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US BCSD Updates
The US Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) Annual Meeting will take place at Prairie View A&M University on April 12, 2024.
If you are wanting to better understand and communicate your organization’s impact, including impact on climate change, be sure to register for this informative event.
Small acreage and minority landowners have limited means of protecting and managing their natural resources as well as contributing to sustainability efforts that would create a brighter future for not only them, but also generations to come.
The U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming public planning workshop hosted by the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (E&E).
Houston, October 3, 2023 – The US Business Council for Sustainable Development has joined Houston Methodist Center for Critical Care to launch the Green ICU (Intensive Care Unit) Initiative.
On May 31st from 1-2 pm ET, The US Business Council of Sustainable Development and The Council of The Great Lakes Region will be hosting a webinar on “The Overlooked Link of a True Net Zero Strategy – Efficiency and Technology." Event speaker, Brandi Nye, Managing Director of Business Solutions, at AEP Energy will walk through energy efficiency measures and technologies that are often overlooked due to their technical and sophisticated nature.
Built to facilitate cross-sector engagement across sectors, customers, and suppliers up and down the value stream, the GLCC, modeled on the US BCSD’s successful Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative, will be driven by business and focused on developing and implementing initiatives that reduce carbon emissions across the economy while minimizing business impacts.
The City of Tacoma, Seattle Good Business Network, and the US Business Council for Sustainable Development today announced the launch of a new program that allows for circular reuse of products and materials that might otherwise be destined for disposal in landfills. Through the Washington Materials Marketplace, traditional and non-traditional waste streams are matched with new reuse and recycling opportunities that result in landfill diversion, carbon reduction, cost savings, energy savings, and new job opportunities. This platform will aid both public and private sectors in reaching our region’s climate action and equity goals.This approach to enhancing recycling and reuse is quite different from previous approaches.
Fine Tune, a provider of indirect expense management services, has joined the US Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD), an action-oriented and member-led nonprofit business association, founded in 1992 to give leading US businesses a platform to work together to design, implement and scale sustainability solutions. US BCSD-led platforms, projects and partnerships help leading companies scale solutions to ecosystems, climate, circular economy and water challenges.
Delivering hard-dollar savings, Fine Tune manages clients’ complex tail spend expense categories – including waste and recycling, uniform rental, facility services, security services, and pest control – throughout their full contract life cycle from sourcing to negotiating to auditing and service issue resolution. Sustainability and supply are inevitably intertwined, and Fine Tune is thus leading the charge to integrate the two from an expense management perspective, providing solutions that not only advance clients’ sustainability efforts but improve bottom lines as well.
The City of Austin is accepting applications from local businesses and institutions to participate in the sixth annual [Re]Verse Pitch Competition, a program that aims to reduce waste in Austin and within the business community.
Members of the Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative and invited guests are meeting on April 8, 2020 in Houston, Texas for the group’s first quarterly working meeting.
The day will include presentations, facilitated discussion and working group breakout sessions focusing on project development around key content areas defined at the December launch meeting in New Orleans. These include land-based sequestration, CCUS, electrification, strategy/technology information sharing, and barriers and enablers related to policy and regulation, education and communications.
Learn more on our newly launched website, carbon-collaborative.org.
The US Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) has entered into an agreement with UL to support the expansion of the Materials Marketplace and help companies secure recognition for reuse through third-party certification.
Nearly five dozen Gulf Coast industry representatives from the automotive, power, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, chemical, refining, and transportation sectors came together this week to share and scale decarbonization strategies at the inaugural meeting of the Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative. The Collaborative is the first-of-its-kind industry initiative focused on cross-sector solutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Vietnam Materials Marketplace is a materials trading system that directs Vietnam’s booming manufacturing industries towards the circular economy. Vietnam is one of the fastest growing countries in Asia, hosting a thriving manufacturing economy and serving as a hub for much of the world’s material flows. But the amount of materials deposited in Vietnam’s landfills is a significant health and environmental challenge. In fact, material production and use drive the largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
Americans dispose of some 10 million metric tons of reusable materials, like glass, annually. Most of it ends up in the landfill, and only about one-third gets recycled. That’s not because of some intrinsic materials or chemical property that makes materials like plastic and glass difficult to recycle, but rather a reflection of a very challenging interplay between collection processes, market supply and demand, and rising freight costs to move material in the US.
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