America's Best Coffee Roasting Company, located in Oakland, CA, has taken steps to reduce waste by shipping coffee in bulk. By shipping in bulk, ABC Roasting Company eliminates the need for approximately 1,000 plastic bags per week. Other benefits of shipping in bulk include labor savings for the company and customer in time spent packaging and unpacking coffee. In 2014, ABC Roasting Company received the StopWaste Business Efficiency Award for Waste Reduction Excellence in Food Processing. Read more
Amazon aims to clean up aviation Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 01/27/2021 - 02:00 The aviation sector in a pandemic has 99 problems. And climate change remains a big one. The industry aims to build back better, aware that it's one of the few sectors that hasn't yet embraced electrification. The key solutions today are biofuels, only […]
SteelZero commitments represent a new era in heavy manufacturing production Jesse Klein Wed, 01/27/2021 - 00:30 Decarbonizing steel has a chicken or the egg problem. Industry experts say current processes for doing it are so extremely expensive that few manufacturers have the financial ability. And right now, there isn’t enough demand for decarbonized steel for […]
The State of Green Business 2021 Joel Makower Mon, 01/25/2021 - 02:11 Adapted from the 14th annual State of Green Business report, our annual report card on progress by the world’s largest companies. The report, published in partnership with S&P Global Trucost, is a free download. Now, where were we? A year ago at this time, we […]