Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Indoor air quality specialist and Radon expert Airthings, was among firms offering insight into the problem: “Radon enters a building as the air pressure within a building is usually lower than the pressure in the soil and rocks around the building’s foundation. It enters through a process referred to as advection.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater. Why a problem?

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

HVAC refrigerant, often freon, leaks as a gas, making it difficult to detect and imposing a serious health hazard to humans and the environment the longer the leak persists. These products may also contain volatile organic compounds (VOCs), making breathing in these chemicals a potential health risk. Espoma Organic Weed Preventer.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Refer to the membership options here. Virginia Lamb, Groundwork Education and Consulting, is an Environmental Educator with over 25 years’ experience in recycling, composting, soil health and organic gardening. General ticket: $15. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. No promo codes needed. B ecome a member here.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

The mortality rate has been estimated at 30 to 60 percent , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, and it’s a particular risk in health care settings where infections can easily spread, such as hospitals and nursing homes. auris was first spreading in the U.S., auris was first spreading in the U.S.,

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”. The authors used “restoration” to refer to sustainable management of land and water.

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Grist

JUNE 9, 2021

Commonly referred to as “forever chemicals,” their legacy can be found everywhere — in soil, groundwater, lakes, oceans, and now, even the rain. The findings highlight the ubiquitous nature of PFAS chemicals, man-made substances used in common household products because of their water-, oil-, and grease-resistant qualities.

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Pollution Soil Health Transportation 131

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These new tools — under development or in the early phases of testing — are helping put numbers to the abstract concept of regenerative agriculture and helping measure metrics such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration and other soil health considerations. The resistance sensors on the probe calculated the density of the soil.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

There are also increasing concerns about the effects of agriculture on soil health, with detrimental effects including erosion, pollution (nutrients and pesticides), compaction, desertification and salinisation. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 144

Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

This change in the timing of the annual cycle of plant developmental stages, or phenology, in turn produces massive ripple effects that impact human health, cultural practices, farmer livelihoods, and food security. Source: Vitasse et al. Pollen-related medical bills in the United States alone have exceeded $3 billion annually.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You can see an image presented with a vegetation index that is color coded to indicate crop health – red indicates lower vegetation and green indicates higher vegetation. Below are sample outputs from RHIZA’s app, Contour. The two sections show different periods of the growing season.

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Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil Africa 72

Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is studying samples of soil and ice extracted from the north Alaskan coast in 2018. In the two long weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, research into our warming climate has been put on hold. Emily Bristol takes soil samples off the coast of Alaska. Bristol is one of the lucky ones.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 138

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. According to a 2016 study by public health, nutrition and environmental experts, replacing beef with beans in the American diet would free up 42 percent of U.S.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We had to make a fuss about why there were no popup sites for vaccinations in Black neighborhoods…This is the time to mobilize resources for our health, and for a longtime now, our lives. Arsenic is in our soil. Environmental, racial, and economic justice go hand in hand. When I look at environmental justice, it is so connected.

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Health Pollution Organic Soil 52

GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

It has invested in such programs as the Soil and Water Outcomes Fund , which helps farmers adopt soil health and water conservation practices. Specifically, its relationship to both water quality and quantity, as well as the role of farming in sequestering carbon dioxide, which, in turn, improves soil health.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. It is work like this that has Massachusetts-based nuclear forensics scientist Dr. Marco Kaltofen deeply concerned about worker health risks. Credit: Marco Kaltofen. Raising Red Flags.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Health 98

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 16, 2022

Refer to the membership options here. His focus is to help others do the right thing by recycling and keeping hazardous items from being buried into the earth’s soil. Eco-friendly processing will help everyone’s health. Standard ticket: $15. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. No promo codes needed.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 6, 2020

soy, wheat, and corn farmers use cover crops, and only 25 percent have adopted crop rotation and conservation tillage practices, even though the country is losing more than 10 billion tons of soil each year as well as more than $50 billion in social and environmental benefits.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. She tells of how the coal mines’ encroachment into Shor ancestral land put an end to their low-impact existence.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Short papers must give a clear indication of the objectives, scope, and results of the paper, and must (at least) contain an abstract, an introduction, a results/discussion section, and a reference section. All accepted extended abstracts, short, and full papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference in a USB drive.

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Pollution Global warming Climate change Soil 52

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. References. November 2019.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. She tells of how the coal mines’ encroachment into Shor ancestral land put an end to their low-impact existence.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 86

Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Soil Methane Carbon Organic 84

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

As a result, the UK is already facing a catalogue of physical threats to public health, infrastructure, and businesses which are costing the country billions of pounds each year, according to the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) latest five-yearly comprehensive climate risk assessment.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

RCPP and REAP have a proven track record of promoting sustainable farming practices and increasing the deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency in rural communities RCPP Nebraska Soil Health A $4.4 DTTL (also referred to as “Deloitte Global”) does not provide services to clients. Key Takeaways IRA adds $4.95

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Short papers must give a clear indication of the objectives, scope, and results of the paper, and must (at least) contain an abstract, an introduction, a results/discussion section, and a reference section. All accepted extended abstracts, short, and full papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference in a USB drive.

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Pollution Global warming Climate change Soil 40

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

The organization is committed to creating a future where buildings are designed and operated with resource efficiency and occupant health in mind. Background: The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is a global organization dedicated to improving the health of people in buildings and communities around the world. WaterSense.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

It refers to when a firm invests in projects that generate carbon removals and emissions reductions within its extended value chain, for instance through regenerative agriculture programmes, forest conservation projects, or providing clean technologies to households in farming communities.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Drip line refers to rigid, structural piping while drip tape is thin-walled plastic tubing most commonly used in drip irrigation applications due to its adaptability to various topography and soil conditions. Additional benefits of drip irrigation include: Adaptable to uneven topography and soil texture.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

There are many types of carbon removal, but they all involve taking existing carbon out of atmospheric circulation, say, by planting new trees, improving soil quality, or using technology to suck it directly out of the air and inject it into the ground.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In addition to growing grapes without chemicals or common additions such as yeast, the lunar and astrological cycles are often considered when making decisions about the health of the vineyard. Sustainable wine This label is fairly subjective and typically refers to the way the vineyard is managed more than the way the wine is produced.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. We're bringing them in as formal employees and providing health insurance.". The same nutrients that benefit human health can also contribute to the healthy growth of farm animals.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground. Credit: Nick Cunningham However, the hub is situated on seismically unstable land.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. To answer that question, let’s refer to the rules of sustainability. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC). All of a sudden sustainability is about climate change, ending poverty, and gender equality.

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