halve emissions by the end of this decade and reach net zero by 2050. As the large corporations inhabiting these areas strive for net-zero status, they will inevitably demand that the buildings they lease align with their net-zero objectives and demonstrate a tangible progression toward achieving them.

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Saint-Gobain Reveals the 5 Winners of the Global Architecture Student Contest

3BL Media

This edition of the Architecture Student Contest was special: launched in Serbia in 2004, this is its 20th year of existence. It aims to create a cozy microclimate for residents as self-sustaining city model, with residential blocks, aquaponics, gardens, waste management, and more, forming a closed-loop system.

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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken

Edouard Stenger

This volume has become one of my favorites among the many I have read on climate and sustainability issues since I started back to 2004 (check the list there ). Eventually, CO2 levels in the atmosphere would return to 350 ppm. Regeneration is the sequel and it brings myriads of concrete solutions to implement in every aspects of our lives.

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What Is the Standard Modifier Dictionary (SMD)??

Sphera

Poor specifications can lead to unsearchable databases, inefficient replenishment, duplicates or stock-outs and wasted process-cycle times. This results in item descriptions that are inconsistent, incomplete and non-comparable, and often results in duplications of data that represent the same unique item.

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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2023 Leadership Award Winners

Green Technology

This 10-story, LEED Platinum-certified, Net-Zero Energy and Carbon building provides a transitional home for California’s Legislature and Executive Branch and facilitates public access to legislative hearings. Their efforts to optimize packaging and shipping has reduced the amount of waste that customers need to recycle downstream.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste. million acres the 4.4