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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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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. Operating in most major U.S. 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. Refrain from using the lagoon as a toilet, as human waste is a pollutant. This waste contains excess nutrients that can serve as a fertilizer source for algae. Once plastic trash gets to the lagoon, they pose a choking or entangling hazard to aquatic life.

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New York Sustainability: Tax Credits, Grants and Green Funding

Green Business Bureau

The program was launched to beautify the city landscape, ease vehicle traffic, improve pedestrian traffic, facilitate the water-bearing capacity of the ground, and increase biodiversity. The NYS Pollution Prevention Institute promotes cost-effective methods to conserve energy, reduce waste, and improve business performance.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

With the vast amount of waste that comes from single-use PPE and regular long-term wear, Watson Gloves is focusing on beginning of life and end of life manufacturing initiatives to help divert much of this textile waste by developing gloves using innovative sustainable materials. Operating in most major U.S.

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How do you monitor a tidal river?

Envirotec Magazine

Much of the bankside in London is concrete or metal, which drastically reduces the habitat for many riverine species, so developers are now being encouraged to create green wetland areas which enhance biodiversity and create a more attractive view for valuable bankside properties.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

While understanding various drivers for sustainability, his aim is to reduce the under-utilization of resources and avoid wasted potential. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.