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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: The Benefits of a Green Office Environment

Green Business Bureau

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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Biophilic Office: Interior Design Principles and Benefits

Green Business Bureau

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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Climate change is a public health issue amounting to billions in medical costs

AGreenLiving

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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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. I met with her last autumn in a one-room Pentecostal church in town, where she and a neighbor and fellow parishioner, 50-year-old Debbie Short, described the collapse of their health. “I They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill.

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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. The bartender, Kevin Costner, says he used to be scared, too — until he started doing something about it. I recycle these.”

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