Do consumers even know what ‘circular economy’ means?
In our Eco Pulse 2018 survey, we polled consumers on a range of sustainability and environmental terms to gauge their level of awareness.
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The argument for public blockchains in the energy sector
In 2019, more market players than ever — utilities, grid operators, energy companies, software developers — are inching closer to commercial blockchain applications in the energy sector.
What’s new with community solar?
You might have heard people talking about "community solar" over the past month. Wondering why? Here’s your cheat sheet of what it is and why it’s in the news.
Cleaning up the waste of e-commerce returns
I write this week from (surprisingly sunny) Seattle at SPC Impact, the Sustainable Packaging Coalition’s annual conference.
The advantages of 3D printing are still far from circular
3D printing has been around for three decades, but only in the last few years has the technology become a serious contender for displacing conventional manufacturing methods now that it can achieve material strength that rivals legacy offerings and can deliver parts in a fraction of the time
Plastic bag bans can backfire if consumers just use other plastics instead
Governments are increasingly banning the use of plastic products, such as carryout bags, straws, utensils and microbeads. T
The 5 things you need to know about chemical recycling
There’s been a noticeable uptick lately in buzz around chemical recycling, and the promise of technologies that can fix the broken recycling system.
Microsoft doubles carbon fee as it doubles down on ambition
For the past seven years, Microsoft has held business units accountable for their carbon footprints by charging an internal fee on emissions that it has used to fund climate change mitigation efforts — anything from offsets to energy efficiency projects to renewables investments.
It’s calling time on carbon emissions
Climate change no longer can be passed off as tomorrow’s problem.
The power and the perils of talking to teens about climate
As CSOs, we typically get pretty good at public presentations, learning how to engage audiences early, to give a compelling presentation without slides (or at least without slides loaded with verbose 12-point bullets), how to blank the screen so that the audience will focus on us — or, better, on one another.
