Grist

MAY 23, 2024

No human organ is safe from microplastic contamination, it seems — not even the testicles. The findings add to a growing list of studies finding microplastics throughout the human body, including in livers , lungs , carotid arteries, breast milk , and placentas , the organs that form to provide nutrients to growing fetuses.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

Social : Customer relations, employee relations, labor, employee wellbeing, community relations, health and safety, supply chains, human rights, and work-life balance. Losses can be far greater, as experienced by the pharmaceutical company Bausch Health (formerly known as Valeant). Yet, note that this is an average figure.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Published by the prestigious ICES Journal of Marine Science, the paper certifies “fishing for DNA” as an inexpensive, harmless complement to nets, acoustics and other established ways to monitor the health of fish stocks and/or the shifting diversity, distribution and abundance of aquatic life.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

According to Climate Central , about 83% of significant reported power outages between 2000 and 2021 in the United States were attributed to weather-related events. From 2000 to 2021, there were more than 1,500 weather-related power outages, according to the Energy Information Administration. are volunteers.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

It has been one of the most important public health messages since the COVID-19 pandemic began but a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF shows that, as the crisis began, three in 10 people worldwide could not wash their hands with soap and water at home.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

energy use is roughly the same as it was in 2000 despite a 30% boost in economic growth. Non-toxic, sustainable, and ethically-sourced building materials are equally important in minimizing environmental impact and health risks. Reduction in health risks via non-toxic, green building materials.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. .

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Virginia Lamb, Groundwork Education and Consulting, is an Environmental Educator with over 25 years’ experience in recycling, composting, soil health and organic gardening. Virginia has extensive experience with municipal and county governments, non-profit organizations and colleges.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Published by the prestigious ICES Journal of Marine Science, the paper certifies “fishing for DNA” as an inexpensive, harmless complement to nets, acoustics and other established ways to monitor the health of fish stocks and/or the shifting diversity, distribution and abundance of aquatic life.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to a 2010 study on managing soils to mitigate climate change, soils used for agriculture contain 25 to 75 percent less soil organic carbon “than their counterparts in undisturbed or natural ecosystems.” . For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14 cropland and help the U.S. kg CO2e per day.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

As the planet heats up, allergy seasons are getting longer and the climate crisis is “violating” her “right to health” said Comparelli, a climate activist in her 20s with Fridays for Future Italy. This is compared to around 380 in 2010 and approximately 40 in 2000. . Above all, though, Comparelli is afraid.

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 16, 2022

an environmental health scientist and bio-social scientist at the University of Washington. Understanding the health impacts of exposure. Improved communication around both the health impacts of smoke exposure and the steps that can be taken to reduce these exposures is essential to creating a smoke-ready community.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In the late 1960s, as the complaint details, the Stanford Research Institute issued reports that accurately predicted the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in 2000. The trade association “played a key role in creating climate denialist organizations such as the Global Climate Coalition,” Franta said.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 7, 2021

My first experience in learning about a #TechForGood initiative came at the PopTech Conference in Camden, Maine in Fall of 2000 (co-founded by my long-time colleague Bruce Armstrong Taylor). Get the Big Hammers What are also needed are the big hammers in the form of initiatives from large organizations. Net Impact.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 29, 2018

China’s declaration is not only significant in the global fight against climate change, it also speaks to the government’s commitment to curtail a looming health crisis. China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 29, 2018

China’s declaration is not only significant in the global fight against climate change, it also speaks to the government’s commitment to curtail a looming health crisis. China now leads the world in obese children, and the World Health Organization has reported that one in three diabetes diagnoses is in China.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2022

As climate change causes more extreme heat days across the globe, heat has become a critical issue for public health and city planning. Very recent research illuminates why extreme heat poses even greater health and economic threats than previously thought, but also points to ways we can build effective solutions to address it.

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Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

There is growing evidence that a number of different feed products and supplements that make use of ingredients such as seaweeds, essential oils, organic acids, probiotics, and antimicrobials can inhibit methane emissions from ruminant livestock while also enhancing animal health.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 6, 2021

It seeks a Chief Executive Officer to lead the organization and expand the reach of its operations. In 2000, VEIC entered into a contract with the Vermont Public Service Board to implement a major, multimillion-dollar program that transformed the organization and catapulted it to a new level of scale, impact, and visibility.

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Organic Policy Sustainability Energy 40

Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

Soil 52

Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 52

AGreenLiving

MAY 22, 2020

A joint paper put forth by the Center for Food Security & Public Health , Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics, Iowa State University, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and the USDA revealed RHD can be difficult to eradicate. Eventually, RHDV1 spread to over 40 countries and hit the U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

After graduating, she hatched the idea to combine her experience in social work with her knowledge of engineering through GRID Alternatives, “an organization that could have real impact in low-income communities.”. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. Mack Robinson College of Business.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

No health benefits whatsoever have been shown, with the rare exception of avoiding an outbreak of E. No health benefits whatsoever have been shown, with the rare exception of avoiding an outbreak of E. MJ l –1 —as much as 2000 times the energy cost of producing tap water.” Then there is the energy investment required.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

But after the organization updated its list of endangered species, the smooth handfish has been listed as an extinct species. Alarmingly, seven types of handfish have not been seen since 2000 or earlier. Besides their bright, multicolored bodies, their awkward movement on their hand-like fins makes them stand out from other fish.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. McDonough: I had two things occur simultaneously in 1989. Purified water.

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Grist

JUNE 20, 2024

But in the ’90s, he learned he had a genetic condition called polycystic kidney disease — an illness that causes cysts to grow on the kidneys and often results in organ failure. West Nile virus, a recent study said , “underlines once again that the health of animals, humans, and the environment is deeply intertwined.” Seven died.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 23, 2023

The systems and services you will assist in supporting are crucial for the daily operations of over 2000 employees based in 10 locations statewide. An Infants at Work Program that is based on the long-term health values of infant-parent bonding and breastfeeding newborns. Continuous growth and development opportunities.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system. “Plucked” makes it clear that food choices matter and show how consumers’ desire for meat, especially chicken, has affected human health.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. It is estimated that over 2000 species of insects are eaten by over 2 billion people worldwide. This is called photosynthesis.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

This information connecting CO2 with climate change, which first appeared in the January memo, seems to have entered the White House’s orbit via a different route: A report produced by the philanthropic organization, the Conservation Foundation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

According to the project’s 2022 Environmental Statement , drilling waste and chemicals will be discharged into the water column and onto the seabed, forming toxic piles that can “smother benthic organisms and impair their feeding and respiratory systems.” The project will also dump produced water. In the U.S.,

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. Once they find their way to the bloodstream, they stick to blood cells as they course through every organ in the body.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Soil pollution is deteriorating worldwide as a result of unsustainable farming practices and industrial processes, all of which poses a major and growing threat to global food production, human health, and the environment, the United Nations has warned. Our society wants more nutritious and safe foods, free of contaminants and pathogens.".

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

The debate has spread beyond academia with some organizations making the case that meaningful drawdown of carbon through SCS in agricultural soils, achieved through adoption of regenerative agricultural practices, is not viable. Other organizations, by contrast, promote the same practices as necessary for natural climate solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Fish hold carbon in their bodies, taken in from eating other fish or smaller marine animals, which dine on microscopic organisms called phytoplankton that have sucked CO2 from the water. For Walker, avoiding farmed fish fed on fishmeal and fish oil is one of the simplest routes to helping restore oceanic health.

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