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15 May 2020
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second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

“Those are the questions students want to explore: not ‘How do we batten the hatches?’ but ‘What are the opportunities for new products and services in a world of climate change?’” Other class sessions challenge students to assess EcoSecurities’ opportunities in View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles

clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Manufacturing

21 Oct 2020
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Cold Calculations

have to make these decisions together because our global climate is all interconnected.” But, ultimately, Arctic ice restoration is only “a Band-Aid solution,” Payne says. To truly address climate change, the world has to come together and do the hard work necessary to... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2008
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Farming for Fuel

and that we still need to get around,” he notes. “When commodity prices are kept low, we have a tendency to think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that’s never been true.” Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds

chain, and lower the carbon footprint,” Behn says. Business more than doubled in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many consumers were looking to avoid grocery stores. Then volumes doubled again a month later. In May the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

Increasingly, we are also seeing the expansion of the purview of business to issues that typically fall to government and policymakers as a way to improve outcomes for society and the planet overall. For example, let us suppose that a country is considering a View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2

outdoors. I want to leave a world in which she can breathe the air, drink the water, and visit places that are still wild.” Ullman is proud to note that E2 was essential to the passage of a California law in July 2002 that limits carbon... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2011
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Two Kinds of Green

ambitious goal is to be a “zero waste, zero carbon company, operating on 100 percent renewable energy in LEED certified buildings” by 2020. The case vividly documents some of the measures taken by Burt’s to meet that goal, such as a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report

on nonfinancial metrics such as lower fuel consumption in new jet engines, and a reduced carbon footprint and lower water consumption in the firm’s factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes UTC’s... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

01 Dec 2016
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Carving a Niche

Balsa, beech, poplar, flax, Kevlar, titanium, and carbon are all ingredients Faction uses in highly tuned recipes for just the right balance of weight and torsional rigidity—the degree of give that can make it easier to navigate deep... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2009
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Up on the Green Roof

than 45 energy conservation measures, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 2,495 metric tons of carbon dioxide, reducing operating costs $920,000, and maximizing utility rebates totaling upwards of $830,000. Shad’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction

01 Sep 2024
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The Road Less Traveled

Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included

economy.” Globally, shipping transports more than 10 billion metric tons of cargo each year. According to Yale Climate Connections, almost all of these ships run on fossil fuels and emit carbon pollution. Maritime shipping causes about 3... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Water Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life

targets set in the Philippine Development Plan. Why does Manila Water need a climate change policy? Studies show that the water supply sector is one of the most directly affected by climate change. Our policy covers our commitment to (1) account for our View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise

including carbon sequestration, watershed protection, and the creation of intellectual property. (Star Wars director George Lucas, for example, found Death Valley National Park to be the perfect locale for Luke Skywalker’s home planet of... View Details