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COVID-19, 3D printing and the digital supply chain reckoning

GreenBiz

Dave Evans, founder and CEO of Fictiv and a former Ford engineer, said the pandemic has helped underscore the notion that digital manufacturing networks — ones that allow organizations to be more agile when it comes to sourcing — will be key to ensuring resilience in the long term, as disruptions brought on by climate change become more frequent.

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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. on Nov 8, 2023.

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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

So I would say on the small number, maybe close to 100 people, at least, that I've actually taken around to see this firsthand over the years, because I've been doing this since 2002. Catherine Coleman Flowers guides Senator Cory Booker through Lowndes County, Alabama, as part of his 2017 environmental justice tour. Social Justice.

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Using IR to measure TOC

Envirotec Magazine

Instrumenation firm Edinburgh Sensors offers some thoughts on the measurement of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) as a means of assessing water quality, and in particular the relevance of IR-based measurements. There are a variety of approaches for testing water for organic carbon. ml/l or less.3. References and Further Reading. References.

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California grant money going to diesel and natural gas vehicles, not EVs

Charged

You can say we have tougher environmental laws, but we aren’t even hitting federal policy,” said Mark Lopez of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, a community organizer group. The program paid out $210 million over the past four years to help organizations to upgrade their diesel trucks. Source: The Guardian.

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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.