Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

members are supposed to be finalizing a global treaty to address plastic pollution. This week, delegates and advocates are gathering in Ottawa, Canada, for the fourth intergovernmental negotiating committee, or INC-4 — the second-to-last session on the books before the U.N.’s

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”. Nowhere do the booklets mention electric buses or electric appliances, which, unlike their gas counterparts, do not emit harmful pollutants that exacerbate the climate crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Places can be booked now, at 09:00 (CET) or 17:00 (CET). The exposure draft is open for public comment until 28 February 2023, after which the submitted feedback will be considered ahead of an expected publication date for the final Standard in the second half of next year.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), which regulates the offshore energy industry, has acknowledged gaps in accountability that could be enabling more pollution, such as unverified self-reported emissions numbers and flyover inspections that fail to detect pipeline leaks. Credit: BOEM , CC BY-SA 2.0

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Thus, reusable packaging is not only key to achieving a circular economy and solving the plastic pollution problem, but also equally presents untapped business potential. To grasp this potential, business must explore collaborations and capacity sharing to achieve wide-scale success and profit.

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Grist

MAY 8, 2024

Paris, Moreno’s home, was the first city to put this concept into practice — part of a larger strategy to reduce air pollution and the presence of cars in the city’s iconic downtown areas. Since 2011, the French capital has reportedly reduced car traffic by 45 percent and associated nitrogen oxide pollution by 40 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An accredited online medical conference bringing together some of the country’s top air pollution experts will now be free to attend on 4 October, after event organisers announced they were waiving ticket costs so that more health professionals can benefit from cutting-edge insights to help improve patient outcomes.

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GreenBiz

MAY 15, 2020

From global cotton supply chains to pollution from textile factories, the need to improve the industry in favor of both people and the planet is pressing. . She also recently authored a new book, " The Rocket Years: How Your Twenties Launch the Rest of Your Life." Fri, 05/15/2020 - 01:43.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Desperate to get up to speed on the topic, I chanced on the book Material Concerns by Tim Jackson which set out the principles of Sustainability in very clear terms. Obviously as population and pollution increased, this ran up against natural limits as many a cholera outbreak or pea soup fog will attest. I loved it.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 19, 2022

As far back as the 2000 publication of their book, The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World , Paul H. Shel’s award-winning 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World, lays out a blueprint for creating, repurposing, and MARKETING those profitable change-making products and services. .

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Climate-KIC

JANUARY 28, 2018

Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society has released a new book, “Clean Meat: How Eating Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World,” which details how ‘clean meat’ (meat grown from animal cells, for example) could help mitigate climate change by replacing polluting factory farming practices.

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In a coruscating, righteous rant, Monteiro argues that Twitter could not be better designed for supporting racists and fascists, that the Uber software is deliberately designed to block out those who might regulate it and that professionals designed the ‘defeat device’ that allowed VW to put polluting vehicles on the road.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc. The green industrial revolution needs strong green industrial regulation.".

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 2, 2022

Green and regenerative business profitability and marketing strategist and copywriter Shel Horowitz’s mission is to fix crises like catastrophic climate change, pollution, hunger, poverty, racism/othering, and even war—by showing the business world how products and services that fix them can make a profit.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

With the help of initiatives such as the TFL scrappage scheme, the introduction of the ULEZ and greener transport options, pollution in London has been reduced by more than 40%. From here a customer can also book a collection by one of our friendly drivers, should they not be able to drop the vehicle off at their local site.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 14, 2020

Late last year, the European Union introduced a $1 trillion plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 and achieve a just transition away from polluting technologies. Kevin Book, managing director of research at Clearview Energy Partners. Europe’s Green Deal enjoys strong backing from many of the EU’s top political figures.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 2, 2024

But award-winning investigative DeSmog journalist Justin Noble is working to change that with his new book Petroleum-238 , which exposes an unsettling secret at the heart of the industry (read an excerpt here ). Noble onstage at his book launch in Brooklyn. Oil and gas companies across the U.S. Where does this waste come from?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mann was speaking last week about his latest book, The New Climate War , which argues that forces that have for decades sought to oppose climate action have now revised their strategies for a world in which the impacts of climate change are "no longer subtle".

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Registered visitors are therefore urged to pre-book appointments with their chosen exhibitors. The WWEM instrumentation conference will cover highly topical issues in the water sector such as pollution control in receiving waters, CSO spills, data management, climate change and stakeholder engagement.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

In what feels like overnight, almost everything has been overhauled: relationships ( Tinder, eHarmony ), friendship and networking ( Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter ), navigation ( Google Maps, Waze ), education ( Google , instead of opening a book), media consumption ( Netflix, Spotify ) and driving (autopilot).

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The summit will be opened by Southern Water chief executive Ian McAulay, alongside Philip Dunne MP, chair of the UK Parliament Environmental Audit Committee, who has been pursuing legislative changes to the management of wastewater and sewer discharges to prevent river pollution. To book your place visit www.swiftcomply.co.uk/fogsummit.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. and PhD in Atmospheric Science.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cut Pollution. Not only is it the simplest way to reduce energy-related pollution and cut consumer bills, energy efficiency also supports over 2.4 Broaden your perspective with these 22 books by Indigenous authors. The message, “Save Money. million U.S. jobs in manufacturing, construction and other industries.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Politically, there are now several key figures in the media with a passionate interest in issues like river quality and pollution. Book a place at the event. This is great in terms of ensuring accountability, but it also has a direct impact on the political pressure being brought to bear on the sector.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

From companies looking to select cleaner manufacturing suppliers, to investors seeking to divest from polluting industries, to consumers making choices about which businesses to patronize, one thing is clear: a reliable way to measure where emissions are coming from is necessary," they wrote. Didn’t you hear the scientists?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the Alberta tar sands. Read a Q&A with Geoff Dembicki, author of the book The Petroleum Papers.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 14, 2021

Rachel Carson wrote the infamous book, Silent Spring, exposing the adverse ecological impacts of dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT). The eco-conscious movement swept through the agricultural industry decades before rooftop solar panels, and electric vehicles hit the market. The popular insecticide decreased the sustainability of U.S.

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “ garbage patches ” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics. Left: Milan Bozic, Right: Jenna Garrett.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 21, 2021

Held between October 2019-September 2020, these conversations reflect the voice of communities most burdened by pollution as a result of their race, health, wealth, and where they live, among other key factors. The HEAL Act serves to improve government performance in achieving the objectives of environmental laws already on the books.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. We have access to myriad documentaries and books aimed at increasing awareness. One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 Looking back with regret.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Dembicki’s book illuminates for the first time how these industry players profited from Canada’s oil sands and then spun those profits into international networks of climate denial that would help extend the oil sands’ lifetime. But part of the reason I wanted to do this book was to really educate readers in the U.S.,

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Their farm, once part of the Loring Air Force Base, is also a Superfund site — an area so polluted it’s marked high-priority for federal cleanup. Its roots are deep and profuse — the better to uptake pollutants from soil. If a farm’s soil is polluted, odds are the water will be too.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Yet the Chamber is currently working to eliminate one of the most effective climate and public health protections on the books in the United States. billion tons of climate pollution to the air, cause more than 18,000 premature deaths and increase the cost of driving for American families. By 2040, this rollback will add more than 1.5

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

A cluster of cancer cases in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s prompted a major pollution lawsuit that eventually inspired a book and subsequent movie. UniFirst came to public attention nearly 40 years ago as part of the pollution case that was eventually featured in the book and movie “A Civil Action.”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For Darcy, electric vehicles represent an important opportunity to further support companies in complying with environmental regulation while limiting their polluting impact and risk. Contact the firm for more information and to book a free EV Charging Point survey. Or contact devitech@darcy.co.uk 0800 0370 899. 1 September, 2021.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 3, 2020

With a children's book that tells the story of marine animals entangled in and choking on ocean plastic, Greenpeace wants to see plastic pollution taught in Philippine schools to encourage students to act on the country’s waste crisis.

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