Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The experience of space and place refers to spatial features and characteristics of the natural environment that have advanced human health and wellbeing. Studies have proven that biophilic design can improve mental and physical health, environmental conditions and may be economical. Biophilic Design and Biophilic Urbanism.

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Sustainability Stormwater Health Ethics 146

Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

How a Multi-Stakeholder Project, MOCUPP, is Advancing Costa Rica Towards Sustainable Practices to Protect the Country’s Biodiversity. Costa Rica is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, containing nearly 6 percent of the world’s biodiversity. Biodiversity also plays an essential role in the well-being of the planet.

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Agriculture Energy Monitor Biodiversity Building Energy Monitoring 110

Grist

MAY 18, 2022

That’s the message delivered on Tuesday by public health experts from the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, a high-profile panel of scientific experts. There’s not a whole lot being done about it,” said Rachael Kupka, executive director of the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution and one of the report’s coauthors.

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Pollution Health Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 99

Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

However, the Government has now failed to deliver against one of the most important legal requirements of that Act – to set binding legal targets to improve environmental health. g/m 3 , against a recognised health standard of 10?g/m This means we are falling at the first step in implementing this crucial legislation.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. Frozen chips giant McCain has pledged to use potatoes grown using regenerative agricultural practices across its portfolio of products worldwide by the end of the decade, it announced today.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

biodiversity (protecting health of local wildlife and water bodies), lower strain on aging utility infrastructure (reducing the risk of damage and repair), local revenue (sourcing materials from local businesses), and new green jobs ( there’s a growing need for developers, builders, policymakers and agents knowledgeable about sustainability).

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Real Estate Sustainability Carbon-negative Health 148

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. The report also found that at least a third of wood pellet facilities violated their air permit limits in 2017.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 532

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

CLIMATE CHANGE AND COVID-19 A warming world threatens to unleash a host of diseases and other threats to human health. Carbon Brief explored how climate change and biodiversity disturbance, including habitat loss and human-animal conflict, could influence the risk of diseases being transmitted from animals to humans. million acres.

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Climate change Biodiversity Global warming Health 98

Grist

MARCH 18, 2020

“There seems to be a pretty clear signal that there are more disease emergence events,” said Aaron Bernstein, interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard School of Public Health. That has enormous health consequences.”. We’re becoming an enormously voracious species of 7.5

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Medicine Climate change Health Africa 144

Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Dubbed 'Together Towards ZERO and Beyond', the firm's new strategy marks an "evolution" of its previous programme launched five years ago in 2017, according to Carlsberg CEO Cees ‘t Hart. It also plans to implement circular packaging solutions, which it described as "critical" to reducing its CO2.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Agriculture 76

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Ocean Race measured microplastics in the last edition of the round-the-world Race in 2017-18 in a pioneering move that combined racing and science. Microfibres are the type of microplastic that are most frequently eaten by marine species(2) and therefore of concern for ocean biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2021

A raft of major global banks, businesses and governments are backing efforts to draw up a robust framework for assessing the complex financial risks posed by nature destruction and biodiversity loss, with a target announced today to finalise a set of guidelines for organisations within two years.

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Biodiversity Government Health Investment 76

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

As part of the strategy, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a consultation on the Government Buying Standards – a set of minimum health, animal welfare and sustainability requirements for food served in some public institutions. The strategy also commits to a new land use framework in 2023.

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Government Sustainability Health Seafood 72

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The rights to life, health, food and water, cultural rights and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment are being violated and will continue to be violated, and the rule of law will continue to be undermined, unless the ISDS system is eliminated,” Boyd reports. Boyd is calling on states to reform or leave these treaties.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Law Investment 123

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. cropland and help the U.S.

Agriculture 87

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 87

Business Green

JULY 20, 2021

From 1970 to 2017, the annual global extraction of materials grew from 27 billion tonnes to 92 billion tonnes, and it is expected to double again by 2060. Our demands on nature far exceed its capacity to supply them and this poses significant risk to the health and wellbeing of economies and societies.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2023

And, of course, fungi threaten humans, too — not just by decimating the biodiversity of the world around us, but also by infiltrating our bodies and causing new illnesses. Readers might pick up your book and assume it is entirely focused on the impact of fungal disease on human health. Some researchers theorize that C.

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Agriculture Climate change Health North America 87

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

It raises the alarm over a "deeply concerning decline in biodiversity" in England, with available evidence pointing to a 17 per cent reduction in the abundance of priority species from 2013 to 2017 "among other adverse trends".

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Government Law Biodiversity Policy 68

Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

In 2017, CDP reported that Nestle assigned a hypothetical price on water between $1 and $5 per square meter, depending on a few risk factors and found that Colgate evaluates its true cost of water at 2.5 A few companies doing it include Nestle, Colgate-Palmolive and Anheuser-Busch InBev; however, all declined to be interviewed for this story.

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Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 69

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In one essay, Fazeela Mubarak, a conservation volunteer in Kenya, writes about an ad hoc response to droughts in March 2017, which involved a frantic struggle to restore water and food supplies to animals in the region. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. Drought in Kenya.

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COP Climate change Resilience Sustainability 130

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In one essay, Fazeela Mubarak, a conservation volunteer in Kenya, writes about an ad hoc response to droughts in March 2017, which involved a frantic struggle to restore water and food supplies to animals in the region. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. Drought in Kenya.

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COP Climate change Sustainability Construction 130

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 26, 2020

Anyone who follows climate change, environmental degradation, or biodiversity loss, knows how stressful it can be. However, over time, such states of mind can take a toll on our mental and physical health. How do we manage the psychological repercussions associated with the multiple ecological crises we face?

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Climate change Biodiversity Health Ethics 52

Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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Resilience Climate change Government Carbon-negative 101

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. In terms of biodiversity loss and excess nitrogen, we're well into the high-risk zone. We're bringing them in as formal employees and providing health insurance.". It takes a lot of education.".

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 46

Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

So, as well as producing more food, the process can also enhance biodiversity, aid conservation, act as a carbon sink for greenhouses gases and help stimulate economic development in rural areas. Forests are still being bulldozed to make way for agricultural land for beef production.

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Climate change Agriculture South America Soil 36

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The plan calls for sourcing wood from areas that encompass eight National Forests, and activists in California have raised concerns that the production of this “renewable” power could endanger vital biodiversity in the forests, home to California’s endangered gray wolves. Credit: California Department of Fish and Wildlife ( CC BY 2.0

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Logging Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Health 124

Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 28, 2020

Change is difficult but is it precisely what we need if we are to succeed in addressing the climate crisis, ecological degradation and biodiversity loss. Flight shame started in Sweden in 2017 to describe the discomfort environmentally conscious people feel about commercial air travel.

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Sustainability Climate change Carbon Aviation 59

AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

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Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio.

Startups 28

Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 28

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 26, 2022

Improve societal well-being, health, educational access and support a green culture. Deliver appropriate biodiversity, ecosystems, basin, and marine-coastal management to favor local communities. According to the Ministry of Health, Costa Rica’s recycling rate has increased by 469% between 2015 to 2017.

Sustainability 147

Sustainability Carbon-neutral Policy Resilience 147

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. The process appeals to farmers who want an assessment of the health of their whole farm.

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Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 136

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Climate change, biodiversity, customer relations, supply chains, board management practices, data, and security…these all fall under the ESG heading. For instance, according to a recent survey by the CFA Institute , ESG-linked loans to companies in Europe have more than quadrupled – from €27 billion in 2017 to €102 billion in 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 103

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 billion years of evolution.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2020

Indeed, it is widely accepted Britons could on the whole do with eating less red meat and more vegetables and nuts for health reasons alone. Work is also on-going through various biodiversity offset schemes and green farming innovation funds. There's a double task here for farmers," says Stark. So in that sense, it's a no-brainer.

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Agriculture Policy Government Climate change 48