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How do you take clean AC mainstream? This global health organization has some ideas.

Grist

Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us / Getty Images This problem caught the attention of the Clinton Health Access Initiative , or CHAI — a nonprofit organization founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2002. This global health organization has some ideas. There are a number of ways to achieve this.

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AQE 2024 will be “the largest air quality & emissions event in over 20 years”

Envirotec Magazine

AQE 2024, the Air Quality and Emissions show will take place on 9 and 10 October at the NEC in Birmingham, with the most exhibitors and most expansive conference program of any AQE or MCERTS event since 2002, as the organizers explain.

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Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about

GreenBiz

"Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth," writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book "Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret," published by The New Press in November. Social Justice.

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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

The report builds on decades of previous research from the National Academies — a federally chartered research organization — that highlights the growing risk of oil pollution in the world’s oceans. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills on Sep 29, 2022.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

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. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. McDonough: I had two things occur simultaneously in 1989.

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The ocean is turning green. Yes, it’s climate change.

Grist

In a study, published Wednesday in Nature, decades worth of research showed 56 percent of the world’s oceans experienced color change between 2002 to 2022. Much of the ocean appears blue to the human eye, but the ocean’s color actually contains a mix of wavelengths, including blue, green, and even red.

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Replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings accelerates restoration, says study

Envirotec Magazine

This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms. The first trees were planted in 2002, with nearly 100,000 planted in total over the following years.

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