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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. The organization is working directly with manufacturers, including scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher, to set benchmarks on products and packaging design. My Green Lab also runs the ACT "eco-nutrition" label for lab equipment.

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Fast Fashion: the second biggest polluter on Earth

Envirotec Magazine

A study by McKinsey & Company uncovered that in 2014 the average person owned 60% more clothes than the average consumer in 2000, but only wore them for half as long. Rather than dosing wastewater with chemicals, the water percolates through a carbon-based media which the organic pollutants ‘stick’ to.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Organizations will pump more money and time to promote themselves as environmentally friendly, relative to the actual time and money spent on minimizing their environmental impact. For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. USDA Organic.

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Why We Need Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Green Market Oracle

Carbon capture and sequestration have often been considered technologies of last resort. As emissions keep rising and global carbon budgets decline, it is becoming increasingly apparent that if we are to stave off the worst of climate change we must deploy and scale these desperate remedies as quickly as possible. Welch, 2019).

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Greentown Labs Announces Location of New Incubator in Houston’s Innovation District

Greentown Labs

It joins a growing number of startup support organizations and startup companies already located or locating there, as well as Houston-based accelerator programs including MassChallenge (also founded in Greater Boston, Mass.), gener8tor, Impact Hub Houston, and others.

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Petroleum Association and Controversial Waste Management Firm Sponsoring Events at Flagship Environmental Journalism Conference

DeSmogBlog

The SEJ is a 1,500-strong membership organization dedicated to “more and better coverage of environment-related issues.” Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies.

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Eco friendly Plastic Bag Alternatives for Sustainable Retail Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Secondly, with regard to production, plastic bags contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Showcasing the extent of this pollution, the first oceanographic study conducted in 2014 examined the amount of near-surface plastic debris. The carbon footprint of plastic is ~ 6kg CO2 per kg.

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