Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

All river stakeholders, including water companies, businesses, regulators, industry and the public must invest in ending all sewage pollution and the management of land and surface water as a system (catchment-based management) to deliver healthy rivers. Flood plains in London are currently home to 1.42

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. It is also through this reconnection with nature that mental and physical health is improved.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Improve physical and mental health of residence. Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Reduce stormwater run-off. Lower energy costs of the building. Increase connectivity to natural environment. Benefits of Living Roofs. Increase lifespan of roof membrane. Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As Microsoft builds data centers in Iowa, it is also investing in urban forestry projects to bring an environmental and health benefit to the neighborhood as well. City Forest Credits worked with scientists to quantify the exact health benefits of each tree, creating a measurement scheme similar to carbon removal metrics. "We

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Improve physical and mental health of residence. Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Reduce stormwater run-off. Lower energy costs of the building. Increase connectivity to natural environment. Benefits of Living Roofs. Increase lifespan of roof membrane. Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads.

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Stormwater Sustainability Cooling Soil 78

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The event took place at the Royal College of Pathology in London, but the body of water infrastructure was the one under examination on this occasion, not least, the health of the instrumentation monitoring some 375,000 combined sewage and stormwater overflows (CSOs) in the UK wastewater network. . “A

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic pollution crisis: using “recycled” plastic in construction materials. A view of houses built with bricks made from plastic waste in Costa Rica.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Nelson is a co-founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics (US/UK) which set its goal at developing theory and practice of how to better integrate human technologies and activities with restoration of ecological health. The institute was a key part of the Biosphere 2 research team.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With sustainability at the forefront of business models, companies can operate sustainably while still allowing reduced carbon emissions and pollution, enhanced energy and resource efficiency, and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. It is also through this reconnection with nature that mental and physical health is improved.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

However, the existing comprehensive planning process is not accessible or equitable for many people in frontline communities and does not address the disproportionate impacts from climate change and pollution. Required Elements in Comprehensive Plans ( RCW 36.70A.070 Currently, the Washington State Department of Commerce is granting out $55.5

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Using blue-green space as a sponge for rainwater, the cloudburst adaptation project not only mitigates the effects of cloudbursts, but also increases biodiversity, improves health and quality of life for local citizens and reduces air pollution and the urban heat island effect.

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Stormwater Biodiversity Pollution Health 36

Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Like in the HEAL Act, a task force will be formed to further explore creating a state office dedicated to equity, and the decision-making body includes the people most impacted in all areas of government, such as environment, health care, employment and education. . Healthy Communities Rooted in Place Photo by Hannah Letinich.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

For starters, they’re responsible for producing oxygen and removing CO2 and other pollutants from the air. remove an estimated 75,000 tons of air pollution per year. ” Building community by planting trees To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees.

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Health Organic Stormwater Cooling 28

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As Microsoft builds data centers in Iowa, it is also investing in urban forestry projects to bring an environmental and health benefit to the neighborhood as well. City Forest Credits worked with scientists to quantify the exact health benefits of each tree, creating a measurement scheme similar to carbon removal metrics.

Health 28

Health Carbon Stormwater Logging 28

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Sustainability and Compliance Division is involved with establishing environmental policies and programs; implementing health, safety and compliance activities; advancing clean energy technology; and integrating green practices into City and community activities. Sustainability and Compliance Division (SCD). Minimum Qualifications: 1.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As the phrase ‘forever chemicals’ enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be time for a change in the way these persistent environmental pollutants are tackled. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.

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Agriculture Pollution Stormwater Ozone 147

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. It can also pollute nearby waterways, poisoning plants and wildlife.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 136

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Ginkgo Sustainability is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. It is also through this reconnection with nature that mental and physical health is improved.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral 158

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

However, critics of net-zero pledges charge that corporations fall back on "net zero" goalposts to look virtuous while getting a free pass for their carbon-polluting sins and that net-zero deadlines are set so far in the future as to omit any accountability plan. It's really, really hard to get to net zero," Kline said.

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Carbon Real Estate Carbon-neutral Sustainability 42

Grist

JULY 21, 2022

From large pieces, such as bottles, cups, and even a Smurf action figure, to tiny microplastics — fragments, films, fibers, or foams less than 5 mm long — plastic is one of the most common pollutants this group will find, mirroring what cleanup crews regularly see across the country. Dan DeLong / InvestigateWest.

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Plastics Pollution Microplastics Home Energy Monitoring 102

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As always, equity and access is at the forefront of our mission to fund critical solutions for climate change, particularly in communities affected by the compounding effects of pollution, vulnerable infrastructure, and limited economic opportunities. Entrepreneurs may have half the solution, and communities often have the other half.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. Pollution Concerns From the outset, many local residents were wary.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 121

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 9, 2021

Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. We are particularly interested in innovations around: Soil health and carbon sequestration technologies. Energy technology at the nexus of other sectors including health. Eliminating pollution in frontline communities and creating local job opportunities.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. With dam failures and overflows from combined sewer and stormwater systems common, there’s more work to do. Some go even further.

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