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Dead Dolphins, Radioactive Mountains: Inside Florida’s Phosphorus Crisis

Sense and Sustainability

billion more gallons of wastewater were dumped into Tampa Bay between 2003 and 2007. Here, regenerative agriculture comes into play. Regenerative agriculture prioritizes soil health, including those beneficial mycorrhizal fungi that provide wild plants with the phosphorus they need.

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A B Corp Month Collective Climate Action Resource

B the Change

Project in support of regenerative agriculture, nutrition, and climate health. Excerpt from the climate action resource: “Food waste is a serious problem. New Leaf Paper: Sustainable Travel and Trade Show Strategies for Impact Improvement New Leaf Paper is a founding B Corp and initially certified in 2007.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Compete with China in Emerging Markets: Transitioning from a ‘Death Economy’ to a ‘Life Economy’

James Militzer

The world is in the midst of a difficult transition, moving from a degenerative “death economy” to a regenerative “life economy.” The death economy is an economic system based on maximizing short-term profits, regardless of the social and environmental costs.

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Parsing Panera's plan to nudge consumers toward low-carbon meals

GreenBiz

At the grocery store, you’re bombarded with labels: organic and its new extension, regenerative organic; various competing fair trade standards; certifications relating to animal health and so on. Notice that these widely used labels tell you nothing about the climate change impact of your choices.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Elsa Wenzel.

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

More than you’d expect for someone who spends his time working on the impacts of biodiversity loss and climate change in his native Kenya. And certainly more than you’d expect for someone who had to leave his home in Trans-Nzoia County, on Kenya’s western border, because of flooding caused by the climate emergency.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

What seemed to resonate best in follow-up discussion was the possibility of analogizing our climate crisis to the issues of forced labor and LGBTQ rights, regarding which corporations have been willing to embrace a relatively simple and effective moral framing, language, and demand. .