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Frontline Communities Practice Earth Day Every Day

Front And Centered

The driving force behind #EarthDeservesMore was to highlight the stories of our members: people and communities who advance environmental justice and confront climate change every day of the year, not just on a holiday like Earth Day. Below, we’ve provided a recap of some of those events, including photos and videos.

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Alok Sharma: 'We must also follow the best scientific advice on climate change'

Business Green

COP26 President steps up calls for 'clean, inclusive and resilient recovery' that delivers on the goals of the Paris Agreement, as polling reveals huge support for accelerate climate action. We will work together to ensure that the linked challenges of public health, climate change and biodiversity are addressed.".

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Rebuilding recycling to go circular

GreenBiz

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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What Is Carbon Accounting? Standards, Frameworks, Developments and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

Yet it wasn’t until 1992, with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , that a global movement to inventory GHG emissions, and with that, carbon accounting, began. C) within reach. In the United States, reporting on GHG emissions is mandatory for large GHG emitters.

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Rebuilding recycling to go circular

AGreenLiving

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 Day History: Transformation of a Celebration – Part 2

Green Business Bureau

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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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

Seattle University Score: 79.41 | Seattle, Washington After the pandemic altered Earth Day plans, Seattle U unveiled a virtual event complete with Earth Talks. Thanks to the university's new environmental literacy gen-ed requirement, students sign up for courses like Politics of Oil and Insects, Food, Culture.

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