Grist

APRIL 18, 2023

The compounds were mainly used for building construction and electrical equipment but their health impacts only became clear decades after they were originally manufactured. in 1979 and eventually worldwide in 2001. Glud, a co-author of the study and a professor of biology at the University of Southern Denmark.

Pollution 68

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

AECOM has been helping clients to understand and remediate PFAS contamination since 2001 and has worked on over 200 PFAS projects, including environmental and human health-risk investigations at RAAF Base Williamtown and the Army Aviation Centre Oakey.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The way the financial world responds to the climate crisis will be make or break for the health of our planet. Opinium surveyed 2001 UK adults between September 17th and 27th. Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

But since launching the Sustainable Future (SF) funds in 2001, our view has always been that unsafe and degrading working practices make no business, common or investment sense. Now more than ever, the ability to manage a supply chain will determine success in the fashion industry.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

According to a 2001 study by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture , traditionally grown lettuce travels about 2,000 miles to get to Chicago grocery stores. As grocery store shelves emptied , the problem wasn't necessarily lack of food but a drastic shift in demand that caused traditional distribution engines to sputter.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Criteria include avoiding cheap overseas and child labor, enforcing strong workplace health and safety practices, supporting LGBTQ+ rights, preventing sexual misconduct, looking after the well-being of employees, and running an ethical supply chain. Does the business have fair workplace diversity and inclusion policies ?

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

As his model is better for our health and for nature, as well as for our communities and for providing fulfilling work, I think we need to have a good look at what he’s saying. Not for this one, no – but this current, unsustainable, undemocratic, community- and mental-health-destroying economy is not good for us.

Agriculture 139

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 10, 2021

The project’s mission is to improve Indigenous mental and emotional health outcomes through art-making, community building, and equitable creative opportunities for personal and professional growth. with Tracy Rector and Satpreet Kahlon, curating the inaugural exhibition at Seattle’s King Street Station.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Starbucks is widening its embrace of circular practices and healthful interiors by expanding its Greener Stores internationally and open sourcing the framework's underlying tools for other retailers to replicate. The global coffee chain is preparing to pioneer an ambitious new sustainable approach to the design of its outlets.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. In 2001, Cole met Colleen Swan, a citizen of Kivalina, during an environmental workshop in Kotzebue, Alaska, following a presentation he gave. A Personal Relationship.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

It should act as a regular, proactive ‘health check’ to identify whether these elements are functioning as they should, whether they are at risk of failure, and whether enhancements could be made to improve the environmental protection measures in place and maintain regulatory compliance.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

The city of Richmond exists in the shadow of the nearby Chevron refinery, which has been connected to poor air quality and health issues in the nearby community. It promised a huge investment in scholarships and public health programs. Chevron had acquired Texaco in 2001, which was responsible for the oil extraction.)

Pollution 72

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Erica Mackie, P.E. – CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

Since its first leasing round in 2001, The Crown Estate - a collection of UK-based lands and holdings belonging to the Monarch and which manages the sea bed on behalf of the government - has invested £50m in the scheme and awarded offshore wind rights totalling 41GW.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? Initiative: Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

When the mill closed in 2001, Turner convinced the timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, to keep the biomass plant going. “It Jim Turner in the American Renewable Power plant in Loyalton, California. Photo by Nathanael Johnson. It wasn’t some magnanimous thing,” he said. “It It just had to be done. I wanted to live here.”.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, in 2001, Shell set out to become a player here, too, establishing a network of offset trading desks around the world. “My My day starts in the New Zealand market,” Bill McGrath, general manager of global environmental products at Shell, explained to me recently from his base in London. “Our

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On that basis, the argument goes, reducing emissions is easier in low-productivity systems, where the cow’s digestion is the almost exclusive source of warming gases, if farmers are able to adopt the feed blends and cattle health regimens that have improved efficiency for industrial dairy.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 9, 2021

Figure 6: In-state production of nuclear and hydropower from 2001-2018. study: “As warned by environmental justice advocates, cap and trade has increased pollution hotspots for communities of color in California , exacerbating pollution health and safety harms.”. [2] Data source: [link]. Green Biz). [1]

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 9, 2021

Figure 6: In-state production of nuclear and hydropower from 2001-2018. study: “As warned by environmental justice advocates, cap and trade has increased pollution hotspots for communities of color in California , exacerbating pollution health and safety harms.”. [2] Data source: [link].

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In 2001’s Whitman v. In the Whitman case , RBG and her colleagues ruled that implementation costs were irrelevant when stacked against the primary “requisite to protect the public health” with “an adequate margin of safety.” But a more technical and obscure case may be more instructive in our current moment. Losing a hero is hard.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

Sustainability 28

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I’ve been saying it since Lowimpact.org was launched in 2001, when it was a more unusual position to take than it is now. When Lowimpact started off in 2001, it was much more difficult to engage people. But the current system causes mental health problems already.

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Fairsnape

JULY 11, 2019

This includes aspects of agriculture, the natural environment, health, other infrastructure sectors and business. However, longer-term adaptation plans to mitigate the long- term risks of climate change are missing, despite CCRA2 highlighting the risks to health from heat as an urgent priority.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, in 2001, Shell set out to become a player here, too, establishing a network of offset trading desks around the world. “My My day starts in the New Zealand market,” Bill McGrath, general manager of global environmental products at Shell, explained to me recently from his base in London. “Our

Aviation 36

Aviation Sustainability Carbon-neutral Demand 36

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

In addition to continued efforts to reduce its carbon footprint (59 percent reduction since 2001, to date) UNH is one of a handful of campuses tackling its nitrogen footprint, in order to protect water and air quality as well as to mitigate climate change. It all adds up to an impressive six-spot leap since last year’s rankings.

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Low Impact

JULY 12, 2020

This sense of community, along with meaningful work and personal autonomy, is essential for well-being and mental health. He founded Lowimpact.org in 2001, spent 3 years on the board of the Ecological Land Co-op and was a founder of NonCorporate.org. If you don’t want to live in a society like this, goodbye and good luck.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2020

Related: Discarded face masks now threatening wildlife habitats Should climate change run unabated, future zoonotic disease outbreaks may become the norm, asserts Conservation International and Harvard University’s School of Public Health. As such, aviation emissions — which accounted for 2.4%

Global warming 36

Global warming Climate change Fossil fuels Health 36

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In 2001’s Whitman v. In the Whitman case , RBG and her colleagues ruled that implementation costs were irrelevant when stacked against the primary “requisite to protect the public health” with “an adequate margin of safety.” But a more technical and obscure case may be more instructive in our current moment. Losing a hero is hard.

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Global warming Law Climate change Fossil fuels 36