Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Simon Weppe, science lead at The Ocean Race said: “Climate change and plastic pollution have, in mere decades, caused a drastic decline in the health of the ocean. 2] Microplastic fibers – Underestimated threat to aquatic organisms? 4] The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007, published in Science. [5]

Microplastics 130

Microplastics Plastics Europe Climate change 130

GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

I first met Bruce in 2007. Bruce was engaging, warm, thoughtful and way farther along the journey in sustainability and environmental, health and safety issues than most people I spoke with back then. In the course of a business career, you meet colleagues who are smart, or kind, or just really good at what they do.

Sustainability 475

Sustainability Fashion Health Construction 475

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

million premature deaths were caused by air pollution, a high percentage of those due to health consequences from air pollution in urban areas. NeighborWorks America is a nonprofit organization working to increase community resilience and housing affordability across the US. In 2016, a measured 4.2 Global Development. Credissimo.

Sustainability 103

Sustainability Resilience Pollution Transportation 103

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

million campaign Edelman carried out on behalf of the United Arab Emirates from 2007 to 2009. Rewind time to 2007 to learn how it went down. On the surface, these seemed organic — they came from vastly different parts of the country and appeared in a range of media outlets. Department of Justice that shed light on a $6.4

Fossil fuels 58

Fossil fuels Carbon Agriculture Climate change 58

Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Stanley, a founder of the environmental organization Upland Grassroots, recalls telling Silliboy, vice chief of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Nation, “This will be worth it someday.”. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity.

Soil 141

Soil Pollution Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 141

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At the grocery store, you’re bombarded with labels: organic and its new extension, regenerative organic; various competing fair trade standards; certifications relating to animal health and so on. In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide.

Carbon 471

Carbon Cooling Agriculture Climate change 471

Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

Climate change 44

Climate change Health Pollution Carbon-negative 44

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. No longer is it necessary for nuns organized through the Sisters of St.

Investment 493

Investment Climate change Ethics Government 493

AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

“The purpose of Airlite was to create something that makes a difference to human health and well-being in the built environment,” said Chris Leighton, VP of sales and marketing at AM Technology, the company responsible for Airlite paint. VW is using Airlite paint for its ad campaigns. This natural reaction breaks down pollutants.

Pollution 28

Pollution Technology Organic Europe 28

Grist

JANUARY 20, 2022

The climate crisis is damaging the health of fetuses, babies, and infants across the world, six new studies have found. Higher temperatures were also linked to premature birth, which can have lifelong health effects, and to increased hospital admissions of young children. This is a problem that affects everybody, everywhere.

Health 120

Health Climate change Pollution Fossil fuels 120

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. It will be interesting to track how those habits shift as we enter the post-pandemic era, but for now consumers aren’t willing to trade their own health for that of the planet. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons.

Earth Day 285

Earth Day Climate change Politics Policy 285

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

After graduating, she hatched the idea to combine her experience in social work with her knowledge of engineering through GRID Alternatives, “an organization that could have real impact in low-income communities.”. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Startups 40

Startups Organic Solar Power Africa 40

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

MARCH 13, 2024

While their long-term impacts on human health are still largely unknown , another study published earlier this month linked microplastics in arteries with increased risk of heart attacks and stroke. But another set of innovators are imagining something bigger: what our clothes could be made of instead.

Plastics 79

Plastics Waste Waste Microplastics 79

AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

I first met Bruce in 2007. Bruce was engaging, warm, thoughtful and way farther along the journey in sustainability and environmental, health and safety issues than most people I spoke with back then. In the course of a business career, you meet colleagues who are smart, or kind, or just really good at what they do.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Fashion Health Construction 28

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Reporting by DeSmog revealed that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman , the largest public relations firm in the world, ran a campaign to bolster the UAE and Al Jaber’s green images. Some companies and organizations are even dropping ad and PR firms for taking on new fossil fuel industry accounts.

Fossil fuels 93

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Agriculture Pollution 93

Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. . That was in 2007, and we worked on that project for all eight years of Governor Patrick’s terms.

Resilience 84

Resilience Law Government Organic 84

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The event was hosted by Honor The Earth, an Indigenous-led environmental justice organization based in northern Minnesota, with support from Seventh Generation, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), and the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition. org , among others.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Health Construction Organic 98

Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. That was in 2007, and we worked on that project for all eight years of Governor Patrick’s terms.

Resilience 52

Resilience Law Government Organic 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

But who is in this group and what do the various organizations backing it really want? Over the past two years, P2DNZ has positioned itself as the vanguard of a global response to its sector’s rising emissions at summits and high-level meetings around the world.

Methane 130

Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 130

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At the grocery store, you’re bombarded with labels: organic and its new extension, regenerative organic; various competing fair trade standards; certifications relating to animal health and so on. In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide.

Carbon 28

Carbon Climate change Cooling Agriculture 28

Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there. Several organisations are trying.

Sustainability 81

Sustainability Transportation Carbon-negative Policy 81

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Yosie Mon, 09/21/2020 – 00:30 Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. equity markets.

Investment 28

Investment Climate change Ethics Government 28

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. ppb, a 40% increase.

Energy Monitor 97

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 97

AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. It will be interesting to track how those habits shift as we enter the post-pandemic era, but for now consumers aren’t willing to trade their own health for that of the planet. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons.

Earth Day 36

Earth Day Climate change Politics Policy 36

Grist

JULY 19, 2020

For example, a drought from 2007 until 2010 is considered one of the main factors leading to the civil war in Syria. It takes inorganic carbon dioxide and turns it into organic carbon. It’s not just about food. Food shortages are an important driver of social problems. It’s an ancient enzyme, more than 3.5

Agriculture 62

Agriculture Climate change Soil North America 62

Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mr Green has been a rising pressure within the playing sector since 2007. Health and security is part of our DNA, and we’re absolutely compliant with all practices and laws. The cleanliness and hygiene of your workplace has a direct influence on your workers’s health, morale and productiveness. Parents and wh?nau

Logging 40

Logging Health Retail Education 40

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, runs the all-volunteer Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. “I In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio.

Agriculture 115

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 115

Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today, the government spends about $6 billion every year on the problem, but all that money has not made a detectable difference in the dead zone, the regular algae blooms in Lake Erie, and the health risks posed by fertilizer. This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. Nathanael Johnson / Grist.

Soil 140

Soil Pollution Government Agriculture 140

Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Globalisation was effective during the transition that appeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, but since the global financial crisis began in 2007 the world economy has been hanging on the cliff, struggling to get up. Financial crisis, indeed, the outcome of Washington Consensus and finally inequality, too.

Investment 40

Investment Government Policy Sustainability 40

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

But none of that has stopped President Trump and some of his allies doubling down on their short-termist, science-rejecting, overtly populist tactics, presumably in the hope they can scapegoat their way out of the escalating economic, health, and social crisis. Meanwhile, a fightback is gathering momentum.

Building Energy Monitoring 79

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability 79

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Instead, he and others stressed, the message should be one of action and possibility.

Home Energy Monitoring 122

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 122

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

The price is designed to reflect all the harm done by greenhouse gas emissions, such as the impact of heat waves on public health. About the Authors: Richard Schmalensee served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. There are a few ways to set a price on carbon. Disclosure Statement.

Carbon 87

Carbon Organic Climate change Health 87

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

One example comes from Happy Family Organics , which learned from two training pilots it sponsored, in 2018 and 2019, that farmers really need financial assistance and ongoing access to mentoring to make the transition to regenerative practices work. Dobson’s parents ran one of the area’s first organic farms back in the 1980s.

Carbon 537

Carbon Soil Agriculture Organic 537

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

An ambitious measure to convert Virginia’s fleet of 17,000 diesel-powered school buses to quieter and cleaner electric models over a decade was praised by health and environmental advocates when it passed the General Assembly at the end of February. Environmental Protection Agency didn’t institute standards until model year 2007.

Electricity 58

Electricity Transportation Law Pollution 58

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Climate and environmental justice organizations , some climate and energy experts, and some lawmakers, are speaking out against the false promise of CCS. Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, said the considerable public funding flowing into CCS is especially egregious.

Carbon 98

Carbon Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98