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Sustainability Leadership Award Speaker Series features Virgin United president April 19, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Jean Oelwang, the founding CEO and president of Virgin Unite and a member of the Penn State Smeal College of Business Board of Visitors, will lead a panel discussion in the inaugural Susman Sustainability Leadership Award Speaker Series at noon Wednesday, April 21. The discussion, titled “Collective Courage: A Talk on Changing Business for Good,” will be held virtually via Zoom. Attendees are asked to register online. Oelwang, a 1987 Smeal marketing alumna, is the first recipient of the Gerald I. Susman Sustainability Leadership Award. The award recognizes alumni and friends who demonstrate exceptional leadership in the advancement of sustainable business strategy, management and practice. Recipients achievements should support Smeal’s strategic pillar of accelerating the integration of sustainability in business. ....
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Meat Free Monday Bottom trawling as harmful as flying Raking the sea bed to catch fish produces as much carbon as the aviation industry, according to a new study Posted : 1 April 2021 Deep sea trawlers are the Boeing 747s of the oceans, responsible for churning up as much carbon dioxide as the entire aviation industry. That’s the conclusion of a new report that has revealed scraping the seabed to catch fish to be an environmental evil on a par with flying. While planes are a visible and well known climate foe, fishing vessels that drag heavy nets along the sea floor disturb sediment – the world’s largest carbon storage system – and release 1 gigaton of carbon every year, according to the study by published in the journal Nature. So for all that short-haul holiday flying habits have been put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s possible that Friday night fish-and-chip suppers have been making up the carbon shortfall. ....