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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

Ginkgo Sustainability is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. It is also through this reconnection with nature that mental and physical health is improved.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. In 2009, high levels of fecal coliform, bacteria like E.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. How we create livelihoods, how we meet our needs, and ultimately how we manage our economy is critical to reducing pollution and achieving our vision of climate justice. A Regenerative Economy.

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Does planting trees actually help the climate? Here’s what we know.

Grist

In cities, trees provide much-needed shade on hot summer days, remove pollution from the air, and help manage stormwater, reducing runoff and improving its quality. In 2009, one study calculated that the program had only offset about 10 percent of the coal plant’s emissions.