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How to Build an Eco-Friendly Home

The Environmental Blog

With today’s climate change issues, people are paying more attention to their carbon footprint and, overall, trying their best to be environmentally conscious. An eco-friendly house is designed with recycled materials, renewable energy sources, and sustainable landscapes. Buy Energy-Saving Appliances. Washing machines.

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How To Sustain A Carbon-Neutral Lifestyle

The Environmental Blog

Carbon Emission, Clean Energy. Plant a Tree Sign As climate change continues to create widespread disruptions in the form of higher temperatures and extreme weather events, switching to a carbon-neutral lifestyle has become necessary for everyone. This step requires lifestyle changes and making the necessary green home upgrades.

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Flash Drought Hotspots: Southwestern United States

Planet Pulse

Authors: Ryder Kimball & Steve Levay Special thanks to: Max Borrmann, Arjan Geers, and Megan Zaroda This blog is part of a series on the effects of rapid dryness on regions around the globe. But climate change is placing new pressures on this system. For an introduction to Planet’s approach, read this post.

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Tech Startup Sustainability Guide: Running An Eco-Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

Being more energy-efficient, reducing waste – through recycling, reuse, and reducing regimes -, and curbing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the daily commute, all help your company save money. The average gas end electricity consumed by a medium-sized office is 45,000 kWh and 30,000-50,000 kWh per year respectively.

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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

Did you realize that by throwing food out, you’re also wasting water and causing climate change? Homes generate approximately 61% of this waste, 26% by food service, and 13% by retail. All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Approximately 1.3

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From banks to bunds: how Africans are harnessing satellite data to financially derisk pastoral livelihoods

Planet Pulse

Although Africa as a whole has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions, no continent has been more affected by climate change-induced natural disasters like flooding and droughts. By: Njeri Maina and Megan Zaroda. You may not be able to see every drop from space, but cumulatively, that captured water added up.

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Establishing urban orchards to benefit people, communities and nature

Low Impact

Here, they explain an approach called ‘nature-based solutions’ Orchards against climate change: nature-based solutions. Nature-based solutions (NbS) can play an important role in tackling the climate crisis. As the climate crisis worsens, we are striving to apply our expertise more than ever to this end.