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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. Clover is the best ground cover for lawns.

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Sustainability Guide for Greenhouses and Nurseries: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

A variety of different materials found at a greenhouse and nursery can be composted including leaves, flower petals, dead plants, soil, grass clippings, different papers, and most other types of disease free organic waste. Putting these materials in a composting pile or bin can tremendously reduce waste produced.

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Sustainable Business Practices for the Food and Agricultural Industries

Green Business Bureau

Also,the composting process averts methane emissions that cause global warming, and it converts organic material into valuable fertilizer that can be used to enrich poor soil and improve plant growth. As an international student, she cares deeply about activities that promote sustainable development and climate change mitigation.

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The Impact of Chemicals in Everyday Products: How to Choose Non-Toxic Alternatives

The Environmental Blog

When these products are used and eventually discarded, they often end up in landfills or waterways, contaminating soil and water sources. For example, chemicals and heavy metals used in the creation of common household electronic items can leach into the soil when they’re landfilled, leading to contamination of nearby waterways.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In May, Mark Mason flung open a door that’s rarely unlatched on Wall Street by publishing a wrenching company blog post against systemic racism. Elsa Wenzel.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Raised in Iowa, Ford became the only openly gay Fortune 500 CEO in 2018. billion.

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Fifty Shades of Greta

Green Market Oracle

She said her interest in climate issues began when she was in high school in Japan. She facilitated a youth leadership camp focused on combating climate change. He is concerned about the welfare of black people in an economy devastated by the climate crisis. Fionn Ferreira is from Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland.