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The Blue Economy: Importance of Ocean Conservation

Green Tech Challenge

Every year, an additional 8 million tonnes of plastic is deposited into the ocean. This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Innovators have been coming up with substitutes for plastic products.

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

DeSmogBlog

James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. A few days later, RISE St. Now citizens and groups like RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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A Window into Louisiana’s Continued Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

Jane Patton, a campaign manager for the Center for International Environmental Law, told me on a recent call that comparing the CO2 Air Products plans to capture and inject to beer is a typical example of how the fossil industry gaslights those questioning the safety of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. New construction in St.

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Building Industry Gets Serious About Its Embodied Carbon Problem

GreenTechMedia

He wrote the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979, and now leads Architecture 2030 , a non-profit that aims to remake the built environment into a climate solution. Increasingly, this may be the law. Other new laws may go by names, like “Buy Clean,” but they are embodied carbon laws.

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Sustainable Business Went Mainstream in 2021

Andrew Winston

A few months later, corporate giants also spoke out against state laws meant to restrict voting. Issues that have long been avoided such as taxes, CEO pay, and corruption — some of the “elephants in the room” that my co-author, Paul Polman, and I talk about in our book Net Positive — will hit boardrooms and C-suites.

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How climate change is muting nature’s symphony

Grist

David George Haskell, a biologist and author of the book Sounds Wild and Broken, said he experiences the diminished soundscape as a “very thin, worn cloth,” comparing the richness of an untrammeled soundscape to the texture of thickly woven tapestry. “It These three policies still form the backbone of federal environmental law.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

But we were not required to by law. That is the stuff of their business and they still have it on their books. They are metals and plastics or whatever. That would include plastics that are recyclable. In China, it was called "The Design of the Circular Economy." But it is hard to make these kinds of changes.