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Building Sustainability Checklist: 28 Tips to Make Your Building More Eco-Friendly.

Green Business Bureau

Building Sustainability Checklist: 28 Tips to Make Your Building More Eco-Friendly. Becoming a more sustainable business starts with having green buildings and infrastructure. A building is considered sustainable/green because of its design, construction, and operational characteristics. Increasing energy efficiency.

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CO2 monitors facilitate rollout of environmentally friendly refrigeration in Australian supermarkets

Envirotec Magazine

Supermarkets all over Australia and New Zealand are benefiting from advanced carbon dioxide monitors, says measurement expert Vaisala, as new natural refrigeration systems are installed to assist in the fight against climate change. Synthetic refrigerant gases have been utilised in a wide variety of industries for many decades.

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The quest for cleaner air

Envirotec Magazine

The industrial revolution – despite its many benefits – sounded a death knell for air quality, increasing coal-generated smog levels 50-fold in many large cities. 11 Additionally, at least 31 percent of countries that do have the power to introduce such ambient air quality standards have yet to adopt them.

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Scientists adapt solar energy technology to detect chemical warfare agents and pesticides

Envirotec Magazine

While use of chemical warfare agents like sulfur mustard – better known as mustard gas – is banned internationally, we do rely on other strictly-controlled chemicals for agriculture, industry and throughout our daily lives, including fumigants like methyl iodide, which is used to control insects and fungi.

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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

This post is the fourth in a series titled “Real Talk on Reliability,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100 percent clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future. It was written by Savannah M. Communities across the U.S. The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S.

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Seeking clarity

Envirotec Magazine

sources include vehicle emissions, coal-burning power plants, industrial emissions, and burning agricultural waste. The report also noted that many of these cities lack ground-level monitoring of PM2.5, At the same time, Beijing has expanded its monitoring system from 35 stations in 2013 to over 1000 in 2019.

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Building community knowledge in Colorado

Defend Our Future

Despite Colorado having some of the nation’s strongest clean air protections, Denver ranks as being the seventh-most polluted city for ozone pollution in the country according to the American Lung Association’s last State of the Air Report. The post Building community knowledge in Colorado appeared first on Defend Our Future.