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Ethical Fashion: 3 Things To Know About Sustainable Clothing Printing

The Environmental Blog

However, they’ve been known to produce large volumes of chemicalized wastewater, consequently polluting drainage systems when disposed of. Also, the fabrics assessed must have a little-to-no effect on farming, soil, natural habitats, greenhouse gas emissions, and water and microplastic pollution. Recycled And Treated Water.

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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

It fuels IoT devices using solar PV panels that are powered from indoor light sources and is six times more efficient than previous iterations of artificial light harvesting technologies. This could reduce lost time of healthcare professionals and enabling life-saving equipment to be easily located and usage to be optimally managed.

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Laying Down Our Markers

Elemental Excelerator

In order to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and protect our planet, we will need to creatively redesign and reinvent our underlying energy, agriculture, water, mobility, and economic systems. And as the first state to set a 100% renewable energy goal, our work here can serve as the beacon for other states and countries to follow.

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Ranked: The 12 best ways to get cars out of cities

Business Green

The second-largest (and growing) source of climate pollution in Europe. A principal cause of stress-inducing noise pollution and life-shortening air pollution in European cities. Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are making driving even more wasteful and unequal.

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The Overview Effect

Grist

There’s an irony here: In order to gain this more-than-sky-high perspective, astronauts and space tourists have had to take an incredibly polluting journey. Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available,” Fred Hoyle, an English astronomer, wrote in 1948, “a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”

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Environment Agency chief Sir James Bevan: 'The water crisis is a ticking time bomb for the UK'

Business Green

We are still seeing too much pollution from sources we have known about for years: sewage, farming, industry and road-run off. Meanwhile new threats are seeping into our waters, including microplastics and so-called forever chemicals. But while continuing to demand better, we should recognise the major progress that has been made.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

During this era, humans began releasing concentrated amounts of carbon and other emissions, causing extreme air pollution and marking the start of the constant rise of atmospheric CO2, leading us to where we are today. . meters , with even a partial loss of its ice being enough to change coastlines around the world dramatically. .