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Closing Pandora’s box: A new book explores the science of sewage

Envirotec Magazine

A new book provides a helpful primer on the science underpinning its collection and treatment, and what happens when it’s accidentally released. The medieval and early modern periods in the British Isles certainly seemed to mark a nadir for the field’s development, and the book offers a nod to some of the less savoury aspects.

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20 must-read books about food systems

GreenBiz

20 must-read books about food systems. But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system. Focusing on the concept of dude foods, the book follows the evolution of food marketing for men.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. 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. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. 1 killer in the country.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. This is a companion piece to the the 25 books in The Green Market Oracle's well informed readers list. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2. Climate action 4.

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How tree-planting startup Propagate Ventures monetizes land conservation

GreenBiz

When I started poking around to identify other for-profit ventures in the business of land conservation, two other organizations that have been working with Microsoft jumped to mind, both of which provide technology for mapping and measuring forests : Pachama and Silvia Terra. .

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Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about

GreenBiz

"Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth," writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book "Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret," published by The New Press in November.

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Will economics drive a paradigm shift in ballast water management?

Envirotec Magazine

It requires every vessel over 400gt to have onboard an approved ballast water management plan, a ballast water record book and an International Ballast Water Management Certificate. It states that oceans are crucial for global food security and human health, while also hosting huge reservoirs of biodiversity.

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