DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 84

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. To exemplify the sin of fibbing we’ll use Shell’s Tar Sands project initiated back in 2008. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

Europe 71

Europe Climate change Logging Soil 71

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns. Policymaking about the region should take account of its ocean geography and identity. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The only effective dips to emissions have been due to economic slowdowns,” in 2008 and in 2020 as a result of the Covid lockdowns. Policymaking about the region should take account of its ocean geography and identity. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

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COP Climate change Sustainability Waste 130

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

We anticipate that many consumers will shift to animal-free food products if those products begin to meet or exceed their animal-based alternatives on key areas like cost, taste, functionality, convenience, and health. In 2008, Blockbuster’s CEO declared that ‘Netflix wasn’t even on the radar’ in terms of competition.

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Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2021

The treatments rejuvenate the soil and help plants thrive. x Mylea Better Shoes are made from mushroom leather NetZero, the company behind the orbs, began in 2008 when two scientists came up with a blend that boosts the carbon absorption of all living plants. A single application can last at least 10 years. Related: Bro.do

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Carbon Soil Retail Biodiversity 28

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. To exemplify the sin of fibbing we’ll use Shell’s Tar Sands project initiated back in 2008. Legal conviction by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. Global Compact member since 2008. The aim is to integrate biodiversity into existing materials and sourcing strategies, rather than approach biodiversity as a new or disconnected topic.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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Business Energy Monitoring Government Sustainability Health 41

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. Maybe however the best argument is not climate-change, animal suffering, health or low costs. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil. Next to reducing precious food waste, integration of food printers integrated with other health sensors might lead to improved healthcare.

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Organic Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

The 2008 economic crisis accelerated the price of gold and sparked the gold rush. Environmental toll Peruvian gold mining poses many risks to both the environment and human health. asked Antonio Brack Egg, Peru’s former minister of the environment , as reported in Smithsonian Magazine. Mass graves have been found in the area.

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Logging Government Health Soil 28

AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. It is looking at the elephant in the room, and going after it piece by piece.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. 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.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

As Gideon Henderson, chief scientific officer at Defra, explains the 2008 Climate Change Act represented a "big step change" in the government's approach to climate change, introducing long term emissions goals, the system of five yearly Carbon Budgets that require governments to develop credible decarbonisation plans, and the CCC.

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Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Plastics threaten “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to one study , and pose a global health crisis , with plastic chemicals linked to preterm births , heart attacks , and cancer. So where did the three arrows go wrong? The trouble is that their loop has ensnared us.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Earth Day 144

Grist

JULY 18, 2024

And for decades, the Earth’s forests, along with oceans and soil, have sucked roughly a third back in, creating a vacuum known as the land carbon sink. An overview of the dense canopy and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest on June 4, 2008 outside Manaus, Brazil. There’s always more reasons to do a better job.”

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Carbon Logging Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 119

Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

The survey evaluated 700 economic recovery policies from 2008-2020 (categorized into 25 archetypes) and their ability to be implemented reasonably quickly, reduce GHG emissions, and provide large economic multipliers (as authors define it the long-term return for every dollar of expenditure). From Hepburn et al. Energy Innovation. Smith, S.J.,

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Policy Packaging Fossil fuels Politics 59

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. He died in 2008. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Grist

JULY 6, 2024

In 2008, Robock penned an article for the Bulletin on the 20 reasons solar geoengineering could be a bad — possibly even catastrophic — idea ; a more recent version expanded the list to 26. Local entities, national governments or state governments, can regulate soil health, more or less, on their own,” Keith explained. “So

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 101

GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

While many Native American communities have high risk factors — overcrowding, chronic medical conditions and underfunded health care systems — and the pandemic has slammed Navajo Nation in the American West, Louisiana’s tribes appear to have been spared the brunt so far. Census designates 0.8 It’s a continuous onslaught. .

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

How to Scale Regenerative Agriculture and Draw Down Carbon (Part 1) (Panel Discussion): Regenerative agriculture has the potential to draw down billions of tons of carbon dioxide while simultaneously restoring soil health. In this session, you'll be introduced to the key points to consider before doing so.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jesse Merrick, shown here in better health, covers a football game in his job as a sportscaster. It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. He developed pneumonia, which made everything hurt, even breathing. Walking was painful. “It

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Health Soil Climate change Medicine 145

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. Geological Survey report noted. To put it simply,” the report states.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 131

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The firm's suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares of natural forests between 2008 and 2011 alone, the report claimed. Farmers are given support and advice on protecting soil health and cultivating rice paddies and bananas as opposed to inefficient palm oil plantations.

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Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 36

AGreenLiving

JULY 1, 2020

While many Native American communities have high risk factors — overcrowding, chronic medical conditions and underfunded health care systems — and the pandemic has slammed Navajo Nation in the American West, Louisiana’s tribes appear to have been spared the brunt so far. Census designates 0.8 It’s a continuous onslaught.

Resilience 28

Resilience Sea level rise Seafood Recycling 28

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 14, 2020

the number of abandoned wells has increased by more than 12 percent since 2008 according to the EPA. These wells not only contribute to climate change they also contaminate groundwater and soil. Potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, sulfate, benzene and chloride also compromise people's health. Across the U.S.

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Methane Fossil fuels Climate change Soil 69

Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Predator and prey dynamics are complex: The calves may have died anyway from injury or disease, and their removal may reduce competition for food and resources, improving the herd’s overall health. State data shows over 1,000 wolves and 3,500 brown and black bears have been killed since 2008 alone.

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Politics Climate change Energy Monitor Government 145