Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

Inflow of stormwater and infiltration of groundwater into sewers is a constant operational challenge, but a water utility in Norway is gaining better understanding of its network with an innovative digital approach, says Marco Westergren, chief analytics officer at water analytics platform provider InfoTiles.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 24, 2021

To encourage property owners to use best practices for stormwater management, Johnson County Stormwater Management Program offers the refunds to homeowners and businesses that make improvements on their properties. This water is not treated before reaching these waterways, which causes water pollution, flooding and land erosion.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For more than a decade, fertilizer leaching and associated stormwater runoff were thought to be the major drivers of harmful algal blooms in Florida’s Indian River Lagoon. This is likely the result of increased infiltration, groundwater flow and stormwater runoff in the wet season.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

All river stakeholders, including water companies, businesses, regulators, industry and the public must invest in ending all sewage pollution and the management of land and surface water as a system (catchment-based management) to deliver healthy rivers. Flood plains in London are currently home to 1.42

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Reduce stormwater run-off. GBB members can reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality, and lower cooling costs as a result of improved insulation and get credit for it in their EcoAssessment and GBB certification.” – Tom Permatteo, Founder & CEO of Green Business Bureau.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

To encourage property owners to use best practices for stormwater management, Johnson County Stormwater Management Program offers the refunds to homeowners and businesses that make improvements on their properties. This water is not treated before reaching these waterways, which causes water pollution, flooding and land erosion.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

is bringing sustainability into the built environment through living roofs and living walls, structures that use plant power to lower building energy use, reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality and encourage biodiversity. “Connecting the Living and the Built Environment” Ginkgo Sustainability Inc.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Stormwater is the number one cause of water pollution in urban areas. StormSensor is a stormwater management solution designed to "take the expense, fear, and frustration" out of stormwater compliance.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Stormwater is the number one cause of water pollution in urban areas. StormSensor is a stormwater management solution designed to "take the expense, fear, and frustration" out of stormwater compliance.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 18, 2022

All too often, we hear about oil spills and toxic waste sites polluting the environment… The post What Can You Do About Nonpoint Source Pollution? View original here: What Can You Do About Nonpoint Source Pollution? appeared first on Earth911.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

For starters, they’re responsible for producing oxygen and removing CO2 and other pollutants from the air. remove an estimated 75,000 tons of air pollution per year. Urban trees don’t just store carbon, they reduce stormwater, they improve air, they provide energy savings in terms of heating and cooling.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It should have presented an open goal for a fresh start to stop sewage pollution in my lifetime, instead they’ve scored an own goal. The government has even stopped engaging with its own taskforce, which has neither been given the results of the consultation, nor invited to advise further on how the plan could have been strengthened.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Reduce stormwater run-off. GBB members can reduce stormwater runoff, improve air quality, and lower cooling costs as a result of improved insulation and get credit for it in their EcoAssessment and GBB certification.” – Tom Permatteo, Founder & CEO of Green Business Bureau.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The event took place at the Royal College of Pathology in London, but the body of water infrastructure was the one under examination on this occasion, not least, the health of the instrumentation monitoring some 375,000 combined sewage and stormwater overflows (CSOs) in the UK wastewater network. . “A

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 27, 2020

This sent 150 million gallons of polluted water cascading into a stormwater ditch surrounding the plant. This polluted water turned the creek, which flows into the nearby Hillsborough Bay, acidic. The smoke from these fires can cause drastic increases in air pollutants, seriously harming local air quality.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With sustainability at the forefront of business models, companies can operate sustainably while still allowing reduced carbon emissions and pollution, enhanced energy and resource efficiency, and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. GREEN COMPANIES TO RECOGNIZE. Smog Armor. Ginkgo Sustainability Inc.

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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. Understanding the Current Green Roof Industry.

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Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

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. The basic layers are (from roofing up): . Understanding the Current Green Roof Industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

He said: “Once regarded as worthless swamps because they can’t support agriculture, wetlands are now called the kidneys of the planet because they are so efficient at removing harmful compounds before these reach rivers, lakes or the ocean or pollute sources of drinking water.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic pollution crisis: using “recycled” plastic in construction materials. A view of houses built with bricks made from plastic waste in Costa Rica.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

Past winners have worked to reduce waste, air pollution, stormwater runoff, energy costs and transportation costs. The purpose of the KC Green Neighborhood Recognition Program is to recognize those neighborhoods that have implemented sustainable practices within their community.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

But as is the case with renewable energy credits, there are worries that carbon credits could give businesses the same license-to-pollute mentality. "We can assess a project's equity and health impacts, and then we’ve mapped those impacts to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," he said. . McPherson sees it differently. .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve even been researching creative applications to achieve this goal, such as floating solar farms on stormwater ponds at the Orlando International Airport and other locations throughout the region.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Using blue-green space as a sponge for rainwater, the cloudburst adaptation project not only mitigates the effects of cloudbursts, but also increases biodiversity, improves health and quality of life for local citizens and reduces air pollution and the urban heat island effect. Andersson, founding partner and design director of SLA, said. “We

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Conference highlights Soil Metabolism Soil Biota : Ecosystem Stability Soil and Plant Ecology Soil Regeneration Soil Erosion Soil Physics and Soil Mechanics Soil Fertility Soil Pollution Agronomy and Agricultural Research Agricultural and Natural Resources Plant and Agro Sciences Plant Nutrition and Soil Sciences Plant Physiology Plant Tissue Culture (..)

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 1, 2020

Related: The net-zero Frick Environmental Center is officially one of the world’s greenest buildings Most impressively, Watershed features a comprehensive stormwater management plan that aims to capture and treat millions of gallons of runoff a year.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Both a rain garden and bioswale retain or slow the movement of water from the property, decreasing stormwater runoff. As the water moves through the channel, the mixture of native plants slows the movement and increases infiltration to remove pollutants. Let’s look at what might be best for your situation.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The final phase of AMP7 is being carried out during a period of unprecedented public and media scrutiny, especially around the role combined sewer overflows (CSOs) play in discharging pollution to water bodies.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

But warming waters, rampant coastal development, agricultural runoff and pollution from wastewater treatment plants are all causing toxic algae blooms which spell the doom of grasses. Nearly half of this year’s manatee deaths have been in Brevard County, home of a crucial manatee habitat called Indian River Lagoon.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

He said it was primarily salt water “mixed with legacy process water and stormwater runoff.” ” Related: Study finds US tap water is contaminated with dangerous chemicals If you’re wondering what “legacy water” is, you’re not alone.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

However, the existing comprehensive planning process is not accessible or equitable for many people in frontline communities and does not address the disproportionate impacts from climate change and pollution. Required Elements in Comprehensive Plans ( RCW 36.70A.070 Currently, the Washington State Department of Commerce is granting out $55.5

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. How we create livelihoods, how we meet our needs, and ultimately how we manage our economy is critical to reducing pollution and achieving our vision of climate justice. A Regenerative Economy.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The initiative seeks to keep pollution out of estuaries the Proctor Creek feeds into, such as the Chattahoochee River, and ultimately the ocean. As a 9-mile tributary of the Chattahoochee River, Proctor Creek experiences both stormwater runoff and flooding.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To help offset the square’s carbon footprint, the architects propose the addition of a rainwater harvesting system that would eliminate the need to connect the development to the municipal stormwater drainage system. Photovoltaic coatings could be overlaid atop pavements and glazed surfaces to generate renewable energy.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP21). The NYS Pollution Prevention Institute promotes cost-effective methods to conserve energy, reduce waste, and improve business performance. Only Con Edison gas and electric customers are eligible for CIEE programs.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As the phrase ‘forever chemicals’ enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be time for a change in the way these persistent environmental pollutants are tackled. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.

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