Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical. Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. Supplier codes of conduct are of special importance if your company sources products and services from countries with lax enforcement laws and policies, and poorer labor and human rights laws. Are, and how, are human rights and environmental laws enforced in your country?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

They are aimed at the cheapest solution, the least-cost, shortest distance between two points the pollution source and the dump. For more on those problems, see CarbonCaptureFacts and the Center for International Environmental Law for starters. The CO2 pipeline buildout is shaping up to be the biggest environmental justice insult ever.

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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. and Canadian cities.

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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. In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 It’s 22 times higher than the 8 ppb guideline California uses today. ppb, a 40% increase.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Fertilizer is a major pollutant. rules intended to protect people from water pollution have prompted sharp reductions in the nutrients discharged by sewage treatment plants since the 1970s, but loopholes in the Clean Water Act shield agricultural operations from similar federal enforcement. Article continues below. More in this series.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of time making tiny measurements. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. In 1997, the federal government formed a hypoxia task force in an effort to stem the flow of fertilizer pollution.

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Enervee

JANUARY 2, 2020

Choose energy efficient LED lightbulbs – and slash energy waste With sparkling holiday lights still spreading warmth and cheer in our homes and communities, it’s perhaps an appropriate time to raise the issue of lighting energy waste. Halogen lights also run extremely hot and produce 80% waste heat. Light bulbs are small.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

Which countries and sectors are the largest polluters? China currently emits more CO 2 than any other country, but by most estimates the United States has been the largest contributor when measured historically between 1850 and 2007. are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting technology.”

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has spent $4 billion to fix this with a system of deep tunnels, stopping more than 145 billion gallons of pollution from spilling into Lake Michigan since the early 1990s. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans. Some go even further.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

and Canadian emissions, which, if opponents have their way, would bring the total carbon pollution avoided due to Indigenous resistance to 1.6 That’s roughly equal to the pollution from 400 new coal-fired power plants or 345 million passenger vehicles. These projects represent another 12 percent of total U.S.

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