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Earth Day goes big & virtual again

Greenability Magazine

This Earth Day will be bigger than ever, offering the public the opportunity to join events around the world as it will be mostly virtual again in response to COVID-19. Earth Day will be celebrated with live, interactive events in Kansas City and worldwide. On the first Earth Day in 1970, U.S.

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From Google to North Face: Six of the best Earth Day announcements

Business Green

On its 50th anniversary and in the midst of the worst global crisis in living memory, this year's Earth Day had a particular power and resonance. I've always been somewhat ambivalent about Earth Day. We're good at having Earth Days, but Earth Years? Not so much.

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On the agenda this Earth Day: A global treaty to end plastic pollution

Grist

Happy Earth Day (and Earth Week, and Earth Month) — a time of year when sustainability is elevated in the global consciousness, and my inbox is full of vaguely greenwashy PR pitches. But it struck me that Earth Day 2024 has a particularly timely theme: Planet vs. Plastics.

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Episode 219: Water, workplaces and well-being

GreenBiz

This year on Earth Day, the company said it had reached a milestone of 1 billion gallons restored. Music in this episode by Lee Rosevere: "Waiting for the Moment That Never Comes," "Knowing the Truth," "Southside," "Start the Day," "Thinking It Over," "Curiosity" and "Introducing the Pre-Roll". Intel's water world (16:25).

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Rebuilding recycling to go circular

GreenBiz

Rebuilding recycling to go circular. The circular economy is a solution for our future health and wellness and recycling has a vital role to play. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone. The Recycling Partnership’s 2020 State of U.S. Keefe Harrison.

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Sport Industry Sustainability: 5 Simple Steps to Kick-Start Your Sustainability Program

Green Business Bureau

Also, take a moment to consider the construction process which institutes the use of large construction vehicles, and demands mass amounts of raw materials. This will reduce demand for new facilities. Add a sufficient number of labeled recycle bins in every field and stadium. Offer composting bins in areas where food is served.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

Those Apollo missions are often credited with providing inspiration for the environmental movement, as well as the first Earth Day in April 1970, when some 20 million Americans demanded that political leaders clean up the air and water in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. Space Frontiers / Getty Images).