Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In 2006 and 2007, for example, millions of laptops and mobile phones were recalled due to safety fears relating to their Li-ion batteries, and in 2013, a Boeing 787 was grounded following electrical issues with the Li-ion battery in the aircraft’s auxiliary power unit.

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Clean Energy Canada

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is already negatively impacting the health of Canadians, impacts that will become more severe in relation to the extent of warming that occurs. The link between airborne pollution from the combustion of fossil fuels and respiratory health is well-known. billion in health-related costs per year. [xv] xii] [xiii].

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak will deliver his Budget tomorrow after the most challenging period since the global financial crisis in 2007-08. Secure additional funding for best practice standards and Defra's 'Quality Protocol' revisions for the organics industry. Increase CfD budget and confirm future auction round dates.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Simon Weppe, science lead at The Ocean Race said: “Climate change and plastic pollution have, in mere decades, caused a drastic decline in the health of the ocean. 2] Microplastic fibers – Underestimated threat to aquatic organisms? 4] The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007, published in Science. [5]

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

million premature deaths were caused by air pollution, a high percentage of those due to health consequences from air pollution in urban areas. NeighborWorks America is a nonprofit organization working to increase community resilience and housing affordability across the US. In 2016, a measured 4.2 Global Development. Credissimo.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Stanley, a founder of the environmental organization Upland Grassroots, recalls telling Silliboy, vice chief of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Nation, “This will be worth it someday.”. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity.

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Grist

MARCH 13, 2024

While their long-term impacts on human health are still largely unknown , another study published earlier this month linked microplastics in arteries with increased risk of heart attacks and stroke. But another set of innovators are imagining something bigger: what our clothes could be made of instead.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. . That was in 2007, and we worked on that project for all eight years of Governor Patrick’s terms.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Mathur, a plant geneticist, leads the Plant Breeding & Genetics Laboratory for the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, a collaboration between two United Nations agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Front And Centered

APRIL 26, 2024

In hir activism, Mel advanced the notion of autistic pride and self-advocacy, in direct opposition to organizations like Autism Speaks, whose original stated aims were to “heal” or “fix” autistic people. If you were on YouTube in its early days, you might remember “ In My Language ”—Mel’s video that went viral on the platform in 2007.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

But who is in this group and what do the various organizations backing it really want? Over the past two years, P2DNZ has positioned itself as the vanguard of a global response to its sector’s rising emissions at summits and high-level meetings around the world.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2022

Mills, an organic vegetable gardener and self-described energy geek who prefers gin and tonics to ganja, spent 40 years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before retiring in 2018 as a senior scientist, although he remains an affiliate there. Several organisations are trying.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. That was in 2007, and we worked on that project for all eight years of Governor Patrick’s terms.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

For example, a drought from 2007 until 2010 is considered one of the main factors leading to the civil war in Syria. It takes inorganic carbon dioxide and turns it into organic carbon. It’s not just about food. Food shortages are an important driver of social problems. It’s an ancient enzyme, more than 3.5

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At the grocery store, you’re bombarded with labels: organic and its new extension, regenerative organic; various competing fair trade standards; certifications relating to animal health and so on. In 2007, for instance, PepsiCo added a label to its Walkers potato chips noting that each bag generated 80 grams of carbon dioxide.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 26, 2021

“The purpose of Airlite was to create something that makes a difference to human health and well-being in the built environment,” said Chris Leighton, VP of sales and marketing at AM Technology, the company responsible for Airlite paint. VW is using Airlite paint for its ad campaigns. This natural reaction breaks down pollutants.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

I started doing this in 2007 and, with a few exceptions, continued it annually through last year. It will be interesting to track how those habits shift as we enter the post-pandemic era, but for now consumers aren’t willing to trade their own health for that of the planet. This year, I’m changing it up, for several reasons.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Yosie Mon, 09/21/2020 – 00:30 Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds. equity markets.

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Grist

JANUARY 20, 2022

The climate crisis is damaging the health of fetuses, babies, and infants across the world, six new studies have found. Higher temperatures were also linked to premature birth, which can have lifelong health effects, and to increased hospital admissions of young children. This is a problem that affects everybody, everywhere.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 27, 2020

I first met Bruce in 2007. Bruce was engaging, warm, thoughtful and way farther along the journey in sustainability and environmental, health and safety issues than most people I spoke with back then. In the course of a business career, you meet colleagues who are smart, or kind, or just really good at what they do.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control — particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. Rupa Basu poses for a photo while pregnant with her second child in June 2007. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health.

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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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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Reporting by DeSmog revealed that from 2007 to 2009, Edelman , the largest public relations firm in the world, ran a campaign to bolster the UAE and Al Jaber’s green images. Some companies and organizations are even dropping ad and PR firms for taking on new fossil fuel industry accounts.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mr Green has been a rising pressure within the playing sector since 2007. Health and security is part of our DNA, and we’re absolutely compliant with all practices and laws. The cleanliness and hygiene of your workplace has a direct influence on your workers’s health, morale and productiveness. Parents and wh?nau

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The event was hosted by Honor The Earth, an Indigenous-led environmental justice organization based in northern Minnesota, with support from Seventh Generation, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), and the People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition. org , among others.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

2007), who published carbon stock estimates for the year 2000. Figure 1, sourced from a prior analysis, compares aboveground biomass density and total biomass estimates to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and GEDI across all of Brazil. Gatti et al. Their carbon data appears to cite Saatchi et al.

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

WebsEdge / YouTube In the early stages of developing the initiative, Keith helped the university organize an event with researchers working on topics that could fall under the umbrella of climate systems engineering. Blueprints for the canceled solar geoengineering experiment David Keith was working on before he left Harvard University.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. ppb, a 40% increase.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 23, 2019

Globalisation was effective during the transition that appeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, but since the global financial crisis began in 2007 the world economy has been hanging on the cliff, struggling to get up. Financial crisis, indeed, the outcome of Washington Consensus and finally inequality, too.

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Grist

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Another new analysis, by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO, found that roughly 10 percent of the worlds soils are affected by excess salt, with another 2.5 These interwoven trends threaten agricultural productivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem health while exacerbating food and water insecurity.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 9, 2021

The price is designed to reflect all the harm done by greenhouse gas emissions, such as the impact of heat waves on public health. About the Authors: Richard Schmalensee served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. There are a few ways to set a price on carbon. Disclosure Statement.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, runs the all-volunteer Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. “I In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today, the government spends about $6 billion every year on the problem, but all that money has not made a detectable difference in the dead zone, the regular algae blooms in Lake Erie, and the health risks posed by fertilizer. This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. Nathanael Johnson / Grist.

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