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How do you take clean AC mainstream? This global health organization has some ideas.

Grist

Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us / Getty Images This problem caught the attention of the Clinton Health Access Initiative , or CHAI — a nonprofit organization founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2002. This global health organization has some ideas. There are a number of ways to achieve this. on Nov 8, 2023.

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The ocean is turning green. Yes, it’s climate change.

Grist

In a study, published Wednesday in Nature, decades worth of research showed 56 percent of the world’s oceans experienced color change between 2002 to 2022.

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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

The report builds on decades of previous research from the National Academies — a federally chartered research organization — that highlights the growing risk of oil pollution in the world’s oceans. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills on Sep 29, 2022.

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Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation launches $80 million fund for early-stage social entrepreneurs

Impact Alpha

The venture philanthropy organization has invested $110 million in 175 social enterprises since 2002. “We ImpactAlpha, October 29 – California-based Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation has launched an $80 million fund to make flexible equity and debt investments and unrestricted grants to 105 social enterprises.

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Using IR to measure TOC

Envirotec Magazine

Instrumenation firm Edinburgh Sensors offers some thoughts on the measurement of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) as a means of assessing water quality, and in particular the relevance of IR-based measurements. There are a variety of approaches for testing water for organic carbon. ml/l or less.3. References and Further Reading. References.

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Replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings accelerates restoration, says study

Envirotec Magazine

This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms. The first trees were planted in 2002, with nearly 100,000 planted in total over the following years.

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California grant money going to diesel and natural gas vehicles, not EVs

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You can say we have tougher environmental laws, but we aren’t even hitting federal policy,” said Mark Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, a community organizer group. The program paid out $210 million over the past four years to help organizations to upgrade their diesel trucks. Source: The Guardian.