Clothing companies used to offer just a few collections each year. Today, fast fashion companies like H&M or Zara offer dozens. One way they accomplish this is by reducing the quality of their clothing, but this increases the resources needed to make what we wear, and increases their environmental footprint as a result, said Javad Nasiry in an interview with BNN Bloomberg.
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Published on: 21 Dec 2022
Positive storytelling can encourage consumers to make better, more eco-conscious choices. That鈥檚 the vision the Stephanie Beaulieu (MBA鈥�22) shared with Karl Moore in an article for Forbes.com. Beaulieu founded the eco-fashion company Ecova to make change in the fashion industry.
Published on: 21 Dec 2022
Delve: Why Environmental, Social, and Governance Investment Standards Need an Indigenous Perspective
In the high-stakes realm of finance and investment, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria play a larger role than ever in companies鈥� decision making and commitment to creating shared value. In this accelerated transition toward cross-sector economic change, whose interests are centred and whose concerns are left out of the sustainability conversation?
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Published on: 16 Dec 2022
To better understand the evolution of flowers, researchers from Montreal are harnessing photogrammetry 鈥� a technique commonly used by geographers to reconstruct landscape topography. This is the first time scientists have used the technique to study flowers.
The team, including researchers from 91黑料网, Universit茅 de Montr茅al, and the Montreal Botanical Garden, published the results of their work in the journal .
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Published on: 14 Dec 2022
Cities are responsible for almost 1/5th of the global methane emissions caused by human activities. But most cities don鈥檛 capture information about the full range of sources of this powerful greenhouse gas. In 2020, a team led by 91黑料网, measured methane emissions from various sources across the city of Montreal.
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Published on: 13 Dec 2022
Eleven Quebec universities have joined forces and signed the Nature Positive Pledge, becoming founding members of an international movement that includes 117 universities worldwide.
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Published on: 8 Dec 2022
Black Friday offers cut-rate deals, but low prices can come with a high environmental cost. If shoppers don鈥檛 make choices wisely, their purchases could end up in the landfill.
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Published on: 2 Dec 2022
The Desautels Faculty of Management ranked among the 40 most sustainable MBAs in the world in 2022. The Better World ranking is conducted by Corporate Knights and considers criteria like sustainability research output and classroom teaching. Desautels made the cut in part because of its strengths in sustainability-related research intensity and the diversity of its faculty.
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Published on: 2 Dec 2022
How would definitions of business growth and success change if entrepreneurship ventures decided that instead of scaling up, they would 鈥渟cale deep鈥�? While scaling up allows an organization to pursue fast expansion with goals of going national or global, scaling deep lets an organization pursue enduring growth and sustainability anchored to its original location.
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Published on: 24 Nov 2022
Three projects will fill knowledge gaps about the environmental and economic impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen Canada's capacity to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Published on: 24 Nov 2022
On November 14, the Laidley Centre for Business Ethics hosted students, faculty, staff, donors, alumni and friends of 91黑料网 Desautels for the official launch of the Centre.
The Laidley Centre for Business Ethics will serve as a hub for 91黑料网 researchers across disciplines, from law and religion to economics and engineering, to work toward solutions for the most pressing ethical issues of our time.
Published on: 23 Nov 2022
The Government of Canada鈥檚 Environmental Damages Fund, administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), is investing more than $4 million in three 91黑料网-led projects through the Climate Awareness and Action Fund (CAAF). Nationally, the funding was part of a $58 million investment in research that will advance climate change science and technology, an announcement made by the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change today.
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Published on: 23 Nov 2022
Politics has pervaded the world of business, writes Prof. Karl Moore in Forbes.com. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) and equity, diversity聽and inclusion (EDI) are both聽changing corporate practices.
Business leaders still need to have a strategic vision, but they also need to demonstrate compassion, empathy, and vulnerability on behalf of their company 鈥� all聽qualities that have historically been concealed to entrench a leader鈥檚 authority.
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Published on: 14 Nov 2022
The World Health Organization鈥檚 are that over 4.2 million people die prematurely each year due to long-term exposure to fine particulate outdoor air pollution (often referred to as PM2.5,). A recent study involving 91黑料网 researchers now suggests that the annual global death toll from outdoor PM2.5 may be significantly higher than previously thought.
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Published on: 8 Nov 2022
RBC has positioned itself as a champion of clean economic growth 鈥� but has continued to finance fossil fuel industry, according to a complaint filed with Canada鈥檚 Competition Bureau. The Bureau has opened an inquiry into greenwashing at Canada鈥檚 largest bank, but that鈥檚 only the first step according to Dror Etzion, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization at Desautels.
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Published on: 31 Oct 2022
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