Join Jeff Corwin on Wildlife Nation as he races to save threatened gopher tortoises in central Florida. A new real estate development threatens their habitat, prompting Jeff and a team of conservationists to relocate these vital creatures before construction starts. Discover how gopher tortoises are keystone species, providing essential habitat for many other animals, including the iconic eastern indigo snake and the venomous eastern diamondback rattlesnake, thus supporting Florida's entire ecosystem.

Jeff Corwin teams up with Defenders of Wildlife to highlight North American wildlife and the dedicated individuals protecting them. Check local listings for airtime. To learn more, visit www.defenders.org/wildlifenation.

MiWa (Minimum Waste) aims to streamline consumer packaging from buying to renting. Mirek Lizec explains how extending this approach to supermarkets, as seen in Europe, can significantly reduce plastic waste and resource consumption.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, champions the circular economy—a system designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials, and regenerate nature.

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At Summit 22, Solvay CEO Ilham Kadri discussed the importance of regeneration in her life and its application to chemistry, detailing the benefits of regenerative chemistry for key stakeholders.

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On June 27, 2022, a discussion explored Blue Shield's latest Youth Climate Survey, focusing on how climate change impacts the mental health of young people.

The event featured insights from David W. Bond (Director of Behavioral Health, Blue Shield of California—Promise Health Plan), youth environmental activist Kat Lee (APEN), and student representative Maya Gomez (Mind Out Loud, Whitney High School). Additional speakers included Antoinette Mayer (Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship, Blue Shield), Joel Castro (President, Cesar Chavez Service Club), and co-host Michelle Meow (Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show").

Join the U.S. & Canada B Corp Marketers Network for a one-hour lunchtime panel and Q&A on impact storytelling. This event is designed for marketers at purpose-led companies.

Learn how authentic and compelling impact stories differentiate B Corps from traditional businesses, elevating your company and the entire B Corp movement.

Topics covered include engaging youth, avoiding "greenwashing," and utilizing impact metrics to quantify your positive global effect.

Brian Matuszewski from Again details his circular economy journey and their system for cleaning reusable plastic packaging, essential for keeping it in circulation.

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U.S. buildings are highly inefficient, accounting for 40% of primary energy use and emissions, and often negatively impact inhabitants. Bioneers brought together visionary architects Deanna Van Buren and Jason McLennan to redefine healthy, nature-honoring, and socially equitable built environments.

Van Buren (Designing Justice) creates "restorative" infrastructure addressing mass incarceration's root causes. McLennan, a leading "green" architect, champions truly "living" and regenerative buildings. This discussion explored how their distinct but vital visions for our built environment can be synthesized.

Moderated by Dawn Danby, this conversation was part of the 2022 Bioneers conference. Find more talks and discussions at bioneers.org.

Join CLG Europe’s Materials & Products Taskforce and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy at their report launch event. This discussion will focus on how the Digital Product Passport (DPP) can accelerate the EU's transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy.

The event features prominent speakers from the European Parliament, European Commission, research institutions, NGOs, and industry leaders including Saint-Gobain, ROCKWOOL Group, and Hydro.

MEP Jakop Dalunde, shadow rapporteur for the ITRE opinion on the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, will host the discussion.

Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, discusses ecological restoration's vital role in protecting Earth's biodiversity and achieving climate goals, with potential to reduce 30% of global carbon emissions. Drawing on a decade of experience in natural resource management and a passion for sustainable development, she advocates for open data platforms to accelerate this global movement.

Supported by a $1.2M Google.org grant and powered by Google Earth Engine, Restor is a science-based open data platform accelerating global restoration. It connects projects worldwide to scientific data, supply chains, and funding, increasing their impact and sustainability. The platform enables users to analyze restoration potential, exchange information, and make projects visible, empowering individuals to become practitioners. Restor is an Earthshot Prize 2021 Finalist and a UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration partner.

Scaling circular businesses often faces infrastructure challenges. Sway founder Julia Marsh highlights how seaweed packaging can replace traditional thin-film alternatives.

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Our oceans deserve a future free from plastic pollution. This #PlasticFreeJuly, let's unite to tackle this crisis by stopping plastic waste at its source.

It's time to turn the tide. Discover how you can get involved and make a difference for marine life today: oceana.org/PlasticFreeJuly.

This recording is from a June 30, 2022 event, hosted by the U.S. & Canada B Corp Climate Collective, B Corp Marketers Network, B Lab U.S. & Canada, and Clean Creatives. The discussion highlighted how fossil fuel marketing fuels the climate emergency through greenwashing and public deception.

The B Corp community can help end this. Agencies are urged to join Clean Creatives, a growing movement of professionals refusing fossil fuel clients. Climate-conscious businesses can use their RFP and agency review processes to encourage ethical marketing practices.

Join B Corp leaders and Clean Creatives to learn how your business relationships can combat misleading fossil fuel marketing.

In 2021, Oceana launched its first scientific expedition to the Bajos Del Norte and Alacranes Reefs off Yucatan.

This mission assessed the health of these vital marine areas, with data from Project Alacranes highlighting the urgent need for their protection.

Matt Damon and Gary White's book, "The Worth of Water," chronicles their mission to end the global water crisis. It illuminates the urgent reality that over three-quarters of a billion people lack clean water, and 1.7 billion lack access to a toilet, perpetuating poverty and disease worldwide.

The authors, co-founders of Water.org and WaterEquity, share their conviction that this crisis is solvable. Through market-driven solutions, their organizations have empowered over 40 million people across various regions with access to vital water and sanitation. All book proceeds support Water.org.

Learn more about their impactful work at Water.org and WaterEquity. Purchase "The Worth of Water" here: Book Link.

Ehab Sayed founded Biohm, a company that transforms waste into natural products. He details this process and its environmental impact, demonstrating how value can be extracted from waste.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a UK charity, promotes a circular economy. This design-driven model eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.

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Summit 22, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's flagship event, will convene business leaders and changemakers at The Roundhouse, London, on July 5, 2022. While 2021 saw raised ambition, the Summit will focus on moving from 'hope' to 'how' by showcasing how regenerative circular economy solutions, designed differently from the outset, deliver lasting economic value and better outcomes for the environment and people.

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Indigenous communities face new struggles due to extractivism for transition minerals like copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium. These minerals are vital for electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies, yet their extraction profoundly impacts Indigenous lands and livelihoods.

Activists and community leaders advocate for a Just Transition to a green economy. They emphasize that Indigenous Peoples' rights must be central to shifting investment portfolios towards net zero, ensuring equity and sustainability.

Kevin Patel, a 21-year-old LA-based climate justice activist, demands immediate youth inclusion, rejecting the "leaders of tomorrow" label. Drawing from his health struggles in polluted South Central Los Angeles, Patel emphasizes the inseparable link between climate action and ending racial and class disparities.

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California is the world's largest consumer of Amazon rainforest oil. This extraction fuels climate change, deforestation, ocean pollution, and displaces Indigenous peoples who protect the Amazon's vital biodiversity. It also harms communities along the supply chain, including those near toxic refineries in California.

We are honored to host Indigenous Amazonian forest-protectors, sisters Nina and Helena Gualinga. Working with Amazon Watch, they urge Californians—and all of us—to #EndAmazonCrude and demand corporate responsibility for people and the planet.

Nick Estes, Ph.D. (Kul Wicasa/Lower Brule Sioux), is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and a member of the Oak Lake Writers Society. He co-founded The Red Nation in 2014, an organization dedicated to Native liberation, serving on its editorial collective and writing its bi-weekly newsletter. Estes is the author of "Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline" and "The Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance."

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