GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

But we never experienced anything like the coronavirus pandemic. As unprecedented as these times are, and as uncertain as the near future may be, some past events offer small but important parallels that could yield tools and ideas for how to proceed. Take time to be observant before deciding on how sustainability can be a solution. .

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 25, 2021

Question for all who read this: to succeed at any business venture, you merely need to have huge resources, dedicated personnel, and a quality product or service, right? In a world where exponential change and digital disruptions abound, you simply cannot rest on your laurels and merely rely on what you’ve already built.

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Daniel Burrus

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But in reality, you can solve tomorrow’s problems today using anticipation and trends and leverage disruptive change for opportunity and advantage. Disruptive technological change is coming at us every day, increasing at an exponential rate. Disruptive technological change is coming at us every day, increasing at an exponential rate.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Like most big companies with a complex multinational footprint, Anheuser-Busch InBev's sales slipped in the first quarter and the beer maker is embracing new financial discipline amid the coronavirus pandemic. Below is a transcript of our interview about how the company's sustainability team is focusing amid the pandemic.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 12, 2022

DESCRIPTION: As a new school season kicks off, educators, students, parents and schools are still battling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Teachers increasingly shoulder emotional and financial burdens in the classroom, but businesses can help. Words by Ellen R. SOURCE: TriplePundit.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It opens the exhibition floor for businesses to present emerging cleaning technologies to target brands, organizations, and consumers. In 2001, he responded to his observation by establishing Tersano, an organization that would soon be destined to Change the Way the World Cleans. SOURCE: Tersano. Science Meets Tech.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2021

The world remains in crisis as the Coronavirus pandemic continues to rage and climate change action gathers pace. Closer to home, preparation will turn to action following Britain’s departure from the EU at the turn of the year resulting in overnight changes to regulation. Maintenance.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With all of this transformation, innovative business opportunities are ripe for the picking, and those with an Anticipatory mindset are sure to benefit from them in some of the most exponential ways. Enter: The coronavirus pandemic, leveling all travel with restrictions and closures. This is just a starting point.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 15, 2020

It is consistently shocking to me how little we consider the future to be an important topic in business. The Coronavirus and how we are responding to a nationwide lock down is the current “task at hand” as mentioned above; however, we must not forget the Hard Trends that there will be a tomorrow, and this pandemic will end.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Year after year, entrepreneurs and employees alike are constantly driven to transform the world around them into something new, useful, and impactful in both their careers and personal lives. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 12, 2020

The predictability of disruption as an innovation accelerator is a central component of the Anticipatory Organization Model , focusing closely on how Anticipatory Organizations and Anticipatory Leaders can look at disruption and see enormous opportunities. Now consider how schools went virtual in the wake of COVID-19.

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3BL Media

MAY 4, 2022

They also give investors, bankers and other stakeholders a say in how companies operate, even helping to steer corporate behavior in a better direction. This explains why ESG-labeled bonds outperformed their conventional peers when the coronavirus pandemic struck (Display). Bigger, Broader, Better: The Rise of ESG-Labeled Bonds.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 17, 2022

After all, the beneficiaries did nothing to deserve it, thus won’t notice – or at least resist – if it is taken away, in part or in whole. Then there is the over-arching question of how such taxes fit in to the universally accepted need for the world economy to move to a net-zero position. A hot political topic.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 15, 2020

The report outlines the likely short-term impacts of Covid-19 on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and describes how the SDGs can frame the recovery. The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and Bertelsmann Stiftung published the Sustainable Development Report 2020 including the SDG Index and Dashboards.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted radical changes at annual general meetings (AGMs) which are helping to raise the profile of ESG themes, say market professions, who claim the changes have yet to fully play out. The influence of ESG factors continues to trend upwards.”. Notions upended by pandemic.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 25, 2022

After significant decreases in the rate of cancer death from 1991 to 2017, 8 these crucial gains may be lost due to patients’ inability or reluctance to seek care, including regular cancer screenings, because of fear of the COVID-19 virus. Kaufman, MD. Jeffrey Gudin, MD Senior Medical Advisor, Drug Monitoring and Toxicology. Read more.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 26, 2022

Editor’s note: This article is part of NextBillion’s “ Recovery ” series, which explores how businesses, development initiatives and the communities they serve in low- and middle-income countries are building greater resilience for a post-pandemic future. Using Social Data to Uncover the Regional Contexts of Mental Health Challenges.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. Danone, which owns a range of household brands including Volvic, Evian, Actimel, Alpro and Activia, is first and foremost a dairy company, after all. "If

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Good.is: Planet

MAY 20, 2020

How pandemics change cities -- often for the better youtu.be Breaking airborne disease transmission requires reducing human-to-human contact through physical distancing and business closures, for example, and wearing masks to impede infectious droplets. But cities have long had to transform themselves to overcome disease.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

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. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe.

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Sense and Sustainability

JUNE 17, 2020

The coronavirus is inflicting a heavy toll on America: Over 100,000 dead, almost two million infected, and more than 40 million unemployed. How we go about that now will determine our nation’s economic future for decades. We know how effective these policies are. Beating the virus is the top priority. Ironically, U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

Sustainable investing is changing global supply chains: 4 key takeaways. one of the most effective pandemic responses in the world, managed to spend more than 250 days (April 12-December 22) without a single locally transmitted coronavirus infection. José Miguel Salazar. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 01:00. as Bloomberg describes?one

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

How Dell and Levi's envision the future of repair. A jolt in this direction came overnight as COVID-19 drove people indoors, forcing many to rethink how they reduce, reuse or recycle items they took for granted only weeks earlier. Will this pandemic create a lasting change in priorities for business and end users alike?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to the intensifying impacts of climate change, we can’t say we’ll miss 2020. Transportation habits are changing drastically.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

The green groups behind the report have warned of an "alarming disconnect" between the global scientific consensus on climate change and the ongoing practices of the world's leading banks. They insist it will take time to shift investment practices in a way that delivers a managed transition for businesses and investors alike.

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GreenBiz

MAY 18, 2020

The novel coronavirus had cases on every continent except Antarctica when it was declared a global pandemic March 11. But trust is a risk, and businesses championing reuse that are able to meet people where they are, COVID-19 notwithstanding, stand to benefit. The reason for this is trust. Pull Quote.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2022

March 11, 2022 /3BL Media/ -- Aflac Incorporated announced today that it has released its Sustainability Bond Report one year after issuing its first sustainability bond. The sustainability bond reinforces the company's longstanding commitment to uphold the core values of our "people-first" business approach that balances purpose and profit.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, exponential digital transformation was the biggest disruption many organizations and leaders within those organizations concerned themselves with. Is there something on the horizon that will change our industry, and how can we be the ones to discover it? take my job?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

A company making ‘carbon negative’ insulation is the latest one to receive a share of £8m funding for circular economy businesses administered by Zero Waste Scotland. This fund has been critical to support businesses like ours taking innovation risks in order to make positive impacts on communities and the planet.”.

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Gail Tverberg

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The economy is gradually built up by the addition of new customers, new businesses and new products. If energy supply is inadequate, businesses often find it advantageous to substitute computers or other machines for some work previously done by low paid workers. In this post, I will try to explain what is happening. [1]

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

We need a system wide change that enables us all to choose more sustainable ways to live, use the things we need and share resources.”. Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport Michael Matheson said: “The Scottish Government is committed to ending our contribution to climate change within a generation.

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Daniel Burrus

JULY 8, 2020

While exponential change is always moving, businesses and even whole industries traditionally move slower than they should, often finding themselves disrupted and working hard at being agile alone. Pandemic or not, the escalating exponential pace of disruption and change should not be surprising. Agility Isn’t Enough.

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Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 5, 2021

How long does the vaccine really last? They found that the gathering led to 469 COVID-19 Delta cases among Massachusetts residents, with 74% of these cases in fully vaccinated attendees. Massachusetts is a highly vaccinated state, with approximately 64% of the population fully vaccinated. There are other issues coming up as well.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

As the Gulf swallowed the wetlands the tribe relied on, families moved inland, using traditional knowledge to gauge how far they needed to travel to protect themselves from the worst flooding while still supporting some of their foodways. The coronavirus pandemic is testing how well these systems work. Census designates 0.8

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2020

9, 2016, shortly after Donald Trump was declared the 45th president of the United States, I sat down and penned a note to the GreenBiz community. It may be time for a radical rethink: Given all that’s changing, what does the world need of us now? Tue, 06/02/2020 - 02:11. In the wee hours of Nov. But nodding heads aren’t enough.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice. Add the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on top of these factors, and her neighborhood is in a "horrific" situation, said Queen, who is Black. Right now, over in North, you can't name 10 Black businesses — they ain't there," she said. "If Kristoffer Tigue.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Others are making waves in the business world from other perches, including government, consultancies, startups and environmental justice advocacy groups. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.

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