Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From intensifying natural disasters and food insecurity, to public health crises and forced migration, we live at a time of unprecedented climate risks. Zinder, Niger, as seen in 2012 in aerial imagery (upper left), and in PlanetScope imagery Q1 2023 (lower left). Yet, it’s difficult to know for sure.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

SafetyOn , a health and safety organisation for the Onshore wind sector, was recognised with the Positive Improvement Award for its campaign to raise awareness and mitigate the risks for the thousands employed in the UK’s onshore wind industry. A performer at the event.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

The IEA study will show that disposing of solar panels in landfill is unlikely to have an adverse impact on human health, according to co-author Dr. Garvin Heath, a senior scientist in the U.S. And although the blades, like solar panels, are not expected to pose a health hazard, their size is seen as challenge when it comes to disposal.

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Charged

JANUARY 18, 2021

WAVE has had systems deployed since 2012, and has demonstrated the ability to integrate high-power charging systems into heavy-duty EVs from several commercial EV manufacturers. WAVE’s fully automated, hands-free charging system relies on charging plates that are embedded in roadways and charge vehicles during scheduled stops.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Biophilic design encompasses benefits for human health as well as for environmental sustainability and business productivity. Putrino, D.,

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

"My Green Lab is a brilliant project because it reaches out to change behavior and mindset of scientists in the lab," said Pernilla Sörme, risk management lead in global safety, health and environment at AstraZeneca, which expanded Green Lab Certification to seven sites across its global portfolio.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 22, 2023

Working in a biophilic office environment nourishes employees’ physical and mental health in many ways, such as reducing airborne pollutants, creating a calming atmosphere, among several others. Having plants and green walls in the office can improve air quality by removing airborne pollutants, reducing indoor CO 2 and producing oxygen.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

However, in order for there to be a health risk from asbestos, it is necessary for a person to inhale asbestos fibres. Due to the significant health risks, employers have additional legal responsibilities, over and above other health and safety law, towards employees who are potentially working with asbestos.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s a general truism that you can’t manage what you don’t measure, an idea clear to Lord Kelvin over 100 years ago¹ and enacted by health & safety professionals when they carry out risk assessments (or check the effectiveness of controls). However, the Code has a special legal status. References.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

She came to the co-op from International Flavors & Fragrances in 2012 as supply chain and operations executive vice president and became COO several years later. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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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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Solar Industry

AUGUST 29, 2024

The plan updates and expands the original 2012 Western Solar Plan in order to reflect changes in technology and meet the higher demand for solar energy development. This plan analyzes Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, in addition to the six states analyzed in the original plan. “It

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Human health and food security is intrinsically tied to the health of insect populations. With this symbiotic relationship severed, human health would undoubtedly suffer. Insects are also a critical protein food source in a number of countries and cultures, serving as more than just a delicacy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2022

This challenging project was funded from the Government Health Infrastructure Plan, that required the project to be completed by the close of the financial year. This provided the design and build of an energy scheme that achieved a 25% carbon footprint reduction by 2015, and delivered energy savings of £920,000.

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Grist

JUNE 20, 2024

West Nile virus, a recent study said , “underlines once again that the health of animals, humans, and the environment is deeply intertwined.” The New York City Department of Public Health suspected a disease spread by mosquitoes was behind the outbreak and immediately launched an investigation. Seven died. in the same period.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

What were the key issues when Isle Americas was founded in 2012? Managing capital costs and operational costs with declining revenues were ongoing stressors across the last decade, and conversations about the value of water and how adequately priced services were topics of discussion even as far back as 2012. Drinking water 2012 -2022.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

In 2012, Panasonic conducted a virus clearance test with a third-party organization and confirmed the effectiveness of each of its technology in terms of biological characteristics. components.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2022

With financial support from the Indian government in the form of a combined grant and loan, the project was completed within seven years from the award of the major civil, electromechanical and hydromechanical packages in March 2012.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

YouGov poll indicates the environment is now the third top issue among voters behind health and Brexit. Levels of support for renewables in the regular public attitudes surveys have remained strong since the question was first asked in 2012, ranging from between 74 per cent and 85 per cent.

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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. With Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute gala, 2012. The key thing, though, is that it is really about ecological health down to the molecule. Safe, then circular.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

In 2012, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn publicly accused Mann, then a professor at Penn State University, of scientific misconduct and fraud. and “Merchants of Doubt,” is a leading authority on the origins of disinformation about science and public health. Oreskes, author of the books “Why Trust Science?”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

They are also concerned that the facilities could harm local communities, some of which face high health burdens. DEED ) Megan Fiske, a wildlife biologist at the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center and a Tuolumne County resident, also has concerns over the impact of the clearance on forest health and natural habitats.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

One accident there — a 2012 fire — sent a cloud of black smoke billowing over San Francisco Bay and left thousands of local residents struggling to breathe. Some feel uncomfortable about the source of these funds, because they often come at a cost to community health. "We As the U.S.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 24, 2021

Pollution from oil and gas production is fueling the climate crisis, threatening our health and safety, and things have only been getting worse. We know that methane pollution is fueling the climate crisis and disproportionately endangers the health and safety of Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities across the country.

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Charged

APRIL 20, 2020

In his latest appearance , Gerber argued that the company is in a better position than other automakers to weather the current health crisis.). When I was invited to join Charged. I’ve been writing about the e-mobility transition ever since, and although I write about all things electric, Tesla has always been at the center of the action.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 3, 2021

The organization has brought in a variety of indoor plants to improve office air quality and uses non-toxic supplies such as low-VOC paint to protect the health of staff and visitors.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2022

The top images show the impact of a flash drought in Oklahoma in 2012, compared to the same area two years later in the bottom row. In 2012, a flash drought struck the Central U.S. “Our agricultural community, the farmers who plant wheat, they may not even be able to plant if they don’t get two inches of rain.”. Jeffrey Basara.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. But with the NRDC-UCSF findings, links can now be established correlating health data with climate change.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Instead, in 2012, they converted 90 acres of pasture to native warm-season grasses, using their own money and cost-share funding from the U.S. Finally, they’d had enough.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Several years later, those impacted are still suffering from adverse health effects of the accidental gassing. Moreover, because combustion engines require oxygen to function, it hampered emergency response. Recordings of 911 calls obtained by the Climate Investigations Center reveal a chaotic scene.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Rates of home insulation installations collapsed by 95 percent between 2012 and 2019, according to the charity National Energy Action, while the UK ranks low among European countries for heat pump installations. ” Good for Health.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 15, 2020

While these proactive measures reduced the threat of wildfires, they disrupted countless businesses and posed their own threats to health and safety. For example, Montgomery County in Maryland opted for a microgrid in the wake of a 2012 storm that caused extended power outages. But cost and sustainability were also important criteria.

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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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