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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “ climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”.

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases. Every day, Synterex employees work with the hope of helping to get medicines to patients who need them to improve their quality of life.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. Cascade Steel also commits to ethical sourcing and conflict-free metals , fully disclosing that their products are derived solely from recycled or scrap sources. and the non-psychoactive relative to marijuana) is a versatile crop grown specifically for industrial and medicinal uses.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. New buildings can also be built using less carbon-intensive materials.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. In New York’s state lands, he added, there are almost no provisions for gathering medicines, collecting food, or growing food in traditional territories. It’s just cool to be part of it.”

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Hurst’s causes outside Amazon include board positions with Stolen Youth, an organization dedicated to eradicating sex trafficking; as well as with the roundtable for sustainability that’s part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer, HP Inc. . For HP Inc.,