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Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa

DeSmogBlog

Communities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31. In 2019, nearly 8,000 victims of the spill filed a lawsuit in Taiwan against Formosa Plastics Group. In 2022, Vietnam’s seafood exports were valued at 11 billion USD. Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A.

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UK Green Business Awards - Finalists Announced

Business Green

& the London Borough of Brent - St Raphael's SolarSpace Community Centre Grosvenor - Holbein Gardens IBM Corporation - Hursley Datacentre IF_DO - Brent Cross Town Substation SEGRO - SEGRO Park Tottenham The Office Group - Black & White Building Green Heat Project of the Year Barratt Developments - Energy House 2.0

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Critics Question the Climate Crisis Benefits of Deep Seabed Mining

DeSmogBlog

These critics worry whether the ships doing this mining will dump back into the sea the huge amounts of toxic-waste and sediments produced by grinding up and pumping the rocks to the surface, impacting larger fish further up the food chain such as tunas and contaminating the global seafood supply chain. .

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Sustainable Food Management Checklist: Getting Started Guide for the Office Cafeteria

Green Business Bureau

Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together. Fossil fuels are demanded throughout the entire food supply chain and consume 30% of the world’s available energy. Considering we’re currently in an energy crisis , these figures are concerning.

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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

DeSmogBlog

Where the Tickfaw River leads into Lake Maurepas in South Louisiana, a coffin containing a plastic skeleton is fastened to pilings rising out of the water. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

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The search for the source of plastic pollution

Grist

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. Is the trash from camping? Is it from fishing gear?

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Compelled to action: 5 sustainability trends impacting food retail

AGreenLiving

While specific companies have invested in strategic energy efficiency or clean energy, the food retail industry has not had a wholesale reckoning with its climate change impact. Given the industry’s carbon footprint from energy consumption alone , there is ample opportunity to reduce energy usage and improve its bottom line.

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