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ClimeMET: Connecting People with the Weather and Environment Around Them

Green Business Bureau

From tide clocks to barometers, rain gauges to hygrometers, ClimeMET provides its customers with everything they need to be able to monitor the weather. The ultimate goal was to provide ordinary people, whether they had a passion for gardening or for the high seas, with everything they needed to be able to easily monitor the weather.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

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Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. Recycling metal rather than using virgin ore helps preserve natural resources and saves energy. RECYCLED PLASTIC. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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Investors Challenge ‘Blind Spots’ in Climate-Friendly Ratings for Ad and PR Giants

DeSmogBlog

However, a DeSmog investigation has found that these scores take little or no account of multiple risks associated with the advertising and PR industry’s role in the climate crisis — from reputational damage caused by greenwashing fossil fuel clients, to threats to staff retention, and the danger of being sued for climate damages.

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Investors Challenge ‘Blind Spots’ in Climate-Friendly Ratings for Ad and PR Giants

DeSmogBlog

However, a DeSmog investigation has found that these scores take little or no account of multiple risks associated with the advertising and PR industry’s role in the climate crisis — from reputational damage caused by greenwashing fossil fuel clients, to threats to staff retention, and the danger of being sued for climate damages.

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Sustainability Guide for Video Production: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

What they found was that on average, across large and small productions, fuel use was the number one source of emissions, followed by utilities, air travel and housing. Lower Fossil Fuel Use . If budget allows, transition to electric vehicles and research clean fuel options for heavy duty vehicles like biofuels.

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Green Realtor® Guide: Marketing Eco-Friendly Homes and Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. Energy efficiency. Home renewable energy systems. Philips offers an online energy calculator for consumers to figure out just how much energy they use.

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Waste Management Checklist: 26 Tips For Minimizing Waste

Green Business Bureau

Below we’ve listed the 7 different types of waste a business can generate, as detailed by the Environmental Protection Agency : Municipal solid waste, Hazardous waste, Industrial non-hazardous waste, Agricultural waste, Medical waste, Oil and gas production waste, Fossil fuel combustion waste. The waste management checklist.

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