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Owens Corning Publishes 2024 Sustainability Report

3BL Media

Waste: To achieve a winning cost position and deliver best-in-class execution, the company drove significant productivity gains by reducing waste. In 2024, Owens Corning reduced its total waste generation by 64,676 metric tons compared to 2023. In 2024, 51 percent of the companys revenue came from this category of products.

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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations

GreenBiz

A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. The eyes of traditional investors are widening to the landscape as well.

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

Ten days earlier, seven Ontario youth appeared in court virtually to challenge the provincial government’s decision to gut its climate targets in 2018. “We Sanch Gupta and Milton Calderon Donefer have saved 52,000 pounds of food from going to waste and delivered more than 60,000 meals to homeless shelters in eight cities.

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With 25% of Europe’s greenhouse emissions coming from buildings, scientists suggest fundamental policy changes

Envirotec Magazine

Transitioning to a circular economy would not only allow to reduce resource consumption and carbon footprint, but also address the waste problem. There is a lot of embodied carbon in a building structure, especially in the concrete and steel. Circularity has many facets”, explains Prof. The challenge, however, is huge. “75%

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GCSHES – Education Program – Meet Our Speakers

Green Technology

Nick Brown Education Sessions: What’s New for 2025 in the Energy Code Embodied Carbon and CALGreen Nick Brown is President of Build Smart Group, an independent energy consultancy focused on California’s residential and nonresidential energy modeling, energy code, and building performance.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

There’s a lot of work to be done to advance the circular economy and ensure that we are moving away from a linear ‘take-make-waste’ system.” We know that everything we call waste could be a valuable resource.” A member of the Métis Nation of Ontario, Laplante founded Hempergy , an award-winning hemp-waste insulation start-up, in 2019.

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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. Jessica Artioli Centurião ( 2018 ). John Bello (2018). We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.