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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER. RECYCLED STEEL.

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

Before a new drug or medical treatment can be given to patients, it must first be approved by a regulatory organization such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases.

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Creative Oxygen Labs Develops a Revolutionary Clean Air Solution For Coating Walls

Green Business Bureau

The company was determined to find a solution that could complement vaccines by minimizing the impact of harmful airborne microscopic organisms on our respiratory system. As such, Creative Oxygen Labs is bringing clean air to every home, office, school, hospital, clinic, gym, and restaurant around the world.

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Wildfires are getting worse, and so is the deadly smoke they bring with them

Grist

A coalition of statewide organizations, including CAUSE lobbied for an emergency regulation that went into effect earlier this year. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example. The current regulation doesn’t require that employers send workers home when air quality is bad due to wildfires.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

Several houses near her home remain vacant. It's also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city. He bought a plot of land on the edge of town and built a home, finished by the time his fourth child was born, he said. "I In many ways, Maleta Kimmons defines her neighborhood by what it lacks.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Ian Champ. (He/Him/His)

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In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” In Morocco, the company distributes drinking water and electricity.

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