How to Create a Small Business Sustainability Plan
By embracing a small business sustainability plan, you can reduce costs, burnish your brand image and save the planet along the way…
Source: succeedasyourownboss.com
By embracing a small business sustainability plan, you can reduce costs, burnish your brand image and save the planet along the way…
Source: succeedasyourownboss.com
In the past year, DS Smith has worked closely with the Foundation as a pilot partner of its circular economy tool, Circulytics. The tool works to measure circularity in a simple and effective way, allowing for companies to hold a mirror up to their business practices and better their internal processes.
After first achieving LEED Silver certification for design and construction in 2019, the commercial section of Montreal’s L/AVENUE tower, owned and operated by partners Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada and BentallGreenOak, recently obtained LEED Gold O+M certification. L/AVENUE, the 50-story mixed-use building is located on Canadiens-de-Montréal Avenue, in the heart of downtown Montreal. For the project, our green building management experts planned and coordinated the launch of the LEED certification process, while our air quality team leveraged its expertise to ensure the building achieved Gold certification performance requirements. The building’s high energy efficiency, occupant satisfaction, access to active transportation and air quality level were some of the key elements that led to the certification.
2021 was a landmark year for clean energy and climate policy, from dozens of nations pledging to phase out coal, to the most ambitious federal climate proposals in United States history, to automakers going all in on electrified transportation.
Many of these developments were forecast by policy experts who thought Democratic control of the White House and Congress, fast-falling clean energy and electrified technology prices, and the undeniable need to confront climate change by cutting emissions portended a groundswell of action.
American Eagle’s new 20-year pledge will accelerate sustainability efforts and achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
Six months into his new role as CEO of producer compliance scheme Ecosurety, Will Ghali talks about climate ambition, cross-sector collaboration and the role of the resource and waste sector in the transition to a circular economy. At the end of this month, it is expected the Government will enshrine in law a major new climate change target. The target – to cut the UK’s emissions by 78% by 2035[i] – will be the world’s most ambitious and, if met, will move the UK more than three-quarters of the way to meeting its Net Zero by 2050 objective.
A new project has launched to demonstrate how bespoke circular-economy batteries can tackle the mounting problem of e-waste. According to estimates, the EV revolution could create more than 11 million tonnes of battery waste … Read More »