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In recent years, the trend of building “pocket parks” has become popular in many cities. “Pocket Parks” is a term that refers to small, urban parks created in limited spaces within the city. Pocket parks bring nume...
Microsoft, for example, is committed to purchasing a portfolio of negative emissions as part of its effort to become carbon negative by 2030 and to remove by 2050 all the carbon it has emitted, directly or from electricity consumption, since the company’s founding in 1975....
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Leaning into “superpowers” without addressing vulnerabilities.Addressing vulnerabilities builds credibility. For example, stopping sales of a product (e.g., cigarettes) with a negative ESG impact. This shores up the company’s reputation and avoids a sense of ...
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The Negative Global Impact of Conventional Clothing Production In 2013, the importance of ethical trade practices stopped being an abstraction and became all too real for the millions who looked on in horror as the tragedy of the Rana Plaza collapse unfolded. Rana Plaza was an eight-story buildin...
Decarbonizing Japan will take significant investment, the reconfiguration of trade, and a reconception of industry focus. But swift action could set the country up to become a global leader in green technologies such as hydrogen gas turbines, offshore floating wind and solar technology, BEV...
In order to provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels, many businesses are seeking to engineer alternative sources of energy that do not generate atmospheric carbon. Solar and wind power are now among the mostinexpensive sources of energy, and solar panels are affordable to U.S. homeowners at...