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Why collaboration is the missing ingredient in food system reform

GreenBiz

The industry’s environmental problems — waste, greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss — are real. We almost certainly need more of them if we’re to fully realize the potential of regenerative agriculture, alternative proteins and other promising technologies in food and agriculture. Fri, 01/08/2021 - 01:30. But so are the solutions.

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

Corporate Knights

Except for one thing: nothing in that house was wasted. Cities are incredibly wasteful places. And then there’s the waste that results from poor policy and planning: roads clogged with single-driver SUVs, suburbanites commuting hours to work, the unhoused having to pitch tents in parks for lack of affordable housing.

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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.

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Eurazeo Launches $800 Million Planetary Boundaries Solutions-Focused Buyout Fund

ESG Today

The concept of planetary boundaries, delineating delineates the safe operating space for humanity within Earth’s ecological limits, was developed by the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2009.

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A Sustainable Moo-vement: How the Dairy Industry Is Fighting Climate Change

3BL Media

These family farms are largely multi-generational operations and are some of the earliest adopters of regenerative agriculture practices that are key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and sustaining the land and natural resources for the future.

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Earth Overshoot Day 2023: Reversing the Clock for a Sustainable Future

3BL Media

SAP has continuously expanded its portfolio of carbon reduction measures since 2009. We can support thousands of customers in managing their carbon footprint, reducing material waste, and becoming socially responsible businesses. .* The change with the biggest impact as identified by the Global Footprint Network is carbon reduction.

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Systemic Investing for Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation

In 2009, Betsy and Jesse Fink initiated a program of investment to tackle the challenge of food waste in the United States, combining philanthropic grants, direct investments in startups, and formation of the ReFED backbone organization. What could systemic investing look like in practice?