DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2023

This story was originally published by The Energy Mix Weekender , and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis. Coolest and calmest with higher than average air quality!” The world “desperately needs oil and gas,” Sawan declared.

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Grist

JULY 15, 2021

You have to make a drain so that the water, or CO2 in this metaphor, can go somewhere, and carbon removal is the means to do that.”. There is no world in which we don’t need carbon removal” to avert climate disaster, Byrum said. Even if we turn the tap off, we still have a bathtub of CO2 that is full up to the top,” he said. “It

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Defend Our Future

MAY 27, 2021

I didn’t always love the mosquitos or the Georgia heat, but eventually learned to tolerate it in exchange for the sound of rustling leaves and the feeling of lightness that buoys you when you’re among the trees. My story is not unique. And at home, I learned to “reduce, reuse, recycle” from my mom. In the U.S. Yet, as part of the 3.5

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2023

The straw men are now so numerous you could start a climate-induced wildfire with them. For too long, hard-pressed families and businesses have been shut out of the discussions around the environment, climate change and pollution. However, it did require local authorities to come forward with plans to meet air quality targets.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

If you said solar or wind, that wouldn’t be a bad guess, since the U.S. If you said oil, gas or coal, you’d be dead wrong. Yep, you read that right. And they work at heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) companies, replacing outdated boilers and leaky ductwork with more efficient products. energy sector?

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Fairsnape

MAY 3, 2021

Regen Notes , a fortnightly newsletter is released through substack, as an update of regenerative news, stories and more with a sideways focus on the built environment, curated by me, Martin Brown. We may have the technologies but now need the mindsets. These newsletters will be also shared here for Patreon subscribers. Eco-Literacy.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2023

” So far, we’ve covered stories of people making waves by raising their voices in court and expressing their climate values during some of the most meaningful moments in their lives. And even if you don’t work in an obvious climate field, just about every sector touches or is impacted by the climate crisis in some way.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What I would love to do is to communicate as much as possible the jeopardy, the moment you see the vulnerability of everything,” he told Bezos. This air which is keeping us alive is thinner than your skin. It’s immeasurably small when you think in terms of the universe.”. It’s a sliver.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What made you decide to move from the private sector to teaching? In 2002 Governor Davis announced the need for 28,000 new teachers. What caught my attention was that you could start teaching without a credential as long as you enrolled in a credentialing program. So I decided to become a teacher.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

You should check out his podcast Field Work , produced by American Public Media. Plowing and tilling also encourage erosion, causing the soil to degrade, thereby increasing the need for fertilizer. Not every experiment works out, but they know you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. And boy does he love to talk?—?the

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. Everybody around me is like, ‘You can’t do that.’ Yeah, actually, I think I can.’”.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

And in that moment of doubt, he nearly blew everything up. “I I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I would invest in Charm,’” he recalls telling their investor that day. “I I’m investing in the team — I’m investing in the ability for you guys to figure it out,” Meehan said the venture capitalist told them. Stripe was sold.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

If you had told me the city is going to strike a deal with Zenith to allow at least five more years of their fossil fuel operations, I would just be like, ‘Why? You’re in the driver’s seat. Why would you give up your power and leverage?’ It doesn’t make any sense.”

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 16, 2019

Clockwise from upper left: pictures of NET Power, Fulcrum BioEnergy, and Lanzatech facilities Addressing climate change is a complex and difficult challenge, but we have more figured out than you might think. At the end of the day, we know (generally) how to decarbonize the majority of our economy. I agree with this framework!

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AGreenLiving

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. And the shade they provide isn’t just good for picnics; trees absorb heat and release water vapor that cools the surrounding air.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

But while the ad shows Exxon scientists hard at work developing “ algae farms ” and technology designed to suck carbon dioxide from the air, its business activities tell a different story. It has no plans to cut oil and gas production, which energy analysts say is urgently needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

According to Stanford Social Innovation Review, 90% of CEOs know sustainability is vital for their company’s success in today’s changing business landscape. The ISO 14000 standards address a need to standardize EMSs on a global scale, meaning comparisons between organizations can be made. What is ISO?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. If you do not agree with the assumptions or would like to contribute, share your thought and comments below. If we want to create synthetic fuel for the marine industry and use hydrogen as a feedstock, we could end up needing in excess of 50GW.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

It comes in the face of growing public awareness of animal agriculture’s harms – and more talk than ever of the urgent need to cut meat and dairy from our diets to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. warming, we need to slash emissions dramatically – and at speed. Powerful corporations are at pains to convince us otherwise.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2019

A person’s microbiome composition has been linked to everything from athletic performance to obesity and neurological diseases like Parkinson’s. Their message: Policymakers, mainstream climate scientists, and, like, everyone needs to get on the microbiology train. Why is studying microbes so important?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

I met Travis and his wife Nicole Dardar on March 17, before attending an air quality permit hearing held by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) in Cameron for another proposed LNG export project by Commonwealth LNG , a Texas-based company. One of many residences in Cameron Parish destroyed by Hurricane Laura.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Extreme Weather and the Climate Crisis: What You Need to Know by the Climate Reality Project How the climate crisis is making weather more extreme. This book explains how events like these are influenced by climate change and offer ways you can get involved in the fight for solutions.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We select a subset of companies to go through technical and financial due diligence, product evaluation, reference checks, commercial analysis, and most importantly getting to know the founding teams on a deeper level. Quick reminder: you can meet all of the Cohort 9 companies at TEDxElemental on October 28 at 12pm PT / 9am HT.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

So we know that humans have been telling stories for over 40,000 years. Childhood tales, such as The Story of Ferdinand convey culture, values and ideas of right and wrong. We listen to stories throughout our lives, these are tales that connect society, teach social norms, and provide community support.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn't lack is pollution. That is the story. she said. "I

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Grist

JULY 21, 2022

This story was published in partnership with InvestigateWest. 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.

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Michael Grossman

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Altering the famous James Carville line, “It’s the story, stupid.” But that can’t be the main thrust of our story; it’s an adjunct. Ask the average person on the street what it means, and you’ll get a shrug. Here’s How The Real Culprits Use Story To Win. Where do I sign up?

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of time making tiny measurements. Fertilizer is a major pollutant. Ohio officials know how to stop Lake Erie from turning toxic, but no one will do it.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. Pollution Concerns From the outset, many local residents were wary.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. So it feels good to give back in a way that I know I can help.". Deonna Anderson.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2021

Trials and tribulations It seems each story announcing a fresh net zero pledge now sparks outraged warnings on social media that "net zero is not zero" or heartfelt explanations as to why net zero commitments are meaningless 'greenwash' and what is needed is "real zero", like, yesterday. Amen to all of that.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice Kristoffer Tigue Mon, 07/06/2020 – 01:00 This story originally appeared in InsideClimate News and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. That is the story.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Protein is being sourced from an increasingly long list of plants, synthesized from carbon dioxide sucked from the air, and extracted from insects. Energy Procurement Fundamentals (Workshop): This session is designed to help you to develop foundational understanding of U.S. Because you never forget your first.

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Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rick Tsai searches for evidence of lasting pollution in the creek water at a construction site at Leslie Run. In rubber boots and waders, smartphones strapped to their chests to document the pollution, they wield shovels and rods to dislodge rocks and earth that harbor reserves of substances persistently leaching into the creeks.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Personally, I subscribe to journalist Nick Cohen's sage advice that you ignore what is going on at the extremes of political opinion at your peril. To borrow a phrase, why are you talking Britain down, Steve? Yes there are costs, but they are far outweighed by the costs and risks of inaction.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

He went to elite schools — first Eton, then Cambridge — then enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II. Suddenly Fisher had a lot of time on his hands and a lot of people wanted to know how the IEA had managed to push UK politics so far to the right and so quickly. It was a noble idea. So, he took the show on the road.

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Grist

OCTOBER 19, 2020

California’s system for capping and trading greenhouse gases is aimed at a global crisis, climate change, but the argument over the scheme centers on a local issue: dirty air spreading within neighborhoods surrounding polluting factories and power plants. On one side are advocates for climate action.

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