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6 Foods that have as much protein as beef with much less of an environmental impact

The Environmental Blog

That’s because they are solving a huge problem related to global warming and human health. Greenhouse gases (methane, carbon dioxide, ozone, etc.) When looking at your overall health, the author states that plant-based sources of protein are actually considered better for you and your health.

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. The complaint calls out the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and Louisiana Department of Health (LDOH) for their handling of air pollution and associated health impacts in St. Now citizens and groups like RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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Top 10 Economic Benefits of Converting to Solar Energy

Sunrun

Going solar can affect the climate, the economy and our own pocket books. The costs associated with climate change are growing and include rising health care costs, destruction of property, increased food prices and more. Decisions we make as consumers have an impact on our lives and on the world around us.

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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. Elmore recounts in the book Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. he says, holding up a soda can. “I

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

Woodberry is a fierce-looking 69-year-old who likes to bring environmentalism to the pulpit, making connections, for example, between the rivers that became blood in the Biblical Book of Revelation and red tides of toxic algae. “If They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. I use a nebulizer now.

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Let's pass a Green Recovery Act

Business Green

Covid-19 has been a terrible blow to public health, and the economy, but the emergency of climate damage is worse. The Act follows the model of the most successful environmental treaty - the Montreal Protocol, which banned CFCs and HFCs, and is healing the hole in our ozone layer. It's just a question of when. He Tweets at @ewanmcg.

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What is carbon insetting?

Mr. Sustainability

These are certainly meaningful and also have a social impact, but they do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector itself, nor its related co-pollutants, like black carbon, ozone, and nitrogen oxides. To some, this feels wrong. Click here to watch the GoodShipping explanation video. How does this work?

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