Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Scanning electron microscope images of sugarcane bagasse A new process appears able to turn lignin into carbon sources that could be used in high-value, plant-derived pharmaceuticals and antioxidant nutraceuticals as well as carbon-based nanoparticles for drug or chemical delivery. Then what do they do with the lignin? It’s a waste.”

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. . For example, our deepening understanding of DNA helps us discern how drugs, medication, multi-vitamins or treatment plans work differently in patients — creating a brand-new frontier, personalized medicine.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

We are all aware of microbeads in cosmetics, but how many of us think about microplastics in glitter, the infill materials used in sports surfaces, or veterinary and medicinal products? In humans, microplastics can cause a variety of human health concerns, including neurotoxicity, dermal irritation and organ inflammation.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2) and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenhouse gas emissions. . There are other ways to make hydrogen.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The use of CBD is rapidly increasing across various dimensions – be it medicinal or skincare. However, the hype of CBD is significant in its therapeutic use, where the CBD infused products are used for healing insomnia, depression, acne, and various other health issues.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The United States doesn’t have any federal laws that say electric utilities have to switch to carbon-free power. Despite years of talk about a tax on carbon, we don’t have that either. It makes decisions that increase carbon output look a lot more expensive than those that do the opposite. But perhaps not expensive enough.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

per cent less Global Warming Potential (GWP) than propellants currently used in respiratory medicines. AstraZeneca said it now expects Breztri to be its first medicine to transition to the new near-zero climate impact inhaler, subject to regulatory approval.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

UK Health Alliance on Climate Change sets out sweeping proposals to boost demand for low emission foods, including plans for a new food carbon tax. Professor Dame Parveen Kumar, ambassador for the Alliance, said it was vital that food and diets are considered as part of both the health and climate policy agendas.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Some £961,650 of the £12m funding round has been awarded to the Civil Aviation Authority to develop a better understanding of the risks involved in transitioning the aviation sector towards low-carbon hydrogen propulsion solutions.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To that end, Gates' Breakthrough Energy Coalition, launched in 2015 with its billion-dollar venture arm a year later, has backed some 30 startups in a variety of low-carbon plays, including in greener metal, energy storage and even cultured breastmilk. It means thinking about climate breakthroughs across every area of your business.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 2, 2023

Following Impetus Digital’s sustainability story (successes and future goals) Impetus Digital has the ultimate goal of becoming a carbon-neutral and fully sustainable company. The climate crisis directly affects human health, and as such, Impetus Digital views this as a timely topic in the life science industry.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. The industry used these studies to influence public opinion, undermine public health efforts, and block regulation. DEMELLE That’s incredible.

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Grist

JULY 3, 2020

But as the Fourth draws near and Independence Day partygoers snatch up the nation’s supply of sparklers, StarFires, and Raging Zombies, health experts have pointed to another troubling side effect of the pyrotechnics displays: a spike in air pollution. In fact, those metals are responsible for producing the fireworks’ vivid colors.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The quality of your working environment can have an effect on your productivity, health, and happiness. This popular house plant does a great job of absorbing and breaking down carbon monoxide, xylene, and formaldehyde. This plant does a great job at removing benzene, formaldehyde, and carbon monoxide from the air. Spider Plant.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This new report focuses not just on how bad things could get if we don’t take decisive action to reduce carbon emissions, but on how bad things already have gotten, with climate impacts hitting every part of the country and threatening the things Americans hold most dear. At the time, there was essentially no research in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year. billion U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

I presumed that an influential medical institution such as ours would have no choice but to recognize the well-documented threats to human health posed by the climate crisis and fossil fuels. The National Academy of Medicine says climate change “represents one of most significant threats to human health in the 21st Century.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

$1bn 'Ambition Zero Carbon' aims for zero carbon emissions across global operations by 2025, and ensure entire value chain is carbon negative by 2030. The new goals were set out in the firm's ‘Ambition Zero Carbon' strategy published yesterday, which brings forward its plans for decarbonisation in line with a 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These facts have prompted Scientific American to call Trump's rejection of public health measures "catastrophic". His presidency will be defined by its repeated attacks against the health of Americans.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Scientists are confident the emergence of technologies such as graphene, advanced semiconductors, and 3D printing could all play a critical role in a wide range of industries including health, transport, energy, electronics, and utilities.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Note: You will need to create a Thomas account to access this directory.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

MARCH 13, 2020

Our greatest risk is overwhelming our already heavily-loaded health care system, especially hospitals. Health Care Capacity. Once overwhelmed, we’re back to triage medicine – who do we save? appeared first on Low Carbon Prosperity Institute. When they can’t treat severe cases the mortality rate shoots up.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

The links between sustainable energy, health and community resilience are clearer than ever, argues Ashden's CEO Harriet Lamb. Crucially, they are also finding ways to support health services and spread important messaging about the virus. We're running health centres where we screen everyone," he said.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Certainly, it appears that significant drops in pollution levels all over the world as carbon emissions plummet from a stumbling global economy is a good thing. The intended consequence of doing so will be a significant reduction in carbon emissions leading to a permanent and lasting halt of our climate crisis.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

And protecting and preserving wild spaces such as wetlands, peatlands, and forests from human development has the two-pronged effect of sequestering carbon dioxide and preventing the spread of disease to humans by limiting contact between wild animals and people.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It feeds us, provides clean air and water, and stores carbon. Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. As ecosystems degrade, they release more carbon, adding to climate change. The value of biodiversity to business.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

The second pillar, 'healthier', includes themes relating to physical wellbeing through breakthrough medicines, better diets and fitness. Again, this company enables the shift towards a more experience-based economy and has far lower environmental impacts, piloting tools to help music fans find lower carbon travel to and from events.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. She passed a Zero Carbon Bill during her first term that mandates net-zero emissions by 2050 and campaigned on tougher action this term. . percent of its GDP. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

The peer-reviewed research by the environmental think tank RMI (formerly Rocky Mountain Institute), the University of Sydney, and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine estimated that “nearly 13 percent of childhood asthma cases in the United States can be linked to having a gas stove in the home.”

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

According to Terry Gordon, professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and a co-author of the study, the amount of pollution in New York is the most alarming. “It The study’s researchers said that a person commuting daily on these systems is exposed to a higher risk of certain health conditions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

WRAP hails significant sustainability milestones achieved by food and drinks sector this year through Courtauld 2025 initiative, but warns much more progress is required to meet industry-wide waste, water, and carbon goals.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 9, 2020

Although public health protocols mean that year's WED activities will take place online, we can still remain socially connected despite our physical distance. It enables medical researchers to understand human physiology; and provides substance for developing medicines.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

The Commission’s proposals have been met with a barrage of lobbying from industry, which claims that single-use paper products have lower carbon emissions and use less water and plastic than reusable alternatives. Pulp and paper trees are often grown on drained peatland, which is a massive carbon sink. We’ve lost our health.”

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

But whilst the government has invested significantly in other solutions to tackling carbon emissions from food - for example food waste and agriculture - it has yet to do so in this sector. There is also more to this industry than the climate and potential health benefits.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2020

And like every government, we've had to prioritise the health of our own population, while trying to avoid unnecessary measures to restrict mobility. In fact, Public Heath England, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and the London School of Tropical Disease and Medicine have all examined the issue. Plans to offset carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The paradox is that shifting to a higher level of water treatment comes at a higher cost and a higher carbon footprint, which consumers are also unlikely to settle for. The risk is that better informed customers may demand higher quality water from their utility, even where the health benefit does not necessarily warrant it.

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