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Australians overpaid $1.8 billion to gas networks – now they’re being asked for more

Renew Economy

JULY 8, 2024

Between 2014-2022, regulated gas networks made $1.8 billion in supernormal profits, on top of their $2 billion profit allowance. What does this mean for consumers? The post Australians overpaid $1.8 billion to gas networks – now they’re being asked for more appeared first on RenewEconomy.

For Burlington, Vermont, going 100 percent renewable was just the start

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2022

In 2014, Vermont’s largest city became the first in the U.S. to be 100 percent powered by renewable energy. What’s happened since then?

Certifications matter more than ever and brands should be promoting them

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

If we go back in time to 2014, the No. Which begs the question: How do they know a product is green? Americans are increasingly working to manage their environmental concerns via their purchases. 1 answer by far was, "I read the ingredients/detail on the package.".

Climate Change

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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

From a high in 2014, prices paid to farmers have plummeted by 70 percent and now dance around $1 per pound. By 2014, Starbucks was only paying $1.72 The price per pound paid to coffee farmers is based on the "New York C price," a commodity system that operates much like a stock market. paid per pound to the farmer. to the farmer).

Climate Change

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The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025

GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

Back in 2014, Amazon started making major investments in renewable energy. The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025. Date/Time: April 29, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Amazon has been investing in sustainability for many years.

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How kelp forests persisted through the large 2014-2016 Pacific marine heatwave

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

New research reveals that denser, and more sheltered, kelp forests can withstand serious stressors amid warming ocean temperatures.

Pollution – Why we replaced horses with automobiles

Green Project Management

MAY 13, 2019

Henry Ford never said people wanted faster horses, “what they wanted was less horseshit” (Flowers, 2014). It was a little more complicated than that, but you get the general point. The lesson of this post is that too much of anything can be bad, and we need to look at the whole asset life-cycle system […].

Mondel?z 2021 Snacking Made Right Report: Mindful Snacking

3BL Media

JULY 5, 2022

2014; Hendrickson et al., 2014 3 Hong et al., 2014; Arch et al., 2014; Daubenmier et al., z 2021 Snacking Made Right Report. 1 Reported against a baseline of total active (real-time) number of stock keeping units (SKUs) in our specification system (PLM) 2 Alberts et al., 2012; Katterman et al., 2017; Camillieri et al.,

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ESG Reporting 101

GreenBiz

JULY 11, 2022

FigBytes has been helping future-focused organizations tackle their ESG reporting and make positive changes throughout their sustainability journeys since 2014. Take the next step on your sustainability journey with our easy-to-follow beginners’ guide. Download our guide today for more information and get started with your ESG reporting.

Climate Change

Climate Change Development

ESG in 20 Questions: A Practical Guide that Goes Beyond the Letters

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Download the guide today to develop, strengthen, or realign your ESG efforts. Build your strategy, align your data, tell the world.

Climate Change

Climate Change Development

GoDaddy’s Love & Business Series: Sweets & Meats BBQ

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Sweets & Meats BBQ was launched in 2014 by business partners and sweethearts, Kristen Bailey and Anton Gaffney. As originally published by GoDaddy on Instagram. There’s love in the air and GoDaddy is celebrating couples who brave the adventure of running a business together.

Knight Bites: Mind the billionaire wealth gap

Corporate Knights

MARCH 9, 2022

To calculate CEOs’ true tax rates, ProPublica compared the federal taxes they paid from 2014 to 2018 to how much Forbes estimated their wealth grew during that time. Apple software engineer salary: $174,369. Worker tax rate: 25.36%. All dollar amounts are U.S. **To Top holding.

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

The Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low ever since. The shift could indicate Earth's continents have entered a persistently drier phase.

How to talk about racial justice in sustainability

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Protesters march against police shootings and racism during a rally in Washington, DC on Dec. Shutterstock. Rena Schild. Close Authorship.

Climate Change

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STEM Education: Qualcomm Inspires the Next Generation of Inventors

3BL Media

AUGUST 11, 2022

Since its creation in 2014, our home-grown Thinkabit Lab program has inspired over 85,000 students in the U.S. SOURCE: Qualcomm. SUMMARY: In 2021, through our social investments in the future workforce, we reached 561,063 students and 12,817 teachers. to be the next generation of inventors.

Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Paul Polman at the 2014 One Young World Conference in Dublin, Ireland. Leadership. GreenBiz 21. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Photo: Stefan Schäfer, Lich.

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3BL Embraces New Horizons: Charlie Wilkie Appointed as CEO While Dave Armon Steps Into Executive Vice Chairman Role

3BL Media

JANUARY 22, 2024

I have full confidence in his capabilities and vision, and he has my full support,” said Armon, who has been a cornerstone of 3BL's success since joining in 2014, after serving as president of PR Newswire and Critical Mention.

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SAIC Advances Environmental Stewardship with GHG Reduction, Energy Conservation, and Sustainable Practices

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

SAIC began setting greenhouse gas reduction goals in 2014 to encourage ongoing reductions in our carbon footprint. Scope 1 and Scope 2 Emissions We measure, monitor and track our Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions at facilities where we maintain operational control and publicly disclose those emissions.

Waste

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Exclusive: Q&A With Vanguard Renewables’ Brian Tracey

3BL Media

JUNE 3, 2024

Brian Tracey, director of gas sales at Vanguard Renewables, is amongst them Can you give us an introduction to Vanguard Renewables and the work that you do Vanguard Renewables was founded in 2014 and is the largest developer, owner and operator of anaerobic digesters in the US.

Waste

Waste Development

Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

MARCH 7, 2024

Sound waves thought to be from a 2014 meteor fireball north of Papua New Guinea were almost certainly vibrations from a truck rumbling along a nearby road, new research shows. The findings raise doubts that materials pulled last year from the ocean are alien materials from that meteor, as was widely reported.

2023 NRG Sustainability Report: Leading the Energy Transition

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Key takeaways include: 58% decrease in GHG emissions from our 2014 base year, equivalent to 24 million metric tons of CO 2 $7.2 The report spotlights key strategies and initiatives that further our sustainability agenda across the organization.

It’s Cool To Fly American Celebrates a Decade

3BL Media

JUNE 10, 2024

Bruce Sickler, Customer Care Manager in Global Reservations and Program Director for ICTFA, started the program in 2014 when he saw the need to bring solutions to the obstacles the disabled community faces while traveling. All of these experiences help our customers become more comfortable with the sensory experience of air travel.

AMD's energy-slashing feat

GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

But I recently paused to catch up about one that has particular relevance as more companies act to address their Scope 3 emissions reductions, those generated by supply chains and customers: AMD’s bold pledge back in 2014 to improve the energy efficiency of its mobile processors — the components used in notebook computers and specialized embedded systems, (..)

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As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The school partners with an Australia-based United Nations women’s advocacy group to offer scholarships – 20 since 2014 – to women in specialty MBA programs. In another unit, students visit Indigenous communities in New South Wales to assist start-ups and learn about First Nations culture.

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The Opportunity of Solar To Address Both Climate and Inequality

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Founded in 2014, Sunwealth has invested over $200 million in more than 650 operational solar installations across 18 states, reducing 1.2 By partnering with local solar installers and mission-aligned investors, we’re funding a variety of crucial projects and we’re pioneering a better energy future.

Climate Change

This Black-led non-profit is using cycling to build healthier communities and racial justice

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From Slow Roll to Equiticity Reed, along with childhood friend Jamal Julien, launched Slow Roll Chicago — a local outpost of a global bicycle movement — in 2014 as a means of encouraging more Black, Brown and Indigenous people to embrace bicycling for both recreation and transportation.

Development

Millions in costs due to discharge of scrubber water into the Baltic Sea

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

MAY 7, 2024

A new study shows that these emissions caused pollution corresponding to socio-economic costs of more than EUR 680 million between 2014 and 2022. Discharge from ships with so-called scrubbers cause great damage to the Baltic Sea.

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Researchers use GPS-tracked icebergs in novel study to improve climate models

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

MARCH 1, 2024

In the summers of 2014 and 2019, a group of pioneers in glacial research attached GPS devices to 13 icebergs and tracked hourly changes in their positions as they passed through Greenland's Ilulissat Icefjord toward the ocean.

10 Years Later: Back on the Field With the MLK High School Football Team

3BL Media

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then ahead of the 2013-2014 school year, Germantown and Martin Luther King High Schools were forced to merge as the result of a budget crisis plaguing the Philadelphia School District. As told in “ We Could Be King ”, a 2014 documentary by DICK’S Sporting Goods and Tribeca Films, Dunn volunteered to be head coach of the MLK Cougars.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. and MPLX LP Publish New Sustainability Report and TCFD-Aligned Climate Perspectives Report

3BL Media

AUGUST 15, 2024

For example, the reports highlight the companies’ time-bound, realistic GHG emissions reduction goals, including a 30% reduction of Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions intensity by 2030 from 2014 levels. Because MPC is on track to reach the goal prior to 2030, the company is extending this target to a 38% reduction from 2014 levels by 2035.

Hero: Vitasoy wants to take the cow out of the milk business

Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One priority has been to cut the inputs that go into making Vitasoy products, reducing water usage by 22% between 2014 and 2021, fuel by 18% and electricity by 12%. Vitasoy has extensive guidelines for suppliers, covering sustainable farming and fair labour practices, among others.

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Uniting for Water Rights: Kohler Co. Joins Forces With Leaders and Advocates To Address Global Water Challenges

3BL Media

MAY 3, 2024

Don’t get me wrong, we have made progress in addressing this unacceptable condition – thanks in a large part to legislation like the Water for the World Act of 2014, the efforts of late Senator Paul Simon, who was the inspiration for the Act, his wife Patti Simon, Rep.

EPA

EPA Development

Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

The "way back when" in this case seems to be around 2014. It feels almost quaint to remember way back when "80 by 50" — an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 — was a bold goal for a company or government entity to make. It was seen by many as audacious, possibly unachievable, but still a necessary target.

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Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality and Treatment Underscore the Importance of Testing

3BL Media

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Patterns and trends in age-specific black-white differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality – United States, 1999–2014. Read more. Richardson LC, Henley SJ, Miller JW, et al. 2016;65:1093–1098. 15585/mmwr.mm6540a1. Shavers VL, Harlan LC, Stevens JL.

KeyBank Volunteers Help the West Side Bazaar Recover from Fire

3BL Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Since 2014, KeyBank, in partnership with the First Niagara Foundation, has given more than $1.7 It was heavily damaged by fire on the morning of September 20th. Thankfully, no one was at the Bazaar when the fire broke out and no one was hurt. But the damage left behind forced the Bazaar to close indefinitely. million grant in 2021.

Development

SUN DAY Campaign - Explosive Growth by Wind and Solar Helped Double Renewables' Generating Capacity and Actual Generation Over the Past Decade`

Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

HIGHLIGHTS EIA AND FERC DATA CONFIRM A DECADE OF EXPLOSIVE WIND AND SOLAR GROWTH RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRICAL OUTPUT AND INSTALLED CAPACITY HAVE DOUBLED SINCE 2014 WIND HAS EXPANDED BY TW.

Climate Change

3D models provide unprecedented look at corals' response to bleaching events

Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JULY 31, 2024

Using a time series of coral reef 3D models from Maui, the researchers tracked the bleaching response of 1,832 coral colonies from 2014 to 2021.

Carbon pricing works, and this proves it

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Groups such as the Business Council of Australia that welcomed the abolition of the carbon price back in 2014 are calling for an effective climate policy with a price signal at its heart. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that Australia’s two-year experiment with carbon pricing delivered emissions reductions as the economy grew.

Development

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Veolia - Veolia Awarded Operations and Maintenance Contract for the City of Toronto's Dufferin Anaerobic Digestion FacilityNew contract serves to reinforce the fight against climate change and contribute to Veolia's mission of ecological transformation

Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Since 2014, Veolia has als. Veolia announced today (Nov 7) that it has been awarded a contract to assume operations and maintenance of the City of Toronto's Dufferin organics processing facility.

Climate Change

When Indigenous people do well economically, so does Canada

Corporate Knights

JUNE 21, 2022

From 1881 until as recently as 2014, the Indian Act contained a permit system to control First Nations’ ability to sell products off the reserves. The history of inequality for Indigenous Peoples in Canada is well documented. In 1867, through the Indian Act, inherent Indigenous economic rights were taken away.

Development

Retiring postman gives special handwritten letter to residents and it's just heart-breaking

Good.is: Planet

JUNE 17, 2024

In the retiring mailman's letter, a mention of his late wife who died in September 2014 moved people to tears.

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

GreenBiz

MAY 16, 2020

At one such event in 2014, speaker Christopher Monckton surveyed the room and declared that everyone there agreed that humanity’s "emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have contributed to the measured global warming since 1950." [node:field-gbz-pull-quote:1].

Climate Change

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Dr. Ellen Williams Joins Climate Vault's Technology Experts Chamber To Help Evaluate Innovative CDR Projects

3BL Media

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Notably, she has also served as Chief Scientist for British Petroleum (BP) from 2010 to 2014, and as Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from 2014 to 2017 under former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz.

Climate Change

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PSEG Honoring Our Heroes: Supporting Our Veterans

3BL Media

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Additionally, we’ve been partnering with the Volunteer Lawyers for Justice since 2014 by supporting its Veterans Legal Program. Shamy, retired Army veteran. “I I am thankful for the contributions PSEG has made to help me complete my degree program!”

Australians overpaid $1.8 billion to gas networks – now they’re being asked for more

For Burlington, Vermont, going 100 percent renewable was just the start

Trending Sources

Certifications matter more than ever and brands should be promoting them

Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025

How kelp forests persisted through the large 2014-2016 Pacific marine heatwave

Pollution – Why we replaced horses with automobiles

Mondel?z 2021 Snacking Made Right Report: Mindful Snacking

ESG Reporting 101

ESG in 20 Questions: A Practical Guide that Goes Beyond the Letters

GoDaddy’s Love & Business Series: Sweets & Meats BBQ

Knight Bites: Mind the billionaire wealth gap

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels

How to talk about racial justice in sustainability

STEM Education: Qualcomm Inspires the Next Generation of Inventors

Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders

3BL Embraces New Horizons: Charlie Wilkie Appointed as CEO While Dave Armon Steps Into Executive Vice Chairman Role

SAIC Advances Environmental Stewardship with GHG Reduction, Energy Conservation, and Sustainable Practices

Exclusive: Q&A With Vanguard Renewables’ Brian Tracey

Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck

2023 NRG Sustainability Report: Leading the Energy Transition

It’s Cool To Fly American Celebrates a Decade

AMD's energy-slashing feat

As corporate leaders pledge to embrace purpose beyond profit, are business schools keeping up?

The Opportunity of Solar To Address Both Climate and Inequality

This Black-led non-profit is using cycling to build healthier communities and racial justice

Millions in costs due to discharge of scrubber water into the Baltic Sea

Researchers use GPS-tracked icebergs in novel study to improve climate models

10 Years Later: Back on the Field With the MLK High School Football Team

Marathon Petroleum Corp. and MPLX LP Publish New Sustainability Report and TCFD-Aligned Climate Perspectives Report

Hero: Vitasoy wants to take the cow out of the milk business

Uniting for Water Rights: Kohler Co. Joins Forces With Leaders and Advocates To Address Global Water Challenges

Is 'net zero' much ado about nothing?

Disparities in Breast Cancer Mortality and Treatment Underscore the Importance of Testing

KeyBank Volunteers Help the West Side Bazaar Recover from Fire

SUN DAY Campaign - Explosive Growth by Wind and Solar Helped Double Renewables' Generating Capacity and Actual Generation Over the Past Decade`

3D models provide unprecedented look at corals' response to bleaching events

Carbon pricing works, and this proves it

Veolia - Veolia Awarded Operations and Maintenance Contract for the City of Toronto's Dufferin Anaerobic Digestion FacilityNew contract serves to reinforce the fight against climate change and contribute to Veolia's mission of ecological transformation

When Indigenous people do well economically, so does Canada

Retiring postman gives special handwritten letter to residents and it's just heart-breaking

Risk, doubt, and the burden of proof in the climate debate

Dr. Ellen Williams Joins Climate Vault's Technology Experts Chamber To Help Evaluate Innovative CDR Projects

PSEG Honoring Our Heroes: Supporting Our Veterans

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