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Treat citizens as partners, not participants, to improve air quality research

Envirotec Magazine

Encouraging citizens to take part in almost every step of scientific air quality research improves their understanding of how air pollution affects their health, finds a new study from the University of Surrey. Collaboration: constant interaction between researchers, communities and policy makers.

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Ed’s note: Energy poverty in our own backyard

Smart Energy International

It brings together academics, policymakers and various experts in the field of energy poverty for a series of seminars, workshops and discussions. Energy poverty already has powerful implications today from a public health or productivity point of view, for example, as it may harm one’s ability to live a decent life or perform a job.

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Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about

GreenBiz

"Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth," writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book "Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret," published by The New Press in November.

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This is the future climate hawks want to see

Business Green

It would be easy at this point to simply list the litany of policy failures and the paucity of political leadership documented by the CCC's almost satirically titled progress report. But one way to help break the current political and policy log jam is to keep reiterating that this transition can be done, and is being done.

Politics 101
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Project Legacy earns LEED Gold for circular, sustainable design

AGreenLiving

Related: A LEED Gold-targeted health education hub joins University of Washington campus The most prominent feature is both striking and functional. The policy is called RISE EAN, or “Route for Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship.” Building from the ground up, the UEAN project required suppliers to meet certain standards.

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#Greentown10: A Look at Greentown’s Biggest Annual Event Throughout the Years

Greentown Labs

The first-ever Greentown Labs Climatetech Summit introduced what we see as the four pillars of climate action—technology, finance, policy, and justice—and featured programming on each, alongside extra opportunities to network with our startups, including our first investor speed networking. In 2020, we took DEMO Day to the next level.

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Judicial Council of California: Engineering Specialist

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

tracking utility incentives through to capture of rebates and energy savings, assisting in energy policy. Building policies, Owner’s Project Requirement (OPR), JCC Technical Standards, Operating Guidelines and energy data collection for GHG inventory to move towards. This position is responsible for overseeing, conducting, or managing.