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Pediatricians say climate conversations should be part of any doctor’s visit

Grist

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. She is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ newly updated policy statement on climate change, which appeared earlier this year. There was a heat wave. Ahdoot made good on that vow.

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Greentown Labs, Saint-Gobain, and MassCEC Announce the Healthy Buildings Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

The latest iteration of the Greentown Launch corporate partnerships accelerator, the Healthy Buildings Challenge is focused on solutions that optimize for the health of people and the climate and aims to foster collaboration between Saint-Gobain and the participating startups, with support from MassCEC. Somerville, Mass.,

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011. The Solutions Project.

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Tracking Progress on 100% Clean Energy Targets

GreenTechMedia

They also have implications for communities, in terms of health benefits, cost savings and employment opportunities. The State of California and 44 cities have set even more challenging targets to also transition their entire transportation, heating and cooling sectors to 100 percent clean energy sources.

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Thoughtful Human makes zero-waste cards for every occasion

AGreenLiving

O’Grady: I lost my dad in 2011 after a 10-year battle with colon cancer. O’Grady: I have been really passionate about sustainability since high school where I first started advocating around climate change and waste, so I knew starting my own business that it had to be low-to-no waste. O’Grady: Thank you!

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The ghost of carbon past: Velux Group's Ingrid Reumert on tackling historic corporate emissions

Business Green

The Paris Agreement is founded on the conceit that wealthy, industrialised nations must lead on climate action because they have historically released more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than poorer nations. Reparations do not come cheap for Velux nor Europe.

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How to lay the foundation for net zero carbon building projects

Business Green

As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. With clients including Google, Volvo and Ingram Micro, his company develops carbon-netural, net-zero-energy industrial buildings with an emphasis on health and wellness.

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