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The road to a sustainable economy

The Environmental Blog

Many businesses and governments put profits and short-term gains over the long-term health of our planet. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference. This sees them as reluctant in transitioning towards renewable energy. Another challenge is the short-term focus of the current economic system.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

We need to build resilience into both physical and social structures of our cities. Organizations such as nursing homes or hospitals should be involved in designing livable and healthy cities of the future. Many cities are already taking action against increasingly frequent extreme heat events. Smart Cities.

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Events - SUSTAINATOPIA 2020 Series (Los Angeles, New York, Boulder and Vancouver)

Green Market Oracle

Lifestyles of Health & Sustainability (LOHAS) includes consciousness, mindfulness, meaning, and holistic living. Energy, Water & Smart City Revolution Clean Tech & Energy, and Water includes leading investors, companies in renewable energy, recycling, info tech, green transport, green chemistry, buildings.

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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Announce Second Cohort for ACCEL, an Accelerator for BIPOC-led Climatetech Startups

Greentown Labs

is harnessing biology to clean water for planetary and human health. is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Its co-founders are Tejus Mane , Matthew Bukovicky , and Aniket Khade. Aquasaic (Cambridge, Mass.) Its co-founders are Shalmalee Pandit and Nikita Patil. Its founder is Andre Gafford.

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Innovative biophilic design planned for new village in Portugal

AGreenLiving

The individual buildings that constitute the various elements of the organization are connected to form large contiguous work environments – physically consolidated, but spatially varied to create a human-scale experience,“ said João Albuquerque, Partner in Charge at BIG.

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Public investment, private innovation: The global market for air quality marketing

EDF + Business

Technology providers can fill the communications gaps by providing services that ensure real-time data is accurate and placed into an appropriate context – especially as public interest in how pollution monitoring data can be interpreted for health outcomes increases. Latin America.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

AGreenLiving

We need to build resilience into both physical and social structures of our cities. Organizations such as nursing homes or hospitals should be involved in designing livable and healthy cities of the future. Many cities are already taking action against increasingly frequent extreme heat events.