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Renovations and Improvements for Sustainable Homes

Green Business Bureau

The buildup of dust can weaken HVAC system efficiency, causing it to work harder and use more energy to heat or cool your home. This constant strain puts your HVAC system at higher risk of breaking down and needing repair. Check for HVAC Leaks. Many HVAC systems contain a system of ducts that require regular maintenance.

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

Intensive livestock farming causes higher levels of pollution and increases the risk of disease proliferation, and increasingly large areas of mono-cropped fields have reduced biodiversity and are frequently treated with fertilizer and agrochemicals that inflict further environmental damage.

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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030.

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Improve the Air Quality in Your Office With These 5 Plants

Green Business Bureau

They can remove several harmful compounds from the air and break them down into their soil. Causes of Indoor Air Pollution. The US Government’s environmental agencies report that indoor air pollution is currently America’s biggest pollution issue. Solutions for Indoor Air Pollution.

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Building Sustainability Checklist: 28 Tips to Make Your Building More Eco-Friendly.

Green Business Bureau

Reducing emissions, pollution, and environmental degradation. Creating healthy indoor environments with low pollution. Tip # 9: Add rain barrels – Adding rain barrels is an easy way to conserve water and helps to reduce runoff, environmental pollution, soil erosion, flooding, and sewer overflows. Reducing waste.

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Sustainability Marketing: How To Reach Three Kinds of Customers Of Green Products and Services

Green Business Bureau

Reducing asthma in a polluted urban neighborhood through clean energy.”. Forget HVAC headaches—the earth-friendly ventilation system has no moving parts to break down.”. “50-year With our fully compostable packaging, you’re adding soil nutrients, not paying to clog your landfill.”. We bake brownies to hire people.” .

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Canada’s power grid is pretty clean. Here’s why it needs to be cleaner

Clean Energy Canada

It includes the people who make our homes waste less energy: insulators and HVAC operators. This electrification of industry, buildings and transportation will help displace fossil fuels and cut pollution. Our relatively clean grid means the things we build on Canadian soil have a lower carbon footprint than they might elsewhere.