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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Each of these individuals is playing the long game and is in a strong position to move their companies and industries into what could be a more hopeful period of reconciliation, recovery and repair. Most support science-based targets and sit on multiple boards, collaborations and advocacy groups to further industry-level sustainability goals.

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Covid-19 risk greater in urban centres affected by air pollution

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Sara De Matteis, Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Cagliari University, Italy, and member of the ERS Environmental Health Committee said: “Urban air quality has improved in the last half century, but petrol and especially diesel vehicle fumes remain a serious problem.

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Something in the air

Envirotec Magazine

Scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) say they have invented an artificial nose equipped to perform continuous bacterial monitoring – a capability they say has never previously been achieved and one with multiple applications in medicine, environmental monitoring and food. ”

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‘Narratives of Delay’: How the Animal Pharma Industry Resists Moves to Curb the Overuse of Antibiotics on Farms 

DeSmogBlog

Two years after landmark European Union legislation designed to curb the overuse of antibiotics on farms came into force, new analysis from DeSmog reveals eight key narratives the veterinary medicine and farming lobbies deploy to defend the billion-dollar market for the drugs. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp.,

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Google Cloud partners up to utilise perovskite within IoT

Smart Energy International

Saule Technologies and Columbus Energy have partnered with Google Cloud to develop new products using perovskite solar cells and solutions in the field of distributed energy and IoT (Internet of Things). According to Saule, the lack of power has greatly limited their potential applications to date. billion by 2025.

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Strategies for reducing the fossil-fuel impact of electric vehicles

Renewable Energy World

The impact of electric transportation on pollution and reduced carbon emissions and fossil-fuel consumption is complicated. On the one hand, well-designed electric vehicles (EVs) use much less energy per mile than conventionally-fueled vehicles. Midwest, wind energy is growing quickly. For example, in the U.S.

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Healing Through Food: The Art & Science of Food as Medicine

Better Ventures

Food is so many things: nourishment, culture, enjoyment, sustenance… But is food medicine? We’re unraveling the intricate ways in which food can indeed be medicine. Before diving into these categories, let’s first touch on the landscape that makes this era of food as medicine both challenging and exciting.