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Tech Startup Sustainability Guide: Running An Eco-Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

For the major tech giants Salesforce , Lenovo , and Microsoft , sustainability lies at the core of these organizations. With this in mind, it’s important tech startups globally follow suit, to establish proactive and forward-thinking organizations. Turn off devices when not in use to reduce electricity.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

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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Planet Arrives at COP26 to Enable Systems Change, Take Climate Action, and Make the Invisible Visible

Planet Pulse

Since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement six years ago, the nations of the world have slowly begun to bend the curve on emissions, due largely to spectacular advances in renewable energy. Even so, we haven’t yet made anywhere near the progress required to avoid the worst effects of the climate emergency.

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Introducing the Planet Explore 2020 Sustainability Summit

Planet Pulse

Meeting the challenge of climate change, reversing the loss of nature and fulfilling humanity’s needs for a just, healthy and prosperous future were already the 21st century’s defining challenges, even before major disruptions like COVID-19 entered the scene. 11:15 am Monitoring Ecosystems and Protecting Biodiversity from Space.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. Meet the Industry Trade Groups.

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Establishing urban orchards to benefit people, communities and nature

Low Impact

The are beneficial in so many ways, including biodiversity, community cohesion, local food, carbon storage and human well-being. Here, they explain an approach called ‘nature-based solutions’ Orchards against climate change: nature-based solutions. We are also protecting our orchards against climate change.

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Could rewilding our cities bolster urban climate resilience?

Business Green

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. They were also installed with solar panels to generate power.