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20 must-read books about food systems

GreenBiz

20 must-read books about food systems. With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men. Danielle Nierenberg. Fri, 07/10/2020 - 00:50.

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Can sustainability save capitalism?

GreenBiz

My inbox and bookshelf have been groaning lately under the heft of some weighty books, essays and reports heralding a kinder, gentler era for capitalism. For years, there has been a steady stream of visions aimed at reforming, rethinking, reimagining, reinventing, redefining and rebooting the operating system that drives capitalist economies.

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2025 Global 100 list: World's most sustainable companies are still betting on a greener world

Corporate Knights

both earned spots in the Global 100 ranking, as did telecommunications giants BCE Inc., The Corporate Knights ranking allocates spots by sectors to reflect the global economy. The bank has a rapidly growing green loan book and has provided just under $40 billion in renewable-energy financing since 2019. >>Access

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Sounding the Alarm on Global Learning Poverty

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: As the executive director and co-creator of NABU , a New York-based nonprofit publisher of multilingual books on a free digital app, I am proud to be part of the global community dedicated to tackling the global literacy crisis. Even before the pandemic, the global learning poverty rate was 57 percent.

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Great Bear Sea's blueprint for doing business with nature

Corporate Knights

A 1997 study published in Nature, for instance, concluded that global ecosystems provide between US$18 and $61 trillion worth of goods and services to civilization, roughly on par with the cash then circulating in the global economy. This was something the Nations had been developing for 20 years.

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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?

Corporate Knights

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C trillion to global GDP in 2022, and the WTTC forecasts [pdf] that figure doubling to represent 11.6% asks Skift Executive Editor Dennis Schaal in a recent opinion piece.

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More Than a Numbers Game

Chris Hall

A decade ago, Jane Gleeson-White’s remarkable book title asked, ‘Can Accountants Save the Planet?’ So far, they haven’t, as a voracious global economy continues to deplete resources at a dangerously unsustainable pace.