Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

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. 250 million per year.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 6, 2021

Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal. For more than a decade, this has been the time of year — the run-up to Earth Day — when I’ve surveyed the public opinion polls, of which there have been many, to assess consumer and citizen trends on environmental issues, notably related to shopping. Joel Makower.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Happy Earth Day 2021! The host, Marco Krapels, a clean energy investor, introduced him to Mark Ruffalo and Josh Fox, whose 2010 documentary film, GASLAND , exposed the dire human health and environmental risks for communities living on the frontlines of America’s fracking boom. Congress; and policy pros serving President Obama.

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Defend Our Future

APRIL 7, 2023

Lenlee Davis is based in Denver, CO and is working with Colorado Rising to help plan a series of outdoor activism events and build policy-oriented calls to action. and is working with Our Climate to expand their youth ambassador program and organize Earth Day events. Maliyah Womack is based in Washington, D.C. on April 19!

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal Joel Makower Tue, 04/06/2021 – 02:11 For more than a decade, this has been the time of year — the run-up to Earth Day — when I’ve surveyed the public opinion polls, of which there have been many, to assess consumer and citizen trends on environmental issues, notably related to shopping.

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Martin LaMonica

DECEMBER 28, 2018

On Earth Day, the United Nations issued its first State of Plastics report , calling for more recycling and better ways to manufacture and manage the material in its many forms. The impact of China’s ‘National Sword’ policy. But in 2018, the alarm over the plastic pollution crisis sounded louder than ever. end up in landfills.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In the last couple of months the scientific and policy worlds have issued some dire reports. Lobby for aggressive pro-climate policies at all levels of government. What policies can we put in place to make it much more attractive for buyers to get the EVs and smaller cars? Besides a few messages around Earth Day, not many.

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GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

The circular economy is a solution for our future health and wellness and recycling has a vital role to play. Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. Support for local recycling programs with policies and capital.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s mission is to encourage people to enjoy the many benefits of the outdoors, while lobbying for wildlife protection, clean energy, health and safety and environmental preservation. Sierra Club is America’s largest grassroots environmental organization with a membership around 3.5

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2022

companies are rapidly approaching a highly public accountability moment on federal climate policy. As discussion grows about a new climate-focused bill, there's also renewed attention to what companies are doing - and not doing - to advance climate policy. With climate investments back on the table in Washington, D.C.,

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 11, 2020

This pandemic is exposing all of us to significant traumatic distress and placing us at risk for a host of stress and trauma-related health consequences in addition to the risk of contracting coronavirus. Learn from more than 40 experts including leading neuroscientists. By addressing these risks with simple yet powerful tools and practices?

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

But big questions remain over how the UK will meet hugely ambitious new targets, after government signalled it will not sign off on all the CCC's policy recommendations. But he also stressed that "what we need now is to ensure there is no gap between ambition and policy, so the UK has the right tools in its armoury to meet these targets".

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Forest Service was founded in 1905 with fire suppression as a key policy. the next day, fundamentally changing the composition of the forests across the West. The benefits of thinning coupled with intentional burns are widely accepted in the scientific community for helping to maintain the health and resiliency of Western forests.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2021

In addition to being the leading source of emissions, there are local pollution, environmental and health costs associated with extracting, refining, transporting and burning fossil fuels," they add. These costs are often paid by Indigenous peoples and marginalised communities.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2020

The circular economy is a solution for our future health and wellness and recycling has a vital role to play. Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. The time to transform the way we think about and manage waste is now.

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Support freedom of health care choices to women and all citizens. Work to provide health coverage to everyone, while also seeking ways to reduce the costs, without denying people with pre-existing conditions their access to treatment. Support an immigration policy that is fair and reasonable. Work to dismantle the bad policy.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Earth Day History and Transformation. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. Since the first Earth Day, the global average temperature has increased, rising at a rate of 0.32°F 10 years later, Earth Day began to face some opposition.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2020

Read time: 13 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. The well-funded machinery that sowed doubt about climate is now sowing seeds of doubt over the economic and public health response to COVID -19. .

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

How Earth Day Has Transformed Through Changing Trends. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. Since the first Earth Day, the global average temperature has increased, rising at a rate of 0.32°F Earth Day in the U.S.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. “It

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Seattle University Score: 79.41 | Seattle, Washington After the pandemic altered Earth Day plans, Seattle U unveiled a virtual event complete with Earth Talks. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19).

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. One day while sitting in the car, she attempted to toss a piece of gum into a nearby trash can and missed. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Vartan Badalian, 28.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Climate disruption is approaching a point of no return," Guterres will warned in a hard-hitting address timed to coincide with Earth Day. "We We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption.".

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2021

"Climate change poses an existential threat, but responding to this threat offers an opportunity to support good-paying, union jobs, strengthen America's working communities, protect public health, and advance environmental justice.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2020

How will Earth Day celebrate its 50th birthday? So the model didn’t change; the policies did. government has been relying on a model by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Article continues below. More in this series. Not as planned. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

—Deonna Anderson Vartan Badalian, 28 EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City LinkedIn | Twitter Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 24, 2020

His campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor, foreign policy advisor, and personal lawyer are all convicted felons. The only reason that Trump himself was not indicted is because special counsel Robert Mueller was bound by a Department of Justice Policy that says a sitting president cannot be indicted.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young, mostly female activists that are fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. Marjory helped people to understand that the well being of humanity is inextricably linked to the health of the environment. Marjory was a writer best known for her Everglades conservation advocacy.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 22, 2020

population at the time) took to the streets at the first Earth Day to demand a better future. Outraged by polluted air and water, by oil spills and the destruction of nature, these people's actions changed policies and politics, and sparked the emergence of the modern environmental movement. Within months, the U.S.

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