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Cannabis Retail Construction: How to Navigate the Green Rush

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Between 2018 and 2022, Englewood’s national construction work in the cannabis retail industry grew by 100% and we expect that trajectory to continue as more states legalize recreational marijuana use and cannabis firms expand into new markets. That has been true.

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LEED Creates Business Opportunities Beyond The Environmental Industrial Complex

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Savvy business people are finding opportunities to profit in matters ancillary to green building, including opportunities advantaged by providing services that contribute to LEED credits. LEED green business' A great example is snow removal. There are very real opportunities to have a role in the more than 1.7

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Harvard Business Review Adds Environmental Performance to Ranking CEOs

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Increasingly CEOs are coming to appreciate it is okay to make a profit while saving the planet. And while the Harvard Business Review is not where you would turn for legal advice on the fiduciary duty of management to maximize corporate profit and shareholder value, the U.S.

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The UK Sets the Scene for Mandatory ESG Laws in the Western World

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And maybe of greatest import, these new laws provide a map and compass for businesses believing that profit should come not from creating the world’s problems, but from solving them. Two separate regulations were “laid before Parliament by Command of Her Majesty and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament”.

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ESG Poll Results Drive Strategies for Business

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People want to save the planet while they make a profit. In 2022 when a broad breadth of stakeholders want to save the planet and make a profit, our poll results make clear businesses need to accelerate their ESG efforts, now. The appeal of ESG is compelling.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

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Green Building. Customer Collaboration & Construction Software » Staying Focused in the Fight Against Profit Fade. There’s a name for these situations: “profit fade.” Legal language is often unclear, resulting in differences in interpretations that can disrupt and delay projects, increasing costs. STRATEGY |.

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ESG is Not Just for Public Companies

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that is more than 125% of the planet’s gross domestic product in 2021) they will lend to main street businesses, at a profit, to fund business’ implementation of government climate change policy. Private lenders banded together at the recent COP26 U.N. climate summit to pledge more than $139 Trillion in private capital (.

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