Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

BS EN 12619:2013 specifies the flame ionisation detector (FID) method, and is intended for use as a SRM for the measurement of the mass concentration of gaseous and vaporous organic substances in stationary source emissions up to 1,000 mg/m³. Why monitor the emissions of organic compounds?

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2020

Best Cleaners is a proud affiliate of America’s Best Cleaners , a third-party organization that searches out the top cleaners across the United States. Magazine in August 2011, 2012 and 2013. America’s Best Cleaners is an independent certification organization dedicated to the continued excellence of the dry cleaning profession.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Fracking results in a range of toxic chemicals and pollutants being discharged into the air and waterways, including heavy metals, radioactive material, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. The study adds to the enormous body of research that shows negative health impacts for people living close to oil and gas operations.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. . “I

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

The pandemic has sharpened this focus by highlighting the importance of metrics such as employee health and well-being, safety protocols, cybersecurity and business continuity, to name a few. Indeed, sustainable finance veteran Paul Watchman (an advisor to UNEP FI) argues "the concept of fiduciary duty is organic, not static.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Target's Sustainable Product Standard came on the scene in 2013. A color-coded letter grade rolls up information from the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification , Cradle to Cradle (on material health) and the EPA SaferChoice Safer Chemical Ingredients List. Nike has its own Chemistry Playbook.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Bruce was engaging, warm, thoughtful and way farther along the journey in sustainability and environmental, health and safety issues than most people I spoke with back then. Read his 2013 interview , when he "retired" from Applied Materials, in which he recounts his professional journey to that point.).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2013, the bank loaned Country Bird Holdings $25 million to expand existing operations in South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Adopting a futuristic mindset, the agency launched as a virtual operation in 2013, accessing a global talent pool of brand builders, healthcare marketers, tech-savvy go-getters, and innovative dream-vetters. XCH supports the health and well-being of their employees.

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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. Environmental inequities, such as persistent pollution in frontline communities, don’t just lead to poor health outcomes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

In fact, from 2013, Tepco had promoted the dilution-and-release plan on the basis that the only radionuclide of concern remaining in the wastewater was tritium. An issue that concerns environmentalists is the confusion around tritium, and the failure of data and modelling to explain the impact of organically bound tritium (OBT).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years.

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Elemental Excelerator

JULY 7, 2022

Terviva was one of Elemental’s first investments in 2013. Welcoming an entrepreneur, especially one from our first cohort, onto our board marks a natural evolution for our organization. This news follows an additional $32.5 M commitment from the U.S.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

It’s the United Nations’ climate-science-focused organization. The last big IPCC assessment was released in 2013. Four RCPs were the focus of the future-looking climate modeling studies incorporated into the 2013 report. The IPCC’s Fifth Climate Assessment, in 2013, focused on representative concentration pathways, or RCPs.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Yes, good CSR practices can create a socially sustainable organization. The following example shows how.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

Overall, in the US, African Americans are 52% more likely than whites to live in urban heat islands, which soak up more heat than other parts of a city, according to a 2013 study by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley. That threat puts people in those areas at greater risk during spikes in temperature, the study concluded.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2021

The temperatures were unbelievable,” said Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the University of Washington in Seattle. Heat wasn’t top of mind for public health experts until relatively recently. A cooling station in Portland during a record-setting heat wave on June 28, 2021. Kathryn Elsesser / AFP via Getty Images.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

We held our first DEMO Day in 2013, two years after Greentown’s founding. Check out DEMO Day and the Climatetech Summit throughout the years: 2013 Nov. The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Among the accomplishments of these organizations over the last 20 plus years was an early focus to bring new clean energy technologies to underserved communities. Lew’s relentless drive and determination and his dedication and sense of purpose have made CEG one of the premier clean energy organizations of our time.

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Green Tech Challenge

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Foto: Mark Lau Moringa - the superfood Roots Food sells dried, organic Moringa leaves as powder and flakes. The powder and flakes can be added to all kinds of foods and boosts your health through the high amounts of vitamins, minerals, protein, fiber and antioxidants. The mission is to plant more Moringa trees in challenging areas. “To

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We As the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. Once they find their way to the bloodstream, they stick to blood cells as they course through every organ in the body.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Formerly known as TZOA, HAVEN is a Canadian company founded in Vancouver in 2013. particulate matters, which are classified among the most dangerous particles to human health. It also determines the presence of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) and provides feedback to your phone for control. CEO Kevin R.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

This is why it’s more important than ever to have partners and organizations like Greentown Labs, whose mission is to solve the climate crisis through entrepreneurship and collaboration. We are proud to welcome this organization to our City and look forward to the continued partnership.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It first started as a program with Kansas City Community Gardens (KCCG) in 2013, and has since grown nationwide – supporting a network of Giving Grove orchard programs in 11 cities. In Kansas City, there are now over 230 community orchards with 4000 trees that produce more than 2.8 million servings of food each year.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 19, 2022

More importantly, policy leaders need to engage community leaders and tech innovators in the process of designing and implementing those policies to ensure they achieve the outcomes we are collectively striving for — broad access to climate technologies, more economic and job opportunities, better health outcomes, and more resilient communities.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 23, 2020

Organized by CALSTART, the ZET coalition is a group of America’s biggest truck equipment manufacturers, suppliers and key stakeholders, such as Cummins, Daimler, PACCAR, Eaton, Tesla, Rivian along with Environmental Defense Fund.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to a 2010 study on managing soils to mitigate climate change, soils used for agriculture contain 25 to 75 percent less soil organic carbon “than their counterparts in undisturbed or natural ecosystems.” . For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14 cropland and help the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 14, 2024

billion in public subsidies since 2013 and has been fined $2,500 in Clean Air Act penalties between 2020 and 2023. James Hiatt, a Lake Charles resident and founder of community-based organization For a Better Bayou, could see the bright light from his house. billion in public subsidies since 2013 and has been fined $4.9

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The next year, Tofurky got a little more proper about the whole thing and invited Northwest VEG to be the race organizer,” Leeds said. “So So it was Tofurky’s event with Northwest VEG organizing. Pasadena organized one in 2013, and this year, Los Angeles vegetarians will trot on November 23.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But a coalition of more than two dozen frontline community groups and environmental justice organizations in Ohio are trying to change that. Oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing are riddled with environmental and public health hazards. In a statement to DeSmog, Stephanie O’Grady, a spokesperson for ODNR, said that the U.S.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. With Michael Braungart, 2013. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. Purified water.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

” Building community by planting trees To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. He applied after hearing about a friend’s positive experience working with the organization. Heat is the biggest killer from [a] natural disaster perspective.”

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In 2013, American Forests called Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and New York; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento, California; Seattle and Washington, D.C., That’s one reason investing in urban forestry isn’t as simple; nor does it have the same sustainability impacts. the 10 best cities for urban forestry.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 18, 2018

Dr. Mark Post is the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Mosa Meat , the Dutch startup that produced the first ever lab-grown beef burger in 2013. And the third phase is organizing those cells into packages of 1.5 Photo: Mark Post presenting the first cultured burger in 2013. The costly challenge. Credit: David Parry/PA.

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