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Jim Giles is vice president of the Net Zero program at GreenBiz.
Jim Giles is vice president of the Net Zero program at GreenBiz. He is responsible for developing VERGE Carbon, a conference dedicated to the business opportunities in the emerging carbon economy, VERGE Food, focused on sustainable food systems, and VERGE Net Zero, a new standalone event designed to help companies navigate to a climate-positive future.
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Instacart grocery delivery

There's a more sustainable way to deliver online grocery orders

May 1, 2020

By Jim Giles
Many shoppers will find the process quicker and easier post-pandemic, which begs the need for more serious attention to the transportation footprint associated with getting groceries to consumers' front doors.
  • Food Systems
  • COVID-19
  • Transportation & Mobility
Food logistics concept art

This vision of the post-pandemic food system looks a lot like a microgrid

April 24, 2020

By Jim Giles
Redundant, distributed, resilient, smaller scale and locally powered, yet connected to the larger world in ways that benefit it when safe.
  • Food Systems
  • COVID-19
food display

Utopia? Imagining the food system of 2050

April 17, 2020

By Jim Giles
What’s implausible in 2020 may be plausible by mid-century.
  • Food Systems
  • Agriculture
Gardener gardening in his permaculture garden, using regenerative soil farming merhods

Can regenerative agriculture deliver on its promise?

April 10, 2020

By Jim Giles
Skeptics are sowing doubts about the carbon sequestration potential. The questions underscore the complexities of soil science.
  • Agriculture
Stemple Creek Farm FutureWell Summit

COVID-19 and food: Slowdowns, layoffs and one silver lining

March 27, 2020

By Jim Giles
Restaurants are struggling, affecting local producers. But many are acting quickly to minimize food waste and some have seen a surge in online orders.
  • Food Systems
  • COVID-19
Impossible Burger at White Castle

The future of plant-based meat

March 13, 2020

By Jim Giles
Progress might be slower than the current hype suggests, but the products will almost certainly get better.
  • Food Systems

Jim Giles announces VERGE Food

Jim Giles announces VERGE Food

March 9, 2020

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GreenBiz's Jim Giles announces a new component to the VERGE conference ecosystem: VERGE Food, focusing on the rising interest in sustainable food systems. From GreenBiz 20.

Horizon Organic graphic

How ambitious is the 'carbon positive' pledge by Horizon Organic?

March 6, 2020

By Jim Giles
The plan could shrink the dairy company's footprint by at least 30 percent by five years from now.
  • Food Systems
  • Agriculture
  • Carbon Removal

General Motors' Sharon Basel on how the company's ESG reporting provides insights for its work

'The encyclopedia of GM': ESG reporting provides insights for business transformation

March 4, 2020

WithJim Giles and Sharon Basel

Sharon Basel, senior manager of sustainability at General Motors, works a lot on the company's environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. "I think it's a really important thing not to be taken lightly," she says. "A lot of people inside of General Motors call it the encyclopedia of GM, and I think how we portray what our mission is and how we're all marching towards a vision that we have for the company becomes really evident in that reporting."

  • Transportation & Mobility

EDF's Victoria Mills: 'It's time to raise the bar for leadership to include climate policy advocacy'

EDF's Victoria Mills: 'It's time to raise the bar for leadership to include climate policy advocacy'

March 4, 2020

WithJim Giles and Victoria Mills

Victoria Mills, managing director at EDF, works at the intersection of sustainability, public policy and business.

"What we've realized — EDF and other NGOs — together is that it's time to raise the bar for leadership to include climate policy advocacy," says Mills. "We've been really encouraged by the number of companies that are setting ambitious climate goals, committing to use 100 percent renewable energy, working through their whole supply chain to drive down emissions."

  • Policy & Politics
  • Carbon Policy
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Imagining The Future

Clownfish swim amid their host anemone in the Solomon Islands, which is part of the Coral Triangle due to its incredible marine biodiversity.

We need a Project Drawdown for conservation

ByLeah Gerber
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Why I am doubling down on digital for water

ByWill Sarni
Food logistics concept art

This vision of the post-pandemic food system looks a lot like a microgrid

ByJim Giles
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