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Sustainable Event Planning: Getting Started Guide for Small Businesses

Green Business Bureau

The importance of sustainable event planning. The time is now for event planners to host eco-friendly events using an effective sustainable event planning strategy. – Meet Green , The Environmental Impact of the Events Industry. . – Meet Green , The Environmental Impact of the Events Industry.

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Building community knowledge in Colorado

Defend Our Future

But without clean air, our health and safety in outdoor environments is threatened. Despite Colorado having some of the nation’s strongest clean air protections, Denver ranks as being the seventh-most polluted city for ozone pollution in the country according to the American Lung Association’s last State of the Air Report.

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Award in Lithuania for hydrogel granules approach to wastewater treatment

Envirotec Magazine

In May 2022, the invention landed the top prize in an annual innovation fair in Lithuania, the Technorama 2022 event. Pollutants pose a threat not only to human health and the ecosystem. It was developed by a team of researchers from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU).

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Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem

Envirotec Magazine

In addition, some health services have takeback programmes for expired or unused medication, preventing them from being flushed down the drain or disposed of improperly. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.

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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

Grist

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. And the U.S.

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Air Quality Monitoring Networks Support More Climate-Resilient Communities

Energy Innovation

D’Evelyn , a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Credit: Sarah Fish, PNASH Center, University of Washington As climate change accelerates, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as megafires and heatwaves are on the rise.

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Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs

AGreenLiving

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. But with the NRDC-UCSF findings, links can now be established correlating health data with climate change.