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5 ways businesses can take action to reduce environmental racism

GreenBiz

Extreme heat and storms, sea level rise, intense wildfires — climate change may threaten everyone, but many BIPOC communities are more vulnerable to climate impacts. This can include reducing harmful on-site emissions as well as off-site fleet electrification in high pollution areas. The business role in climate justice

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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce and Green Business Bureau Join Forces

Green Business Bureau

“Our chamber has a long history of taking actions to fight climate change driven by carbon emissions in order to protect small businesses from sea level rise and severe weather, which are costly to individual businesses and the economy in general. Take Environmental Action. Cut Business Costs.

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A sunken river valley could hold the key to protecting the Texas coast

Grist

Ultimately, the researchers will be able to compare and verify what they see in the acoustic imaging data with what they find in the cores to understand how the ancient coast evolved in response to sea-level rise. Noise pollution from the process can also impact marine mammals by scaring off their prey.

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Environmental Literacy: Altering Humanity’s Course

Green Technology

Will Parish is a credentialed public high school science educator with a 30-year record of innovative accomplishments in the environmental and educational fields. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. An Interview with Will Parish. So I decided to become a teacher.

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What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'

GreenBiz

From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote.

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The head and the heart: Why science and art should work together

Grist

It’s already happening in the world of education, where there’s a push to expand the well-funded focus on science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, to include art. It’s not only just educating people, but it’s actively combating all the misinformation that’s out there. Add the A and you get STEAM. What about you two?

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Is human activity responsible for the climate emergency? New report calls it ‘unequivocal.’

Grist

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now at their highest point for at least 2 million years. Sea level rising so fast? More emissions also means the land and oceans become weaker at soaking up that carbon pollution, making heating even worse. When was the last time we saw heating this fast? Temperatures this high?