Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

However, we know that resource constraints are a barrier to the implementation of these plans for many countries. Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided.

Sustainability 86

Sustainability Government Resilience Policy 86

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, earning the condemnation of international human rights observers. This is our land.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Government Construction Law 98

Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I was hired by Gateway High School to redesign the environmental science program to move away from lab science and toward a human-centered focus. Some had no idea how pollution from human activities affected ecosystems. But humans have incredible ingenuity. Imagine if everybody possessed that level of environmental literacy.

Education 40

Education Sea level rise Pollution Global warming 40

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

An AI-driven platform can automatically upload, tag, organise and analyse multiple data types and sources. Utilities will always need human judgment as part of the analysis of T&D inspection data. This creates a wealth of data: visual, thermal and geospatial. That’s where AI automation comes in.

Energy Monitor 59

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electricity Resilience 59

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is a drain on resources and can leave your employees feeling like they aren’t doing their part for the environment. However, investing in renewable energy such as solar, wind or geothermal can come with a steep price tag and these technologies aren’t effective in every region. Strive for Zero Waste Break Rooms.

Business Energy Monitoring 179

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 179

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. The environment shapes our society. Hence, as climate change worsens, so do healthcare costs.

Climate change 28

Climate change Health Pollution Ozone 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

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.

Organic 28

Organic Sustainability Upcycling Logging 28

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. Creating any product and delivering any service uses natural resources and energy, but some industries are more harmful than others. These studies revealed global populations are united by environmentalism. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it. The one undeniable fact in all of this is the plant’s finite resources.

Biodiversity 36

Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 36

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. Creating any product and delivering any service uses natural resources and energy, but some industries are more harmful than others. These studies revealed global populations are united by environmentalism. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S.

Carbon 528

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 528

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting addresses human-attributed climate change by reducing a business entity’s associated emissions The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) at the behest of the G7. ppm in 2020.

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Don’t use a human being for experiments, tell them that,” says Alexa Cruz, who has lived in a public housing development in Manhattan since 1969. Don’t use a human being for experiments, tell them that.” 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.

Home Energy Monitoring 134

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 134

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Despite warnings about “food-wars” caused by global famine and disease, human biomass on Earth has quite literally exploded. There are more humans than ever, who are at the same time fatter than ever before! For humans, food can be broken down into two main groups: Macros and Micros. This is called photosynthesis.

Solar Energy Monitor 78

Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

For instance, climate change is an inevitable outcome of human inaction, as it’s driven by a self-sustaining feedback loop. Modern meat production is a well-oiled, highly automated, exemplary model of mechanical efficiency (putting aside resource efficiency and other less savory considerations).

Meat alternatives 52

Meat alternatives Startups Patents Technology 52

Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

gigatons is equal to 16 times the weight of the entire human population on earth today, Mike Werner, Google's lead for circular economy, told participants in a breakout session at GreenBiz Group's Circularity 2021. It puts the price tag on all interventions needed, including infrastructure, at $500bn globally. "We

Packaging 70

Packaging Sustainability Plastics Recycling 70

Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

I think the backbone support piece is really critical because we’re saying, “We’re investing in providing resources to you, having some expertise and being a place where you can come to get the support that you need to move you along in your work.”. You were the first person ever hired at the county level to do this kind of work.

Education 40

Education Climate change Waste Waste 40

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If human activity, including economic activity, is the primary driver of global warming, it only makes sense that an effective solution must start with changing that behavior. As the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases (GHGs), CO2 plays an outsize role in global climate change — for example, it accounted for 81 percent of U.S.

Carbon 28

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. Some top renewable energy suppliers in the United States include Green Mountain Energy , Green Fuel Technologies , and Viridos Use recycled materials when possible, in your supply chains, and when providing resources to your employees (e.g. recycled paper).

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 17, 2022

Look for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green Tags. Some top renewable energy suppliers in the United States include Green Mountain Energy , Green Fuel Technologies , and Viridos Use recycled materials when possible, in your supply chains, and when providing resources to your employees (e.g. recycled paper).

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

It is the kind of price tag that is bound to make treasuries baulk and climate sceptic newspaper editors salivate, but the report stressed that the benefits from building a global clean energy system would greatly outweigh the costs. On the solar supply chain and human rights.

Hydrogen 36

Hydrogen Energy Energy Fossil fuels 36

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In 1970, he did a speaking tour in the United States with the Institute for Humane Studies — an organization funded by Charles and David Koch , early on in what would be a decades-long career in massively reshaping American politics for industry’s benefit. So, he took the show on the road.

Fossil fuels 145

Fossil fuels Organic Law Africa 145

Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

But the caribou, which provide essential food and cultural resources for many Alaska Native communities, are facing multiple threats: A slew of climate-related impacts have hampered their grazing, wildfires have burned the forage they rely on, warmer winters may have increased disease , and thawing permafrost has disrupted their migrations.

Politics 144

Politics Climate change Energy Monitor Government 144

Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Unfortunately for commercial urchin divers like the Downies, purple urchins do not have the same value as their red cousins, which compete for the same resources to thrive. In that scenario, human-made breaks between urchin colonies could actually slow such a disease’s spread, inadvertently preserving the purps’ dominance.

Waste 109

Waste Waste Carbon Organic 109

Grist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Unfortunately for commercial urchin divers like the Downies, purple urchins do not have the same value as their red cousins, which compete for the same resources to thrive. In that scenario, human-made breaks between urchin colonies could actually slow such a disease’s spread, inadvertently preserving the purps’ dominance.

Waste 98

Waste Waste Carbon Organic 98

Green Market Oracle

MARCH 17, 2020

The price tag for your climate plan is about $1.7 trillion on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we should pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change. This is not a middle of the ground thing. This is not building a few more solar panels or a few more wind turbines.

Fossil fuels 52

Fossil fuels Climate change Natural gas Investment 52