Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Ute Herzfeld at the University of Colorado Boulder and David Shean at the University of Washington are using Planet’s SkySat imagery to monitor the dynamics of glaciers and changes in the extent and depth of snow cover, respectively. The NASA Harvest team is using Planet imagery for a wide array of food security and crop health topics.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

is harnessing biology to clean water for planetary and human health. These founders and their teams are developing a dynamic array of much-needed climatetech solutions, and we’re privileged to support them on their startup journeys as they advance their technologies and grow their teams.” Aquasaic (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

Climate change-induced warmer temperatures are causing many plants in temperate climates to exhibit spring behavior, like blooms and budburst, much earlier in the year. Elevated temperatures are a primary mechanism through which climate change affects crop phenology. Source: Vitasse et al. Figure 2.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

World's first net zero emission McDonald's opens at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, with solar arrays set to provide as much power as the site uses each year. While health and safety in our restaurants is our top priority, we must also remain focused on creating positive change for our communities and the planet.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

To address the effects of stronger storms, flooding, and extreme heat due to climate change, New York State has adopted bold legislation requiring 70% of the state’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030. Mid- to large-scale solar arrays, like the one at the H.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The Irish Sea is under significant and increasing pressure from climate change and activities like fishing, aquaculture, development, shipping, aggregates, military activity, recreation and pollution. per cent is fully protected. The Irish Sea region is already considered to be in a degraded state.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 3, 2021

Climate change and water scarcity are front and center in the western U.S. The region’s climate is warming , a severe multi-year drought is underway and groundwater supplies are being overpumped in many locations. As part of a broad climate change initiative, in October 2020 Gov. Brandi McKuin, CC BY-ND.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In a period of planetary crises and transformational change, the world needs to create pathways to more sustainable futures as never before. While climate change grabs most of the public’s attention, threats to ecosystems and the loss of nature are equally critical global challenges.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JULY 20, 2020

Over the past few weeks, our most urgent duties have changed dramatically. Instead of showing up to work each morning eager to install solar arrays on high school rooftops or at underused fields on small family farms, we’re now staying home to ensure healthcare professionals have the space and resources they need to fight coronavirus.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

If we don't fix agricultural supply chains, the world will continue to fail on tackling climate change, alleviating poverty, safeguarding human rights, argue Oxfam's Fatema Z. It's imperative that these investments recognise that human health, food security, social justice and climate change are all interconnected.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 11, 2020

It will also feature segments on trailblazing women in 2020 and prioritizing health to rebuild the economy. The event will also provide an array of networking opportunities including information kiosks, media outreach and virtual meetings between delegates and speakers live and in-person. What are some emerging infrastructure trends?

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But from the steep economic costs of that trade war to America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, America is losing its position as the world’s leading superpower and economy. We need clean energy to combat climate change, and the urgency of that need is increasing.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks. Last year's floods, droughts, and storms hurt transport and building infrastructure up and down the country, taking a toll on public health, worker productivity, and the wider economy.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Moving to electric appliances is a simple solution to improve air quality, combat climate change, and continue to grow the state’s clean energy economy. encompasses an array of jobs across building design and construction, technologies, efficient appliances, and energy systems. Energy Efficiency?—?the

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Energy Energy Policy Climate change 78

Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

As the impacts of climate change and the loss of nature are felt around the world, organizations of all types are under increasing pressures to act and adapt. We hope that one day they will power a wide array of new financial instruments—from climate-smart municipal bonds to novel insurance programs and national credit ratings.

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Sustainability Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 94

Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2020

The Prime Minister's 'New Deal' speech touted a £40m Green Recovery Challenge Fund, designed to help halt biodiversity loss and climate change through local conservation projects. These include potential savings for the NHS by improving mental health, air quality and urban cooling.

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Biodiversity Resilience Cooling Health 73

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. This means corporations are using the term to describe a vast array of different practices.

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Building Energy Monitoring Soil Agriculture Carbon-negative 97

Energy Innovation

JUNE 16, 2022

The Deeper Decarbonization Scenario shows California can rapidly cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while creating jobs and improving public health. includes important new metrics to track the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of hundreds of climate policies. The updated California EPS–from model version 1.4.3

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hyperspectral imaging offers a vast array of spectral insights as it divides the spectrum across a multitude of spectral bands, enabling analysts to review phenomena in many differentiated colors that are typically beyond human visual perception.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 15, 2020

Higher temperatures and a persistent drought driven by climate change have extended the duration of the state’s average fire season by 75 days. While these proactive measures reduced the threat of wildfires, they disrupted countless businesses and posed their own threats to health and safety.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2023

From the Canada Team Meet the ‘Extreme’ Atlas Network Groups Fighting Canada’s Oil and Gas Emissions Cap By Geoff Dembicki Within hours of Canada’s federal government announcing key details of its plans to cap greenhouse gas emissions within the oil and gas sector, an array of attacks against it started popping up.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Curtailing air travel has not been a sacrifice, Robey insists, rather "it's a win, win, win, win" in terms of work life balance and, health, flexibility of delivery, cost and carbon reduction, "But the key word is ‘optimising'; it's not ‘never travel again'". In some countries it's a lot easier than others.

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Carbon Carbon-neutral Sustainability Policy 72

Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

Of course, we all know that deforestation isn’t just about cutting down trees, it is also about damaging a whole ecosystem as “the majority of the world’s biodiversity (the huge array of insects, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, plants and trees) lives in, and depends on, forests” iv 2.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 2, 2023

But this latest attempt to shut down discussion of the health impact of stoves is nothing new. More than 50 years ago, in 1972, AGA authored a draft report highlighting indoor air pollution concerns similar to those being raised by health experts and regulators today. Venting systems weren’t the only technofix the industry had in mind.

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Pollution Natural gas Health Government 98

Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 29, 2022

Then the IPCC climate change report came out essentially stating that every corner of the earth is already feeling climate impacts, and that we have less than 48 months to reverse our addiction to fossil fuel or face an “unrecognizable” planet. Circular Economy.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

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Investment Climate change Ethics Government 485

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 18, 2021

We believe that a wide array of perspectives contributes to. creative climate solutions where all communities thrive. We strive to reflect diverse communities, especially those most impacted by climate change and other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustices. . Expectations and Qualifications : .

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Education Organic Sustainability Climate change 40

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With the vast array of volunteering programs available, it can be hard to know where to start. Additionally, corporate volunteerism has a strong impact on community resilience, the capacity to meet current and future community needs amidst changes brought by climate change, population growth, and an evolving economic and political landscape.

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Organic Education Investment Politics 147

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change. At Shell’s expanding Geismar Chemical Plant, just four miles away from the community of Geismar, the company has pending air permits for an array of additional emissions. “At

Sustainability 95

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 95

Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2022

The UK solar industry has rubbished claims from Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak that solar farms pose a threat to farmland, pointing out that climate change poses by far the bigger risk to food security and therefore further underscores the need to decarbonise energy sources.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

And as concern over climate change and dietary health mounts, that trend is set to continue. Whether in pubs, restaurants, fast food chains or supermarkets, the sheer breadth of plant-based food and alternative protein options available today is inescapable.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Decades later, Hill’s PR firm was even a named defendant in many of the lawsuits that sprang up against tobacco companies for their efforts to downplay smoking’s health impacts. Hill+Knowlton was simultaneously and from a very early stage, also actively representing an array of oil and gas companies on issues of concern to them.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Accelerating climate change will keep the federal research and development spigot open.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Health insurance plan, with silver level benefits. . Upon program completion, Fellows are awarded a Climate Change Protection Professional certificate by Skyline College. . We believe that a wide array of perspectives contributes to creative climate solutions where all communities thrive. Apply here: [link].

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Education Organic Sustainability Carbon-neutral 40

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Health insurance plan, with silver level benefits. . Upon program completion, Fellows are awarded a Climate Change Protection Professional certificate by Skyline College. . We believe that a wide array of perspectives contributes to creative climate solutions where all communities thrive. Apply here: [link].

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Sustainability Education Organic Carbon-neutral 40

Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. He died of COVID-19 on October 27. Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019.

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Education Sustainability Climate change Waste 138

The Environmental Blog

JULY 23, 2023

From cleaning supplies to personal care items to household goods, many of these products contain harmful chemicals that can pose significant risks to our health and the environment. However, what lies beneath the appealing packaging is often a cocktail of chemicals that can have adverse effects on our health.

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