Impact Alpha

JUNE 17, 2021

The post The Brief: Closing racial wealth gaps, European solar assets, access to medicine in India, recycling electronics, catalyzing climate capital appeared first on Impact Alpha. The Call No. 29: Capitalism Reimagined. Chris Jurgens of Omidyar Network outlined a strategy for reimagining capitalism in last.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 22, 2020

The post Egypt’s Chefaa secures early funding for medicine delivery service appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The women-led startup, whose name means “healing” in Arabic, directs customers’ prescription orders to nearby pharmacies for fulfillment and delivery to customers. Chefaa has raised an undisclosed amount.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

A common fixture in mid-20th-century bathrooms, our medicine cabinet hung on the wall above the… The post Maven Moment: The Medicine Cabinet appeared first on Earth911. See more here: Maven Moment: The Medicine Cabinet.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

Brits can now recycle their empty medicine blister packets by dropping them off at pharmacies participating in the latest initiative from recycling specialist Terracycle.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Gather your unwanted, unused prescription drugs for safe disposal; the next National Prescription Drug Take… The post Dispose of Medicine for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day appeared first on Earth911. Read more from the original source: Dispose of Medicine for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Advantage Card holders will receive 150 points when they recycle 15 empty blister packs and spend £10 in one of 100 selected stores across London and South East

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Traditional medicine offers a path to reach Sustainable Development Goals on health, but care must be taken to conserve and not overexploit bioresources.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Sobering report from Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns governments and businesses are ill-prepared for sea level rises expected this century.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 10, 2020

Find out how fungi are saving the planet, from cleaning the water and air to providing medicinal benefits.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Gather your unwanted, unused prescription drugs for safe disposal; the next National Prescription Drug Take… The post Dispose of Medicine for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day appeared first on Earth911. Originally posted here: Dispose of Medicine for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 22, 2020

The post The Brief: Catholic climate investors, racial justice pledges, impact investing handbook, Egypt’s medicine marketplace, India’s social stock exchange appeared first on ImpactAlpha. RSVP today. Signals: Ahead of the Curve Catholic institutions.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2020

This renewable and easily harvestable organism is used for everything from food to spa treatments to a possible COVID-19 medicine. While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The event is specifically designed for those working in, studying, or researching medicine or public health. Professor Sir Stephen Holgate, PRC clinical Professor, UKRI Clean Air Champion and Special Advisor to the RP on Air Quality, Faculty of Medicine at University of Southampton. School of Medicine, University of Leeds.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2020

It also gives a real feeling of connection with other people and ultimately with everyone, so it is good medicine in a time of feeling lonely. Over the last six months or so, I've used it to reduce the anger I feel towards damaging politicians. The anger is draining, and this practice works well on it. This practice too is very simple.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

By putting chemicals in the artificial leaf’s microchannels, which resemble the veins on a real leaf, and exposing it to sunlight, solar reactions create medicine. Maybe we could be making malaria medication.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

According to the article , humans are consuming more pharmaceuticals than ever before; in 2020, the volume of medicines used worldwide reached 4.5 The pharmaceutical industry and its customers need to assess and adjust many aspects of the life cycle of medicines. billion doses, and consumption continues to rise.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 6, 2024

New report warns of deadly health risks from fossil fuel pollution, including alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations poses serious risks to human health, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 1, 2022

Residents of the Sumatran village of Muara Jambi are working to preserve their ancient practice of cultivating and using medicinal plants.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 4, 2022

Commenting on the significance of the findings, Karen Shapiro, an infectious disease expert and associate professor in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine , said: “Microplastics can actually move germs around, and these germs end up in our water and our food.”. We all depend on the ocean environment.”.

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Charged

MARCH 30, 2023

Now a team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have begun to document the actual respiratory impact of EV adoption in a study that uses real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health. Source: Keck School of Medicine via CleanTechnica

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Read the original: Be prepared: Energy, food and medicine at risk from rising seas, engineers warn. Sobering report from Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns governments and businesses are ill-prepared for sea level rises expected this century.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 16, 2020

Spain’s coastal city of Badalona has recently welcomed the Centre for Comparative Medicine and Bio-Image.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Ultimately, it could help to inform decisions around the medicines and chemicals we use to help limit environmental impacts.” “By creating a national baseline, we’ll have a valuable dataset helping point to the contaminants and rivers that might need more scrutiny and help predict the impact of things like climate or land use change.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In a recent report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examined whether and how constructing offshore wind farms in the Nantucket Shoals region, southeast of Massachusetts, could affect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. As renewable energy production expands across the U.S.,

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 20, 2022

Seth Leitman “Laughter is the Best Medicine” From […]. Apart from the amount of work that needs to be done, other individuals might be challenging to deal with. Seth Leitman is familiar with such scenarios as he himself deals with them.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2023

The study is published in Annals of Internal Medicine. The water purifier had been installed in the hospital to improve water palatability but was inadvertently removing chlorine from the supply lines feeding ice and water machines in the affected area of the hospital.

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Green Living Guy

AUGUST 4, 2021

While some have accepted it and deemed it fit for consumption for medicinal and recreational purposes, others are still on the fence. There has been quite a debate on the legalization of CBD in countries across the world. Research studies carried out on CBD have brought various unpleasant truths to the surface that are only […].

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 10, 2022

ImpactAlpha, January 10 — Bangalore-based delivery platform Dunzo helps small and local businesses fill online orders for food, medicine and consumer goods in 300. The post India’s Dunzo rakes in $240 million for quick local grocery delivery appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Discharges of treated water contributed to significant concentration increases in downstream waters for half of the medicines examined. It should include retrospective risk assessments for drugs already in use, assessment of breakdown products, as well as the effects of mixing medicines.

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TechXplore

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fluorine can be a beneficial ingredient in medicines because of its excellent pharmacological properties, according to Phillip Milner, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). But fluorinated chemicals can be difficult—even dangerous—to work with, requiring complex instrumentation.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Benefit #1: Medical Advancements Toxic chemicals have been instrumental in medicine, leading to groundbreaking discoveries and life-saving treatments. When managed responsibly through hazardous materials assessment, they contribute to advancements in medicine, agriculture, water treatment, energy generation, manufacturing, and waste disposal.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The next 6-12 months will be a wild ride for us, we are currently planning to move to a seed-to-sale model so we can better control the quality and supply.

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 4, 2024

We cover a huge amount of ground from how a crumpled piece of paper started everything to modern practice of deprescribing medicines – and Karen’s principle that human health and planetary health are strongly connected.

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GatesNotes

AUGUST 1, 2022

Why I made a deerskin medicine bag with Washington state’s Teacher of the Year.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 20, 2021

ImpactAlpha, January 20 — Dunzo’s delivery platform helps small and local businesses fill online orders for food, medicine and consumer goods in 300. The post Google invests in Dunzo to advance India’s digital economy appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

NERC commends the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine's (NASEM) recent report focused on obstacles to decarbonization. The report, Accelerating Decarbonization in the United Sta.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2023

Microorganisms began producing antibiotic molecules long before we started to use them as medicines. Wastewaters have unique characteristics, allowing resistance genes to start their journey from harmless bacteria to those that cause disease.

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