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A More Meaningful Earth Day Demands Collective Accountability

3BL Media

If we’re going to turn the tide, we desperately need to close the gap between good intentions and measurable actions. To find solutions to this problem, it’s first important to examine the source of this gap between intention and action. First, intention doesn’t cost anything—action does.

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

The summit brought together delegates from over 190 countries to negotiate the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework , the implementation of which will require a transformation in the way we produce, consume and trade goods and services that rely on and impact biodiversity.

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Beyond the Paycheck

3BL Media

Read on to access insights from Points of Light’s research on employment and wages and learn how you and your company can make a difference in these issue areas. Empowerment includes the action of raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy and training.” The unemployment rate averaged 8.6% for Blacks; 8.2%

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11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance

GreenBiz

During GreenFin, Anyene was one of 12 students and young professionals who joined the conversations about the transition to net-zero , the need for more action when it comes to social and environmental justice , and the role of artificial intelligence in sustainable finance and ESG reporting. Bryanna Briley.

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Why Google, BASF and Sephora are coming together on safer chemistry

GreenBiz

Yet toxic substances circulate in waterways and bloodstreams, leached out from all the consumables of everyday life. It's simply asking too much of most people formulating a consumer product only to include ingredients that are proven not to harm living systems. Chances are ChemFORWARD is building a collection of alternatives to it.

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Your customers say there is a climate emergency and want you to act

GreenBiz

As explored in this series of blogs, the intention-action gap creates an opportunity for brands and sustainability professionals to act. The intention-action gap gives rise to the opportunity for brands to step up and help their customers do better. Clearly this large concern-action gap needs to be closed.

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What’s the True Cost of Your Food? True Price Incorporates Social and Environmental Impact

B the Change

Rising prices at the grocery store have many of us paying more attention to the cost of our food, and how systems that feel outside of our control influence those prices. We wondered what we could do to bring this idea to regular businesses, regular consumers,” he says.