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

Grist

” 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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If you build it…

Envirotec Magazine

Most organic household waste ends up in landfills where it generates methane. Between 2009 and 2015, 24 local government councils in New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, adopted curbside services to collect food and garden waste for recycling into compost. ” Will they come? On average households redirected 4.2

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GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies?

GreenBiz

For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.

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RER Energy Group celebrates 10-year anniversary

Solar Power World

As one of the few independent and self-funded firms of its size in the rapidly growing renewable marketplace, RER has achieved significant organic growth since its inception in 2009. “We Pennsylvania-headquartered solar installer RER Energy Group is celebrating 10 years of business.

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Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups

DeSmogBlog

organization called the Atlas Network that for years has backed efforts in Canada and globally to vilify climate protesters as dangerous extremists. Over the years it has given to a wide range of organizations, including groups as diverse as the Delta Waterfowl Foundation and McGill University. They in turn belong to a U.S.

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Beyond the Stockholm Convention: new regulations targeting forever chemicals

Envirotec Magazine

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health.

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GEORG celebrates 15 years of supporting geothermal research and collaboration

ThinkGeoEnergy

The GEORG Gleði event to celebrate the 15th year anniversary of GEORG (source: GEORG) GEORG is a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote research and the sustainable use of geothermal energy both in Iceland and elsewhere in the world. in 2009, amounting to 70 million ISK for seven years or 490 million ISK in total.

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