Solar saves in many different kinds of ways. Over 63,000 customers were powered by Sunnova SunSafe solar + storage systems during storms in July and August. The present-day grid requires urgent restoration, but at least Sunnova is there to save the day. California continues its efforts in bringing 400kW chargers … [continued]
Zero100 has announced that Stephanie Pullings Hart, EVP, Head of Operations at Nestlé, has been appointed to the Zero100 Advisory Board. Zero100 is a membership-based research and insights company partnering with global operations leaders to accelerate progress on digital supply chain transformation. The Zero100 Advisory Board is a hand-picked coalition … [continued]
Pesticide-intensive agriculture has become the default for how food is grown in the United States. Did you know agriculture uses more than one billion pounds (1,000,000,000 lb) of conventional pesticides in the US each year? Failures abound. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) biomonitoring has found pesticide residues … [continued]
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Nestlé are the world’s top plastic polluters for the third consecutive year. This news comes from Break Free From Plastic’s report that was released this week during a virtual press conference.
Coca-Cola’s head of sustainability told the World Economic Forum this week her company has no intention of reducing the number of single use plastic bottles it churns out every year. Instead, it will increase recycling efforts worldwide. Is that a plan?
Swiss coffee giant Nespresso announced at the end of March that it was opening up its aluminum coffee pod recycling program to other pod manufacturers in an effort to create a global recycling scheme for aluminum coffee capsules.
The world’s greenest and most sustainable companies have been highlighted in two parallel reports published this week by CDP, the non-profit global environmental disclosure platform, and Canadian media and research company Corporate Knights, with the common thread in both lists being the consistent economic performance of companies committed to fighting climate change and addressing environmental issues.
Nestlé, one of the world’s largest providers of single use plastic bottles, says it is launching a new campaign to reduce the amount of plastic it contributes to the environment every year. Greenpeace says the new policy amounts to nothing more than greenwashing.
More than 300 companies worldwide have now committed to setting ambitious Science Based Targets to reduce emissions, with more than 90 new companies joining this year alone, and also now includes 50 US businesses.
An open letter from businesses involved in the UK implores UK Prime Minister Theresa May to back the UN Sustainable Development Goals that were adopted just a year ago, in advance of the World Economic Forum’s upcoming annual meeting in Davos.
