Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. organization, said that for too long, people have mined the earth, used its resources, and thoughtlessly discarded the rest. In turn, this has unleashed tons and tons of greenhouse gasses each year.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Total is seeking a judicial ruling that would force the organizations to withdraw their report and all references to it, with a penalty of 2,000 euros (around $2,200) per day for every day the materials remain publicly available. A five-week trial in the case is scheduled to begin in July 2024. In April, a U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The human rights organization characterized the company’s filings as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, or SLAPP, to “intimidate and silence activists from speaking out about the possible environmental damage caused by the company’s exploitation of Kosovo’s natural resources.”. Speaking Out.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

The intensity of logging has been increasing across Europe in recent years, correlating with a growing demand for forest biomass energy, and the same is happening elsewhere, including in the Southeastern US , the world’s biggest wood pellet producing region.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The inspiration for PaperTale came to Swedish creator Bilal Bhatti after more than 15 years of witnessing the atrocities associated with fast fashion, such as worker exploitation and environmental pollution. This information allows PaperTale to calculate an environmental footprint of the product that shows water usage and carbon emissions.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. High organic content (over 50%) in growth media (soil).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Plans by biomass giant Drax to manufacture wood pellets sourced from Californian forests will endanger natural habitats and increase toxic air pollution for rural communities, campaigners warn. Logging and road building in any kind of primary forests is associated with increasing fire risk,” she said.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

Companies that use these certifications are committed to advancing the practice of sustainable logging and promoting forest productivity and regrowth after they harvest the wood. Organic Materials. One should look for companies that practice responsible forest management and that are FSC certified (Forest Stewardship Council).

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Extensive logging of the trees in the past three or so decades has been a major contributor to the current situation in which a healthy mangrove ecosystem in Kenya is in danger. Brain Youth Group, a community-based organization in Mombasa, has a purpose to conserve the mangrove forest along Tudor Creek.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 17, 2020

Log your running and walking miles every day and connect with others for a common goal; participation is free. In the past, the organization has raised more than $300 million for programs benefiting air, land, water, wildlife and public health.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

. “There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In their eyes, it doesn’t do enough to address climate change and allows emitters to continue polluting the air in the meantime.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

So he began looking into converting plants into something called biochar, a charcoal-like substance made by heating organic material in an environment without oxygen. I think that building a monument to climate change in the form of some temple that memorializes humanity’s past sins of polluting would be really poignant,” said Meissner.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You can get carbon credits for urban forestry Because urban forestry generally has a relatively low carbon removal impact, fewer organizations are focused on creating carbon credits for these projects. Here are four things sustainability teams should know when considering the urban tree business.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. The implications extend nationwide.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2020

Every organism that depends on photosynthesis to survive and create the building blocks they need for life are an integral part of this carbon sequestration web. Every complex food web starts with organisms on plant-based diets. Before these organisms evolved trees would die and start to pile up. And how about the tree roots?

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 15, 2021

Since items like batteries, paint and chemicals, lightbulbs and electronics are designated as hazardous waste, unintentional disposal of these items could result in hazardous pollution of land, waterways and the air. Here’s a screenshot of an initiative related to hazardous waste disposal taken from the Green Business Bureau EcoPlanner.

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

Unlike several other Earth Day weekend cleanups going on farther down the beach, this group has been given special instructions that will help them categorize and log everything they find, from food scraps and toys to tiny pieces of foil and, of course, many types of plastic. Dan DeLong / InvestigateWest.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 15, 2021

Since items like batteries, paint and chemicals, lightbulbs and electronics are designated as hazardous waste, unintentional disposal of these items could result in hazardous pollution of land, waterways and the air. Here’s a screenshot of an initiative related to hazardous waste disposal taken from the Green Business Bureau EcoPlanner.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. Public Health Watch also analyzed more recent TCEQ pollution data and found that Channelview’s benzene problem has only worsened over the years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

An important parameter is the Log Removal Value (LRV) , she said – a measure of the ability of a treatment processes to remove pathogenic microorganisms. They would have a better shot at it than most, he said, because “sewage has less chemicals, metals and organics than wastewater in a wastewater treatment plant”.

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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

Earlier this year, for instance, Occidental Petroleum sold a shipload of oil that it said was completely carbon neutral because it had bought offsets for the latent pollution in the crude at 65 cents for every one of the 2 million barrels. A logging industry facility sits in a forest clearing in Vermont. Grainfill Creative.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

But Energy Transfer’s suit, initially filed by law firm Kasowitz, Benson & Torres in 2017, took its defense of the pipeline much further, charging pipeline resistors with violating state and federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) laws that could have made them liable for nearly $1 billion in damages.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 4, 2021

In addition to bat houses, you can provide habitat in the form of decaying logs. Avoid pesticide use that suppresses insect populations as well as polluting the environment, food supply and human health. Here are two design options if you opt to build your own: Four-chamber Nursery Bat House and Two-chamber Rocket Box.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 29, 2021

While there were previously protections in place, former president Trump had exempted the area in his last few months of office, which opened the door for building roads, logging and other damaging activities. One Tree Planted is one such organization. Fortunately, myriad businesses have begun contributing to reforestation.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

The International Energy Agency has also recommended “maximising” bioenergy – which derives from burning organic material for fuel. A report by Ember found that Drax is also one of the top five emitters in Europe of polluting particles from power stations. Burning wood provides around 30 percent of renewables and biofuels.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Aidan Dresang is a climate justice advocate and digital organizer from Madison, Wisconsin. This passion quickly turned into community organizing and eventually led to his involvement with YCAT where he served as one of their executive directors. "I Karen Dong is an organizer from Watchung, New Jersey and currently resides in New York.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

To add insult to injury, Trump is using the pandemic to help polluters. A recent executive order allows polluting projects like power plants and pipelines to forego proper environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act. At the same time the U.S.

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