Over the past several years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives took the business world by storm. The bottom line was no longer all that mattered. Customers and investors alike […]
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Back to news homeWaste4Change is building a circular economy in Indonesia
Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Waste4Change is one of the […]
The Unsustainable Truth | David Ko & Richard Busellato
October 17 @ 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm ET To ACCESS this session click on the ZOOM link below Please make sure that you are logged in on 1BusinessWorld to be able to […]
Do you claim to care about climate? Let’s talk about what’s on your plate
If you claim to care about climate change, we need to have a word about food. Specifically, about the fantastically unsustainable way we consume food in the U.S. There’s a […]
4 climate tech investors sound off on Supreme Court’s EPA ruling
This week’s Supreme Court decision to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions may not have been unexpected, but it was still a bombshell. Not only […]
Microsoft and Meta join Google in using AI to help run their data centers
Data centers, which drive the apps, websites, and services that billions of people use every day, can be hazardous places for the workers that build and maintain them. Workers sometimes […]
Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-Friendly
Along a dirt-covered road deep in Texas farm country, the cryptocurrency company Argo Blockchain is building a power plant for the internet age: a crypto “mining” site stocked with computers […]
What Apple’s New Repair Program Means for You (and Your iPhone)
Apple delivered an early holiday gift on Wednesday to the eco-conscious and the do-it-yourselfers: It said it would soon begin selling the parts, tools and instructions for people to do […]
Singapore-based TreeDots gets $11M Series A to cut food waste in Asia
Every year, tons of food ends up in landfills because of cosmetic issues (they won’t look nice in stores) or inefficiencies in the supply chain. Singapore-based TreeDots, which says it […]
Russia Named Third-highest Carbon Emitter in Global History
According to a recent study by scientists at the Carbon Brief climate analytics website, Russia has contributed 6.9 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions since 1850, Moscow Times […]