Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish Widows has claimed that its £250m Environmental Fund now boasts the widest fossil fuel exclusions of any pension provider in the UK, as it unveiled a reboot of the 31-year-old scheme this morning. Outfits that receive revenue from nuclear energy or nuclear uranium mining will also be excluded, it added.

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Fossil fuels Ozone Nuclear Power Investment 89

Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Tech startup sustainability demands startup founders, owners, and operators to follow an effective sustainability program. In terms of the environment, research from the Center for Research into Energy Demand Solutions at the University of Sussex (UK) found that working from home can reduce an employee’s emissions by up to 80%.

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Business Energy Monitoring Startups Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 147

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

The primary cause of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels, which is occurring at a current rate at which the environment’s natural reuptake and stabilization cannot keep up. Traditionally, the ocean, soil, and forests have acted as carbon sinks, systems that absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release.

Carbon 148

Carbon Methane Global warming Business Energy Monitoring 148

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 16, 2021

Exponential Rise in Plastic Demand and Waste. The pandemic has increased the demand for plastics in the healthcare sector and even in our households. Healthcare demand: To protect healthcare workers, wearing PPE has become mandatory in hospitals and other medical facilities. Incineration = Air Pollution.

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Plastics Global warming Waste Waste 195

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. After they are cut they can be replanted, absorbing carbon once again as they mature.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 93

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 22, 2020

We are burning less coal and this has reduced acid rain and by eliminating CFCs we are helping the ozone hole to recover. Part of the process involves realizing that we have the right to demand clean air, water and soil, just as it is our right to demand a livable future. We have shown that we can make a difference.

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Earth Day Politics Ozone Fossil fuels 84