Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The quality of your working environment can have an effect on your productivity, health, and happiness. We often use lighting, ergonomic office furniture, and organization as tools to enhance our workspaces. They can remove several harmful compounds from the air and break them down into their soil. About the Author.

Pollution 174

Pollution Medicine HVAC Health 174

Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Two Medicine River, sacred to the Amskapi Pikuni, the Blackfeet, rushes nearby. But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. She knows this landscape by heart. A couple of minutes later, a gray Toyota slowly pulls in behind the GMC and rolls to a stop.

Health 141

Health Medicine Waste Waste 141

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. At the same time as taking out more than is sustainable, we also pollute the soil, water and air. Cultural, spiritual, education and recreation needs.

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Biodiversity Ocean acidification Soil Medicine 72

Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Soil Health Pollution Climate change 98

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

When thinking about carbon offsets, organizations must choose certified and vetted options, as certification bodies enforce the rules of carbon offsetting, to maximize the effectiveness of offset schemes. Native Energy offers a wide range of projects for organizations wanting to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 In West Bengal, farmers use bio-diverse integrated farming models that combine at least 5-6 types of food crops, 10-12 types of vegetables, trees yielding food, fuel, and fodder, and medicinal plants. Packaging accounts for 5.4%

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Agriculture Retail Biodiversity Medicine 52

Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Soil Methane Carbon Organic 91

Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. Once they find their way to the bloodstream, they stick to blood cells as they course through every organ in the body.

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Health Medicine Government Patents 113

Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Universal Healthcare A coronavirus-proof world requires massive international cooperation and global-scale public health infrastructure. Capitalist globalization took off in the stark absence of a global public health infrastructure. Here are the three major ones. In a March 25, 2020 TED talk that has already received over 1.9

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Climate change Health Fossil fuels Agriculture 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” While former U.S.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 121

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent.

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Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

Fungi are living organisms that support the ecosystem of the entire planet. Together, these fungi species are unlocking solutions for cleaning up the environment, developing greener construction and product materials and contributing significant medicinal benefits. What are fungi? Fungi are basically the digestive tract of the planet.

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Waste Waste Medicine Plastics 36

Grist

JUNE 27, 2020

By contrast, the lush rainforests to the south of the Sahara have trees that both block the wind and hold on to the soil with their roots, keeping all the muck from taking to the air. So what does that mean for respiratory health, especially with COVID-19 being a respiratory disease? Tropical storms derive their energy from wet air.

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Africa Cooling Microplastics Solar Energy Monitor 103

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. This analysis can aid in identifying pollution “hotspots” and estimating the relative burden of health and environmental risk contributed by a company’s operations. What business practices should change?

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? Community gardens ensure access to good-quality, local, and organic food.

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Global warming Ethics Biodiversity Agriculture 95

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. This analysis can aid in identifying pollution “hotspots” and estimating the relative burden of health and environmental risk contributed by a company’s operations. What business practices should change?

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. We believe it traces back to four key trends. .

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Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. “If you don’t own anything, you’re not changing nothing.”

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Business Energy Monitoring 28