Grist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The five-mile stretch of Seattle’s only river was declared a Superfund site in 2001 after nearly 100 years of industrial activity, such as the manufacturing of airplane parts and the production of asphalt. It isn’t easy to undo a century of industrial pollution — or even agree on how to do it.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, in 2001, Shell set out to become a player here, too, establishing a network of offset trading desks around the world. “My My day starts in the New Zealand market,” Bill McGrath, general manager of global environmental products at Shell, explained to me recently from his base in London. “Our

Aviation 502

Aviation Sustainability Carbon-neutral Demand 502

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

It should act as a regular, proactive ‘health check’ to identify whether these elements are functioning as they should, whether they are at risk of failure, and whether enhancements could be made to improve the environmental protection measures in place and maintain regulatory compliance.

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Pollution Investment Health Waste 130

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

AECOM has been helping clients to understand and remediate PFAS contamination since 2001 and has worked on over 200 PFAS projects, including environmental and human health-risk investigations at RAAF Base Williamtown and the Army Aviation Centre Oakey.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

It is critical that the findings of our study are put into practice and realised as soon as possible for the long-term health and environment of New York, especially those living in frontline communities,” PEAK Coalition said in a statement. In 2001, NYPA installed peaker plants at six locations in New York City and one on Long Island.

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Batteries Natural gas Demand Resilience 98

Fairsnape

JULY 11, 2019

This includes aspects of agriculture, the natural environment, health, other infrastructure sectors and business. However, longer-term adaptation plans to mitigate the long- term risks of climate change are missing, despite CCRA2 highlighting the risks to health from heat as an urgent priority.

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Climate change Global warming Health Biodiversity 60

Grist

APRIL 18, 2023

The compounds were mainly used for building construction and electrical equipment but their health impacts only became clear decades after they were originally manufactured. in 1979 and eventually worldwide in 2001. Glud, a co-author of the study and a professor of biology at the University of Southern Denmark.

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Pollution Soil Health Organic 86

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The way the financial world responds to the climate crisis will be make or break for the health of our planet. Opinium surveyed 2001 UK adults between September 17th and 27th. Too many banks, pension funds and insurers are propping up fossil fuel giants.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001.

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Business Green

JUNE 12, 2020

According to a 2001 study by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture , traditionally grown lettuce travels about 2,000 miles to get to Chicago grocery stores. As grocery store shelves emptied , the problem wasn't necessarily lack of food but a drastic shift in demand that caused traditional distribution engines to sputter.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

As his model is better for our health and for nature, as well as for our communities and for providing fulfilling work, I think we need to have a good look at what he’s saying. Not for this one, no – but this current, unsustainable, undemocratic, community- and mental-health-destroying economy is not good for us.

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Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

Front And Centered

JANUARY 10, 2021

The project’s mission is to improve Indigenous mental and emotional health outcomes through art-making, community building, and equitable creative opportunities for personal and professional growth. with Tracy Rector and Satpreet Kahlon, curating the inaugural exhibition at Seattle’s King Street Station.

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Real Estate Agriculture Asia Organic 96

Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

But since launching the Sustainable Future (SF) funds in 2001, our view has always been that unsafe and degrading working practices make no business, common or investment sense. Now more than ever, the ability to manage a supply chain will determine success in the fashion industry.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Criteria include avoiding cheap overseas and child labor, enforcing strong workplace health and safety practices, supporting LGBTQ+ rights, preventing sexual misconduct, looking after the well-being of employees, and running an ethical supply chain. Does the business have fair workplace diversity and inclusion policies ?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

The city of Richmond exists in the shadow of the nearby Chevron refinery, which has been connected to poor air quality and health issues in the nearby community. It promised a huge investment in scholarships and public health programs. Chevron had acquired Texaco in 2001, which was responsible for the oil extraction.)

Pollution 96

Pollution Health Fossil fuels Politics 96

Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2023

Since its first leasing round in 2001, The Crown Estate - a collection of UK-based lands and holdings belonging to the Monarch and which manages the sea bed on behalf of the government - has invested £50m in the scheme and awarded offshore wind rights totalling 41GW.

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Investment Government Biodiversity Electricity 41

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

Sustainability 505

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 505

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Between 2001 and 2019, the U.S. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

Resilience 98

Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In addition to these financial risks, greenwashing can also harm businesses by: Exposing employees and consumers to toxic, dangerous, and environmentally damaging products by not investing in the appropriate health and safety measures as a true sustainable business would. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%.

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Investment Global warming Innovation Carbon 52

E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%.

Investment 52

Investment Global warming Innovation Carbon 52

E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. In the decade following the dot-com bubble and including the Great Recession (1/1/2001-12/31/2010) the return to the S&P 500 was only 1.6%.

Investment 52

Investment Global warming Innovation Carbon 52

Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

When the mill closed in 2001, Turner convinced the timber company, Sierra Pacific Industries, to keep the biomass plant going. “It Jim Turner in the American Renewable Power plant in Loyalton, California. Photo by Nathanael Johnson. It wasn’t some magnanimous thing,” he said. “It It just had to be done. I wanted to live here.”.

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Carbon-neutral Logging Carbon Climate change 107

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Erica Mackie, P.E. – CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most.

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Startups Organic Solar Power Africa 40

Grist

JUNE 20, 2024

West Nile virus, a recent study said , “underlines once again that the health of animals, humans, and the environment is deeply intertwined.” The New York City Department of Public Health suspected a disease spread by mosquitoes was behind the outbreak and immediately launched an investigation. Seven died. in the same period.

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Health Climate change North America Organic 137

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

In addition to continued efforts to reduce its carbon footprint (59 percent reduction since 2001, to date) UNH is one of a handful of campuses tackling its nitrogen footprint, in order to protect water and air quality as well as to mitigate climate change. It all adds up to an impressive six-spot leap since last year’s rankings.

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Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Sustainability 52

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Nearly 20 years ago, in 2001, Shell set out to become a player here, too, establishing a network of offset trading desks around the world. “My My day starts in the New Zealand market,” Bill McGrath, general manager of global environmental products at Shell, explained to me recently from his base in London. “Our

Aviation 36

Aviation Sustainability Carbon-neutral Demand 36

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health.

Health 218

Health Pollution Europe Asia 218

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On that basis, the argument goes, reducing emissions is easier in low-productivity systems, where the cow’s digestion is the almost exclusive source of warming gases, if farmers are able to adopt the feed blends and cattle health regimens that have improved efficiency for industrial dairy.

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Methane Agriculture Africa Climate change 143

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Royal Society of Chemistry welcomed the move as “a significant new safeguard for public health”, noting that it goes beyond existing limits in the EU, and Scotland, where a similar 100ng/L limit applies to only 20 PFAS. But it still presents a chance that the total amount of PFAS could accumulate far beyond the high-risk threshold.

Waste 147

Waste Waste Pollution Medicine 147

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? Initiative: Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Organic 78

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Starbucks is widening its embrace of circular practices and healthful interiors by expanding its Greener Stores internationally and open sourcing the framework's underlying tools for other retailers to replicate. The global coffee chain is preparing to pioneer an ambitious new sustainable approach to the design of its outlets.

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Retail Upcycling Recycling Recycling 44

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. In 2001, Cole met Colleen Swan, a citizen of Kivalina, during an environmental workshop in Kotzebue, Alaska, following a presentation he gave. A Personal Relationship.

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Law Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming 101

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In 2001’s Whitman v. In the Whitman case , RBG and her colleagues ruled that implementation costs were irrelevant when stacked against the primary “requisite to protect the public health” with “an adequate margin of safety.” But a more technical and obscure case may be more instructive in our current moment. Losing a hero is hard.

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Law Climate change Global warming Fossil fuels 540

Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I’ve been saying it since Lowimpact.org was launched in 2001, when it was a more unusual position to take than it is now. When Lowimpact started off in 2001, it was much more difficult to engage people. But the current system causes mental health problems already.

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