AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health Oliver Camp Mon, 10/26/2020 – 01:30 On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse.

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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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AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The food and agriculture technology venture capital market has changed significantly since AgFunder started producing reports back in 2014. Early 18 Clean Food Group , Willicroft DSM Venturing Netherlands Corporate venturing arm of health and nutrition company DSM. Fast forward five years and that number was 45 for 2022.

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

Working with BASF, Aramark, Hampton Farms and Missouri Organic Recycling to be the first professional sports venue to sell pre-packaged peanuts in compostable bags beginning in 2017. In partnership with Evergy, the installation in 2014 of 308 solar panels to generate about 29,000 kilowatts of electricity a year at Truman Sports Complex.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 3, 2022

Resilient power – solar photovoltaics paired with battery storage (solar+storage) – has gained traction as more municipalities, affordable housing developers, and community leaders become aware of the economic, environmental, and health benefits of resilient power. You can learn more about these great projects here. The Lenox Center at A.B.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Fish hold carbon in their bodies, taken in from eating other fish or smaller marine animals, which dine on microscopic organisms called phytoplankton that have sucked CO2 from the water. For Walker, avoiding farmed fish fed on fishmeal and fish oil is one of the simplest routes to helping restore oceanic health.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 20, 2019

In an undated article by the Department of Health (New York State), it was stated that “Methane and Carbon Dioxide make up 90 to 98% of landfill gas. by paper on the rocks (undated) v Paper comes from Trees… by TheWorldCounts, 13 May 2014 vi Why Recycled Paper? And how can we rebalance our friendship with trees?)

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. She wants to take her kids out hunting and foraging with her, but she doesn’t want to expose them to the environmental health hazards she suspects are lurking in the soil. Or rather, the dogs do.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

That corporate lineage is interesting in that AES became the first to contract a battery of this size when utility Southern California Edison awarded it the Alamitos contract in 2014. The organization is dedicated to expanding clean energy, and it hopes to use the battery to integrate renewables into the system.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Wildfires are often heralds of change for the landscapes they burn, not only harming humans and other organisms but also leaving behind drastically altered ecosystems. Less widely recognized threats, like dissolved metals and other molecular health hazards, lurk in runoff from industrial sources, home waste, and building materials.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. 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. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

” This goal will become reality “when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.” Additional examples of environmental injustice remain plentiful.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In 2014, Quebec joined California’s market and several other states and countries have considered or adopted their own versions in recent years.)

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2020

Health Effects of Pollution Pollution and global warming have very real health effects from heat stroke to asthma to premature death caused by cancer-causing chemicals. As an organization committed to sustainability, we need to rethink how we are engaging with people of color because climate justice means racial justice.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

The organization helps local communities plant trees to restore habitat for biodiversity, promote cleaner air, and absorb CO2. Since 2014, they’ve developed partnerships in over 80 countries and planted over 100 million trees. In collaboration with Upstream, smaller entities like One Tree Planted can leverage that data too.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2020

On February 24, the government initiated a permanent ban with a decree titled, “ Comprehensively Prohibiting the Illegal Trade of Wild Animals, Eliminating the Bad Habits of Wild Animal Consumption, and Protecting the Health and Safety of the People.”. But will the ban simply drive a long-thriving trade underground?

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Particulates and health. Hand in hand with gas levels comes particulate matter, more commonly referred to as PM, the health risks of which are understood to be especially acute with PM2.5 can also enter the bloodstream, with impacts on cardiovascular, respiratory, and other organ systems.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2014, he opened The Sioux Chef as a caterer and food educator to the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area. As director of the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Center for Neighborhoods she works to engage, equip and empower neighborhood leaders to work towards a community culture of health. Improving urban soils with low-cost materials.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

The SEJ is a 1,500-strong membership organization dedicated to “more and better coverage of environment-related issues.” Lisberg stressed that Veolia is a fundamentally different type of organization to the WSPA. The sponsors of the other beat dinners are predominantly non-profit organizations.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Still, consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world. For nearly two decades, health officials around the world have warned about the rise of infectious disease from a warming climate. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't; we'll likely never know for certain. There is no roadmap for this.

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Econaur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Access to clean water and sanitation is integral in keeping public health intact. Unscientific waste disposal and inadequate sanitation facilities affect both the health of humans and the environment they live in. Its line of products includes waterless urinals, natural cleaners, sewage care items, and food composting structures.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

In August 2014, nearly half a million people in the Toledo area were without tap water for nearly three days due to contaminated drinking water. The researchers used the blue-green alga Microcystis and Lake Erie as the model organism and environment for their simulation. Cyanobacteria can be dangerous for both pets and people.

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Grist

JULY 5, 2023

In 2014, after managing an unsuccessful mayoral campaign in Boston, Stinnett was taking a break from politics as he and his wife were expecting their first child. Emily Church, one of the organization’s more than 6,000 volunteers, embraces the nerdiness. She began phone banking with EVP during the 2018 midterm season.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 20, 2021

The 2014 DEMO Day was hosted in partnership with Global Cleantech Meetup Week, which was organized by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and ACTION New England. The fourth annual DEMO Day was one of four connected events organized by Greentown and the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) on Oct. in Somerville, MA!

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

Jasmine Vazin, a senior campaign organizer with the Sierra Club, pointed out that CalGEM also recently tried to approve a suite of new drilling permits within a protected 3,200-foot “setback zone” just hours before new rules banning that practice took effect. The mandate of CalGEM is to protect public health and the interests of Californians.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5, which covers much of the Midwest, joined local organizers in a conference call in July and made an in-person visit to the area earlier this month. It is work like this that has Massachusetts-based nuclear forensics scientist Dr. Marco Kaltofen deeply concerned about worker health risks.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Stuart had run tests in 2014 and 2015 and found both chemicals, PFOS and PFOA, in its water supply. But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

The city of Richmond exists in the shadow of the nearby Chevron refinery, which has been connected to poor air quality and health issues in the nearby community. ” ‘Richmond deserves more news coverage’ When the Standard launched in 2014, it proclaimed: “Richmond deserves more news coverage.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 28, 2022

There’s this recognition that some spaces still need to be sacred and protected from industry,” Robin Lesko, a senior organizer with Food & Water Watch, told DeSmog. In 2014, Allegheny County signed a lease with Range Resources, allowing the company to drill beneath Deer Lakes Park. Taken March 2021. Credit: Tim Resciniti.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The release of Forest Carbon Monitoring marks the beginning of a new era in operational forest monitoring, and we look forward to supporting the wide array of government, commercial, and non-profit organizations working to build the next generation of natural climate solutions.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Unfortunately, things haven’t improved since the AWI petitioned the USDA in 2014 to require third-party certification of animal welfare in order to earn the “humane” label. Related: Is your Thanksgiving turkey putting your family’s health at risk? Using its own scoring tool, the AWI gave 12 of 23 claims an F score.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Mathur, a plant geneticist, leads the Plant Breeding & Genetics Laboratory for the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, a collaboration between two United Nations agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. 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. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Pollution is a huge public health problem, especially in China. It’s the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world and in 2014, the country far exceeded the national standard for pollution suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO). But how big is the problem? At least, not yet.

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Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 31, 2020

Since inception, the program has supported more than 115 events, strategic meetings and trainings, and 29 larger strategic initiatives between 31 organizations. Funded projects have engaged more than 2,369 participants (entrepreneurs, industry and academic representatives and others), created nearly 200 jobs, led to more than $18.2

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