Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2021

A lot of plastic is produced from fossil fuels. Reducing food waste, making precious medicines available to people in remote places, or indeed removing the use of plastic packaging?". Between four million and 12 million metric tons of plastic enters the oceans each year, threatening marine life and polluting our food.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. . SGH2 is negotiating with fueling stations interested in the Lancaster plant’s output. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

By putting chemicals in the artificial leaf’s microchannels, which resemble the veins on a real leaf, and exposing it to sunlight cause solar reactions to create medicine. Producing and transporting drugs currently requires dangerous chemicals and a lot of fossil fuels. Via New Atlas Image via TU/e.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Al-Sabah contextualized his estimate in saying that a substantial number of the world’s poor are dependent on fossil fuels to deliver their food and provide medicine. He did not provide a reference for how this estimate was determined.

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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

Any genuine climate test will confirm what UN chief, Antonio Guterres, called for on Monday: an unequivical end to all new fossil fuel exploration and production 'before they destroy our planet'," she added. "Do As things stand, the UK government just nods them through.".

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Related: Air pollution caused by fossil fuels kills millions The worst-case scenario was recorded at Christopher Street station in Manhattan. According to Terry Gordon, professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and a co-author of the study, the amount of pollution in New York is the most alarming. “It

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. In a series of studies, Goldstein and his colleagues identified a higher incidence of respiratory problems among schoolchildren from homes with gas stoves.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Moreover, the consultation recommends setting an international benchmark for the emissions associated with oil and gas extraction, in order to assess whether emissions from future domestic projects are lower than the amount that would be produced from importing fossil fuels from abroad.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

We’ve reached a crossroads where our own future is at stake if we don’t move away from fossil fuels and end wildlife exploitation, and at the same time, necessarily, address poverty and injustice." I take your water, you take my energy, they take our food, we take their medicine. Extinction is a political choice.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 18, 2022

She is also an active member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine and chairs the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Barabino also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It was quickly apparent that Ida bore the hallmarks of climate change caused primarily by fossil fuels , climate scientists observed. Those warm ocean temperatures are the fuel for these big tropical storms,” Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability, told The Hill last week.

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Business Green

APRIL 3, 2023

The bet that new fossil fuel investments are a viable runway. Some financial institutions are banking on running out the clock on investing in fossil fuels. The thinking that there aren't enough opportunities yet to invest in.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our medicines, our berries, our food, the animals, our water, our culture, our homes are all here since time immemorial,” Sleydo’ Molly Wickham of the Wet’suwet’en said prior to her arrest. They arrested at least 15 people.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

This increase will push out alternative, fossil-fuel-powered energy sources, supporting a much-needed energy evolution as fossil-fuel reserves begin to deplete. For instance, projects include extensive agricultural training and the commercialization, collection, transport, and sale of açaí, rubber, and medicinal plants.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 8, 2020

Even under the most optimistic scenarios the transition from fossil fuels to clean sources of energy like renewables will take time and if we are to have a shot at keeping global temperatures below the upper threshold limit GHG emissions will need to be prevented from reaching the atmosphere.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

We lose not only those plants and animals we know of, but even undiscovered ones with medicinal potential that could never be recovered. Indeed, were it not for the Amazon rainforest helping to re-absorb the carbon from the carbon footprint generated by human consumption, land use and fossil fuel burning, climate change will not be buffered.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It highlighted how while more than half of the UK's electricity is now sourced from low carbon sources - such as wind, solar and nuclear - oil and gas remains critical for providing heating, cooking, and transport in the UK, as well as being vital for producing plastics and medicines.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It also helps tackle global warming because intensive small-scale sites can be ‘farmed’ or gardened more sustainably, with less recourse to fossil fuel-powered vehicles or machinery. For individuals: A community garden can provide other yields as well as food, such as fuel, crafting materials, and natural medicine.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

Together, these fungi species are unlocking solutions for cleaning up the environment, developing greener construction and product materials and contributing significant medicinal benefits. What are fungi? Fungi are basically the digestive tract of the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

The 9-year-old girl’s fatal asthma attack might have passed without public notice except for the fact that, after a long legal fight, it became the first British death officially attributed to fossil fuel-caused air pollution. After the class, Lemery was hooked on wilderness medicine. In the U.S.,

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fundamentally, to avoid putting a molecule of CO 2 into the air from the global energy system — for example switching from fossil fuels to wind or solar — is far easier than getting that molecule back out. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Other studies offer far more adamant objections.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. SGH2 is negotiating with fueling stations interested in the Lancaster plant's output. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. and the non-psychoactive relative to marijuana) is a versatile crop grown specifically for industrial and medicinal uses. Hemp (a variety of Cannabis sativa L.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, seaweed has been a staple of Asian diets and traditional medicine for centuries, and its various applications in food production and scientific research date back decades. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The WRI warned that we need to stop burning coal (Yang & Cui, 2012) and the IPCC synthesis report (2014) said that we must stop using fossil fuels. A report from the Global Carbon Project, (GCP, 2019) expects that emissions from industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels will add an estimated 36.8

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. SGH2 is negotiating with fueling stations interested in the Lancaster plant’s output. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

For example, our deepening understanding of DNA helps us discern how drugs, medication, multi-vitamins or treatment plans work differently in patients — creating a brand-new frontier, personalized medicine.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

In addition to fossil fuel-based building blocks like ethylene and propylene, this ubiquitous material is made from a dizzying amalgam of more than 16,000 chemicals — colorants, flame retardants, stabilizers, lubricants, plasticizers, and other substances, many of whose exact functions, structures, and toxicity are poorly understood.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2021

Not to mention petroleum-based plastics are only draining our finite supply of fossil fuels. Polyethylene that has been produced from the fermentation of raw agricultural materials like sugarcane and corn rather than fossil fuels. Bio-derived Polyethylene. However, only a small number of them are commercially available.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company has since whipsawed between its wholesale-energy legacy of fossil fuels and greener horizons. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks. To mollify shareholders, NRG shed its renewables business and EVGo vehicle-charging infrastructure. Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E; San Francisco.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Scientists have known this in a roundabout way for a long time: After all, the coal and oil deposits that have fueled civilization since the Industrial Revolution come from ancient marsh and marine ecosystems that, after accumulating huge quantities of carbon, were buried and fossilized over millions of years.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

At the same time natural land processes absorb carbon dioxide equivalent to almost a third of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry,” he said. “Agriculture, forestry and other types of land use account for 23% of human greenhouse gas emissions,” said Jim Skea, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III, another contributor.

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Mosaic

MAY 28, 2019

And, for some energy industry perspective, there are just over 167,000 people in coal power plants and coal mining combined according to the most recent data from the Department of Energy , which means the solar industry is already a much bigger source of jobs than the dirtiest fossil fuel. Solar Installers Set to Boom in 8 States.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. Air pollution: Fossil fuel combustion produces fine-particulate air pollution, which leads to the premature death of an estimated 14,400 people across Canada. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Like the Obama Administration, the Biden Administration initially adopted a relatively hostile position toward the fossil fuel industry. They could tell Americans to take their medicine, live with higher gas prices, and then privately hope that hastens the transition to green energy. away from fossil fuels is a noble one.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

San Francisco Bay Area biotech giant Genentech is a world leader in making medicines for diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis; it’s even trialing one of its medicines for helping treat COVID-19. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here.

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