Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Since 2004, renewables' share of UK power has risen tenfold. Hydro generation also increased by nine per cent, while bioenergy and waste-to-energy generation together rose 9.2 Taken together, renewables and nuclear accounted for 54.4 Other clean power technologies also saw slight increases in capacity and generation last year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On a quest to tame these inaccuracies, in late 2011, he proposed a simple technical fix that he claims will “result in more accurate billing, extended meter lives, reduced landfill waste, and a more efficient utilization of [utility] personnel.”. million from 2002-2004. Dye had other suggestions for how the company should operate.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In 2004, over 90% of homes used kerosene for cooking. Now over 90% of homes are using LPG – almost the entire population of Indonesia since 2004. A lot of what we do enables people, for instance, to not spend hours a day collecting wood and wasting their time doing stuff that could be done in a cleaner and more efficient way.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The Sustainable City 2019 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017), Valencia (2019) and Rome (2020).Urban

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Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The Sustainable City 2020 conference follows a series of very successful meetings that started in Rio (2000), followed by Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006), Skiathos (2008), A Coruña (2010), Ancona (2012), Kuala Lumpur (2013), Siena (2014), Medellin (2015), Alicante (2016), Seville (2017) and Valencia (2019).The

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2004, Kofi Annan, then the UN Secretary, asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporate. Waste: With a 2% reduction in waste since 2015. Earlier this year, a CNBC story announced that…. Compliance governance: 49.1

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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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. Because it already is making great gains around things like water use, pesticide use, food loss and food waste. There's the food waste side," he said. So it's doing wonderful things there.".

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Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 60

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Their efforts to optimize packaging and shipping has reduced the amount of waste that customers need to recycle downstream. In 2004, Jeff co-founded the Center for Cities & Schools (CC+S) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 10, 2020

This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. The bidders expressed their concern, saying it would put too much pressure on the land, and further that the waste generated by that number of people would harm the ecology of this already vulnerable ecosystem.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since graphene was discovered in 2004, demand for the material has skyrocketed thanks to its remarkable physical qualities. The idea of turning waste into graphene isn’t new , but this is the first time researchers have made the transformation a reality. And that transformation may no longer be a fantasy.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. While it’s true that untreated raw milk is unsafe to drink, as a 2004 Kenyan government report found, Kenyan buyers overwhelmingly knew to boil their milk first, so the risk of disease spread was very low.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Examples of ESG-related risks include: Environmental : Climate change, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), deforestation, biodiversity, waster, waste, and pollution. Evolving from SRI, in 2004, UN Secretary Kofi Annan asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporation.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Established in 2004, GBI has since become a leader in advancing green building practices and developing a range of resources for those interested in sustainable building. Organic textiles must meet GOTS criteria throughout the entire chain of production – from harvesting of raw materials to post-consumer waste disposal.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 148

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 2004, the UN and International Corporate Finance worked together to develop a system that would integrate environmental, social, and governance concerns into capital markets. E looks to reduce a company’s energy use , waste , and pollution while helping to protect natural resources through conservation.

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Organic Sustainability Government Investment 148

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

In a video recording of the event , Cole asserted that where fossil fuel energy is extracted, refined, transported, used to generate power, and disposed of in toxic waste dumps, it “is highly correlated to low income communities and communities of color.”. Almost all aspects of our energy economy thus have environmental justice implications.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2023

IS0 14001 standards have opened difficult discussions around climate change , resource use, business waste , and water management. ISO 14001:2004 or ISO 14001:2015? ISO 14001 standards act as a tool to support the advancement and continual improvement of an entity’s environmental performance.

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Organic Sustainability Climate change Demand 78

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

While California already has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent since their peak in 2004, many residents still suffer from high levels of air pollution — much of it produced by fossil fuels. It also dramatically has increased the volume of gas flared off as waste — another source of harmful compounds.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

That's why we support our growers all year-round to implement Biodiversity Action Plans on their farms and have done since 2004. "Blackcurrants rely on life on land to thrive," she continues. Made from seaweed, the new material promises to not only reduce plastic pollution but also sequester CO2.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Its main facility, opened in 2004, now occupies about 8 acres along the San Jacinto River in Channelview. Joe Lopez died in 2004 of kidney failure triggered by diabetes at the age of 65. Perry “would kind of stay in our business a lot, I’ll put it that way,” said Shankle, who left the agency for a job at a radioactive-waste company. “He

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

All in all, the site is effectively a self-sufficient company town that houses up to 7,000 staff as well as schools, medical centres, leisure facilities, and even a hotel for corporate visitors, with around 85 per cent of its energy needs met by an onsite biomass plant that uses waste wood materials as feedstock, alongside small quantities of coal.

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Low Impact

MAY 31, 2020

Subsequently, in 2004, we made a presentation to the central bank in Iran, and we got the contract to do a feasibility study. And massive reductions in waste. We then wrote this letter to governor Nourbakhsh, recommending a Middle East benchmark – and the currency was never a consideration. I can tell you that, because it was my idea.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2023

One of the best examples of this early support is a 2004 presentation by the Association of American Railroads in which it was arguing for regulators to allow the transport of nuclear waste by rail. 1 In a later presentation by the Transportation Technology Center Inc.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 24, 2021

Have a couple hours to waste? Me neither, but back in 2004, I did. That’s when I watched Raptor Island, a direct-to-DVD film that tried to bring back the magic of Jurassic Park, but on a budget. Fortunately, you too can experience the budget version of dinosaur magic, and only spend a couple minutes doing […].

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