Front And Centered

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Environmental Justice Task Force (EJ TF) report with recommendations on how Washington State can achieve EJ has been released! It contains 26 policy recommendations spanning four categories on how state agencies can incorporate EJ into their responsibilities. By Sameer Ranade , Civic Engagement and Policy Manager.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

A new action plan that’s just eight pages long but packed with game-changing proposals is the best blueprint I’ve seen for how to achieve these gains. Here are just a few highlights — and ideas on how your organization can get involved. Keep organic waste out of landfills and incinerators . Fri, 04/16/2021 - 01:00.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With the ongoing pandemic, it’s also important to be cozy and comfortable as you spend more time at home. So how can you dress for fall, dress for style and make sure you’re still doing it with comfort and sustainability in mind? The changing of the seasons always signals a change in style.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 17, 2020

Bard MBA alum Nicole Pamani recently spoke with Isaac Nichelson, CEO and co-founder at Circular Systems , about how the company’s circular production processes are helping to redefine the meaning of sustainable materials in the fashion industry. Nicole Pamani: Tell us the Agraloop story.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

By planting three billion trees over the next decade, increasing organic farming to a quarter of agricultural land, reversing the decline of bee populations, cutting pesticide use in half, and restoring at least 25,000km of EU rivers to a free-flowing state, the strategy promises to "fix our broken relationship with nature".

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Now, a new peer-reviewed study , published in the journal PLOS ONE , highlights how one particular form of fossil fuel extraction has pummeled the Appalachian region’s rivers and streams, including the Elk River – waters that the diamond darter and dozens of other endangered species call home. Mountaintop Mining.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

When the coronavirus pandemic can be claimed to be under control, it is likely to have made some economies retreat a decade and left millions of families in pain for the loss of loved ones, with many more millions enduring health and other consequences for some time to come. Mon, 03/15/2021 - 12:00. The failures.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. What’s up in the worlds of the 120 alumni from past lists? We asked them to consider two questions: With the world turned upside down, what is your focus at work? We as human beings and our planet are all connected.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Now, NGOs and investors are urging consumer goods and food companies and financial institutions to devote more resources to addressing the root cause of shrinking forests, deforestation. Among those it has targeted: food service operator Aramark, meat company Tyson Foods and consumer products maker Procter & Gamble.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2021

It is critical that emergent nations leapfrog stages of development to prevent further environmental degradation. . Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. What is SDG 9? . Human society has always been focused on constant innovation and development.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

Preventing this kind of tragedy, most doctors and medical associations now agree, starts with better training. The report, which has become the most globally respected pulse-taking of human health in a changing climate since its first publication after the 2016 Paris Agreement, shows just how high the stakes are. In the U.S.,

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 15, 2021

So, perhaps the single silver lining of the pandemic might be that it can be used as the crystal ball that lends its 20/20 vision for us to see how we can avoid the worst of climate change. But all this self-inflicted pain is nothing compared to all the damage climate change can cause.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For the next two hours, the small group walked door to door distributing anti-waste incineration fliers in a community that was largely unaware it sits within the radius of a smokestack plume of a municipal waste incinerator, or MWI, one of five across the city. By Rachel Parsons , London-based multimedia journalist.

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Charged

AUGUST 4, 2022

This is particularly true of the next-gen chemistries you read headlines about. A new startup, Our Next Energy (ONE), is working to combine the best aspects of two different chemistries into one battery pack to greatly increase range. In January, ONE retrofitted a Tesla Model S with an experimental 203.7

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. For a few years, the Briggs ranch delivered the rural splendor they’d hoped for.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. Black cab drivers across London protested, blockading roads to prevent the Uber application from sweeping its way into a monopoly. A classic win/win, a win for your business and a win for the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This story originally appeared in Grist & The Texas Observer and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. For a few years, the Briggs ranch delivered the rural splendor they’d hoped for.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Seattle University Score: 79.41 | Seattle, Washington After the pandemic altered Earth Day plans, Seattle U unveiled a virtual event complete with Earth Talks.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

How could such an eagerly anticipated technology go so wrong? Climate change is a very different sort of challenge than a pandemic, due to the long-term time horizon and the fact that emissions are tied to nearly every aspect of human life and economic activity. What the vaccine rollout can teach us about climate tech. Ben Soltoff.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The essential, interconnected web of life on Earth is getting smaller and increasingly frayed," is how one leading IPBES scientist, Professor Josef Settele, put it in 2019. Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 16, 2021

How could such an eagerly anticipated technology go so wrong? Climate change is a very different sort of challenge than a pandemic, due to the long-term time horizon and the fact that emissions are tied to nearly every aspect of human life and economic activity. This should raise alarm bells for anyone working on climate tech.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

Here’s how pretty much all rain arrives in the desert climate of San Diego County, the region of 3 million people at the border of California and Mexico. Hatfield, who referred to himself as a “moisture accelerator,” had developed an early form of geoengineering mechanism that sent little puffs of a vaporized chemical solution skyward.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Biden's recent executive order, " Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad ," charged his team to develop a climate finance plan in the next three months. 4 climate finance priorities for the Biden administration. Joe Thwaites. Wed, 02/17/2021 - 00:30. Climate change is a global phenomenon with significant local implications.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A slow transition away from fossil fuels would be “more expensive” than a rapid shift to renewable energy, according to a new study, a conclusion that stands in sharp contrast to fossil fuel industry talking points aimed at heading off aggressive climate policy currently being shaped in Congress. trillion budget package. CC BY-NC 2.0).

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

” Biden’s recent executive order, ” Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad ,” charged his team to develop a climate finance plan in the next three months. .” Over the last four years (see our coverage from 2017 , 2018 , 2019 and 2020 ), Congress has sought to maintain U.S. Yet just $2.5 billion, or 0.07

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

It has subsumed and reset the context for other key national priorities such as responding to the pandemic, climate change, economic renewal and social justice. The accelerating debate over how best to protect and strengthen democracy bears close watching as a major barometer for the success of policies to advance sustainability.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The votes are still being tallied to determine whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden will become the next president of the United States. But despite still-undecided outcomes in states including Maine, Georgia and North Carolina as of Wednesday morning, it appears increasingly likely that Republicans will retain a majority in the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2021

It has subsumed and reset the context for other key national priorities such as responding to the pandemic, climate change, economic renewal and social justice. The accelerating debate over how best to protect and strengthen democracy bears close watching as a major barometer for the success of policies to advance sustainability.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2020

That represents 56 percent of all of the Americans who had perished, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. After the pandemic began with a grossly disproportionate death toll among people of color, the percentage of white dead is growing, most searingly in the Midwest.

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