The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Millions of hectares of the country’s land experience an annual rainfall of less than 30 mm, and some hectares of land which is suitable for agriculture are subjected to wind and water erosion, waterlogging, loss of organic matter and salinity. Climate Change and Glacial Melting.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 17, 2024

Using Planet Data to Travel Back in Time Planet operates hundreds of satellites that index the entire surface of the Earth nearly every day and feed the ever-growing Planet Archive — composed of more than 300 billion sq km of imagery, with proprietary datasets back to 2009 and public datasets back to 1972.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 14, 2023

Your confidence is a result of building your capabilities, at all levels, to prepare to transform organizations. We develop people’s capabilities to solve business challenges and build sustainable organizations. It’s what enables a leader to face tough times and gives leadership its strength.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 14, 2023

Your confidence is a result of building your capabilities, at all levels, to prepare to transform organizations. We develop people’s capabilities to solve business challenges and build sustainable organizations. It’s what enables a leader to face tough times and gives leadership its strength.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 13, 2023

Your confidence is a result of building your capabilities, at all levels, to prepare to transform organizations. We develop people’s capabilities to solve business challenges and build sustainable organizations. It’s what enables a leader to face tough times and gives leadership its strength.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2020

These three new SkySats join the 18 others already in orbit and significantly expand our capacity to provide world class, high-resolution images to a variety of commercial, governmental, academic and non-profit organizations.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Coordinated with Clean Creatives, a climate campaign meant to pressure the advertising industry, and the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, the letter was organized and signed by a group of leading scientists including Jason Box, Astrid Caldas, Peter Gleick, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Michael Mann, Kate Marvel, and Katharine Wilkinson.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 30, 2024

The impact of this emergency is not the same for all,” said Sebastián Kraljevich, Chile’s permanent representative to the Organization of American States. The Costa Rica-based court was set up in 1979 to interpret and apply the American Convention on Human Rights , a treaty ratified by members of the Organization of American States.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” It’s a big problem.”

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CleanTech San Diego

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The program, which offers free business services through a consortium of regional partner organizations to help energy entrepreneurs successfully bring their innovations to market, has since become the flagship initiative of Cleantech San Diego for the past seven years.

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CleanTech San Diego

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The program, which offers free business services through a consortium of regional partner organizations to help energy entrepreneurs successfully bring their innovations to market, has since become the flagship initiative of Cleantech San Diego for the past seven years.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Fleet leaders are also facing increasing pressure.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 23, 2020

Two weeks ago, Clean Energy Canada and 11 clean energy sector industry associations and organizations sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau detailing the benefits of employing clean-energy-focussed stimulus measures. By contrast, Canada spent only US$3 billion. Below is a summary of measures the U.S. Job creation and retention.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

The analysis by researchers at the University of Waterloo, published today in partnership with the organization Stand.earth, has found that the total cumulative value of six major U.S. That is the key takeaway from a new study examining the past decade’s portfolio performance for several of the largest public pension funds in the country.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The study , published in International Journal of Epidemiology in December 2021, looked at nearly 3 million births in the state of Texas over the course of 13 years between 1996 and 2009. million mother-infant pairs living in Texas between 1996 and 2009. That study looked at the same sample of people — roughly 2.8

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

They can also support new partnerships between startups, the public sector, and community leaders and organizations. May include recommendations for partnerships with community-based organizations (CBOs), national laboratories, clean cities coalitions or other similar groups. Is this a good fit for your organization’s mission?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2023

Even so, every algae researcher who spoke to the Guardian said a real effort to commercialize biofuels, algal or otherwise, requires several billion dollars, and a long-term dedication to overcoming seemingly fundamental biological limitations of wild organisms. And no oil company was willing to go that far.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 13, 2021

States and cities that adopt the IECC will effectively require new buildings to cut energy use an average of more than 10 percent compared to the previous code, and by more than a third compared to the 2009 version, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. percent from the 2009 baseline of 50.8

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Through our archive imagery dating back to 2009, this time series data also supports FEMA’s ability to mitigate risk and plan for climate resilience and adaptation, revealing regional patterns and global change. Tornado Path Mapping.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Chemical: emissions of toxic and long-lived substances such as synthetic organic pollutants, heavy metal compounds, and radioactive materials can have potentially irreversible effects on living organisms. 2009; Steffen, W., There are nine planetary boundaries identified. I invite you to join me there and share your thoughts.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 31, 2021

Helena’s clean electricity resolution was born from a 2009 Climate Change Action Plan , which drew inspiration from over 40 community recommendations on how to transition Helena to clean energy. With resistance coming down from the top, Helena community members have responded with grassroots organizing to broaden community support.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

Candida auris, a drug-resistant yeast, emerged in 2009 on three continents simultaneously. It was kind of unknown until 2009 or 2010, and then the CDC issued its first warning about Candida auris in 2016. was a personal experience of having a fungus-like organism kill my tomatoes. Why did you choose to focus on fungi this time?

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

The deadly menace, which was first identified in 2009, isn’t your typical fungus. In yet another reminder that many of the very serious consequences of climate change are happening NOW, scientists say global warming may have given rise to its first new fungal disease — a multidrug-resistant species called Candida auris.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 27, 2020

In the face of oversupply and falling demand due to the cornavirus the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia agreed to cut oil output by 10 percent but this did not stop the free-fall. Erik Holm Reiso , a senior partner at Rystad Energy, said in 2008 and 2009, "demand fell by 1.3m barrels of oil a day.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 16, 2020

Organic smallholdings are not cruel. It’s not – not if you want to support local, organic smallholdings and food sustainability. About the author: Dave Darby lived at Redfield community from 1996 to 2009. They are born to be eaten, regardless of the species doing the eating. and the Open Credit Network.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

million campaign Edelman carried out on behalf of the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2009. On the surface, these seemed organic — they came from vastly different parts of the country and appeared in a range of media outlets. But all came from organizations that are long-time members of the Atlas Network, a U.S.-based

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2023

DeSmog previously investigated the organization and found it had bought ads that distorted search engine results on Google. Fossil Fuel Revamp The website for Pathways Alliance says the organization is focused on delivering industry-driven solutions to the climate crisis. A Pathways Alliance bus shelter ad seen in Montreal.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 12, 2021

Important events like this have been derailed by disinformation campaigns before – as seen with “climategate” in 2009 and the recent UN Compact for Migration. Lead Researcher Sean Buchan told DeSmog: “This year sees the most important UN climate summit since the Paris Agreement in 2015.

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Green Technology

APRIL 20, 2023

Rodriguez joined the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) in February of 2009. You will hear from such organizations as August Berres, First Note Finance inc., Rodriguez , Associate Construction Analyst, California Building Standards Commission Enrique M. and many more.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 26, 2020

Founded in 2009, SUSTAINATOPIA remains one of the leading events in the world of its’ kind. This track is specific to the leaders of organizations of all sizes targeting the base of the pyramid in communities around the world. Attendees have participated from more than 60 countries.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The task of formalizing the geological era fell to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the scientific organization which establishes global standards for such things.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

Green Business Bureau has been focused on creating a sustainable business world since its founding in 2009. In 2009, a very small percentage of companies were green businesses, mostly led by founders who were huge advocates of saving the planet from climate change. A look back at the history of Green Business Bureau.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 12, 2020

“We’re thrilled to receive more than 60 applications from around the world and we are excited to support the three selected startups as they work alongside experts from Vineyard Wind, MassCEC, and other leading organizations in the marine and offshore wind industries,” said Emily Reichert, CEO of Greentown Labs.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. Rivera, the community organizer, says the refinery agreement represents a victory — albeit hard-won and too late for many.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As far back as 2003, an organization called Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation hatched a plan to produce renewable energy in the Sahara for export to European markets. This plan was taken on by two bodies, the non-profit Desertec Foundation and the Dii industrial initiative, in 2009.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

That included the major buildout of transmission in Texas to bring wind power to markets under that state's Competitive Renewable Energy Zone policy and matching grants to utilities under the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. transmission grid.

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