GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Terreform ONE’s plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/10/2020 - 02:11. And now for some serious fun. Last week, I had the opportunity to facilitate an online conversation with Terreform ONE , a Brooklyn, New York-based nonprofit architecture and urban design research group whose humble mission is “to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.”.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 26, 2020

Small business owners are facing catastrophically bad choices these days, with half predicting they will be forced to close as a result of the COVID-19 economic crisis. Meanwhile, nearly 40 million workers have lost jobs and are struggling to get by, as evidenced by miles long lines at food banks and a brewing eviction crisis. The post Turning the small business crisis into an opportunity for equitable employee ownership appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

The initiative appears to be a world first for reusable PPE. A seemingly world-first collaboration is bringing recycled and reusable PPE visors to UK health workers and NGOs in the Dominican Republic. The initiative brings together the activity of Heroes, a charity founded by and for NHS workers, and environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans (Parley).

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 6, 2020

It was Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb and other mainstays of the modern world, who said, “I haven’t failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that don’t work.”. This concept is lost on many in the information age, unfortunately. Because of the immediacy with which we receive both positive and negative feedback from our peers now, when we innovate and put something into the world and promptly receive less than desirable results, or it doesn’t work the way we wanted it to, we are more ea

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Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 31, 2020

In this article, I'm going to use risk management methods to cover some of the potential risks Neuralink poses to individual safety, freedom, and free societies when misused by bad actors. I'll organize the threat vectors by the type of malicious actors that might benefit from misuse of Neuralink technology, and then propose some possible ways to mitigate these threats.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:15. Companies and cities are increasingly adopting lower-carbon fleets — including trucks and buses that run off electricity, renewable diesel and renewable natural gas — according to a new report from the research team at Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA). .

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

What does 'climate risk' actually mean? Joel Makower. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 02:11. If you stick around the world of sustainable business long enough, you’re sure to see an immutable march of memes — terms that rise up and become popularized, often without agreed-upon definitions. Then, over time, they become used, and overused, to the point where they lose much of their meaning.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

The many faces of energy resilience. Michelle Moore. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 00:30. This series explores how clean energy can deliver on finance and corporate social and governance goals alongside climate and environmental benefits. "Resilience" is a powerful word in 2020. Fires, floods, pestilence, pandemic — I don’t know about you all, but I was raised in a fundamentalist Southern Baptist Church and my Revelations bingo card is just about full.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life. Holly Secon. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 01:00. A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. Hunter Lovins. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:15. We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/24/2020 - 02:11. One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, "sustainability" is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. And, more recently, a new subcategory of, yes, pandemic-related issues.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 20, 2020

Journey Foods uses AI to create sustainability recipe for food manufacturers. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/20/2020 - 02:00. Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods , is dragging the packaged food business into the 21st century. . "Food manufacturing has really only scaled up in the last 60 years," she said. "And that means we’re also working on very antiquated methods." .

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

New sparks for the electric vehicle industry. Zoé Bezpalko. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 01:45. Thinking back to the beginning of 2020 can seem like a lifetime ago. Before the pandemic took root on a global level, the transportation industry was already in the midst of a great and exciting transition. The move to electric vehicles (EVs) was intensifying. . Take General Motors, for example.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 19, 2020

Why the District of Columbia is a leader in energy efficiency. Catherine Nabukalu. Wed, 08/19/2020 - 01:30. One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. Among several things, he discussed the vital benefit of energy efficiency in working toward environmental sustainability through emissions reductions without harming or slowing economic growth. .

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 11, 2020

How solar-charged HVAC keeps trucking cool. Mike Roeth. Tue, 08/11/2020 - 00:01. When most businesspeople travel for their jobs, they retire to their hotel room at the end of the day. However, when long-haul truck drivers are finished with their work, they move to the back of their truck cab into what is called the sleeper compartment. Long-haul, over-the-road truck drivers typically are out on the road anywhere from one to three weeks at a time, delivering the goods we need for our daily lives.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date. Katie Fehrenbacher. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 00:00. German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe. The deal shows how companies are increasingly paying attention to ways to decarbonize transportation including buying more zero-emission commercial vehicles.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 21, 2020

Why e-commerce retailers should increase transparency about their products. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 08/21/2020 - 01:15. When shopping online, consumers are able to see a lot of information about a product. There’s the product description and specifications of an item. For a bottle of perfume, the listing would declare the fluid ounces and describe the scent.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

How cities can influence the energy system. Heather House. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:45. As U.S. cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Policy and regulatory decisions made by states, utilities, public utilities commissions and wholesale market governing bodies determine the clean energy procurement options available to cities and

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Speaker: Hortense Grouvel

In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Reusable packaging provides untapped payoffs for business. Joana Kleine Jäger. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 01:45. Remember the time when milk was delivered to your door in reusable glass bottles? If not, you were probably born during the plastics-era, which began about 50 years ago. Until the 1980s, glass or cotton bags were the go-to packaging materials for many products, such as milk and flour.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 21, 2020

There's a big appetite for farm-to-consumer shopping. Jim Giles. Fri, 08/21/2020 - 01:45. Avrom Farm sits in the hills above Green Lake in central Wisconsin. With 5,000 chickens, 200 pigs and six acres of vegetables, it’s a minnow in an industry dominated by an increasingly small number of producers and processors. . In March, a stay-at-home order hit the region.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 18, 2020

Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry. Jesse Klein. Tue, 08/18/2020 - 02:00. The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. And it knows it. A quick Google search brings up articles from Allure , National Geographic , Forbes , Teen Vogue and 31,800,000 other results about the issue. . It seems those concerns finally have reached a critical mass, inspiring a sustainability makeover at three of the biggest beauty brands in the business — Sephora, Natura & C

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

How sustainability vets align their work-life identities. Ellen Weinreb. Mon, 08/10/2020 - 01:00. As our professional colleagues in the Sustainability Veterans group expressed their sense of overwhelm and concern around the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter, we also reflected on how it relates to our lives, and vice versa. Sustainability Veterans is a group of professionals who have had leadership roles in corporate sustainability.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

This is why investors want financial regulators to tackle climate risk. Ravi Varghese. Mon, 08/24/2020 - 01:15. To understand economic crises of the recent past, present and future, there may be no finer teacher than Michael Lewis. Many readers will be familiar with Lewis’s book "The Big Short," which documented how excesses in global credit markets spawned a worldwide financial crisis.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

Episode 234: Circularity 20 highlights, talking green chemistry. Heather Clancy. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (6:45). The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. This Israeli startup mimics mangroves, coral and oysters to create protective seawalls. Amid devastating forest fires, One Trillion Trees movement puts down U.S. roots.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 6, 2020

Behind Microsoft's bold plan to build social equity into clean energy buying. Heather Clancy. Thu, 08/06/2020 - 00:45. There were plenty of juicy news tidbits in Microsoft’s recent progress report about its goal to become carbon negative over the next decade. But its new goal to link at least 500 megawatts of forthcoming solar energy contracts to environmental justice considerations is bold for many reasons. .

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 7, 2020

Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change. Alex Thornton. Fri, 08/07/2020 - 00:30. How much space do you think you need to grow a forest? If your answer is bigger than a couple of tennis courts, think again. Miniature forests are springing up on patches of land in urban areas around the world, often planted by local community groups using a method inspired by Japanese temples.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 17, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 17 – The financial strains the COVID pandemic has caused in many cities and states can be seen in sharp relief in Alabama’s Black Belt, a swath of 18 counties originally named for the area’s once-rich soil. Even accessing federal relief funding is a challenge in the Black Belt which contains some of. The post Creative financing to unlock COVID aid in Alabama appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 25, 2020

Community development finance institutions have long been “first responders” to small businesses in historically underinvested communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has in stark terms revealed the degree to which those same communities are subject to the impacts of systemic racism and an economy built on poor-quality jobs. This moment in time requires each of us—community lenders, The post How investors can blend finance for CDFIs to advance economic and racial justice appeared first on ImpactAlpha

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 12, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 12 – More than two-dozen investment funds are making investments in tropical forests and communities. The funds have at least $2.6 billion in capital to invest in firms and projects generating revenue from tropical forestry and agriculture products and benefiting smallholder farmers and forest-dependent communities. “Combating deforestation, incentivizing conservation, and improving livelihoods requires.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 20, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 20 – Conventional investors see uncompensated risk. Investors of ‘catalytic capital’ see an opportunity for outsized impact. One Acre Fund has spent the last decade and a half demonstrating that small African farmers are not only lendable but, with additional support, are safe bets to reduce hunger and grow family incomes. In the. The post One Acre Fund secures $20 million to catalyze institutional capital for African farmers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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