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  • Is the Future of Big Dairy Regenerative?

    September 08, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Several big food corporations like Danone and General Mills are working with local dairy producers to launch soil health programs that would help reduce their carbon footprint. For example, Danone is supporting 34 dairy farms to transition their operations to more regenerative practices. While it remains unclear if their efforts will reduce carbon emissions from dairy farms, early results show they are reducing soil erosion, improving water retention, and using less synthetic fertilizers.

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  • How to Start (and Run) a Bank That Puts People and Planet Over Profits

    May 17, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco-based New Resource Bank was launched with environmental sustainability lending as its niche. But it pursued easier profits for a time, risking its survival and mission until a new CEO turned its fortunes around with a laser focus on the original mission, bolstered by learning its borrowers' businesses intimately. The bank doubled in size and merged with a larger bank, making itself a model for mission-driven lending in such businesses as solar, wind energy, and organic foods – and by attracting institutional depositors and investors as interested in social change as they are in profits.

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  • Turning oil platforms into reefs

    May 11, 2021 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Louisiana

    After oil and gas platforms reach the end of their working lives, some are being turned into artificial reefs that can create new ecosystems in the ocean. Since the 1980s, 550 platforms have been reefed in the Gulf of Mexico and programs are springing up to help industry make the switch. These reefs can be home to fish and birds, and studies have shown that some species prefer these structures over their natural habitats. While not all environmentalists agree with leaving the platforms in the water, scientists are working to understanding how similar programs can be implemented in other parts of the world.

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  • In a first for the region, Hannaford says its grocery stores have achieved zero food waste

    April 20, 2021 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Scarborough, Maine

    The Hannaford supermarket chain has achieved their goal of creating zero food waste. Over the past year, they diverted 65 million pounds of unsellable products to food banks, de-packing facilities, and anaerobic digestion facilities where it’s converted to energy. The grocery store is also making adjustments to how it purchases and sources food and how it’s displayed with the hopes of extending the food’s shelf life.

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  • Is Seaweed The Key To Carbon Offsets?

    April 17, 2021 |

    Freethink |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Maine

    Running Tide Technologies, a shellfish hatchery in Maine, is betting on kelp forests as a way to store carbon deep in the ocean and sell that carbon to corporations looking to combat climate change and offset their own emissions. The startup is growing mini-farms of kelp on biodegradable floats and after a few months, they sink to the seafloor. More research is needed to see if it works, but they already have about 1,600 floats adrift in the ocean and the e-commerce company Shopify is the first to buy carbon offsets from them.

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  • PEAK program spotlights teens navigating COVID life, racial unrest, remote learning

    April 11, 2021 |

    Chicago Sun-Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Partnership to Educate and Advance Kids, a tuition and mentoring program in Chicago, provides full-rides to Catholic school for students facing economical disadvantages. The program targets students with average grades, and funds $40,000 worth of tuition by finding sponsors. Its current cohort consists of 47 students.

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  • What Went Into Building Europe's Largest Floating Solar Park

    March 26, 2021 |

    Architectural Digest |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Netherlands, Rotterdam

    Evides Waterbedrijf, a drinking water company, created Europe’s largest floating solar park. They installed almost 3,000 solar panels on an island in the middle of a reservoir that allows it to move with the sun to maximize its energy. This setup generates about 15 percent of the electricity the company uses at the site.

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  • The New Push for Corporate Diversity Comes with an Atlanta Address

    March 20, 2021 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Companies are making the move to Atlanta in their efforts to diversify their workforces. Corporate diversity is hard to achieve in places like Silicon Valley. Instead, companies like Pandora have drastically increased the number of diverse employees since moving to the majority-Black city.

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  • The World Needs Syringes. He Jumped In to Make 5,900 Per Minute.

    March 05, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Ballabgarh

    A family-run syringe making company in India is leading the manufacturing of Covid vaccine-specific barrels and needles, a task that no other country has been able to manage at the same speed. Because Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices is a family business – meaning no shareholders – the production of these medical supplies is able to be done without any interferences; although, the operation is a frugal task for the business owner.

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  • How Vermont's Energy Efficiency Utility Is Helping Businesses Sweat the Small Stuff

    February 23, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Bennington, Vermont

    To make their restaurant more energy efficient and to cut its carbon footprint, The Publyk House utilized the services of Efficiency Vermont, a publicly funded energy efficiency utility. As part of their Deep Energy Retrofit program, the utility helped install insulation, LED lighting, and high-efficiency appliances at the restaurant, allowing them to save 50 percent on energy in two years. Since the start of the program, 10 businesses have been able to cut their energy consumption in half.

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