Grist

APRIL 13, 2022

The four are moving quickly to examine the tiny invertebrates, keeping them in plastic bins filled with ocean water to ease their stress. Now, it serves a dual purpose, carrying scientists and volunteers on weekends and in off-hours to monitor the coral they’re working to save. The structure is known as a “crib.”

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To address this, a TerraChoice report titled The Sins of Greenwashing: Home and Family Edition identified seven sins of corporate greenwash. McDonald’s addressed the environmental issue of plastic pollution by replacing their straws with paper alternatives. However, these new straws weren’t recyclable, whereas the plastic straws were.

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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. Water efficiency from drip irrigation also translates into energy savings.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources will take place on November 25-26, 2019 in Rome, Italy. The theme is "Renewable Energy for a Better Future" and the it will include: Keynote talks, Plenary sessions, Discussion Panels, B2B Meetings, Poster symposia, Video Presentations, and Workshops.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2021

Part 2: Goals and KPIs – This section documents your current baseline in terms of your eco profile which includes your energy usage, water usage, carbon emissions and overall eco score. Every industry and every business uses resources and energy differently. Can we use less or adopt clean alternative energy sources?

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

How to divert energy flows from fossil to renewable using electricity and biomass Summary - Up to 20% of our energy needs could be met by sustainably harvested biomass, in particular food and agricultural waste, as well as manure. In part II we learned that the world needs 435 TWh of energy per day. Or is there?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Energy Manager. Energy managers focus on the operations and functions that require power. Project Leader, Program Manager.

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Grist

JUNE 15, 2021

Coastal armoring refers to the construction of hard structures like seawalls along coasts, and nearly 14 percent of American coastline is already armored. Clad in knee-high rain boots and carrying two shallow plastic crates, we approached the shoreline. That portion could increase to one-third by 2100 if current rates continue.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

Regain your power, and use this article alongside the ISO 14000 family of standards to approach sustainability with an actionable manual to get things done. ISO standards are identified using multiples of 1000 (the family), and any number after refers to the specific standard (e.g. What is ISO 14000?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability trend #1: Rising fossil fuel prices call for energy-efficient retail. The average price of fossil fuel energy – oil, natural gas, and coal – has increased since 1976 , with a very recent surge in gasoline prices hitting record highs in 2022. ” – Target CEO Brian Cornell.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Energy Manager. Energy managers focus on the operations and functions that require power. Project Leader, Program Manager.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Behind every successful sustainability program is a team of hard working and committed individuals, what Green Business Bureau refers to as “green teams”. Lists may refer to the project phases while cards designate a specific task and can be dragged and dropped into its proper place on the board. CREATING A GREEN CULTURE.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy. Energy and food are intrinsically linked together. Fossil fuels are demanded throughout the entire food supply chain and consume 30% of the world’s available energy. Considering we’re currently in an energy crisis , these figures are concerning.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids. or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Sometimes the dynamics of this saturation are so complex and inscrutable that our strides unsettle sand that is several meters away, so that with each step we see little bursts of light up ahead of us, wherever the water is wicking through the grains. When the sky’s grown dark we stop hiking and set up camp behind the dunes.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For instance, according to studies from the National Institute of Health (NIH) , certain plastics found in consumer packaging can lead to cancers, diabetes, neurological disorders, hormonal imbalances, and other various ill-health effects caused by inhalation or direct contact. Are you utilizing post-consumer materials ?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2020

Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/11/2020 - 00:44.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Already beset by plastic waste problems , Point Nemo’s once pristine environment is increasingly becoming a junkyard. What is conventionally referred to as “space law”, as established in 1967 with the Outer Space Treaty , dictates that splashdowns are perfectly legal and in fact necessary for the preservation of the resource of space.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

are dedicated to turf grass — and to maintain those acres, homeowners apply around 3 million tons of nitrogen-based fertilizers per year and give their yards haircuts with gas-powered lawn care equipment, which spews an estimated 30 million tons of CO2 as well as other harmful substances, like fine particulate matter. The leaves.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

From plastics to fashion, the US chemicals giant is innovating in pursuit of a new approach for managing the world's most ubiquitous materials. But something extraordinary is going on at this Eastman chemical plant: two breakthrough processes to turn waste plastics of all kinds back into new plastics, continuously, with no loss of quality.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. Our usage has jumped 62 per cent over the course of a few decades — up from 61.6 And can any drop in oil usage happen quickly enough? (5)

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Grist

JANUARY 4, 2022

As other climate war zones smolder with wildfire embers, are strewn with flattened homes, or marked by bleached coral, the signature of conflict on a seabird island in the Gulf of Maine is a maddening quietude. Both terns and puffins are referred to as “climate canaries” in the animal world. I began visiting these islands 35 years ago.

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