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Earth Day: How We’re Helping Our Social and Environmental Systems Heal and Thrive

3BL Media

Circular transformation Circular transformation means designing waste out of our business, and transitioning from an economy that extracts resources and eventually wastes them, to a circular one which finds new uses for products and their materials. Gaucalillo is a coastal community located in one of the poorest areas of the country.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

because I had won that award at the White House for sustainable development and I am an academic to them, which they respect. Ellen MacArthur has adopted biological, technical, restorative, regenerative. So, I just see the obvious, like when I first said "waste equals food." Four years is not enough.". And so I did. And so on.

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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?

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Root of the Problem

Chris Hall

The industry itself is responsible for over 30% of global greenhouse gases, 30% of the food that we produce is wasted from farm to fridge, and 28% of plastic in the ocean comes from the industry, says Rob Appleby, Co-Founder and CIO of Cibus Capital, which runs two sustainability-led funds which invest in food and agriculture firms.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

In July 2018, the concept of deep adaptation first appearaned, in a seemingly landmark paper published by UK sustainability academic Jem Bendell, which – though only intended for people working in the corporate sustainability field – went viral, with over a million downloads. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

In July 2018, the concept of deep adaptation first appearaned, in a seemingly landmark paper published by UK sustainability academic Jem Bendell, which – though only intended for people working in the corporate sustainability field – went viral, with over a million downloads. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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4 Steps Your Company Can Take to Move Toward Net Zero

B the Change

In food systems, for example, we need fundamental shifts to “regenerative” production and waste reduction. In terms of removing carbon from the atmosphere — the other part of the net-zero equation — new “regenerative” forestry and agriculture projects avoid some of the issues with carbon offsets.