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World Environment Day and Covid-19: Making Time for Nature

Green Market Oracle

The biodiversity focus of this year's WED calls us reimagin our relationship with nature. It enables medical researchers to understand human physiology; and provides substance for developing medicines. It even helps mitigate the impact of climate change by absorbing carbon, reducing air pollution and helping to cool cities.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Greenfiber® , manufactured in the U.S., Hemp (a variety of Cannabis sativa L.

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The Amazon has lost over 10 million football fields of forest in a decade

AGreenLiving

For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction. When species become endangered , the ecosystem and its biodiversity equilibrium are imbalanced, triggering chain reactions where one loss leads to another.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. Energy-efficiency buildings : The amount of energy wasted from buildings is reduced by using efficient heating, insulating, cooling, or lighting systems.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks.

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200 million acres of forest cover have been lost since 1960

Grist

If deforestation continues, they say, it could also jeopardize international goals to preserve biodiversity and limit global warming. “[T]he According to a study published earlier this year , tropical forests can cool the planet by an entire degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks.