Dow embraces circularity . . . and fossil fuels

Dow is looking to lead on the circular economy — not so much on moving away from fossil fuels.

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Dow embraces circularity . . . and fossil fuels

Episode 206: Dialogues, main-stage highlights fresh from GreenBiz 20

Featuring mainstage highlights with Ceres CEO Mindy Lubber and Cornerstone Capital co-founder and CEO Erika Karp. Plus, tips for employees on diversity and inclusion.

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How the Green Sports Alliance mobilizes sports fans to play for environmental change

16 leagues. 194 teams. 195 venues. Members of the Green Sports Alliance embrace renewable energy, healthy food, recycling, water efficiency, safer chemicals and other environmentally preferable practices — and they inspire millions of fans to follow their lead.

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The potential for circular textiles to have a positive impact on work and workers

Can unwanted clothes make for happy workers?

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Robyn O’Brien: Following the ‘North Star’ in Food Systems Transformation

An exploration at the intersection of food, finance and courageous leadership.

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Robyn O’Brien: Following the ‘North Star’ in Food Systems Transformation

To manage plastic waste, you first have to measure it — here’s how we did it for one Caribbean country

Measuring the problem is often challenging for plastics, due to lack of data on where they come from and end up.

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Access is the New Ownership: Poptech 2010

Image: The Mesh, by Lisa Gansky One of my favorite ideas to crop up at Poptech — a conference that’s full of them — is Lisa Gansky’s concept of the Mesh : Or, how business is moving away from models of ownership and towards that of access. The rise of product service systems (things like Netflix, Etsy, your public library, etc) has been a phenomenon we’ve covered for years at Treehugger: it promotes efficiency and lowers consumption through plain ol’ sharing

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