Grist

JANUARY 15, 2020

Communities and government agencies spend millions of dollars on cleanup every year, but the problem is so pervasive and expensive that many streams remain polluted. At Sunday Creek, a broad group of locals have found a way to help foot the clean-up bill: by turning mine pollution into eye-catching paints. Department of Interior.

Pollution 98

Pollution Health Waste Waste 98

Grist

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

” Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, in a 2009 interview The spotlight Last week, we covered some of the technological innovations that could decarbonize air conditioning, an energy-intensive amenity that is increasingly becoming a lifesaving necessity in the face of extreme heat. on Nov 8, 2023.

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Organic Health Cooling Demand 112

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

This is now affecting the health of the entire planet, making it significantly less resilient to shocks,” says lead author Lan Wang-Erlandsson from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. The planetary boundaries framework , published in 2009, demarcates a safe operating space for humanity.

Soil 182

Soil Climate change Resilience Health 182

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

“So, it’s this really close range where we are seeing a potential impact right on women’s health.”. The study , published in International Journal of Epidemiology in December 2021, looked at nearly 3 million births in the state of Texas over the course of 13 years between 1996 and 2009. Credit: Justin Hamel ©2020.

Health 98

Health Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The “Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020” report , released on 5 October, documents the loss of approximately 14 per cent of the world’s coral since 2009. This, the largest analysis of global coral reef health ever undertaken draws on data: spanning 40 years. in 73 countries. across 12,000 sites.

Ocean acidification 147

Ocean acidification Biodiversity Health Climate change 147

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The UK government should increase tax on things we want less of - such as pollution - and reduce tax on things we want more of - such as jobs - explains Eunomia's Chris Sherrington. But to my mind, this is not an argument for not increasing taxes on polluting activity. This is not a new idea, but it is one whose time has come.

Pollution 78

Pollution Politics Transportation Waste 78

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Just over half of all directors at 30 of the world’s largest insurance companies have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, reveals an investigation by DeSmog, including several individuals holding senior roles at some of the world’s largest energy companies. Which raises the obvious question, why? Shrago said.

Pollution 98

Pollution Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 98

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The electronic engineer and MBA spent 19 years as a supply chain vice president at Unilever before joining Natura in 2009. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution. billion years of evolution. No wonder he keeps an ammonite fossil in his bag.

Sustainability 505

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 505

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. xii] [xiii].

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Climate change Health Pollution Carbon-negative 47

Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Crop rotation and intercropping: Diversifying crops to improve soil health, increasing its capacity for carbon capture. These methods can allow farmers to achieve greater soil health, biodiversity, water retention, and ultimately carbon sequestration. Planting cover crops: Growing crops to cover the soil, rather than for harvesting.

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Carbon Sustainability Soil 52

DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Scottish climate activists are preparing to protest this weekend at the Mossmorran petrochemical complex, the country’s third largest carbon emitter, in what they say will be Scotland’s first “Climate Camp” since 2009. It impacts our mental and physical health.”. There’s excessive noise pollution. Your House Vibrates’.

Pollution 98

Pollution Health Climate change Fossil fuels 98

Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Their farm, once part of the Loring Air Force Base, is also a Superfund site — an area so polluted it’s marked high-priority for federal cleanup. They’ve been linked to a host of health problems, including kidney and testicular cancer, liver damage, and suppressed immunity. If a farm’s soil is polluted, odds are the water will be too.

Soil 145

Soil Pollution Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 145

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But conservation charities decry 'pattern of inaction' over past 15 years that could see waterway health worsen before it improves. The government faces a major challenge to improve the health of England's waterways.

Pollution 41

Pollution Health Agriculture Government 41

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

Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. Legal protection.

Soil 98

Soil Health Pollution Climate change 98

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Researchers followed this reintroduced population and tracked their distribution and health. benefit the diversity of freshwater invertebrates, reduce nutrient levels in outflow, filter pollution and ?allow Now they’re back. In 2015, two beaver families were released on the River Otter in Devon. Reconciling ranchers and rewilders.

Politics 147

Politics Health Pollution Government 147

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2019

By making the shift from using harmful pollutants, to something environmentally friendly and recyclable, you are saying a lot about your business without having to say anything at all. Founder Ken Jacobus started Good Start Packaging in 2009 because he “wanted his children to know that he valued the earth”.

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Biodegradable Packaging Microplastics Plastics 104

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

It is also through this reconnection with nature that mental and physical health is improved. Living walls and roofs act as a noise buffer, cut down on air pollutants and create tranquil spaces for increased productivity and wellness. Premium haircare company, MASAMI, sets the bar when it comes to clean haircare products.

Business Energy Monitoring 158

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral 158

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. If this soup of pollution was hurting me after only a few minutes, I imagined the damage it caused people who lived in it.”

Solar Energy Monitor 101

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 101

Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Like in the HEAL Act, a task force will be formed to further explore creating a state office dedicated to equity, and the decision-making body includes the people most impacted in all areas of government, such as environment, health care, employment and education. . Healthy Communities Rooted in Place Photo by Hannah Letinich.

Building Energy Monitoring 71

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 71

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 13, 2020

The state had just begun implementation of the cap & trade program, and I was enamored with this new post–AB 32 & SB 535 world that charged polluters and used a fund to bring resources back into communities most impacted by pollution. In my eyes, our environment works both for and against us.

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Innovation Policy Pollution Climate change 75

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In Colorado, residential and commercial buildings are primary sources of climate and air pollution. And this industry was critical to job growth in the wake of the last economic crisis, with a few hundred thousand efficiency workers in 2009 expanding to nearly 2.4 both indoors and outdoors. million nationwide in just ten years2019.

Energy 78

Energy Energy Policy Climate change 78

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

APRIL 15, 2020

Credit: Ricardo Esquivel But the analysis of clean energy unemployment data by E2 partner BW Research shows the crushing impact of the COVID-19 health and economic crises on one of the biggest, fastest-growing job sectors in America?—?one We did it in 2009, after the Great Recession.

Energy 88

Energy Energy Real Estate Power grid 88

Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, water, community preparedness, and support to displaced workers and people with lower incomes.

Pollution 45

Pollution Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 45

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. Chevron is the city’s largest employer, largest taxpayer and largest polluter. 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.

Pollution 98

Pollution Health Fossil fuels Politics 98

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 12, 2019

words Brett Stadelmann Pollution caused by the manufacture, dispersal, and disposal of plastics is an issue which, directly or indirectly, affects every individual in the current age, and one which, even if every effort is made to correct it, will have an even greater effect on the next generation. In fact, Gleick and Cooley (2009, para.

Plastics 40

Plastics Recycling Recycling Waste 40

Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The report also highlights how in addition to the short term economic boost a green investment surge would deliver multiple health and well-being benefits, at a time when air pollution and unhealthy lifestyles have been identified as an exacerbating factor in the coronavirus pandemic.

Packaging 71

Packaging Investment Government Fossil fuels 71

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This dynamic, according to a review of two decades of electric utility rate changes published by scholars in 2009 , creates “a bias toward the status quo or an ‘ossification’ of agency rulemaking as the expected benefits of a new policy may be outweighed by the costs of affecting the change.”. .”

Home Energy Monitoring 94

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 94

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Climate Lawsuits Historical evidence of what oil majors knew about climate change is taking on new significance in the courtroom as lawyers seek to hold big polluters to account for the accelerating devastation caused by the climate crisis. This fast-evolving legal strategy has placed a premium on new archival research.

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Better to release the heat and pollution during the winter, they figure, rather than in the summer as part of a wildfire. It’s a way to reduce pollution and generate energy at the same time. After all, producing electricity by burning wood produces more carbon and pollution per kilowatt than burning coal, the Sierra Club points out.

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Carbon-neutral Logging Carbon Climate change 109

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

From animals facing extinction to pollution to global warming, the world is changing — quickly. Related: Attenborough Effect inspires people to drastically reduce single-use plastics Chasing Coral, 2017 Coral is a barometer for the health of the planet. As a measure of this health, coral is showing that the earth is sick.

Plastics 28

Plastics Global warming Waste Waste 28

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The cultivation of energy crops in large monoculture fields increases the use of fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides; with devastating environmental, biodiversity and health impacts. Governments should not subsidise aviation biofuels: the polluter should pay.

Aviation 69

Aviation Fossil fuels Waste Waste 69

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The data from CDP's 2022 corporate water security dataset saw a total of 3,909 companies provide water-related data to investors and customers, marking the highest number of companies disclosing on water security since the survey began in 2009 and an 85 per cent increase over the past five years.

Resilience 36

Resilience Innovation Health Pollution 36

AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

In times of crisis, like the 2009 financial crisis or COVID-19, investors are compelled to take a closer look at corporate governance practices like disaster contingency plans, cybersecurity risk management and decisions about capital structure — [such as] share buybacks & M&A activity. Ingram: Yes, I believe so.

Climate change 36

Climate change Investment Health Government 36

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

1 It alleges that CARBs amendments will increase environmental and health risks by incentivizing the expansion of operations at large-scale dairy farms. In POET I , the court held that CARB failed to meet its CEQA obligations when originally adopting the Program in 2009. California Air Resources Board et al.

Carbon 49

Carbon Methane Energy Monitor Carbon-negative 49

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Second, there’s a growing realization that a focus on one key stakeholder or metric is as flawed as using your cholesterol level as the only measure of your health. These issues require systemic efforts, cooperation, and pricing of those “externalities” (like pollution and carbon emissions) that business has been able to push off to society.

Fossil fuels 60

Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60

Andrew Winston

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Second, there’s a growing realization that a focus on one key stakeholder or metric is as flawed as using your cholesterol level as the only measure of your health. These issues require systemic efforts, cooperation, and pricing of those “externalities” (like pollution and carbon emissions) that business has been able to push off to society.

Fossil fuels 60

Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Carbon 60