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Green RealtorĀ® Guide: Marketing Eco-Friendly Homes and Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. Energy efficiency. Home renewable energy systems. Philips offers an online energy calculator for consumers to figure out just how much energy they use.

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? Busting geothermal myths with Bedrock Energy

Climate Tech VC

Geothermal energy is climate tech but it isn’t new tech. Pulling heat from the subsurface of the earth has been a proven method for powering the cooling and heating of buildings for ~70 years. Bedrock Energy , which just announced a $8.5M Tell us about the founding story of Bedrock Energy.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. The EPAā€™s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Thatā€™s likely an undercount,ā€ Hopkins said.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

Itā€™s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . meters , with even a partial loss of its ice being enough to change coastlines around the world dramatically. .

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Pesticide Industry ā€˜Helped Writeā€™ Disinformation Playbook Used by Big Oil and Big Tobacco, Report Reveals

DeSmogBlog

Despite mounting scientific evidence of their harms to human health and the environment, pesticides have proliferated, with global usage up by about 80 percent since 1990. The most widely used pesticide in the world is Roundup, which is alleged to have caused cancers. billion, including on lobbying and PR around glyphosate regulation.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

In addition, 74 per cent of the poor are directly affected by land degradation globally and over 80 per cent of the human diet is provided by plants, with just three cereal crops - rice, maize and wheat - providing 60 per cent of humanity's energy intake. The world's economies, businesses and our own well-being all depend on nature," he says.

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Food is basically a combination of energy, water and nutrients. Some plants and micro-organisms can make food ā€˜out of thin airā€™ by simply rearranging carbon, water and oxygen molecules using energy from the Sun. Tasty Buggers For a growing number of entrepreneurs in China, cockroach-factories are a booming business. Literally.