The Environmental Blog

MAY 29, 2024

Combining principles from various scientific disciplines, it addresses some of the most pressing challenges facing our planet, such as pollution, waste management, and climate change. Environmental engineers work on designing and implementing systems that reduce pollution, manage waste, and protect natural resources.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

Leaders in Housing Development Training and Community Resilience. and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. Employee Engagement and Organization-Wide Events.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

The food and agriculture industry, responsible for 19 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is ripe for climatetech innovations that reduce waste and emissions and restore healthy ecosystems. Moonshot Compost collects and consolidates food waste for composting from businesses and residents, with a focus on data creation and management.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We hope to quantify related water and nutrient footprints and the potential to promote climate resilience.” Biochar can be made from any organic (carbon-containing) material, such as wood waste or crop residues.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly becoming incorporated across all aspects of organizations, including business strategies, operations and product/service offerings. The drive to make companies more climate resilient and sustainable started with institutional investors, long aware of climate risk.

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Green Technology

MARCH 20, 2023

Forum Floorplan Advisory Board Register to Attend How County Agencies Partnered to Develop a Regional Model for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Schools that Can be Taken to Scale Across California This session answers the question: How can regional agencies partner with TK-12 schools and to catalyze environmental and climate action?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Compared to the industrialized and supersized food system most Americans live with — represented by rivers of wasted milk and COVID-19 outbreaks at meat-packing plants that killed more than 200 people — these distributed systems looked healthier, safer, and more environmentally sustainable than ever. They also looked more agile and resilient.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Governments urged to make waste management policy and investment a top priority at COP27 Climate Summit. Effective waste management policies could play a major role in the effort to stabilise global temperatures at safer levels, with a new report calculating that 1.4

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Americans waste almost as much food as they eat. That translates to $165 billion in wasted food per year in the United States. production of uneaten food wastes 25 percent of fresh water and results in 23 percent of methane emissions. Some of that food waste happens on a large commercial scale. Additionally, U.S.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

An excess of leaves and yard waste can be composted with food waste in a backyard compost pile. The Johnson County K-State Research and Extension recommends composting yard waste to reduce the amount of waste entering landfills and for a finished compost that improves garden and landscape soils. Start a backyard compost.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But regenerative has an older, more established, type-A sister that could be a path to legitimacy: organic. In the 1980s, organic was the new buzzword for farmers, grocers and consumers.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

When most people think about good design, they do not think about the speed of a sailfish, the strategy of serotinous pine cones or the resilience of a Joshua tree in the desert. Energy and materials elegantly flow through ecosystems, efficiently cycling back into new forms without waste or stagnation. Pull Quote. Circular Economy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 29, 2021

While the Basel Convention criminalized transboundary movement of hazardous waste (of which most electronics are classified) to limit some human health implications of electronics waste streams, plastic waste is another story, only recently having been included in the convention.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Veolia is partnering with Carbon Clean to trial a new carbon capture technology, while a separate £300m energy-from-waste facility in Teesside was this week granted planning permission. million tonnes of non-recyclable waste and use it to generate electricity sufficient to power 400,000 homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

This is the first time a comprehensive report has been undertaken to assess actions to mitigate public health risks associated with the use of public waters, contaminated by faecal matter from human waste. Minimising human faecal organisms in fresh water is a public health priority as well as an environmental one.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If holiday catalogues are clogging your mailbox, reduce paper waste by having your name removed from mailing lists. Gather together with zero waste. Share your meal & reduce food waste. Not only will you spread some holiday cheer, but you can also reduce holiday food waste. Minimize unwanted mail. Have more ideas?

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

What a waste of time and money. . About half of all buildings were built before 1980 , and many are old, dumb and wasteful. Buildings could be cheaper to run, provide healthier spaces and become more resilient. Not only does digitization support resilience and sustainability, it saves on cost," wrote Self. . Power Points.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As face masks become even more critical in fighting the spread of COVID-19, they are also taking a toll on our waste stream and the environment. You can make your own using salvaged, and/or organic fabric and online craft guides. The post How can we stay safe & not create PPE waste? According to the U.S. Photo: EarthTalk.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. 3 — Reduce Food Waste. From classrooms to boardrooms. Congrats are in order for closing a $3.8 million seed round last week. 10 — Rooftop Solar.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

These continuous changes result in increases in waste, emissions, resource depletion and high energy consumption. The problem we face today, is really the problems associated with population growth, consumption, waste and disposal. However, the depth of interpretation varies across organizations and industries, including government.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

How the Produce Industry Built Resilience During Changing Times The produce industry has long been building resiliency through sustainability strategies. Original post: How the Produce Industry Built Resilience During Changing Times.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing to promote events that are environmentally sustainable, resilient and restorative. Calendar listings can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

That's despite this being the second pandemic in 10 years, the fourth respiratory illness in 18 years, and numerous warnings from the World Health Organization, he added at the February virtual event. Balancing efficiency with resilience, as well as considering operational risk, are likely to become more of a focus, too.

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Events are listed below by sponsoring organizations. If your organization would like to include an event, please email details to Greenability Weekly using Submit an Event. Composting Food Waste & Trying To Stop It , Missouri Organic Recycling. Interwoven: An Earth Month Retreat – The Resilient Activist.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“This leaf season offers an opportunity to take action to slow global warming in our own yards,” says Marty Kraft, organizer of Johnson-Su Composter workshops in the KC metro area. “As Many routine ways of managing yards have destroyed the organic portion of our soil and poisoned the microbial community. So we add more chemicals.

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“This leaf season offers an opportunity to take action to slow global warming in our own yards,” says Marty Kraft, organizer of Johnson-Su Composter workshops in the KC metro area. “As Many routine ways of managing yards have destroyed the organic portion of our soil and poisoned the microbial community. So we add more chemicals.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The way the world produces and consumes food causes huge environmental impacts, and yet 3 billion people worldwide are unable to afford a healthy diet, and up to a third of the food we produce is wasted. All comments expressed are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of their organizations.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250m in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. I hate to see food wasted, when there are so many people in the world who are going without," Winfrey said in the funding press release. I think it gives confidence to put more product on the shelf.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Resiliency + Adaptation. Manufacturing. Transportation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. Food waste and the increasing cultivation of crops for bioenergy are both serving to further increase these impacts. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford.

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Greenability Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2021

Greenability offers a free, online calendar listing for events that encourage environmental sustainability, resiliency and restorative living ideas. Events can be related to organic food, energy-efficiency, recycling, renewable energy, zero-waste, native plant gardening, nature, resilient living and many other environmental topics.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

As a pioneering climatetech community, Greentown Labs is issuing this open letter to highlight our solutions for improving American energy resilience and sustainability. Blackouts will occur with increasing regularity and severity until we build more resilient energy systems.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

How the Produce Industry Built Resilience During Changing Times The produce industry has long been building resiliency through sustainability strategies. Read the original post: How the Produce Industry Built Resilience During Changing Times.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. He served as corporate counsel on policy at Greenspot Smart Mobility, an EV charging startup, after clerking at various organizations, including the U.S. Transform Program Leader, Fight Food Waste Co-op Research Center; Brisbane, Australia.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

chats about why his organization became a mentor. Keryn James, ERM's group chief executive, and Mark Lee, head of the new organization, drop by to chat about the mission. . Lessons in resilience from the produce industry. 10 to discuss responding to disruption and how to balance food safety and security to minimize food waste.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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