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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

Corporate Knights

Nestlé is paying ranchers for regenerative grazing practices that get sold as carbon credits. General Mills makes a regenerative-beef protein bar that it claims offsets 80% of its greenhouse gas emissions through regenerating soil practices.” Walmart Canada stocks 2.5 The practice of branding meat as climate-friendly isn’t new.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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Startup Allotrope Raises $6.7 Million to Make Batteries from Trees

ESG Today

Founded in 2016, UK-based Allotrope has developed technology enabling major improvements in the capability of high-rate carbon anodes for energy storage applications allowing for significantly faster charge times, similar to fueling an internal combustion engine vehicle, while reducing safety hazards associated with other lithium-ion technologies.

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A New Year’s resolution for Bill Gates

GreenBiz

Later, when we had breached the corporate gates, even finding our way into boardrooms, it felt as though we were putting corporations — their leaders, cultures, technologies, business models and supply chains — under the microscope. Someone else who achieves this trick is Ramez Naam — whose "Nexus Trilogy" I strongly recommend.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

The average American spends $2,392 per year on food while the average Kenyan spends $543 per year on food (World Economic Forum, 2016). Companies have targets that push them to fix their own supply chain, but this can lead to simply shifting the problem to another company’s supply chain. To reach a 1.5

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). A future that is more regenerative, circular and healthy for humans and the planet we call home. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). COVID-19 has kicked open the door."

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Setting the Standard for More Sustainable Agriculture in New Zealand

3BL Media

Creating harmony with the land Silver Fern Farms , a cooperative of 16,000 New Zealand sheep, cattle and deer farmers, is just one example of the export brands Beef + Lamb New Zealand works with that takes its stake in regenerative and sustainable agriculture seriously. The Māori worldview is that we’re borrowing from the Earth.