DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A sixth company has benefited from IFC advisory services but has not received financing. In Kazakhstan, both banks helped a Soviet-era poultry factory become a KFC supplier. as clients.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Many have either worked in the field or trained with other MWDs, making them unique bearers of particularly honed skills. Many have either worked in the field or trained with other MWDs, making them unique bearers of particularly honed skills. When you adopt a MWD, you’re also providing a home to a military veteran and war hero.

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Eco-Business

MAY 12, 2020

Attendees were also inspired by Doc Hendley, Wine To Water Founder and President, 2009 CNN Hero and TEDx speaker. GUELPH, ON | May 12, 2020 - Fill it Forward, formerly known as Cupanion, and Wine To Water are fusing innovative technology with on-the-ground efforts to address the global water crisis. But this isn't just about water.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

And it’s derailing an incentive program lauded by efficiency advocates and builders based largely on field reports that could amount to nothing more than coincidence. And it’s derailing an incentive program lauded by efficiency advocates and builders based largely on field reports that could amount to nothing more than coincidence. “A

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As part of Louisiana’s newly announced energy resilience initiative, Hubs for Resilient Energy Operations (HERO), The University of Louisiana at Lafayette will create Community Resilience Hubs and undertake a project meant to enhance electric grid resiliency. This award is the largest in University history.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

The “unsung heroes of conservation” are being celebrated by a new website “ Working for Wildlife “, launched by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). Kate Faulkner with a harvest mouse nest. It recognised early on that success depended on developing measures that fitted into farming regimes.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

And yet, in recent years, a vocal mix of agribusiness interests, advocacy groups, and media commentators has suggested that ruminants might actually be misunderstood climate heroes. 135 gigatons is roughly equal to all the carbon lost due to agriculture over the past 12,000 years. Estimates suggest there are 1.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up all the key recommendations and conclusions from Chris Skidmore's Net Zero Review. It is a far from unsurprising message from Skidmore, who having signed the 2050 target into law, has long been a staunch advocate for an ambitious net zero agenda. G overnance.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Tiny glass beads might seem an unlikely hero in the fight against climate change, but they may end up playing an outsize role in tackling one of the natural world’s most dire predicaments. Stopping Arctic melt is key,” Field says. In 2006, Field saw Al Gore’s climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Google’s “unsung hero?” If you’ve attended many cleantech events, you’re probably familiar with this scene: a panel of men, with maybe a token woman thrown in — maybe not — addresses an audience of mostly men. Twenty speakers — almost all women — gave a series of TED-style talks that inspired and illuminated.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Whether it’s educating women on installing systems or empowering them to speak out against the “booth babe” culture at conferences, their dedication to solar power and advancements in the field are truly astounding. This list of top 10 women in solar only scratches the surface of the 100s of women who are making a difference for solar.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

But the sector, he insisted, could be the “heroes in this discussion” if it wanted to. “We In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. We cannot continue business as we have done in the past,” he went on. “If The Climate Impact of Meat.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story. Despite countless investigations , lawsuits , social shaming , and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. T he John D. Rockefeller Myth. David had slayed Goliath.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The dust has barely settled on the Conservative Party leadership race and the new UK government has already begun confirming many climate campaigners’ worst fears about the direction Liz Truss intends to take the country in. That’s not to say there aren’t some green glimmers to be found, though.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 30, 2021

Two opposing views on how to tackle the energy transition - by Yvo de Rooij Summary - Humankind stands at a crossroads to shape tomorrow's world. Increasing population and affluence subsequently increases overall demand, be it in the form of food, water or energy. But what happens when people with different views strive towards the same end goal?

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. It is summer 2020. We have ‘survived’ the first wave of Corona. The future is uncertain. I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.”

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2019

Nothing’s more American than a science-hero — an indomitable, big-brained hasher-out of ideas that change the world, that make the impossible possible. This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In other words: nutrition, doctors, and climate change.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 5, 2022

Pumped hydro storage is an unsung hero of the renewable energy world. The thing is that it’s not really a high-growth field of the new energy world. It provides super low-cost, low-emission energy storage in locations around the world. That said, China just made a big splash in pumped hydro storage.

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