Walmart and Amazon on scaling sustainability

The best of live interviews from GreenBiz events. This episode: How three of the world’s biggest energy buyers embraced and grew sustainable systems.

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Architecture, before and after hip-hop

The ingenuity of hip-hop is present everywhere: In art, music, culture and the products that we buy and surround ourselves with. But it’s had a deep and enduring relationship with the built environment. 

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General Motors wins cost savings with wind power

Car manufacturer General Motors (GM) is gone with the wind for all of its cost-saving benefits. “It provides economic certainty to electricity forecasts,” said Rob Threlkeld, GM’s manager of global renewable energy strategy, as well as savings over the years. Threlkeld discusses the path to fulfilling GM’s RE100 commitment to become 100 percent powered by renewable energy, including two deals to source wind power from Ohio and Illinois, respectively. 

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Emerging sustainability leaders envision breakthroughs

Business sustainability can be a tight-knit circle, but these young professionals made connections at VERGE toward a more inclusive future.

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Emerging sustainability leaders envision breakthroughs

We need a ‘Marshall Plan’ to rebuild the Caribbean

If we don’t plan on building a more resilient Caribbean, today’s emergencies will become tomorrow’s normal — and the region will spiral downward.

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How Do You Build a "Complete" Product?

History’s dustbin is littered with products that began as great concepts yet failed or merely achieved niche status in the market. However, a “complete” product delivers an experience that transcends the product itself, potentially rewriting a category.

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Elizabeth Fretheim, Walmart

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Elizabeth Fretheim, Walmart

Carol Sanford, Regenerative Business Summit

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Jeff Senne, PwC

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Beth Heider, Skanska

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