April, 2022

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Anaerobic digestion: Turning America’s food waste into RNG

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Anaerobic digestion is an eco-friendly waste management solution, producing renewable energy and healthy soils. How can this technology grow in the United States?

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The beef with fake meat: Dairy and meat lobbies take aim at plant-based products

Corporate Knights

Over the last few years, meat companies around the world have been making headlines for their ventures into the world of plant-based protein. In 2020, the world’s largest meat supplier, Brazil’s JBS, launched its first line of meat alternatives. That same year, Cargill, one of North America’s largest beef processors, did the same. A year later, America’s largest poultry producer, Tyson Foods, released its own line of fully plant-based products to take advantage of this rapidly growing food segme

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Australia’s biggest wind and solar hybrid plant begins production

Renew Economy

Australia's largest wind and solar hybrid facility begins production in South Australia, near the home of the state's last coal generator. The post Australia’s biggest wind and solar hybrid plant begins production appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Expanding Environmental Commitments

3BL Media

SOURCE: Qualcomm. DESCRIPTION: We believe that climate change is a serious environmental, social and economic threat that calls for immediate and concerted action among all sectors of society. That’s why, in 2021, we expanded our commitment to reducing our operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in our value chain and ensured our new targets were aligned to the latest climate science by committing to and joining the Science Based Targets Initiative’s Business Ambition for 1.5°C and the United

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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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Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil | Garry Kasparov

TEDxInnovations

Ukraine is on the front line of a war between freedom and tyranny, says chess grandmaster and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov. In this blistering call to action, he traces Vladimir Putin's rise to power and details his own path from chess world champion to pro-democracy activist in Russia. His message is a challenge to global leaders to rise in support of Ukraine -- and to choose life and love over death and hatred.

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Insteon is down and may not be coming back

Stacey Higginbotham

Is your Insteon smart home system down? I’m getting reports from dozens of Insteon users that as of Friday their smart home hubs have stopped working. So far, none of them have heard from the company, and Insteon’s Twitter account hasn’t been updated since June 2021. I reached out to Rob Lilleness, the president and chairman of Smartlabs, the company that owns Insteon and have not yet heard back.

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Canada ranks dead last among G7 on climate progress: Earth Index

Corporate Knights

Canada must make up for lost ground if it’s going to meet its target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 45% from 2005 levels by 2030. Among the 10 most developed G20 countries assessed by Corporate Knights’ Earth Index analysis , “Canada was the worst performing country of the whole group in 2019,” said Ralph Torrie, Corporate Knights’ director of research.

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“Climate greatest threat to Australia’s security”: ex-defence chief says

Renew Economy

National security experts call on Australians to use looming federal election to back candidates backing action on climate change. The post “Climate greatest threat to Australia’s security”: ex-defence chief says appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Chemicals and capital markets: Growing sustainably

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Green chemicals—those with a low-carbon product portfolio or a higher exposure to end markets supporting sustainability—are being rewarded by capital markets and safeguarding future cash flow.

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Global warming is projected to exceed 1.8°C, according to McKinsey report

Envirotec Magazine

The energy transition continues to gain steam, with oil demand projected to peak in this decade, perhaps as soon as 2025, according to new research by global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. This year’s Global Energy Perspective launches at a time when global energy markets are facing an unprecedented array of uncertainties, including the conflict in Ukraine.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Protest Movements Could Be More Effective Than the Best Charities

Stanford Social Innovation

By James Ozden. The past several years have seen dramatic growth in social movements demonstrating their dissent through public mass mobilization and acts of civil disobedience, from Black Lives Matter and Fridays for Future to the massive protests by Indian farmers. According to one study , the number of protest movements tripled from 2006 to 2020.

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Sustainable investing expert Alison Taylor on ESG misconceptions and why ethics are part of the equation

GreenBiz

The BSR advisor, NYU professor and executive director at Ethical Systems discusses what concerning orthodoxies she’s seeing begin to ossify, and what leadership in ESG investing should really be doing right now.

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In wild west of sustainable investing, which mutual funds are the most responsible?

Corporate Knights

If 2020 was the year sustainable investing went mainstream, then 2021 was the year it was tested. There was so much optimism at the end of 2020 as President Joe Biden was entering the White House and green stocks surged to all-time highs. Unfortunately, those hopes were dashed as it became clear that the United States wasn’t going to become the climate leader so many of us wanted it to be.

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South Australia grid reaches record high of 136.6 pct renewables

Renew Economy

South Australia sets a new benchmark of 136.6 per cent renewables - as a share of local demand - early on Easter Sunday. The post South Australia grid reaches record high of 136.6 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?

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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Hybrid work: Making it fit with your diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy

McKinsey Sustainabilty

New research details what empowered employees love about hybrid work models and the risks to diversity, equity, and inclusion if managers get the evolving flexible workplace wrong.

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ChatOps: How to Build Your First Webex Bot

Cisco CSR

Welcome to the first blog of our series on how to use the Webex API to code up ChatOps workflows! In this post, you’ll learn how to create a Webex bot, register a Webhook in Webex, and configure your bot to listen to Webhook – all with plenty of code examples. Check back for more as we build new use cases that leverage different aspects of automation using chat-driven interfaces.

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With Insteon down, possibly for good, what options do you have for your devices?

Stacey Higginbotham

This hasn’t been a good week for the smart home as yet another connected device service seems to have disappeared. It appears anyone using Insteon products has faced a dead-end as the company’s cloud service has gone silent. So too has the company up to this point. What are Insteon device owners and service users to do? The first thing is: If you have an Insteon hub, make sure you don’t factory reset it !

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How corporations can support 24/7 carbon-free energy

GreenBiz

In its most detailed policy roadmap to date, Google has published a blueprint for what it will take to get the power sector to 24/7, carbon-free energy.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Why is Ontario making new buildings less energy efficient?

Corporate Knights

Chris Ballard is a former Ontario minister of housing and environment and climate change and the CEO of Passive House Canada, a national non-profit professional association that advocates for the Passive House high-performance building standard. If you could live in a home that was highly energy efficient , climate resilient, comfortable and healthy for about the same cost as a code-built home and was built to outlast current buildings, would you move in?

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Australia will miss its weak 2030 emissions reduction targets, new data shows

Renew Economy

Australia set to fall short of its weak Paris Agreement target for emissions, thanks to the lack of meaningful federal policy. The post Australia will miss its weak 2030 emissions reduction targets, new data shows appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How COVID-19 caused a global learning crisis

McKinsey Sustainabilty

The pandemic has taken a substantial toll on students’ academic progress as well as on their mental health. School systems can respond across multiple horizons to help students get back on track.

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5G: Enabling Change For Manufacturers

Cisco CSR

In today’s world of manufacturing, there is a new convergence happening. A greater number of available technologies are meeting the dynamics of changing workforces, fragile supply chains, and the ever-present market demand for better and cheaper products and services. However, manufacturers still face a unique challenge: how to maximize investments in various technologies to achieve the most impactful ROI or as we like to refer to them, “enablers of change”.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Senet’s embrace of Helium shows its confidence in LoRaWAN

Stacey Higginbotham

LoRaWAN network provider Senet said this week that it has expanded its relationship with the Helium network, a distributed peer-to-peer LoRaWAN network. Senet had started letting its customers roam onto the Helium network in September of last year, but with this move Senet has expanded the deal to include Helium’s global hotspots. And that means Senet customers can roam onto Helium’s network anywhere in the world.

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3 things learned from Microsoft’s carbon removal report

GreenBiz

The software and hardware maker’s carbon removal goals are among the most ambitious in the corporate world. Here are some of its early lessons.

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Meet the recycling start-up hustling to keep EV batteries out of landfills

Corporate Knights

There’s no shortage of evidence that the electric vehicle market hit some kind of inflection point in the last year or so. But for Ajay Kochhar, the CEO and co-founder of Li-Cycle, the telling detail was buyer response to General Motors’ very first e-Silverado. The initial production run sold out in 12 minutes on the day it went up for sale in early January – and this is for a pickup that won’t roll off the assembly line until 2024.

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Consumers would enjoy lower electricity costs with a faster exit from coal

Renew Economy

Consumers would enjoy lower prices with a faster switch to renewables, but in W.A. the state Labor government is not listening. The post Consumers would enjoy lower electricity costs with a faster exit from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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Chipotle, Intel, and Prudential Leaders Share How They’re Using Transparency, Real-Time Feedback, and Advancement to Recruit and Retain Workers

Just Capital

Sharon Epperson sits down with Marissa Andrada, Christy Pambianchi, and Lata Reddy to talk investing in workers. (Christopher Galluzzo). After capturing the attention of economists, employers, investors, and others for nearly a year, the “Great Resignation” may be showing signs of slowing. The latest jobs report from the Department of Labor shows the U.S. has recovered 93% of jobs lost since the beginning of the pandemic, and new research finds that current quit rates are in-line wit

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Security Resilience in EMEA

Cisco CSR

What makes a successful cybersecurity program and how can organizations improve their resilience in a world that seems increasingly unpredictable? How do we know what actually works and what doesn’t in order to maximize success? These are the types of burning questions guiding Cisco’s Security Outcomes Study series. In the second edition of the study, Cisco conducted an independent, double-blind survey of over 5,100 IT professionals in 27 countries.

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Home Assistant’s newest release is big and awesome

Stacey Higginbotham

Although I’ve gone all-in on HomeKit for personal use , there are still other great smart home options out there. And one of them is Home Assistant, which often gets lost in the connected platform shuffle. If you’re not familiar with it, Home Assistant is an open-source smart home system you self-host on a small computer, like a Raspberry Pi.

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Logistics gets on a sustainable track

GreenBiz

Moving target: A truckload of technologies, partnerships and global agreements comprise new solutions for the space.

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.