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The Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) announced today that Alliant Energy’s West Riverside Energy Center project recently earned the Envision Platinum rating for sustainable infrastructure – the highest Envision recognition level. This is Alliant Energy’s sixth power generation facility to receive Envision recognition, which demonstrates the company’s commitment to sustainable infrastructure planning and design.
U.S. auto suppliers oppose setting gas-powered phase-out date | Business
Auto suppliers told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday they opposes setting a firm date to end the sale of new gasoline-powered passenger cars and warned that a quick shift to all electric vehicles could cost thousands of jobs. California said in September it planned to end sales of new gasoline-powered passenger vehicles by 2035.
Childhood obesity: A sustainable development issue
On a recent trip to South Africa, I often heard it said that low-income groups have “good access to bad food and bad access to good food”. While the In South Africa, levels of childhood obesity have increased to 13 per cent, more than twice the global average and the highest in the region.
What Sustainable Denim Looks Like in 2019
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Can reverse logistics advance your ESG goals? – Supply Chain 24/7
“I get excited when someone says to me: ‘I have 17 trailer loads of excess product,’” says Claudia Freed. Excess inventory may not be your everyday conversation starter, and it’s not every day that you find an individual who gets excited by the topic. But then Freed is the CEO and president of EALgreen, which is not your everyday philanthropic organization. The EAL stands for Education Assistance Limited. The organization was founded some 40 years ago to provide a means for manufacturers and distributors to earn a tax credit by donating excess inventory to fund college scholarships. Freed, who joined EALgreen as executive director in 1995, was the recipient of the first scholarship in 1982. Back then, she was an immigrant student who had come to the states from Argentina as an 18-year-old with $36 in her pocket. “When I received the scholarship, I was a student at North Park University studying economics, and someone deemed that I had potential,” she recalls. Funding students with potential remains the social impact part of the mission today.
Energy Live News – Energy Made Easy – EU experts set out green finance recommendations
A team of experts have set out the recommendations for greening the EU’s financial policies to help unlock investments in meeting climate targets. The High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (HLEG)