article thumbnail

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

Green Business Bureau

Green buildings use certified sustainable materials and reduce waste while preserving valuable natural resources. Reducing waste. Tip # 7: Use non Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) paint – VOC paints contain harmful chemicals that vaporize at room temperature and enter the atmosphere impacting the ozone layer and human health.

article thumbnail

Tech Startup Sustainability Guide: Running An Eco-Friendly Business

Green Business Bureau

Being more energy-efficient, reducing waste – through recycling, reuse, and reducing regimes -, and curbing scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from the daily commute, all help your company save money. Ask employees to bring reusable mugs and water bottles to reduce waste and be sure to have filtered water options available.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How To Create A Sustainability Plan: Executive Guide To Becoming A Sustainable Business – Step 4

Green Business Bureau

A holistic and well organized sustainability plan will include several key components: Part 1: Sustainability Drivers – This section summarizes the aspects of your business that use scarce natural resources, contribute to climate change, cause environmental harm or produce useless waste. How much do we waste? Is it hazardous?

article thumbnail

‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

Grist

Colleagues, particularly those who had not ever been pregnant, implied she was wasting her time. Pollutants from vehicle combustion, including nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, react in sunlight to form ozone. But when Basu published her study, her findings spurred similar research all over the world. And the U.S.

Health 82
article thumbnail

Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. The brine entails that this secondary fluid is high in salinity, having had salt added to boost its cooling properties. Traditional ice rinks have noise, energy waste and pollution costs.

article thumbnail

The Overview Effect

Grist

Space travel has been criticized, then and now, as a waste of money and resources and a distraction from more pressing problems. In response, NASA began positioning itself as an environmental authority, publicizing its new satellite technology that monitored the oceans, air pollution, and the ozone layer. NASA / Bill Ingalls.

article thumbnail

Hydrogen fuel cells good or bad for the environment?

AGreenLiving

To make it usable as a fuel, hydrogen must be separated from water, coal, natural gas or animal or plant waste. These researchers theorized that oxidized hydrogen would cool the stratosphere and make more clouds, adversely affecting the polar vortex and increasing the holes in the ozone layer.