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.

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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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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. The pollutants were lead, cadmium and selenium, respectively. National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s resources and sustainability group.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

Power plants, toxic waste dumps, and other air and water polluting industries are more often located in poor neighborhoods where there is a higher concentration of people of color. Sadly, the location of these types of polluting industries has not changed over the years. Of those who did leave, many could not afford to return.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

Beyond development-related environmental impact, cities require proper solid waste management to not only preserve resources but ensure the land does not continue to be depleted and polluted to a point where it is uninhabitable. . In 2016, a measured 4.2 Solid waste management and air pollution.

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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. Looking back with regret.

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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The data gathered in the Race showed the Baltic Sea to have the highest levels of microplastics in Europe, with 230 particles found per cubic metre, on average, double the amount found in the Mediterranean (112 particles per cubic metre), which is considered a hotspot for plastic pollution. The Science of the Total Environment , Rebelein, A.,

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The complexity of tracking and tracing all these ingredients can obscure detrimental environmental and social impacts, from pollution to bribery to slavery. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." None of them attend school.

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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.” However, the company works with many polluting industries, including the oil and gas industry, dealing with the waste produced by this sector and “optimizing asset performance.”

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

In the report – which surveyed village officials, tourism workers, fishmeal factory employees, and local fish workers, among others – researchers documented that since the arrival of the factories in 2016, fish had jumped in price, fish-smokers and dryers had lost work, and widespread pollution was damaging local ecology and tourism.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

If you see a sponsorship deal, you assume the [organization] you identify with has positive feelings about it and is benefiting from the company sponsoring it.”. I am an AGU member and I feel disgusted that my professional organization still maintains these ties,” says climate scientist Peter Kalmus. Capitalizing on Arts and Culture.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator. Site size and production capacity for LNG export terminals.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. Each area within the organization will have opportunities to make changes towards a greener environment. Risk Reduction.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available. A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ferguson first set a carbon reduction goal in 2016 and is working toward a greener tomorrow. CDP is the global environmental non-profit organization whose annual report is widely recognized as the gold standard for corporate environmental transparency. billion in fuel costs and 134 million tons of air pollutants. million homes.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

It is an existential threat for us and violates our fundamental rights as Indigenous peoples,” said Nemo Andy Guiquita , a Waorani Indigenous leader and Women and Health Coordinator for the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, or Confeniae. “We Between 2016 and 2020, Citigroup provided an estimated $43.8

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. Article continues below. More in this series.

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AGreenLiving

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.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

The Blue Economy is sustainable use of ocean resources for: economic growth, improved livelihoods, job creation, and ocean ecosystem health. Without clean water, health is compromised, and lives are endangered. increase from 2016. The sustainability of this growth is however compromised by overfishing and rising ocean pollution.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

words Brett Stadelmann Pollution caused by the manufacture, dispersal, and disposal of plastics is an issue which, directly or indirectly, affects every individual in the current age, and one which, even if every effort is made to correct it, will have an even greater effect on the next generation. In 2014-15, in Australia, around 2.5

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Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

Working from home is great for the environment by reducing air pollution, consuming fewer resources, generating less waste, and saving on electricity compared to working at an office. For optimal light, place your desk near a window and enjoy the health benefits of natural lighting. Here are some creative ways to repurpose old items.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv]

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries. Meat Industry Playbook.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. If successful, their lawsuit could spur Italy to make major cuts in climate pollution by 2030. Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In a 2016 study, Seattle determined 28 percent of the city is covered in trees, close to its 2037 goal of 30 percent. As Microsoft builds data centers in Iowa, it is also investing in urban forestry projects to bring an environmental and health benefit to the neighborhood as well. the 10 best cities for urban forestry.

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Grist

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2016, Townsend-Small found that 40 percent of unplugged wells she tested in Colorado, Wyoming, Ohio, and Utah were emitting methane. Their findings are inconclusive, but they hypothesized that a slew of toxic chemicals that are often released in tandem with methane may be driving the health effects.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. Each area within the organization will have opportunities to make changes towards a greener environment. Risk Reduction.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

An online sustainability framework and online tools ensure organizations not only make environmental performance and sustainability a priority, but also benefit from their green choices and actions. Each area within the organization will have opportunities to make changes towards a greener environment. Risk Reduction.

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AGreenLiving

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) Manager Sustainability and ESG, JetBlue; New York My job is typically one where I am frequently traveling and in the operation.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

The Prince of Wales: The Global Earth Day Gratitude Celebration and Ebook Deepak Chopra, The Earth Day Network, Life is Good, Ron Finley, Rainbow Light Join in the Global Earth Day Gratitude Celebration April 22, 2016. The Prince of Wales believes passionately in the advantages of organic farming. Ebook features H.R.H.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

With the support of Clean Energy Group , a national nonprofit advocacy organization working to advance an equitable energy transition, the coalition commissioned an assessment comparing the proposed gas plant to battery resources. Distributed solar+storage systems would avoid installing dozens of polluting natural gas generators.

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