How the IRA cuts costs and emissions from buildings
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Sponsored: EDF’s Victoria Mills interviews Katie McGinty of Johnson Controls to discuss how the IRA is taking on the often overlooked topic of building emissions.
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Georgia Tech’s Scheller College Names Sustainability Fellows and Ambassadors
3BL Media
MARCH 4, 2024
In this year’s program, 25 graduate and undergraduate students from across Georgia Tech are learning to become leaders in building a sustainable and prosperous future. Topics include social performance, greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector, waste management, rooftop solar, and more. Read the article.
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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Get your copy of VIBE's New Guidance Report – Green Certifications and Rating Systems: Building, Product, and Professional
VIBE
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Verdani’s nonprofit, Verdani Institute for the Built Environment (VIBE), has published a new guidance report “Green Certifications and Rating Systems: Building, Product, and Professional,” part of VIBE’s 13-part Sustainable Built Environment Guidance Report Series.
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Hear From Two Students Named a 3M Scholar in Partnership With UNCF
3BL Media
MARCH 11, 2024
Josiah Christopher’s interest in discovering how things work started when he was young and went beyond building blocks and Legos to taking apart household appliances. “It So, I got involved in a lot of engineering camps, competitions, car building, robotics and everything I could,” Josiah said.
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Here's why companies should assess double materiality
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
After years of debate over the definition of materiality, 2020 has brought a consensus that materiality is double — meaning that businesses should report on financially material topics that influence enterprise value as well as topics material to the economy, environment and people. Take the topic of climate change.
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Lean and green
VIBE
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
VIBE's writer Carli Schoenleber recently wrote an article for the Journal of Property Management regarding Navigating benchmarking laws and building performance standards. This topic will be covered in VIBE's upcoming guidance report regarding Corporate ESG Strategies which you can rsvp for here.
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WEC Europe Elects New Managing Director & Supervisory Board Officers
3BL Media
MARCH 18, 2024
As President & CEO of the global WEC entity, O’Gorman will now also lead WEC EU to both implement its strategy to deliver thought leadership and capacity building to companies of all sizes and support the ongoing combination with WHC (Wildlife Habitat Council.) “I
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Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Receives $175,000 Grant from KeyBank to Support Homebuyer Education Program
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Habitat Metro Denver partners with low- to moderate-income families to help them build and purchase their own homes and pay an affordable mortgage. This grant will help Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver educate and prepare homebuyers to build wealth through homeownership.”
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IBM Commits up to $45M to Climate Adaptation, Starting With New RFP for Resilient Cities
3BL Media
MARCH 6, 2024
The IBM Sustainability Accelerator applies IBM technology, including IBM watsonx, an AI and data platform and AI assistants, to support populations vulnerable to environmental threats around the world, with a new RFP and sustainability topic announced each year.
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ESG Talk Podcast: Accelerating Global Trust With Stakeholders Ft. Rob Fisher, KPMG
3BL Media
JULY 18, 2022
Every month, ESG Talk , hosted by Mandi McReynolds , holds candid conversations with Environment, Social, and Governance leaders on how to transform complex ESG topics into simple and practical opportunities for both business and society. Join ESG Talk with host Mandi McReynolds for the latest ESG trends, topics, and tips.
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International Day of Education: Spotlight on GRI Standards' Contributions
3BL Media
JANUARY 26, 2024
The day highlights the pivotal role of inclusive and equitable education in building peaceful, just and sustainable societies. In 2021, GRI published a revision of its Universal Standards , integrating human rights reporting as a core element rather than an optional, stand-alone Topic Standard.
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Collaborating for a Carbon Neutral Built Environment
GreenBiz
JANUARY 13, 2022
With the passage of the infrastructure bill and the urgent need to improve and expand our cities, it’s critical that we build in a way that is both resilient and sustainable. Among the topics: What sustainable and resilient infrastructure looks like in the future.
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Can smart buildings be more equitable buildings?
GreenBiz
MARCH 30, 2021
Can smart buildings be more equitable buildings? Fortunately, I work for a supportive company that requested modification from building management to convert a small conference room to a part-time pumping room. Many building standards developed decades ago have had only small incremental updates over the years.
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Bringing Financial Education to the Heart of a Los Angeles Community
3BL Media
APRIL 23, 2024
Located in the Children’s Bureau’s Magnolia Place Family Center building, which provides a variety of health, educational, economic and social services, the financial education center serves a low- to moderate-income community – the majority of whom speak Spanish as their primary language. Bancorp Impact Finance (then called U.S.
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WSJ Pro Sustainable Business Forum
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
Join us at the WSJ Pro Sustainable Business Forum online October 13 and take away practical advice on how to build a strategy that’s right for your business. Together we’ll dig into these topics, providing you with ideas and insight you can use on day one.
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GoDaddy Small Business LinkedIn Group To Host Small Business Week Events From April 29 to May 3
3BL Media
APRIL 26, 2024
We've assembled a stellar lineup of industry veterans and thought leaders from our community who will share valuable insights on diverse topics. Building Your Social Media Presence Monday, April 29th – 2pm CST This presentation will cover the basics small business owners need to know when developing their social media strategies.
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How to ensure circular fashion is good for people and the environment
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 9, 2020
As our society looks to build back better by emerging from the crisis with a more resilient and sustainable system, many industries are planning to integrate circularity into their recovery plans. Our current work aims to explore and develop responses to these impacts in collaboration with fashion companies and broader industry stakeholders.
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ESG Talk Podcast: The Past, Present, and Future of ESG
3BL Media
JUNE 2, 2022
ESG is a business transformation topic that demands more than virtue signaling, provocative social media rants, and hot takes. SOURCE: Workiva. DESCRIPTION: ESG Talk: The Past, Present, and Future of ESG. Join the conversation with our first guest on ESG Talk: Tim Mohin , Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer at Persefoni.
Meet Nexii, the green construction company allied with Michael Keaton
GreenBiz
JULY 29, 2021
The building components are modeled using 3D design software; it’s like creating pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that can be pieced together. More recently, Nexii created a strategic alliance with building automation technologies company Honeywell. Nexiite is used in the store’s wall and roof panels and assembled in just six days.
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Recyclability vs Recycling Infrastructure: How to Engage Stakeholders and Align Solutions
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Best practices on identifying and building strategic and collaborative relationships along the value chain. Aligning strategy with infrastructure and considering product lifecycles.
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Episode 268: Doing the math on net zero; taking food waste off the menu
GreenBiz
MAY 14, 2021
Interest in the electrification of transportation, buildings and industry is accelerating. The powerhouse in software for product, building and infrastructure design is careful about balancing offsets and actual investments in carbon removal solutions — and its customers are at the center of that vision. It's electric (33:50).
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Maximus’ 2023 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Goals
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Our 2023 DE&I goals have focused on building and sustaining belonging. We maintain an ongoing partnership with our Global Ethics & Compliance team to ensure we follow best practices for building audits and education related to DE&I topics and needs.
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Celebrating 10 female leaders in sustainability
GreenBiz
MAY 21, 2021
Originally focused on leaders in the green building industry, the WSLA Alumnae Group last year became an independent organization. Gina Ciganik , CEO, Healthy Building Network. Rachel Hodgdon , president and CEO, International WELL Building Institute. This year’s awards were the first to be held since that development. .
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Crown Holdings Aligns as an Inaugural Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Early Adopter
3BL Media
JANUARY 26, 2024
We acknowledge that transparency around those topics will build a clearer picture for our industry, ultimately enabling us to evolve our strategy while striving to preserve our shared ecosystems. We look forward to collaborating with the TNFD and other TNFD Early Adopters in this shared purpose.
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L.O.V.E at Tapestry
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Our six Employee Business Resource Groups (EBRG) seek to help build deep and powerful connections between employees of different generations and backgrounds through shared lived experiences. Latinas on the Verge of Excellence) on the topics of young women and empowerment. to discuss the power of mentorship.
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The Northern Trust Sustainability Network
3BL Media
JANUARY 11, 2024
With the use of our Yammer page and our monthly article series, Spotlight on Sustainability, in 2022 we covered a wide variety of topics from the impacts of business travel on our corporate emissions and alternatives that help reduce our emissions to how to use water more efficiently in the office and home.
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Lisa Morden: “Our Heritage Is Rooted in Building Sustainability Into Our Business Model”
3BL Media
OCTOBER 11, 2023
“The integration of climate, biodiversity and nature more broadly is absolutely fundamental to building resilience in our extended supply chain and value chain. As a 150-year-old company anchored in the natural resource space, our heritage is rooted in building sustainability into our business model overall,” Lisa said.
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ESG on the Earnings Call: Nasdaq Data Shows Huge Quarterly Jump in Conversations
3BL Media
OCTOBER 1, 2022
The most popular ESG topics over the quarter were climate transition, sustainability and supply chain management, followed by company culture and human capital management. Nasdaq’s figures include big quarter-on-quarter jumps in conversations around some of the biggest ESG themes. The sell-side spotlight. The wider benefits of talking ESG.
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Entergy Spotlights Communities at the AABE Energy Policy Summit
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
During the Summit, remarks and panel discussions covered topics related to our national clean energy transition, including successful sustainable solutions, the impact of U.S. Learn more about how we are building a cleaner, more resilient and sustainable energy future for everyone at entergy.com/future.
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Electrifying everything should start with the masses
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
The case for electrifying buildings is a no-brainer. It makes buildings healthier , cheaper and is essential to addressing climate change (building operations account for 28 percent of emissions globally — more than all of the transportation sector). That doesn’t mean electrifying buildings will be easy.
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Clean Water, Sanitation, and the Built Environment
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 22, 2024
The points below summarize the topics and recommendations discussed in this report. The Council’s recommendations supplement other necessary actions to adapt the built environment to a changing climate and make our buildings and communities healthier and more resilient. Download the report.
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Reporting on Human Rights With GRI Standards
3BL Media
JULY 14, 2023
The GRI Universal Standards underwent a significant update in October 2021, integrating human rights reporting as a mandatory component of the standards rather than an optional, standalone topic (formerly known as GRI 412). This month, GRI hosted the third session of our five-part 2023 webinar series, Reporting in Practice.
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Preparing for the Double Materiality Assessment: The Next Step in CSRD Reporting
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Building a comprehensive company oversight and involving the appropriate actors is also crucial to ensure resources are appropriately allocated, that the results can be verified and that the findings are effectively integrated into the corporate strategy.
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The sustainability year 2020 in review, in haiku
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 29, 2020
Big Oil shrink and build racial. Carbontech is on the VERGE. Carbontech hits the. market; removal joins the. carbon agenda. New Year’s Resolutions. Watch GreenFin grow, help. justice for all. Corporate Strategy. Climate Change. Sustainability. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere).
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The Conference Board Announces Building a Sustainable Future: The Global Energy Transition (May 16 and 17, 2024 in NYC)
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Join us in NYC on May 16 and 17, 2024, at Building a Sustainable Future: The Global Energy Transition. Some of the critical topic areas we will be addressing include: Where Are We in the Energy Transition? This event promises to be the most comprehensive and insightful gathering of 2024. What Are the International Forces at Play?
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Proposed model shows potential for circular practices in construction steel
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2021
Simultaneously, the built environment is working on lowering the embodied carbon of buildings — emissions from the manufacture of building materials — which make up about 11 percent of total global emissions. The database would track buildings going up or down, and maintain specifications of the steel in buildings.
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ESG Talk Podcast: The ESG State of Play
3BL Media
JUNE 10, 2022
ESG is a business transformation topic that demands more than virtue signaling, provocative social media rants, and hot takes. To help us keep up with the fast pace of ESG news, research, and authors, we're having quick 5-10 minute coversations about hot topics and giving you information to make practical simple decisions for your business.
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Flood Risk and Climate Resilience Webinar, 19 October
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
September 29, 2023 /3BL/ - The Inogen Alliance Global Water Working Group is hosting a webinar on the topic of Flood Risk and Climate Resilience relating to ESG on 19 October. Finally we will explore enhancing ESG strategies with building in flood risk and climate resilience in New Zealand. Please Register Here!
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Episode 258: Hacking climate solutions, finding 'good work'
GreenBiz
MARCH 5, 2021
Career coach and long-time GreenBiz columnist Shannon Houde chats with Associate Editor Deonna Anderson about her new book, " Good Work: How to Build a Career That Makes A Difference in the World.". Is your job meaningful? (32:40). Stay connected. To make sure you don't miss the newest episode of GreenBiz 350, subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.
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ESG Executive Notes: World Economic Forum and the 2022 AGM Season Ft Dan Lambeth, Brunswick
3BL Media
JUNE 15, 2022
ESG Talk Podcast: ESG is a business transformation topic that demands more than virtue signaling, provocative social media rants, and hot takes. Join ESG Talk with host Mandi McReynolds for the latest ESG trends, topics, and tips. SOURCE: Workiva. DESCRIPTION: ESG Talk Podcast. Let's talk.
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ESG Talk Podcast: Driving Accountability for Financial and Social Impact ft. Sarah Chapman, Manulife
3BL Media
JULY 28, 2022
Every month, ESG Talk , hosted by Mandi McReynolds , holds candid conversations with Environment, Social, and Governance leaders on how to transform complex ESG topics into simple and practical opportunities for both business and society. Join ESG Talk with host Mandi McReynolds for the latest ESG trends, topics, and tips. Let's talk.
What is the role of gas efficiency in the time of building electrification?
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 10, 2020
What is the role of gas efficiency in the time of building electrification? But what is the role of gas energy efficiency programs as we move to electrify America’s buildings? Efficiency’s role in equitable building electrification. Focus on building efficiency for long-term success. Alejandra Mejia.
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Facing the storm: Caribbean countries make urgent call for more equitable climate funding
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
In the face of such turmoil, the Caribbean has home-grown solutions that are building resilience and lowering emissions as it girds for fiercer storms: coral reef baskets to protect coastlines, sugarcane waste to create biofuel, recycled plastic to strengthen building blocks, or carbon-absorbing concrete made with saltwater.
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ESG Talk Podcast: ESG Challengers - Block the Noise and Move On
3BL Media
AUGUST 4, 2022
Every month, ESG Talk , hosted by Mandi McReynolds , holds candid conversations with Environment, Social, and Governance leaders on how to transform complex ESG topics into simple and practical opportunities for both business and society. Join ESG Talk with host Mandi McReynolds for the latest ESG trends, topics, and tips. Let's talk.
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