The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Green homes are designed to be sustainable through their energy usage, building materials, or both. Instead, it suggests that the home uses systems and products that perform better and require less energy, therefore lowering energy demand and air pollution. But how do you know whether a home is considered to be green?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

One of the major backers of broadcaster GB News is now employing a leading right-wing lobbying company that has ties to polluting interests. In the past, CT Group has lobbied for fossil fuel interests across the globe, working for the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, and the mining giant BHP.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The 15th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability addresses all aspects of the urban environment and aims to provide solutions leading towards sustainability.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The 14th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability addresses all aspects of the urban environment aiming to provide solutions leading towards sustainability. The meeting always attracts a substantial number of contributions from participants from different backgrounds and countries.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004. He is also a founding partner of Ignite Investments, an investment firm, scaling innovation globally to help build Africa and the Middle East’s sustainable future.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

According to air pollution expert and University of California Davis Professor Emeritus Thomas Cahill, the dust from the collapsed towers was "wildly toxic". Related Sustainable Design in the New World Trade Center Buildings Subscribe in a reader This is just the tip of the iceberg," Worby said.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

.” Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall “cap” lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

However, it struggled to gain enough support for a number of years, with New Zealand making a plea in 2004 for IMO members to support its application in an attempt to accelerate the process.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

AeroFarms was founded in 2004, and its products are sold in 200 grocery stores across the Northeast including Whole Foods. There's the pollution side. The sustainability of farming and food are huge social issues as much as they are environmental ones. It operates one vertical farm in New Jersey, with more on the way.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This is creating a soup of ESG interpretations , muddling what constitutes a sustainable investment vs what does not. You’ll learn what is being done to create a standardized approach to ESG, and how financial institutions can help create a more sustainable world. What Is ESG. Therefore, the demand for ESG investments is pressing.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. There is also an intermediate option, a wetland that sustains a crop: rice in flooded fields. The event would likely incur tens of billions of dollars’ worth of damage and could take a year and a half to repair.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

On top of this, another report by the Global Investment Sustainable Alliance stated that sustainable investments have risen by 15% from 2018 to 2020 (reaching $35 trillion). How ESG reporting differs from sustainability reporting. In this series we will explain: What ESG reporting is. Why ESG reporting is important.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

What does he care about the plastic pollution in the ocean? If I, a privileged member of society, am having such a difficult time managing finances and trying to be sustainable, how can we expect people from underprivileged backgrounds to be on this spectrum? I bought the rose but, as I was walking out, I was filled with despair.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

“It’s important that we recognize dairy is not just about emissions,” Donald Moore, GDP’s executive director and the public face of P2DNZ, said during a presentation at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development last July. The dairy industry, in other words, is learning to do more with less.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Meanwhile, the permafrost that Kivalina sits on and that forms the banks of the river that sustains their community is melting and eroding into the water, threatening their drinking water treatment system and creating potential health problems. In 2003, intruders broke into the office of CRPE, the small nonprofit Cole had founded.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2023

As stakeholder pressure mounts to drive more sustainable business operations, a growing number of organizations are turning to trustworthy and globally recognized guiding standards and certifications. The standards celebrate a shift in business for the adoption of a sustainable business model. ISO 14001:2004 or ISO 14001:2015?

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. Marwah co-founded Medical Students for a Sustainable Future, or MS4SF, in August 2019 with just four students.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The problem is that terrestrial ecosystems can quickly flip from sources of life-sustaining abundance into actively hostile environments when they are exploited unsustainably. Cristiana Pa?ca SDG 15 to the rescue?

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Moreover, any advances made by clean energy technologies has to be set against the continued dominance of polluting incumbents. per cent, marking its fastest growth since 2004; and renewables share of power generation increased from 9.3 Carbon emissions from energy use grew by 0.5 per cent seen in 2018," the report states.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years. A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 ppb, exceeding even today’s weakened TCEQ guidelines by 50%.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Angus is a long-serving legislator, having represented his Northern Ontario riding of Timmins-James Bay since 2004. Shockingly, Canada has the third highest global rate of new childhood asthma cases from traffic pollution, following Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

With APRIL bolstering its own sustainability commitments as it sets its sights on achieving a net zero emission, deforestation-free future, is this corporate tiger fully committed to changing its stripes, or is it embarked on a great greenwash folly? As a managing director at RGE, Tanoto Jr.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org. About the Author.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Noteworthy activism and environmental awareness during the early 2000s includes Google’s first Earth Day doodle in 2001, voter registration for Earth Day in 2004, the partnership of Earth Day with the Green Apple Music and Arts Festival and the creation of the online action center earthday.org. About the Author.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

Fertilizer is a major pollutant. The EPA had documented 2,291 fires, explosions and chemical releases at high-hazard sites from 2004 to 2013, but what happened in West — a town of 2,800 people, many of Czech descent, 15 miles north of Waco — was a tipping point. Article continues below. More in this series.

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