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Nature On The Eve Of Destruction -- The UN Extinction Report

Jim Conca

Let’s face it. Nature is losing against humans. A new U.N. report shows one million species are close to extinction, threatening our own existence. And while it’s not too late to recover, we must start transformative changes, the type that the Nations of the world can’t seem to make on anything.

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Brandon Cosinteno Named CleanTX Executive Director

CleanTX

Press Advisory from the CleanTX Organization. Contact: Ryan Edwards (CleanTX Board Chair). Brandon Cosinteno Named CleanTX Executive Director. Austin, TX – Brandon Cosinteno has been named the new Executive Director for CleanTX. Brandon comes to Austin from Idaho where he has experience as a social media and public relations manager, executive director of a nonprofit and television journalist.

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E2, Businesses Unite for Clean Water

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

You could say water is the lifeblood of the environment and the economy. Few places know this better than Michigan. Now, the state has chance to lead on developing policies and technology that ensure clean, reliable and affordable water. In Michigan, tourism and outdoor activities generate $40 billion annually and employ more than 400,000 workers. Other water-dependent businesses, from breweries to family farms, generate tens of billions more in economic benefits.

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The Future of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

This two-day business conference will identify the main areas of opportunity and innovation within the food and beverage industry. We’ll assess how business can react to consumer trends and expectations, whilst building sustainable, resilient agricultural supply chains. Farmers. This track will look at how business can work with farmers to build resilience down the supply chain and ensure a business model that attracts the farmers of the future.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Ocean Conservation: Microplastics in the Food Chain

Green Tech Challenge

For years we’ve listened to environmentalists and conservationists talk about the need to reduce plastic waste. This problem does not seem to be going away as quickly as it should. Not only do new plastic waste deposits still make it into the ecosystem, but because plastic is not biodegradable, it will take decades to rehabilitate … Ocean Conservation: Microplastics in the Food Chain Read More » The post Ocean Conservation: Microplastics in the Food Chain appeared first on GREENTECH C

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[Blog] Tennessee?s WAP Teams Up with TVA to Reduce Operational Friction, Serve More

Home Energy

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), where I work as a senior manager, is a corporate agency of the United States that provides electricity for business customers and local power companies serving nearly 10 million people in parts of seven southeastern states. TVA receives no taxpayer funding, deriving virtually all of its.

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Using Purge and Recovery Techniques in Ground Gas Risk Assessment

Ambisense

Purge and recovery tests involve removing gas from a monitoring well and recording the recovery in gas concentration immediately afterwards. The tests were often used in the early 1990s to assess gas emission rates but were replaced by direct flow rate measurement from boreholes once accurate flow meters with a low detection limit became available. .

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Ocean Conservation: Microplastics in the Food Chain

Green Tech Challenge

For years we’ve listened to environmentalists and conservationists talk about the need to reduce plastic waste. This problem does not seem to be going away as quickly as it should. Not only do new plastic waste deposits still make it into the ecosystem, but because plastic is not biodegradable, it will take decades to rehabilitate the ocean. In recent years, concern has risen about the effect plastic waste could have on human health.

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The Virginia creeper will just have to sustain us now

Unsustainable

words by Gerard Oosterman All our communal town-houses were originally planted with gardens which included the Virginia creeper, shown in the above photo. This creeper grows very fast, mainly at night when everyone is sound asleep or, if not sleeping, at least inside their dormitories. Originally, our townhouses had a united garden which included the Virginia creeper.

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The EPA Chief Says Clean Water Is Our Top Environmental Concern.

Jigar Shah

The EPA Chief Says Clean Water Is Our Top Environmental Concern. Here’s How That Can Impact Climate Change, Too Recently, EPA chief Andrew Wheeler commented that combating climate change wasn’t his top environmental concern ; rather, he wanted to focus on the lack of clean drinking water plaguing towns across the country. The outrage in response was quick and understandable.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Fund Development Manager

Front And Centered

FRONT AND CENTERED is seeking a Fund Development Manager to oversee the foundation and donor development work, with the core purpose of building the capacity of communities of color to engage in forwarding equitable solutions to climate change and environmental injustices. Working with the director and in collaboration with a committee and other associated contractors, this role will provide strategic direction for the fund development, including but not limited to coordinating foundation applic

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The EPA Chief Says Clean Water Is Our Top Environmental Concern.

Jigar Shah

The EPA Chief Says Clean Water Is Our Top Environmental Concern. Here’s How That Can Impact Climate Change, Too Recently, EPA chief Andrew Wheeler commented that combating climate change wasn’t his top environmental concern ; rather, he wanted to focus on the lack of clean drinking water plaguing towns across the country. The outrage in response was quick and understandable.

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Election Fever

Unsustainable

Australian Election Fever: We just had an election, giving us the same mediocre government who cannot guide us through the perils of our present times. words by Peter Hannemann We just had an election and we ended up with the same mediocre government we had before. They are not a government to guide us through the perils of our present times. The so-called democratic system allowed us to elect a mediocre government, by mediocre people for mediocre people.