Green Market Oracle

MARCH 20, 2020

The world is preoccupied with coronavirus , however, our health is also being impacted by climate change in a number of ways. Melting ice and rising seas are expected to add to the number of pathogens that undermine human health. Here are five other ways that climate change undermines human health.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Industries, households and vehicles all emit dangerous pollutants that are harmful to human health. Indeed, the European Environment Agency (EEA) highlighted the issue when reporting that over 400,000 Europeans met their untimely demise in 2016 due to poor air quality. It’s a win-win.” Via Reuters Image via dan19878. Continued here:Â

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

And, if you want to consult those lists in their entirety, here are the links: 2016 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019. Sara Bogdan (formerly Lindenfeld) (2016). I organized virtual meetings with stakeholders across the organization to determine a plan to keep the items from the landfill and give them another life. Media Authorship.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 2, 2021

Indeed, this fact has been acknowledged in the 2016 Paris climate agreement.). Attention to scenario planning as recommended by the TCFD can facilitate greater focus on the adaptation and resilience challenges faced by organizations and, in turn, inclusion as ESG factors. failed nation-states.

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Grist

MAY 17, 2023

But that’s just the start of the kind of heat we’re headed toward, the World Meteorological Organization warned on Wednesday. The last year the world saw a powerful El Niño, 2016, was the hottest on record. Record-hot temperatures have scorched the Earth, with recent years numbering among the warmest since records began in 1880.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for companies to navigate. Targets for regulation.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. The organization’s Green Committee meets quarterly to organize sustainability and community outreach plans and communicate progress with the rest of the divisions.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Since 2016, we have collaborated with ASU on significant programs including the Planet Incubator Program within ASU’s Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science , the development of the Allen Coral Atlas , as well as being two of the founding partners in the creation of the Carbon Mapper mission.

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Organizers of the new Carbon Footprint Eating challenge are hoping that a Meatless Month for Mother Earth will offer so many personal health and global climate benefits that it becomes a new lifestyle for many. Additionally, $1 trillion in annual health-care costs and lost productivity would be saved.”.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The IEA study will show that disposing of solar panels in landfill is unlikely to have an adverse impact on human health, according to co-author Dr. Garvin Heath, a senior scientist in the U.S. And although the blades, like solar panels, are not expected to pose a health hazard, their size is seen as challenge when it comes to disposal.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

David Peters’s nightmare began on a Monday in the spring of 2016, just before the end of the work day. 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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

It showed that only 16% of England’s waters – and only 14% of rivers – currently meet the criteria for “good ecological status”, the same percentage as in 2016. However, shying away from necessary action on England’s water quality is certainly a false economy. The post Is England losing the battle for better water quality?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

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. I realized this was a data organization problem, our not knowing what was in our stuff and what we’re exposed to. "I

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. Taylor, a retired general contractor, was driven to form the community group in 2016 after learning that the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

With Danone’s mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible, we’re proud to help consumers understand when food is still safe to eat by supporting Too Good To Go’s ‘Look, Smell, Taste, Don’t Waste’ campaign. One variant of the scheme’s logo. It’s the small acts that can make a big positive difference.”.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

“The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In many ways, EtO is a poster child for the ways that industry and regulators have, for decades , failed to effectively protect people from chemical safety hazards and health threats like cancer. Muller ranks in the top 25 schools where students’ long-term health is most at risk from toxic air pollution in the U.S., Even after the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." We are focused on safety for human health. The company has banned more than 1,800 ingredients from its formulations due to health and safety concerns. None of them attend school.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

It has been one of the most important public health messages since the COVID-19 pandemic began but a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF shows that, as the crisis began, three in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

“We must give more consideration to the role of the forest in human health , animal health and environmental health. The researchers used data from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization, among others, to determine correlations among diseases, populations and forest cover.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 23, 2024

Avery’s leadership experience in multiple academic and scientific organizations, coupled with her breadth of scientific and research expertise, reinforce the corporation’s long-standing technical and scientific foundation,” the company said as it announced her appointment.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2016, the EBRD made a $20 million equity investment in the company’s parent, Aitas, to finance the construction of a new facility to raise and process poultry. Three years later, in 2016, Country Bird also became KFC’s sole franchisee in Zambia. It also means undermining the health of developing countries. as clients.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

“We must give more consideration to the role of the forest in human health , animal health and environmental health. The researchers used data from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization, among others, to determine correlations among diseases, populations and forest cover.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The food manufacturer announced yesterday it plans to cultivate organic "micro herbs" such as basil alongside a host of yet-to-be-revealed "experimental crops" at the bespoke vertical farm, which is to designed and built by Vertical Future.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

The result of living in polluted neighborhoods means a higher level of exposure to pollutants and emission according to a 2016 study in Environment International. Health Effects of Pollution Pollution and global warming have very real health effects from heat stroke to asthma to premature death caused by cancer-causing chemicals.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

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. The fourth annual DEMO Day was one of four connected events organized by Greentown and the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) on Oct. in Somerville, MA!

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

I really see this as a little microcosm of everything that’s going on,” said Elib Crist-Dwyer, of Rogue Climate, a grassroots organization in the Talent area working to help ensure that people in marginalized communities have the resources to deal with the effects of climate change and that they have access to clean energy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The SEJ is a 1,500-strong membership organization dedicated to “more and better coverage of environment-related issues.” Lisberg stressed that Veolia is a fundamentally different type of organization to the WSPA. The sponsors of the other beat dinners are predominantly non-profit organizations.

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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

.” “I wish every climate activist understood one thing,” says Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and executive director of the Environmental Voter Project (who was featured on our 2016 Grist 50 list ). Emily Church, one of the organization’s more than 6,000 volunteers, embraces the nerdiness. “Those are wins.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Simon Weppe, science lead at The Ocean Race said: “Climate change and plastic pollution have, in mere decades, caused a drastic decline in the health of the ocean. 2] Microplastic fibers – Underestimated threat to aquatic organisms? Microplastic filter (image credit: © Aaron Beck GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel).

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. vi I think this reason alone is enough to warrant the use of recycled paper more extensively.

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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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Grist

AUGUST 16, 2022

First Street was founded in 2016 to develop ways of analyzing climate risk and to help homeowners better understand the threats their properties face. The organization has similar tools to assess the risk of flooding and wildfire to properties, which have been incorporated by real estate companies such as Redfin and Realtor.com.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This represents a 38 percent increase since 2016. This spells opportunity for both purpose and profit for financial advisors, asset managers, mission-driven organizations, forward-thinking enterprises, entrepreneurs, and more! Reasons to attend SRI is one of the fastest growing investment movements with 25 percent of U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

In 2016, a measured 4.2 million premature deaths were caused by air pollution, a high percentage of those due to health consequences from air pollution in urban areas. NeighborWorks America is a nonprofit organization working to increase community resilience and housing affordability across the US.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

Readers might pick up your book and assume it is entirely focused on the impact of fungal disease on human health. It was kind of unknown until 2009 or 2010, and then the CDC issued its first warning about Candida auris in 2016. was a personal experience of having a fungus-like organism kill my tomatoes.

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