{"id":660,"date":"2017-06-11T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=660"},"modified":"2017-06-11T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T17:00:43","slug":"from-the-web-rei-moves-ahead-with-its-green-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/11\/from-the-web-rei-moves-ahead-with-its-green-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: REI Moves Ahead With Its Green Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-661\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.00.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1268\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.00.35-PM.png 1268w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.00.35-PM-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.00.35-PM-768x280.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.00.35-PM-1024x373.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-08-at-3.00.35-PM-500x182.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>Despite <strong>President Trump<\/strong>\u2019s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic <strong>Paris Climate Accord<\/strong> on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, many American businesses are moving forward with green initiatives. That is because going green will likely be less of a financial burden to corporate treasury groups as time goes by, said author and former Executive Forum speaker <strong>Andrew Winston<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Winston noted that major companies like REI, Boeing, UPS Wal-Mart, Google, Microsoft and Apple all use substantial amounts of renewable energy, and are reaping the benefits. \u201cIt\u2019s not a small experiment anymore; there are tons of big companies like this,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd all of them see it as a good deal because they\u2019re saving money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afponline.org\/trends-topics\/topics\/articles\/Details\/rei-is-moving-ahead-with-its-green-initiatives.-here-s-why\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a> <em>(via AFP)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite President Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris Climate Accord on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, many American businesses are moving forward with green initiatives. That is because going green will likely be less of a financial burden to corporate treasury groups as time goes by, said author and former Executive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/11\/from-the-web-rei-moves-ahead-with-its-green-initiatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: REI Moves Ahead With Its Green Initiatives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425091,425622],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-practicums","category-renewables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-aE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}