Episode 361: VCs and ESG; sustainable vs. regenerative
GreenBiz
APRIL 28, 2023
Journalist Esha Chhabra discusses her new book, "Working to Restore: Harnessing the Power of Regenerative Business."
Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat
Corporate Knights
APRIL 18, 2024
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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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Living Future 2024 Conference: Compelling Keynote Speakers, Updated Standards, and a New Book
3BL Media
APRIL 24, 2024
The day before the conference, ILFI will host a materials summit with mindful Materials at which key stakeholders will share progress and next steps towards a future where regenerative materials, products, and environments are the norm. A Regenerative Revolution Panel will explore G.O.A.T. Introducing Just 3.0
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Our 10 Must-Read ESG and Sustainability Books for 2022
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Did your New Year’s resolution include spending less time on-screen and more time curled up with a good book or audiobook? We asked our experts as well as polled Antea Group clients and friends about their favorite books on the topics of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), and sustainability.
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Regenerative Playbook
Martin Brown
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
We are thrilled to share news of the launch of our Regenerative Playbook on the 1st of March. The Playbook is aimed at those not yet initiated into the ways of regenerative thinking. We will launch the playbook at a Zoom Regenerative World Book Day special on Tuesday 1st March where you will find out how to read and get your copy.
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The Regenerative Playbook Reviews
Martin Brown
MARCH 3, 2022
The following was originally posted to the Regen/ Notes newsletter. The Regenerative Playbook landed at the World Book Day Zoom Regenerative special event on the 1st of March. It was inspired by the Content Coms Little Books series which have been such a force for good. We need to be regenerative.
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What’s Your Regen Conversation
Martin Brown
JUNE 9, 2022
The latest Regen/ Notes newsletter “What’s Your Regen Conversation” explores Potentialism, Eco Reads, Bread, Ride with Nature, Place, Home Health, Living Product Challenge, Digital Design, Warming Stripes + Zoom Regenerative. Read, Like and Subscribe to Regen/ Notes here. for more information.
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The Regenerative Playbook
Martin Brown
MARCH 30, 2022
The Regenerative Playbook landed at the World Book Day Zoom Regenerative special event on the 1st of March. Joanna Watchman: Last night, we had the great pleasure of launching The Regenerative Playbook – a collaboration with (and for) two incredible changemakers, Anna Williamson MSc, FRSA, LFA & Martin Brown.
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Book review : Regeneration by Paul Hawken
Edouard Stenger
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Back to 2017, I had loved listening to famous environmentalist Paul Hawken present his book Drawdown. Bringing back Nature from the brink of collapse can be done by implementing regenerative solutions to our land and oceans. This book really encapsulates systems thinking and wicked problems in its approach.
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Regenerative Notes 6
Martin Brown
MAY 3, 2021
Regen Notes , a fortnightly newsletter is released through substack, as an update of regenerative news, stories and more with a sideways focus on the built environment, curated by me, Martin Brown. Here is Regen Notes 6, the most recent – previous newsletters can be read here. Earthhour occurs on the 27th of March.
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A Regenerative Body Of Knowledge for the Built Environment
Martin Brown
JUNE 2, 2021
“We are on the cusp of something regeneratively wonderful regenerativeor something irreversibly disastrous” Along with the increased use of the term ‘regenerative’ we have a changing narrative. RESTORD a regenerative guide for educators, students and practitioners. Martin Brown RESTORD 2030. KEY rBOK PUBLICATONS.
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A New Year’s resolution for Bill Gates
GreenBiz
JANUARY 18, 2021
Bill Gates has a new book in the pipeline, " How to Avoid a Climate Disaster." But if I could propose one additional New Year’s resolution for Gates, it would be to send another book to all COP26 delegates: Kim Stanley Robinson’s " The Ministry for the Future.". John Elkington. Mon, 01/18/2021 - 00:45.
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RESTORD 2030 A Regenerative Guide
Martin Brown
MAY 21, 2021
RESTORD 2030 A Regenerative Guide for Educators, Students and Practitioners. We are on the cusp of something regeneratively wonderful or something irreversibly disastrous. RESTORD 2030 aims to inspire users to create new and enhance existing sustainability modules with a regenerative climate and ecological focus.
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Regen Notes 4
Martin Brown
MARCH 11, 2021
Welcome to Regen Notes issue 4, a fortnightly newsletter of regenerative news, stories and more with a sideways focus on the built environment, curated by Martin Brown. Read more from this newsletter and subscribe to get Regen Notes to your inbox here. Gates focuses on two numbers 51billion and Zero.
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A Regenerative Body Of Knowledge
Martin Brown
MAY 3, 2021
Our Restore / Zoom Regenerative event, listed as an Earthday event was a bittersweet affair with the four years EU Cost Action RESTORE ending its journey on the 30th of April. And like all strong communities – RESTORE has, and will continue to seed further progress in the built environment, and beyond.
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Episode 219: Water, workplaces and well-being
GreenBiz
MAY 8, 2020
Moving to a regenerative food supply. Pioneering companies, NGOs and policymakers will discuss tracking technologies, regenerative agriculture projects and new collaborations that could make food systems more sustainable. Mark your calendar for these upcoming GreenBiz webcasts. Can't join live? Sign up here for the session at 1 p.m.
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The Living Future 2022 Online Conference to Focus on Restoration + Justice
3BL Media
MARCH 15, 2022
The Digital Event - Sponsored by Google - Features Ten Days of Inspiring Keynotes and Plenaries, Networking and Educational Sessions for the Regenerative Building Movement. ILFI Awards Ceremony and recognition event, celebrating the world’s most pioneering and ambitious regenerative design projects. Sponsorship.
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Working Towards a New Sustainability
Martin Brown
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
This book aims to provoke a new way of thinking among those involved in design and development. The book is accessible and thought-provoking, avoiding the trap of previous ‘deep green’ texts, and whilst some points are repeated, their importance warrants this. This book marks an important milestone in doing that.
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Leading in a fundamentally changing world
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2021
How can we transform our business model to become net-zero, regenerative, fair and equitable? but from the perspective of "How can we transform our business model to become net-zero, regenerative, fair and equitable?". How can we transform our business model to become net-zero, regenerative, fair and equitable? Pull Quote.
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Walmart Accelerates Action in FY2022 ESG Summary Report
3BL Media
JULY 28, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Walmart has issued its FY2022 ESG Summary Report and accompanying ESG issues briefs which outline its commitments and progress toward becoming a regenerative company that puts nature and humanity at the center of its business practices. SOURCE: Walmart. In FY2022, Walmart sourced more than $13.3 businesses. Read the Report.
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Is the golf industry doing enough to combat climate change?
GreenBiz
APRIL 9, 2021
Sports leagues are seeing the impacts and the surge of climate-responsible athletes using their platforms to promote positive environmental and social impact — it’s something for the history books. Particularly, Laguna L?ng We’d love to see broad implementation of sustainable operations across professional tournament golf. The time is now.
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P L A C E
Martin Brown
JULY 1, 2022
The most recent Regen/Notes explores Place … and forever chemicals. Those instalments went on to become the book that started the environmental movement in the 1970’s yet sadly remains too relevant and current. Read the full Regen Notes here – and please do consider supporting by sharing and taking a subscription.
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America is hungrier than ever for sustainable food systems. Can we build them?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Would the food consumption trends driven by the pandemic wind up as a paragraph in the history books — like the " victory gardens " of World War II — or could it lead to lasting change? If a farmer wants to transition a farm from conventional practices to organic or regenerative ones, costs are associated with that transition.
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Mondel?z 2022 Snacking Made Right Report: More Sustainable Ingredients
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Our goal for our European business is to have 100% of the wheat volume needed for our biscuit production grown under the strengthened Harmony Regenerative charter by 2030 1 while we continue to learn from our North American wheat sustainability programs. These practices will help reduce GHG emissions from Harmony wheat fields.
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The Remanufacturing Lighting Conference comes to London in April
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Search Remanufacturing lighting Conference to learn more and book your place. You’ll also meet key players in the remanufacturing industry network with specifiers with the power to get your products into projects.” Nigel Harvey, Recolight CEO said: “Recolight operate as a not-for-profit Compliance Scheme.
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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Gareth Gransaull is the co-executive director of Re_Generation , Canada’s next-generation think tank working to build a regenerative economy, and a climate policy researcher with the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria.
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Scholarships Available to the Living Future 2022 Online Conference Focused on Restoration + Justice
3BL Media
APRIL 8, 2022
ILFI Awards Ceremony and recognition event, celebrating the world’s most pioneering and ambitious regenerative design projects. The awards celebrate individuals in the regenerative design community who exceed expectations in environmental advocacy, and champion Living Future projects and products. Sponsorship.
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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 26, 2020
We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. degrees Celsius world, we’ll need a paradigm shift in the way we raise animals, and regenerative agriculture practices can and should be a part of the solution. People, corporations and governments are seemingly taking action. To reach a 1.5
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Discover the Six Steps of Integrated Value Management
3BL Media
JUNE 30, 2022
In a previous article entitled “The six great transitions to regenerate nature, society and the economy” (and in chapters 3 to 8 of my book, Thriving ), I apply integrated thinking to breakdowns in nature, society and the economy, and look at how they can be transformed into breakthroughs (the what and why ).
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The Living Future 2022: Restoration + Justice Celebrates Heroes, Buildings & Manufacturers Charting Our Common Living Future
3BL Media
MAY 17, 2022
Virtual event gathered regenerative building movement to envision a Living Future and show it works better in practice and policy. The Impact Celebration caps two weeks of virtual programming with leaders of the regenerative building movement. “It SOURCE: International Living Future Institute.
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Can sustainability save capitalism?
GreenBiz
MARCH 30, 2021
My inbox and bookshelf have been groaning lately under the heft of some weighty books, essays and reports heralding a kinder, gentler era for capitalism. Enter the alternatives: stakeholder capitalism; inclusive capitalism; regenerative capitalism; responsible capitalism; and probably a few others. Can sustainability save capitalism?
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Rewilding British farms is bringing back threatened species, storing carbon and growing hope
Corporate Knights
AUGUST 16, 2023
It really does you know, we get land owners, whether smallholders or large landowners coming here on workshops learning about how they can make a difference on their land — whether it’s regenerative farming, nature friendly farming or rewilding – whatever you can take away from this that might suit what your doing.”
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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
The same week that PepsiCo announced its new ambition, the company’s foundation extended the terms of its 14-year-long relationship with the Inter-American Development Bank — with initiatives including a fund meant to promote the inclusion of women in regenerative, sustainable agricultural models in Latin America.
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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: NN IP Uses SDI APO Dataset for SDGs
Chris Hall
MARCH 11, 2022
ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including NN Investment Partners, SDI AOP, ESG Book, ISS ESG, Likvidi, Alcumus. Qontigo acts as the sales and marketing arm for the data, which contains approximately 8,700 companies.
Give Something Greater: 15 Gifts for Nature Lovers
B the Change
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Nicaragua Sacaclí Coffee Equator Coffees | United States Women-Owned, Small Business, LGBTQIA-Owned Price: $18 USD Equator Coffees partnered with Regenerative Organic Alliance and Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Sacaclí to develop a new sustainable coffee label: Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC).
Take Effective Policy Action at Your Company: Examples and Resources to Demand an Economy for All
B the Change
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Do we want business as usual, or should we instead seize the opportunity to rebuild and collaborate to create an inclusive and regenerative economy that better serves all people? now have benefit corporation laws on the books, highlighting bipartisan agreement on ways businesses can operate with a broader lens. More than 40 U.S.
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Blistering heat is ravaging tourism hotspots. Can the industry reinvent itself?
Corporate Knights
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Vineyards hiked their prices for wine tastings to raise revenue, but then a ban on tourists using hotels—to accommodate evacuees fleeing wildfires—eliminated the possibility of big group bookings and destination weddings. The location would be “beautiful and sunny for those that do make it through,” he added.
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Looking back on the future
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.
Looking back on the future
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. A fair COP? Drought in Kenya.
Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Ellen MacArthur has adopted biological, technical, restorative, regenerative. That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. I was able to chair the circular economy at the World Economic Forum and we used that as the basis. I have been able to share it with lots of people. How exciting.
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‘People Public Private Partnerships’ for a Just Transition to a Decarbonized World
We Mean Business Coalition
JULY 15, 2022
Other companies are exploring a ‘regenerative economy’. The book ‘ A European Just Transition for a Better World ’ is a rich resource for more examples of this regenerative approach. The book ‘ A European Just Transition for a Better World ’ is a rich resource for more examples of this regenerative approach.
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Beef lobbying group’s ‘MBA’ downplays industry’s climate impact
Corporate Knights
MAY 15, 2023
Grass-fed, holistically grazed, regenerative cattle – said to sequester carbon and enrich soil all while providing burgers to the masses – positioned the industry as the heroes, not the villains, of the story. Then, it cleverly tried to rebrand cattle not as the problem but, in fact, the secret sustainability silver bullet.
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Storytelling for Impact: Using Words to Connect and Drive Racial Equity
B the Change
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
For Certified B Corporations, storytelling for impact is an important and valuable tool to drive change and create a more equitable and regenerative economy. I was really embarrassed, upset, and ashamed that I did not know about this story and didn’t learn about it in my history books.” We don’t like to parachute into communities.
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Toast Ale Aims to Reduce Food Waste While Educating Consumers About the Global Problem
B the Change
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Their circular economy model, which is regenerative by design, reduces the need for barley by using bread that otherwise would go to waste. But there are opportunities to regenerate soil through regenerative farming methods, and Soil Heroes works to support farmers to transition to these regenerative practices.
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