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Are there VOCs lurking in water-based paints?

Envirotec Magazine

These airborne VOCs can cause respiratory irritation and headaches, among other potential health problems, especially in high concentrations or over long periods of time. Twenty semi-volatile organic compounds were identified in concentrations ranging from 10 to 35,000 parts per million.

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Beyond the Stockholm Convention: new regulations targeting forever chemicals

Envirotec Magazine

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health. There are also programs to encourage the voluntary phase out of certain PFAS by companies.

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Can air purifiers help with bed bugs and other parasites?

Envirotec Magazine

While an air purifier cannot rid your home of bed bugs once they are established – and it’s important to take measures to remove them definitively– it can promote a cleaner and healthier environment that many parasites struggle to thrive in. How can an air purifier help with bed bugs?

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ESG vs Sustainability: What’s the Difference?

Green Business Bureau

ESG Definition. They are similar to metrics used in traditional financial analysis, however, ESG metrics incorporate non-financial data, such as the level of greenhouse gas emissions, amount of waste reduction, amount of water usage reduction, use of green energy and the number of health and safety incidents per year. ESG Framework.

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The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance

GreenBiz

Nasdaq offers definitions and criteria for each type of bond here.). As with any growing market, there’s a need for standardization of definitions and metrics. Sustainability bonds are used to finance projects that bring clear environmental and social benefits. By whatever name, money is pouring in. But that’s inevitable.

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Tastes great, less carbon. Climate-positive beer takes regenerative agriculture mainstream

Impact Alpha

29 – Soil health is all the talk on the campaign trail in Iowa as well as on the slopes of Davos. Something’s definitely in the air, er, ground, when organic agriculture features in a Super Bowl ad. ImpactAlpha, Jan.

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Top Fossil Fuel Ad Ban Critic Runs Group That Got $450K from Oil Company

DeSmogBlog

Credit: CNRL disclosures Neither Buffalo’s organization nor CNRL responded to detailed questions about the financial contribution. “I I definitely respect his right as an Indigenous person to have his own perspective,” Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Wilp, or house clans, of the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs, said of Buffalo. .’