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Sustainable Office Gifts: A Guide For Green Holiday Shopping

Green Business Bureau

For the Organizers. Use what you already have around the home or office to create a chic upcycled organizer! You can use patterned wrapping paper and old cereal boxes to create a nifty file/magazine holder or a desk organizer. Picture collage made from old magazines. But remember! For the Fashionistas.

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Will economics drive a paradigm shift in ballast water management?

Envirotec Magazine

Furthermore, all ships will need to have installed a compliant ballast water treatment system (BWTS) meeting the so-called D2 standard for the maximum amount of viable organisms that can be discharged by September 2024 under the BWM Convention. “We

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Water fleas as ‘canaries in a coal mine’ offer key to managing chemical pollution

Envirotec Magazine

Researchers have devised a new framework using high throughput ‘omics’ technologies to detect the effects of ambient chemical mixtures – of the type and concentration typically found in the environment – on the biology of living organisms. The approach uses Daphnia to understand what chemicals can be toxic to other species and how.

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Xavier Creative House: An Award Winning Sustainable Marketing Agency Supporting the Healthcare Industry

Green Business Bureau

Using these assessments, XCH offset 412% of the organization’s total CO 2e emissions using the offset providers Climate Hero , Aclymate and the Carbon Fund. XCH supports the health and well-being of their employees. Magazine named XCH on the 2022 Best in Business List in the Small and Mighty category. For instance: Inc.

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Using Recycled Paper Is Not Just About Saving Trees

Unsustainable

Take, for example, the fact that magazine publishers prefer virgin paper to the recycled kind because the latter is perceived to be of an inferior type not suitable for publishing. In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas.

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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

“Dying from a heat wave is like a horror movie with 27 endings that you can choose from,” said Camilo Mora, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, who has cataloged 27 different ways that heat can lead to organ failure and death. That’s not ethical.” Factors like age, illness, and body size change the math.

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The unexpected arboretum: CSUSM benefits from sustainable approach to water and environmental management

Green Technology

Back in 2021, arboretums were very much on the minds of surveyors from the educational facilities organization APPA when they visited California State University San Marcos. The work they do falls under the umbrella of the university’s Sustainability Masterplan.