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. He describes the different types of bio-plastics and how recycling systems will need to change to handle plant-based plastics.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“It’s not just recycling and energy conservation. “In the past 15 years, Cool Schools has evolved dramatically—we used to hear about light-green initiatives like double-sided printing and Earth Day parties,” she said.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2020

Rebuilding recycling to go circular Keefe Harrison Mon, 05/18/2020 – 18:18 This article is part of our Paradigm Shift series, produced by nonprofit PYXERA Global, on the diverse solutions driving the transition to a circular economy. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

HAVE AN OPEN DOOR POLICY. Implement an open door policy to encourage employees to come forth with questions or problems at any time. Initiating an open door policy will require you to set boundaries. Google Calendar generates a Google Hangout link for remote meetings, allowing you to stay in touch with your green teams anywhere.

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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 idea behind Earth Day originated in California in 1969. Thirty years later, it tightened that approach, striving to extinguish all fires by 10 a.m.

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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. The campus community diverted nearly 70 percent of all waste this past school year (up from 56 percent the previous year), thanks to student-driven recycling audits.

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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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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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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. Vartan Badalian, 28. LinkedIn | Twitter. CEO and Founder, Wastezon; Kigali, Rwanda.

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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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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. “Solar is a new technology to be able to do so.”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Not only were we affecting our supply chain, we were finding a way to trickle down into infrastructure and policy reform and give back to our community in a way that engaged our employees," Harding recalls. For example, on Earth Day 2019, Allbirds committed to carbon neutrality from that year forward through an internal carbon tax.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Compared to men, women litter less, recycle more, and leave a smaller carbon footprint." WAGE® is working today to create a policy agenda for Rio+20 and generate relevant national initiatives that will promote the green economy, secure educational and job training opportunities for women and channel green investment to benefit women.

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