Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Carbon impact of Scotland’s waste increased by 53,000 tonnes CO2 equivalent (CO2e) in 2021, but is down 860,000 tonnes CO2e since 2011. below 2011 levels, the carbon impact of Scottish household waste generated and managed was 12.8% (0.86 million tonnes CO2e) below the 2011 level. less than 2011. percentage points).

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Grist

APRIL 19, 2024

The reality of climate change came home for Dr. Samantha Ahdoot one summer day in 2011 when her son was 9 years old. A 2021 study found that 80 percent of parents agreed that the impact of global warming on their child’s health should be discussed during their routine visits. There was a heat wave.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

SEPA said its specialist officers had carefully assessed the monitoring technique being used to remediate the site and responsibly manage the waste, and that they would be present on site every day to ensure permit conditions are fully complied with and that public health is protected during the operation.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

It also has complicated matters, as procedures around the expanded use of personal protective equipment were embraced to protect the health of workers and consumers. Perdue also has been studying ways to package chicken in recyclable trays, an idea it borrowed from Coleman Natural, an organic meat company it acquired in 2011.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Tara has presented TV programmes including Brave New World with Stephen Hawking in 2011, the BBC’s Expedition Borneo and her discovery of Nile Crocodiles in West Africa was the subject of an acclaimed BBC 2 Natural World Documentary, Lost Crocodiles of the Pharaohs. “It’s not all work!

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2020

Magazine in August 2011, 2012 and 2013. The choices we make in regard to supplies, energy usage, and product movement are all measured against the impact to the environment and the long-term health of our planet.” – Tim McCann, Best Cleaners. 500 | 5000 America’s Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc. About America’s Best Cleaners.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions. If we are serious about our planet’s health and childrens’ futures we need a root and branch removal of such a ruinous practice, especially when there is an alternative readily on hand to replace it.”.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The 90,000 first responders charged with cleaning up the carnage, along with others who spent time on or near the 9/11 site continue to suffer from serious health effects almost two decades later. According to reports around 20 percent of the people who were exposed to toxic contaminants are suffering from a range of health problems.

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The Verge: Energy

JUNE 19, 2024

Other groups are concerned about health and environmental risks with nuclear energy. Beyond meltdowns, like what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan in 2011 , the US is still grappling with where to safely store radioactive waste for centuries.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Japan has ended years of speculation over the fate of radioactive wastewater stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the 2011 disaster. The main source of radioactive contamination is the residual nuclear fuel from the three nuclear reactors which overheated during the 2011 disaster.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

It calls for the health sector to divest from the industry most responsible for driving the climate crisis, which the medical community has recognized as a public health emergency. It is the first analysis of its kind looking at health sector investments in fossil fuels. private hospital systems. Credit: Ted Eytan (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2011, previous work led by Professor Holmes first identified mecC -MRSA in human and dairy cow populations. The World Health Organization now considers MRSA one of the world’s greatest threats to human health. MRSA was first identified in patients in 1960, and around 1 in 200 of all MRSA infections are caused by mecC-MRSA.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. The key thing, though, is that it is really about ecological health down to the molecule. Teaching a group of sixth graders about systems design, 2011. It is slow but worthwhile. So I am really pleased about that.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Bayer , headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a multinational life science company with core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. Sustainable development and inclusive growth are core elements of Bayer’s corporate strategy and vision: “health for all, hunger for none.” With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2021

They contain organic matter (such as resin and brominated flame retardants), chemical residuals and heavy metal elements that can be seriously damaging to the environment and human health. However, they also contain high-grade precious metals such as palladium, silver, copper and gold. (As

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Unsustainable

APRIL 17, 2020

Harari, 2011) Urbanisation provides a myriad of benefits and resources that ensure a life of convenience and longevity, yet more often than not it can also make us feel ‘alienated, depressed and pressured.’ 2011) Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind London: Vintage Books. 17 June.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

If we don't take these measures, we are just starting the timer on the next global health crisis.". Land has reportedly tripled since 2011 to 8.4 Neither can we turn a blind eye to the power our choices, as a society, an economy and as individuals, have to change the world for the better.".

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

Researchers followed this reintroduced population and tracked their distribution and health. Despite this, illegal beavers started appearing elsewhere, most conspicuously on the River Tay, also in Scotland, perhaps since 2011, according to the “?Save Now they’re back. Save the Free Beavers of the Tay” Facebook group.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 27, 2020

Matt Wayland, IBEW Matt Wayland began in the Canadian office of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in 2011.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In 2011, the IFC lent poultry company Ust-Kamenogorsk Poultry (UKPF) invested $2 million in refurbishing housing for chickens, among other projects. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. as clients.

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Andrew Winston

MARCH 26, 2020

Our health care system and economy risk collapsing under the weight. In this vein, seemingly political questions like “Should everyone have some basic health care coverage?” If there isn’t a basic floor of access to energy, water, food, and health care for everyone , we’re all at risk. If we don’t all thrive, none of us will.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The company is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping its customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. billion in funding, and generated more than $9.8

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. air-dry weight (a 2011 study of green waste sites in Wales), and an average figure of 0.03% dry weight in a 2017 study. A change in the policy landscape seems imminent, as Envirotec found out.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The global health emergency caused by the Covid-19 outbreak has been a very unsettling situation for all of us. Our community's health, economy and way of life is under threat, with tragic consequences that governments, businesses, and individual citizens are facing with courage. Sadly, those streets will now be empty.

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Climate change Health Pollution Earth Day 72

Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

In addition, the average annual number of weather-related power outages has increased by almost 80% since 2011. In addition to facing anything from a house fire to a pile-up on the highway or hazardous chemical leaks, they are trained medics responding to physical and behavioural health emergencies. are volunteers.

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Front And Centered

MARCH 16, 2021

In 2011, Ophelia launched The Noble Foundation whose familiar tagline is “Recognizing and centering the innate power of community.” In 2018 The Noble Foundation’s focus shifted to Social and Environmental Justice.

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Organic Health Politics Policy 98

Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

Vaccines are under development but need to be fully efficacious,” says Michael Bonsall , a mathematical biologist at the University of Oxford, who is not affiliated with Oxitec but has collaborated with the company in the past, and who worked with the World Health Organization to produce a GM mosquito-testing framework.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In 2011, DeSmog revealed that FTI Consulting’s “Energy In Depth” campaign was launched on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, a US oil and gas lobby group, to support fracking for shale gas, with funding from BP, Halliburton, Chevron, Shell and a firm later bought by ExxonMobil.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The latest iteration of the Greentown Launch corporate partnerships accelerator, the Healthy Buildings Challenge is focused on solutions that optimize for the health of people and the climate and aims to foster collaboration between Saint-Gobain and the participating startups, with support from MassCEC. Somerville, Mass., billion in funding.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 9, 2021

That’s why today, Greentown Labs and Saint-Gobain, with support from MassCEC, have launched the Greentown Launch Healthy Buildings Challenge , seeking applications from startups with buildings-related technologies that optimize for the health of people and the climate, together. June 15 at 1:00 p.m. With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

OCTOBER 17, 2020

We have the technology now to ensure a livable world for future generations, and investing in that technology will be good for our economy and our health too. From the beginning of 2011, the S&P 500 has realized 12.0% This portfolio has generated nearly 27% annual total returns from 2011 to the present. annual total returns.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2021

billion tonnes of CO2 each year from 2016-19, compared to the 2011-15 period. Now we need large-scale actions that are good for human health and good for the planet.". But while emissions fell in 64 countries, they have increased in 150 countries, and overall global emissions grew by 0.21 per cent annually, and Russia's by 0.2

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When the government recently announced its intention to increase National Insurance to pay for a £12bn investment in health and social care, I can't have been alone in thinking about other ways in which they could raise the funds. pence per litre for both petrol and diesel.

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