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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

Corporate Knights

Nestlé is paying ranchers for regenerative grazing practices that get sold as carbon credits. General Mills makes a regenerative-beef protein bar that it claims offsets 80% of its greenhouse gas emissions through regenerating soil practices.” Walmart Canada stocks 2.5 The practice of branding meat as climate-friendly isn’t new.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

Loliware was founded in 2016 in pursuit of "a radical leap towards [a sustainable packaging] future." As Ananas Anam grows, so do its social and sustainability efforts as it further builds a Philippines-based supply chain and promotes local culture and resilience. . Turning algae into straws that are 'designed to disappear'.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). Companies have targets that push them to fix their own supply chain, but this can lead to simply shifting the problem to another company’s supply chain. To reach a 1.5

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. 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. and globally by 2040. Company profile.

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A New Year’s resolution for Bill Gates

GreenBiz

Later, when we had breached the corporate gates, even finding our way into boardrooms, it felt as though we were putting corporations — their leaders, cultures, technologies, business models and supply chains — under the microscope. Someone else who achieves this trick is Ramez Naam — whose "Nexus Trilogy" I strongly recommend.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). A future that is more regenerative, circular and healthy for humans and the planet we call home. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). COVID-19 has kicked open the door."

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.