Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It is impossible to protect the Amazon rainforest without involving Indigenous communities, according to environmental activists fighting for the forests. To this end, many activists say that to maintain a healthy ecosystem, the Brazilian government must protect the country's Indigenous people.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 9, 2020

In the poorest Congressional district in America, where 45,000 people live within 8 square blocks of each other and healthy, fresh food is not available, he teaches students about growing and preparing their own vegetables in school farms. Read the rest here: Growing Something Greater: Healthy Kids, Schools and Communities.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Seattle’s Stay Healthy Streets program was designed to encourage people to travel to essential services and small local businesses — or just to get outside for exercise or fun — at a time when many people felt anxious about doing so.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

And mature mangroves can store nearly 1,000 tons of carbon per hectare, thus mitigating climate change while also helping communities adapt. The project, managed by Wetlands International, already has improved the district’s climate resilience, protecting communities from coastal flooding and absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

However, sustainability practices have notoriously catered to the wants and needs of the wealthier majority, while excluding the most vulnerable communities by lack of engagement and practice. Companies must consider these types of impacts moving forward and minimize harm to Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) communities.

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

More than 2 GW of community solar, enough to serve 393,000 homes, have been installed in New York. The post New York Marks 2 GW of State Community Solar appeared first on Solar Industry. This milestone contributes to 5 GW of total distributed solar operating across the state, with 3.3 GW in development. Kathy Hochul.

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U.S. Green Technology

APRIL 26, 2022

How to improve health through green spaces Green Living is the next “Big Bang” into healthy living. The sustainable benefits of having green spaces in cities, communities and businesses affect mental health and physical. So why is it taking so long for society to jump on board and make it the only way of living?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

You can’t expect people to adopt healthy lifestyles when their work environments reinforce or even cause poor habits,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer, an organizational-behavior professor at Stanford University. Healthy people, healthy planet. A healthy earth depends on healthy people.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 4, 2023

a community development finance institution, raised $42. The post Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund closes $42 million for inclusive real estate in New England appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, May 4 – Boston-based environmental advocacy organization Conservation Law Foundation and Massachusetts Housing Investment Corp.,

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community. Dear Sustainability Community, I come to you again. I provided a quick glimpse of the anxiety and pain that the black community feels daily and actionable steps that the sustainability community could take to advocate for diversity and stimulate unprecedented change.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Stories of small farms pivoting their operations on a dime were easy to find in the early months of the pandemic: these farmers worked overtime to meet customer demand, added services such as online ordering and home delivery, and jumped into action to prop up community food banks struggling to serve an influx of the newly unemployed.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2024

Out among a scattering of islands spilled like beads into the Indonesian shallows, an extended experiment in coral restoration has revealed something marvelous: With a tender touch and a community to care for it, a reef can fully recover from the devastation of blast fishing in just four years.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement. Many employees want to live out their personal values at work and are asking for these programs," said Richard Keiser, CEO and founder of community solar company Common Energy, during the GreenBiz webcast last week about engaging employees in sustainability.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

"Nationally, there’s a trend for trees to follow wealth," said Leslie Berckes, director of programs for Trees Forever, a nonprofit environmental group that works with communities across Iowa and Illinois to plant and care for trees. Building community by planting trees. I feel like I’m making a bigger impact," he said.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2021

As expressed by social and environmental leaders recently, people need to become their own problem solvers — and doers — in their communities. Healthy people, healthy planet" has a few problems. For one, is "being healthy" equivalent to "leading a fulfilling life"? Outside-in, top-down solutions alone won’t do it.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

A lack of additional funding from Government to improve nature is also a barrier to better access to nature in many communities, as numerous Local Authorities are struggling to afford to maintain, improve or develop natural spaces including parks, woodland and riverways.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 26, 2024

During the campaign for I-1631, oil companies like BP and others spent a record $31 million to defeat our measure, which was put forward by communities of color, Tribes, labor, environmental, and social justice advocates. We oppose the repeal of I-2117.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

That means the early adopters tend to be affluent individuals (think early Tesla owners) or companies with healthy profit margins (such as Google and Microsoft). . Its vision is to finance all-electric upgrades for buildings in low-income communities to accelerate the speed and scale of deployments. . "We

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Charged

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The larger battery of the Mega BEAST has the ability to provide for a more healthy and stable electric grid and community stability in areas where it is deployed and V2G is used,” said GreenPower President Brendan Riley. Source: GreenPower

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Achieving these results requires community-​driven efforts to conserve and restore biodiversity. The researchers stress that this potential can be achieved by incentivizing community-​driven efforts to promote biodiversity. The forest carbon potential has been a highly controversial topic.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With real collaboration and a healthy dose of courage, some gutsy decisions were made both in government and business. Now, thousands of companies are reporting, hundreds have set science-based targets and many corporations and communities already have committed to neutrality — though, as we’ve noted, their goals are too modest and too slow.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Vi Lyles of Charlotte, North Carolina, Libby Schaaf of Oakland, California and Jenny Durkan of Seattle — working in their communities to create powerful dialogues and meaningful policy action. But the larger discussions about dismantling systemic racism are about how we will invest in people and communities.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Communities of color also lose out at the other end of the food chain. In a disproportionate number of low-income black neighborhoods, redlining, segregation and weak zoning laws have led to the proliferation of junk food outlets and a lack of healthy alternatives. Here are the 2019-2020 fellows. Civil Eats has a longer list.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

Members of the Healthy Air Coalition, a collective which campaigns for a UK free from toxic air, are urging the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to pursue additional routes for consultation to allow these organisations to have their say. Post-pandemic progress on air pollution reduction nationally is now plateauing.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. COVID has made clear that there cannot be healthy people on an unhealthy planet. Our social model is broken.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

And as extreme weather events become more rampant, it’s increasingly important that farmers have the resources they need to integrate climate smart agriculture practices to ensure our communities have a reliable food supply. These practices set our communities up for the future by helping address food insecurity and climate change.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

As a global beverage company that relies on water, protecting the healthy biodiverse environment that nurtures water has been at the center of Suntory’s work over the past several decades. In order to keep groundwater sustainable, healthy and clean, biodiversity is crucial. In our case, water is an indisputable aspect of our business.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

HealthcareLCA is a collaboration between CASCADES (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis), BSMS, and the Creating Sustainable Health Systems in a Climate Crisis flagship project at Dalhousie University’s Healthy Populations Institute (co-led by Dr Daniel Rainham and Dr. Sean Christie).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

McCarthy observed that the pandemic is one more example of how our system has left some communities behind, drawing a parallel to the disproportionate impact of climate change and pollution on communities of color. McCarthy thinks that we as individuals must reckon with the fact that we can take action in our own communities.

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GreenBiz

MAY 15, 2020

Another reason to ask ourselves what we can be doing to improve indoor air quality right now is because poor indoor air quality is not good for people’s lungs, and it is well documented that healthy lungs are positive when someone does get sick with this virus. In reality, green buildings are a balancing act, and not all about energy.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This year, we reignited our membership outreach efforts, visiting new and familiar community groups, learning about the amazing work led by members from Spokane, Bellingham, Everson, Bow, Everett, Kent, Seattle, and Tacoma. These are just a representative number of the many groups with whom we are honored to be in community.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 7, 2024

While we see important wins for our community in this budget, we remain concerned that the legislature is not meeting its obligations to overburdened communities. While we saw some positive investments, we are concerned that the state legislature is not meeting its obligation to fund overburdened communities.

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Global Renewable News

JUNE 28, 2023

Key Highlights Community Offshore Wind is increasing access to fresh, healthy, sustainable seafood in overburdened communities 5,800 pounds of fresh, locally-sourced fish and ov.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Although more communities and businesses are becoming aware that we must evolve the way we create and consume, Mitchell said that it is important, above all, for society to change its relationship with consumption. "You Bring women back into the center of society to restore a healthy balance. Suchi Rudra. Fri, 02/12/2021 - 02:00.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2021

Tenuta said many companies are trying to address water usage in order to solve internal operational problems, but they are not connecting those goals with the environmental needs of the communities where they are based. . But they also should look at how their use of water is affecting the community they are in, he said. .

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 3, 2024

The study monitored aerial pollutants at a small community, producing findings that have been published in Atmospheric Science Letters. He emphasizes the need for healthy air for everyone, Arctic residents included, underlining continuous monitoring as essential for long-term health, in line with the SDGs.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

The project aims to implement a non-invasive approach for collecting surplus indigenous coral spawn as it washes ashore and for growing healthy coral colonies on the foundations of nearby offshore wind turbines. ReCoral by ØrstedTM is one example of the company exploring how to achieve this. 2018 : Ørsted began developing the ReCoral project.

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