Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Today, Carson’s work is widely considered the most important environmental book of the 20th century. Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Days earlier she had received an email: “ Dangerously high methane in water,” the subject line read. An environmental microbiologist at Duquesne University, John Stolz, had found enough methane to pose a “risk of ignition.” Tim spent nearly $10,000 to install a reverse osmosis system, but his water is still carbonated with methane.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

And on the side-lines of the official negotiations, scores of major commitments were also made by business leaders and financiers geared at accelerating climate action within specific sectors or around particular issues of concern, from cars and shipping through to curbing methane emissions and tackling deforestation.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Investor-owned utilities, like NW Natural, have “built up an information environment around those regulators where they produce nearly everything they read or consume,” utility watchdog David Pomerantz explains in Kate Aronoff’s book Overheated. “If

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

degrees of warming today, 2023 marks the hottest year on the books and greenhouse gas emissions are still rising. He wrote a letter to governments in attendance that says, “phasing down demand for, and supply of, all fossil fuels is inevitable and essential” (emphasis mine). Now, that 1.5-degree With around 1.2

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. There is no Starbucks.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since graphene was discovered in 2004, demand for the material has skyrocketed thanks to its remarkable physical qualities. In the first Harry Potter book, the philosopher’s stone is ultimately destroyed because it turns out that having an alchemical panacea lying around can backfire. And that transformation may no longer be a fantasy.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

This takes some stress off your shoulders and you’re like, all you really need in life is a pair of blue jeans and a good book.”. In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. There is no Starbucks.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-Grown Meat, Fake Meat & 3D Printed Pizzas Book Summary - There are currently several technologies in development that have the potential to provide the sustainable food of the future. This is a summary of the book ‘Kweekvlees, Fake Vlees & Pizza’s uit de Printer’ from Sebastiaan van de Water. In particular protein.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 To me, this really shows a demand from consumers for these products.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This makes it ripe for disaster capitalism, a phrase Naomi Klein coined in her book “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” While natural gas burns cleaner than coal, the advantage of using it is negated by the methane emitted in its production.

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Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Salim: We started WattEV with the intent of becoming the main provider of public charging for electric trucks, but we quickly realized that it wasn’t enough for us to just build the infrastructure and expect the demand to pick up naturally. Salim: I think the biggest factor for them is having enough of a market demand to do that.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Does he want his premiership to be remembered as pioneering and bold - or left out of the history books because he was no match for the task at hand?". This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for everyone to rise up and demand their leaders take bold climate action like our future depends on it, because it absolutely does.".

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. A parallel world of Shell-backed publications brushed such warnings aside.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

This figure highlights a supply-demand discrepancy in the U.S. In oxygen-poor environments, the material will break down into the potent greenhouse gas, methane. Innovations include the design of smarter smaller pallets that demand less wood material and hence contribute less waste.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The oil and gas industry, and many Republicans in Congress, demanded the Biden administration immediately lift the pause, and some even threatened legal action. We’ve got a pretty sweeping statutory consumer protection on the books,” Slocum said. All we’re asking is for the Department of energy to enforce it, reasonably.”

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Meanwhile, the demands on Exxon to reduce its emissions got louder, and the company began to think about a long-term solution for its excess CO?. A tax program meant to encourage carbon capture had been on the books since 2008, but the credits amounted to less than a fifth of the typical cost of the process.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP. "The

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Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2021

But long after the Trump Presidency is consigned to a particularly sordid chapter in the history books, his decision to actively oppose climate action will continue to have real world impacts.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In May 2021, Brown tweeted out an article by Bjørn Lomborg – author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It , books that downplay the risks of global warming – about how “exaggerations about climate change” are “destroying our ability to make sensible decisions for the future”. While the Climate Change Committee (CCC), ??

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