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Peers sought to build urban resilience platform

Envirotec Magazine

Other issues arising include flood damage to buildings and other street infrastructure; sewer overflows polluting watercourses and water bodies and the declining quality of our lakes, rivers and reservoirs. It is against this background that Isle set up its Urban Resilience Technology Approval Group (UR TAG) in 2019. Technology pilots.

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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

Leading companies, including tech firms Microsoft and Akamai, are expanding their focus into new realms — ones that explore the intersection of sustainability and human health, or that allow employees to take action to reduce their own impact at home and in the communities where they live. Generally, the program is offered locally.

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Pennsylvania Communities Grow Wary of Worsening Air Pollution as Petrochemical Industry Arrives

DeSmogBlog

Concerns about air quality, which has already begun declining nationally since 2016 , are growing rapidly for those living in the shadow of Shell’s $6 billion plastics plant under construction along the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County. There is a certain degree of sick irony about that.”.

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. Container Builds. Container Builds, Inc. Operating in most major U.S. EcoEnclose.

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Following Pushback, Chinese-owned Chemical Giant Pulls Plug on Massive Plastics Project in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 I live straight across the river from where the plant was going to be built.” Tags: cancer alley petrochemical development Wanhua Chemical billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James Parish, told me in a call. “I

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Former Tesla exec launches electric boat manufacturing firm in Florida

Charged

The R30, which is expected to carry a price tag around $300,000, is very much a luxury boat, but it sounds like more mass-market models are planned for the future. “To To really impact the environment, you can’t build electric boats by the dozens,” he told Electrek. “It It has to be by the thousands.”.

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Christopher Leonard's New Book Puts an Ever-Expanding 'Kochland' on the Map

DeSmogBlog

Walking into the company's office building involved passing through security checkpoints, Leonard explains, so numerous that one investigator later told Leonard that it “reminded him of traveling to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”. Tags: koch industries Charles Koch David Koch Jane Mayer Christopher Leonard

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