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    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    August 20, 2021

    6 Ways Large Energy Buyers  Can Transform the US Electrical Grid 

    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. Climate
    • electric grid
    • Business
    • corporate sustainability
    • COP26
    Dillon Wind Power Project
    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. Climate
    • electric grid
    • Business
    • corporate sustainability
    • COP26
    Business
    Insights
    August 6, 2020

    How to Build a Circular Economy

    • Economics
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • natural resources
    • Climate
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Two recycling facility workers next to bales of aluminum cans. Photo by Aaron Minnick | WRI.
    • Economics
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • climate change
    • GHG emissions
    • greenhouse gases
    • natural resources
    • Climate
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Food
    Insights
    September 23, 2019

    Is the World on Track to Cut Food Loss and Waste in Half by 2030?

    • Food
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Too much food spoils or is thrown out rather than eaten.
    • Food
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    June 17, 2019

    Besides Buying Renewables, How Can Companies and Cities Create a Greener Grid?

    • electric grid
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    Power transmission lines seen from below.
    • electric grid
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    Business
    Insights
    May 24, 2018

    Barriers to a Circular Economy: 5 Reasons the World Wastes So Much Stuff (and Why It's Not Just the Consumer's Fault)

    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Plastic pollution piles up on a beach on Clipperton Atoll in the Pacific.
    • circular economy
    • waste
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Forests
    Insights
    February 23, 2017

    Guitar Industry Grapples with Trade Restrictions on Rosewood, One of its Most Prized Timbers

    • Business
    • illegal logging
    • Business
    • illegal logging
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    February 3, 2017

    States Use Renewable Energy to Win Corporate Business

    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • electric grid
    • Energy Access
    • renewable energy
    U.S. solar farm
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • electric grid
    • Energy Access
    • renewable energy
    Forests
    Insights
    November 30, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Mahogany

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    A twisting branch of mahogany
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Food
    Insights
    November 17, 2016

    2030 Champions Brings Together Business and Government to Cut US Food Waste

    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Bald Eagle at Tomoka Landfill
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    Asia
    Insights
    October 28, 2016

    Reflections on Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Climate Change Film, Before the Flood

    • Climate
    • floods
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Business
    • climate change
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    Young orangutan
    • Climate
    • floods
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Business
    • climate change
    • illegal logging
    • commodities
    Energy
    Insights
    October 3, 2016

    Kentucky Can Shape A Clean Energy Future

    • electric grid
    • fossil fuels
    • Business
    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    Field in Kentucky
    • electric grid
    • fossil fuels
    • Business
    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    September 15, 2016

    Building a Sustainable Guitar: Maple

    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Bigleaf maple forest.
    • building a sustainable guitar
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    Food
    Insights
    April 26, 2016

    How a Shrub in Africa Made Me Want to Change the Food Industry

    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Daniel Vennard (left) poses with clippings from the shrub he discovered.
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • Business
    • agriculture
    • Food
    • food security
    • Food Loss and Waste
    Finance
    North America
    Insights
    March 29, 2016

    Microsoft and Local Utility Partner to Green Virginia’s Grid

    • Energy
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • electric grid
    • renewable energy
    Potomac River power plant
    • Energy
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • electric grid
    • renewable energy
    Equity & Governance
    Asia
    Insights
    January 14, 2016

    6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2016

    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Paris Agreement
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • Green Climate Fund
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    • stories to watch
    Andrew Steer
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Cities
    • Business
    • Paris Agreement
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • food security
    • Green Climate Fund
    • renewable energy
    • U.S. policy
    • stories to watch
    Equity & Governance
    Insights
    September 7, 2015

    4 Cutting-Edge Technologies to Catch Illegal Loggers

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Business
    • illegal logging
    Logging in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Ben Beiske/Flickr
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • Business
    • illegal logging
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    August 21, 2015

    Corporations Can Drive Down Renewable Energy’s Cost

    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • electric grid
    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    The electricity system will have to be decarbonized, probably more quickly than many in the sector are comfortable with. Working with large buyers that want to move quickly could lead to decarbonizing in an orderly way that drives down the cost for everyone. Photo by Windwärts Energie/Flickr
    • Business
    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • electric grid
    • Energy
    • renewable energy
    Energy
    North America
    Insights
    April 15, 2015

    An Opportunity for Cooperative Clean Energy Solutions for Utilities and Companies

    • electric grid
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    A solar array in California. Photo by Steve Jurvetson/Flickr.
    • electric grid
    • Business
    • renewable energy
    Forests
    Insights
    March 27, 2014

    4 Actions Companies Can Take to Source Legal Wood

    • forest products
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • corporate sustainability
    • Business
    Some countries have harvest or export bans on certain species or certain forms of harvested timber. It is important for companies to consider which timber species they are using and where they are purchasing from. Photo credit: Tim Gage, Flickr 2007
    • forest products
    • Forests
    • illegal logging
    • corporate sustainability
    • Business
    Climate
    Insights
    December 23, 2013

    5 Things We Learned in 2013 that Could Move the Needle on Sustainability

    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • water risk
    New research shows that the world loses 50 soccer fields' of forest every minute of every day. Photo credit: Daniel Murdiyarso, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
    • Energy
    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Equity & Governance
    • Business
    • Finance
    • agriculture
    • climate change
    • deforestation
    • Food Loss and Waste
    • water risk

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