ESG/Sustainability Highlights
January 21, 2022
Source: CleanTechnica - Recent research suggests that communities that have seen steep reductions in manufacturing jobs are less likely to adopt plans related to environmental sustainability, highlighting the role that economic transitions play in...
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January 21, 2022
Source: South China Moening Post - Banks in the Asia-Pacific region need to “make up ground fast” in terms of implementing sustainability practices, as their global peers have made significant progress, according to a study by audit and advisory firm Maza
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January 21, 2022
Source: News Jornal - As the importance of sustainability continues to grow across industries, leading adhesives and sealants producers are increasing their focus on developing products that will reduce the carbon footprint of their own production...
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January 21, 2022
Source: Veg News - San Francisco-based biomaterials startup MycoWorks plans to build its first full-scale mushroom leather production plant in Union County, SC, enabling the company to produce several million square feet of the innovative new...
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January 21, 2022
Source: GreenBiz - PRoduce was created to solve the problem of the chefs and cooks that wanted to serve locally sourced ingredients in their restaurants but were unable to because of the small scale and disorganized nature of the local food...
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January 21, 2022
Source: Glas International - Vitro was the first US glass manufacturer to have its entire collection of architectural glass products recognised by the Cradle-to-Cradle products programme, which are now Bronze certified.
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January 21, 2022
Source: Daily Northwestern - Reduce, reuse, recycle and refuse: these are tenets of Eco and the Flamingo, Evanston and Chicago’s first zero waste general stores. “(Sustainability’s) just been our guiding value from the beginning — if a company wasn’t...
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January 21, 2022
Source: War on the Rocks - Embracing recently pioneered micro-farming techniques can benefit the U.S. military at both the tactical and strategic levels. Specifically, hydroponic container-farming could serve expeditionary operations across the...
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January 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation - To cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in half within a decade, the Biden administration’s goal, the U.S. is going to need a lot more solar and wind power generation, and lots of cheap energy storage.
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January 21, 2022
Source: Yahoo Finance - SMART Technologies, the edtech will debut at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) an array of innovative features to support schools around the world with sustainable, connected, active learning.
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