Grist

MAY 30, 2024

When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. Rupa Basu poses for a photo while pregnant with her second child in June 2007. Colleagues, particularly those who had not ever been pregnant, implied she was wasting her time.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A carbon footprint is defined as a measure of the total GHG emissions caused directly or indirectly by a person, organization, product, or service. E.g. Organizations may account for the carbon footprint of a given product or service, which would contribute to but be different from the carbon footprint of the business as a whole. .

Carbon 78

Carbon Global warming Carbon-neutral Organic 78

Unsustainable

JUNE 17, 2020

Normally, the stems and leaves become unproductive waste with over 1 billion kilograms thrown out year. Both countries have embraced utilizing the entire plant, especially at organic and sustainable farms. This makes it easier to separate them from the waste areas of the plant. There are several ecological advantages it Piñatex.

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Low Impact

MARCH 3, 2021

The solid waste is dealt with on site, and doesn’t have to be treated with chemicals in sewage farms, or end up in waterways, where it causes pollution and algal blooms. Organic matter is ultimately allowed to go back to the soil where it belongs, improving soil structure and nutrition. Not a bad list for starters. Back to basics.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 16, 2022

Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from the energy purchased by an organization. Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHGs released from business operations, but not directly by that organization. This partnership was made from the business decision to fit solar panels throughout stores in 2007.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

“You lose crops that are seeded, and the crops that are already growing and just getting to maturity rot, and you lose that as well,” Kristin Bulpitt, founder of Copeland Springs Farm in Pittsboro explained in a video my organization just produced. And fact is, we don’t have any time left to waste. You can’t recover very quickly.”

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 26, 2024

In hir activism, Mel advanced the notion of autistic pride and self-advocacy, in direct opposition to organizations like Autism Speaks, whose original stated aims were to “heal” or “fix” autistic people. If you were on YouTube in its early days, you might remember “ In My Language ”—Mel’s video that went viral on the platform in 2007.

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Grist

MARCH 13, 2024

Synthetic fibers are typically cheaper to produce than organic materials, and they also offer performance benefits, like stretchiness and weatherproofing. Shrimp shells: TômTex’s bio fabrics are made out of the waste from mushrooms and shrimp shells. The company also sees reducing food waste as part of its mission.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

All the way back in 2007 I wrote The Future is Solar. It’s the reason so many environmental organizations and advocates have come to the conclusion that if we don’t have a faster ramp up of nuclear power, the world is going to keep burning coal. It is true that solar is ramping up rapidly. In fact, I have written about it many times.

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Nuclear Power Solar Power Asia Demand 60

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.”. In 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency deemed it ready for reuse, albeit with limits due to contamination that persists at the site.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Related: Cities around the world lay the groundwork for a zero-waste future According to the World Resources Institute (WRI) , “peaking” really began even before the Paris Agreement was established. For instance, by 1990, 19 countries were documented to have peaked their greenhouse gas emission levels.

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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.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This figure increased by ~2% in recent years, which can be attributed to the one million tree planting program launched in 2007. The CW BCM program offers a 20% discount towards green business certification, providing the financial support for sustainable development in business, and helping organizations get certified for their efforts.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

To which our organization, Clean Energy Canada, so often replies: actually, the clean-energy sector is bigger and broader than that. It includes the people who make our homes waste less energy: insulators and HVAC operators. It also includes the people who manufacture electric cars and buses. million cars off the road.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. For example, despite nearly every survey showing that a sizable majority of consumers want to reduce their own plastic waste, the pandemic has necessarily increased the use of single-serve and disposable products and packaging.

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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

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You mean you can manufacture much more cleanly and with less waste? One of the advantages of additive manufacturing besides less waste, is less space in that your facilities can be quite small compared to traditional manufacturing environments. And the parts you make can be optimized for weight savings and performance? About Sintavia.

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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. Building Robotics helps commercial buildings (which waste 30% of their energy) respond dynamically to people (61% of whom are not satisfied with workplace temperature).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

But who is in this group and what do the various organizations backing it really want? In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil.

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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. Industry practices and measurements aren't the only obstacles.

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Sustainability Transportation Carbon-negative Policy 80

DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2023

This “trunk line” pipeline would gather all the New England’s CO2 waste and pick up more from cement plants and other facilities along the way via smaller spur lines. The east-west run picks up the waste CO2 from the 800-mile pipeline and other spurs and is listed as a Double 48 in the Princeton Report.

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Pollution Carbon Waste Waste 82

AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. For example, despite nearly every survey showing that a sizable majority of consumers want to reduce their own plastic waste, the pandemic has necessarily increased the use of single-serve and disposable products and packaging.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

For decades, oil and gas companies disposed of millions of barrels of waste down that hole, ringed with cement and steel, dubbing the wastewater well Freshwater City SWD 01, according to state records. Experts told DeSmog the well was defective and that using it put underground supplies of drinking water in the area at risk.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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. 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.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

We present recycling and waste service options for giant scale through to boutique purchasers in business, industrial, building and residential markets. Mr Green has been a rising pressure within the playing sector since 2007. Only the best products and supplies are used and our service and workmanship is second to none.

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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.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

But before bulldozers started digging into corn and soybean fields to widen the ditch, dozens of people and organizations had to get on board with the plan. This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. Shut off this firehose of waste, and we’d be improving habitats, health, and the makeup of the atmosphere.

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Soil Pollution Government Agriculture 144

Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

Wildflowers bloom among trees that burned in the 2007 Poomacha Fire. To put it indelicately, there are thousands of tons of human waste pouring into both the Pacific Ocean and the estuary almost every day. which is facilitated by the Surfrider Foundation, an ocean and beach preservation organization.

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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.

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Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

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. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Pollution 40

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Indigenous peoples have long led the fight to protect Mother Earth and the only way forward is to center Indigenous knowledge and keep fossil fuels in the ground,” Dallas Goldtooth, a Keep It In The Ground organizer for Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), said in a statement. “We don’t have another place to go.

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