The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Founder of the business, Kei Nishida, shares that his desire to give back to the world inspired him to pursue the business advocacy: “We decided to use the tag line ‘Harvested with love in Japan’. Inspired by a pair of sandals made from recycled motorbike tyres, co-founder Kyle Parsons explored the idea that brought Indosole to life.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Butler was part of a group of residents, local community groups, and environmental advocacy nonprofits that took part in a concentrated battle to stop the Wanhua plant from being built. . Tags: cancer alley petrochemical development Wanhua Chemical “I live straight across the river from where the plant was going to be built.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Legislators in 26 states have enacted or proposed special registration fees for electric vehicles ( EV s) that the consumer advocacy group found to be more expensive than the gas taxes paid by the driver of an average new gasoline vehicle.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Let me put this in perspective, if one of these trucks blew up in the right conditions, it could destroy a neighborhood,” said Bill Huston, director of a research and advocacy program called Terra Vigilate, and one of a small group of advocates raising awareness about the extreme risks of fire and explosion of Virtual Pipeline trucks. “We

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

“A scientific, technological and analytic background is important, as is having advocacy and campaign skills.” “Understanding the importance of partnerships and campaign advocacy is key. Those interested in advocacy also may not know that law school is one of many paths to a satisfying career.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

Lemery’s “aha moment” in advocacy came while ascending the leadership ranks at the Wilderness Medical Society in the early 2000s. And this other stuff — advocacy — I’m not so into,” recalled Lemery. Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. That was kind of a bummer.”. It’s $820 billion.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 27, 2021

Related: Gray wolves at risk after being delisted as an endangered species The advocacy group Living with Wolves puts the population figure at only 900. ” The bill will allot an extra $190,000 to Idaho’s Wolf Control Fund to put out contracts on wolves, bringing the budget up to $590,000 in state funds.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2023

This tag line remains at the heart of the global B Corp movement. I am now director of advocacy at Natura & Co, the world's largest B Corp. Charmian Love is global director of advocacy at Natura & Co and co-founder of B Lab UK Over the years I've heard the B Corp community described in many ways.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To get a better understanding of the city’s legacy, DeSmog tagged along to an activist-led tour organised by Brussels based advocacy group, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and local activists at Glasgow Calls Out Polluters.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Labour's Party Conference kicked off yesterday, with the new tag line 'A Fairer, Greener Future' on prominent display, and the opening policy announcement coming in the form of a commitment to deliver a net zero emissions power system by 2030, a full five years earlier than the government's current 2035 target date.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Dhara Vyas, director of advocacy at Energy UK, said: "Energy UK has been calling for intervention to match the scale of this crisis so we very much welcome the Prime Minister's announcement and immediate focus on energy. The huge price-tag for this unprecedented intervention lays bare the cost of our reliance on volatile and expensive gas.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Cruz hadn’t heard about the heat pump initiative until The Verge reached out to a tenant advocacy group called Fight for NYCHA. That’s a hefty price tag for a renter if you’re comparing it to a window AC unit, and the new unit isn’t likely to be cheaper. She has a lot of questions for NYCHA about the heat pumps: Is it safe?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

CCS Isn’t Viable Without “Additional Incentives” from the Government The House Oversight documents further reveal that the fossil fuel industry is looking increasingly to the government for help with carbon capture’s hefty price tag. Shell did not respond to a request for comment.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

And that hefty price tag became more daunting when House Bill 2118 , signed into law by Democratic Gov. But transitioning from yellow to green is expensive. Ralph Northam, was left unfunded. That exposure puts them at a higher risk of developing cancer.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

It is is not an advocacy post, it's a corporate post about jobs in the green economy, so it was frustrating it was being flagged as a social issue, when you are talking about the facts of climate change," Fidler argued. But, as Fidler points out, she was trying to advertise a careers event, not make a political point.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The premise of this program is to build the capacity of our teachers to design and implement units of study that start with students identifying a local environmental issue and then getting to the level of solving it through advocacy and action. That solutionary, action and advocacy-based approach has been really, really successful.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It allowed me to bring in some legal aspects, some advocacy and business experience, and some of my experimental, fun side. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Curriculum , Environmental Literacy , Environmental Principles and Concepts. Were they already thinking about this subject to any extent?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

In March, over 300 climate and environmental justice advocacy groups sent a letter to Congress, arguing that subsidizing carbon capture “could entrench the fossil economy for decades to come.”. Also not mentioned: NRG’s Petra Nova project doesn’t actively capture carbon, despite its $1 billion price tag.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Boosting the ECO scheme could well end up being cost neutral on Treasury with insulation cutting gas demand and so the overall price tag of the bailout. Kate Norgrove, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF, said: "Today's mini-budget doesn't address the root cause of our energy bill crisis.

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