Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. “If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. It allocates actions to stakeholders including the EA, local authorities and organic processors. And not all rivers carry the same load of microplastics.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future Heather Clancy Tue, 09/01/2020 – 00:02 Business strategy organization Boston Consulting Group will use remote workplace lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce per-employee travel by at least 30 percent by 2025, one key element of the $8.5

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. This was certainly true in 2011, when a bitter cold snap impacted four million people and caused losses of 1.5 As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But it seems that the thawing of underlying permafrost, the frozen mixture of soil and organic matter that blankets the far north, is counteracting the expansion effect. A team of scientists gather samples from Arctic sea ice and melt ponds in 2011. The lake is no more, but the samples teem with life.

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Climate change Global warming Carbon Soil 76

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 136

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. He cited a dredging project that he oversaw when he was president of Plaquemines Parish that helped protect the coast from oil that was washing up from the BP oil disaster in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog. “If In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

These include CO2 sequestration or removal, protection from soil erosion and flood risk, habitats for wildlife, pollination and spaces for recreation and wellbeing. The combination of soils, species, communities, habitats and landscapes which provide these ecosystems services are often called 'assets'.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant. Eventually the protest caught the attention of some larger organizations: the Australian Green Party, the Tasmania-based nonprofit Wilderness Society, and the Sea Shepherd, a marine conservation group. Ingetje Tadros / Getty images.

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Fossil fuels Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 121

Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. Over the next few decades, as more people got sick with Coccidioidomycosis and died, doctors figured out that the organism causing this disease often entered victims through the lungs.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Milan Taylor was 21 when he founded the Rockaway Youth Task Force in 2011, to sponsor community clean-ups and encourage voter registration in this outlying neighborhood on a barrier island in Queens. As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Pollution 458

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Since 2011, the state has spent more than $3 billion on it, largely to upgrade sewage and drinking water plants. The state sets no phosphorus cap for most farms.

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Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The European Union this year promised 3 billion more trees as part of a Green Deal; and existing worldwide pledges under the 2011 Bonn Challenge and the 2015 Paris Climate Accord set targets to restore more than 850 million acres of forests, mostly through planting. million acres. Nature knows what to grow, and does it best.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” Geological Survey report noted. To put it simply,” the report states. By the end of 2018, the university’s investment had dropped to $357,000, Yale Daily News reported.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Young leaders of color building resilient communities Milan Taylor was 21 when he founded the Rockaway Youth Task Force in 2011, to sponsor community clean-ups and encourage voter registration in this outlying neighborhood on a barrier island in Queens. ” The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.: “It also extends to climate justice.”

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

In 2011, Lynch visited the Geneva Motor Show to look at the model of a car of the future, which the company hoped to introduce in London. That's why we chose to use sustainable packaging, including a refillable glass jar, refill pouches and our tamper proof that can be decomposed in the soil.". It was to become the Tesla Model S.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

million per year from 2011 to 2015. In both Fort Bragg and Monterey, efforts to organize culls were ultimately successful — to a degree. Another entrepreneur has touted a natural soil additive with ground urchin as the chief ingredient. And yet another has been experimenting with turning them into rich natural fabric dye.

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Waste Waste Carbon Organic 115

Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

million per year from 2011 to 2015. In both Fort Bragg and Monterey, efforts to organize culls were ultimately successful — to a degree. Another entrepreneur has touted a natural soil additive with ground urchin as the chief ingredient. And yet another has been experimenting with turning them into rich natural fabric dye.

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Waste Waste Carbon Organic 98