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Biodiversity strategies bolster clean energy goals on solar projects Here's how one solar project conserves native grass and effectively manages stormwater.

Solar Power World

In fact, climate change and biodiversity loss are two of the most critical, intertwined crises our planet is facing. By Christina Hebb, SWPPP and vegetation senior manager, McCarthy Building Companies The reduction of harmful greenhouse gas emissions is an important aspect of our clean energy future. So is fostering healthy ecosystems.

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Call to ramp up joint action to get London’s rivers ‘climate-ready’

Envirotec Magazine

Dave Webb, a biodiversity specialist at the Environment Agency and chair of the London Rivers Restoration Group, said: “Restoring and rewilding London’s rivers is a no-regret action that we can take now to reduce the impact of extreme events and the long-term effect of the climate change.

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Ginkgo Sustainability: Creating Healthy Spaces and Greener Buildings Through Biophilic Design

Green Business Bureau

is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. “Connecting the Living and the Built Environment” Ginkgo Sustainability Inc.

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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: Incorporating Sustainability Into The Built Environment

Green Business Bureau

Biophilic urbanism is more capable of optimizing the health of a city in different ways such as improving the city environment, providing economic growth for the municipality through stormwater management, and nurturing the mental health of society.[6] Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. References: [1] Fromm, E. Greenwich, CT. [2]

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. GREEN COMPANIES TO RECOGNIZE. Ginkgo Sustainability Inc.

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How To Reduce Lagoon Pollution

The Environmental Blog

Plastic pollution may eventually lead to the depletion of biodiversity. Regulating the use of commercial fertilizers can help reduce the amount of harmful chemicals carried by stormwater runoff into the lagoons. Once plastic trash gets to the lagoon, they pose a choking or entangling hazard to aquatic life. Bottom Line.

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Using urban forestry to fight for environmental justice

GreenBiz

Urban trees don’t just store carbon, they reduce stormwater, they improve air, they provide energy savings in terms of heating and cooling. They can, if done right, tremendously advance environmental justice — they provide human health benefits, biodiversity, bird and pollinator habitat, slope stability and the list goes on.

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