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From Food Trash to Treasure

Success

Did you know that a large portion of perfectly good food gets wasted before it ever gets the chance to be consumed? An estimated 30%-40% of the American food supply is pitched into landfills. According to the 2024 Food Waste Index Report , most of it stems from households. Unfortunately, we waste a lot of food.

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Sustainable Leadership: Incorporating Recognition into Long-term Business Strategies

Vantage Circle

A restaurant chain awards managers who cut food prices. This leads to purchasing fewer eco-friendly ingredients which are low in quality and shorter shelf life, producing greater food waste. Performance assessments that fail to include sustainability data with regular KPIs. The manager who saves the most money earns a bonus.

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The Race for Net Zero by 2050

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Governments, businesses and individuals all have a role to play in meeting this urgent goal. Leffel and Lynch suggest that federal governments can help promote sustainability with an inflation reduction act to spur investment in new sustainable businesses and research into technology that could displace fossil fuel consumption.

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Milan proves to be the perfect setting for an optimistic BCO conference

Workplace Insight

It is worth noting that the audience would have comprised mainly of individuals that have governance and agency over their own lives, as well as likely to be in roles they have chosen, and this is not true of the entire working population).

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Change Management & Transforming Your Organization’s Culture: Tips from Great Workplaces

Great Place to Work

When Adobe introduced AI to the workplace , it also created “AI@Adobe,” a cross-functional working group to promote, govern, and support employee efforts to implement generative AI into workflows, educate on the complex issues around generative AI, and help teams learn from each other.

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How leaders can change the ‘mattering deficit’ at work

Work Life

Morgan, Delta Air Lines, Marriott International, the government of Canada, and the National Park Service. She told me she only took the job because she was nearly homeless and needed to put food on the table. He works with hundreds of organizations worldwide, and some of his clients include the U.S. Army, USA Wrestling, J.P.

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The Mental Health System in the UK Failed Us

Mad in America

Its very tough to live when you arent sure you will be able to buy food the next month. Will the current government listen? Every time I disclosed my disability while applying for a job, I wasnt even invited for an interview, including at the university where I was already working for years, can you imagine??? Is there any hope left?