AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet Poornima Param… Thu, 08/27/2020 – 01:00 Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. Undoubtedly, soil is foundational to human life, yet we know very little about the soil itself.

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Soil Agriculture Health Investment 28

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And it provides vital services to society and the economy including: Regulating environmental stability, e.g. climate, water, air, disease. Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. The business risks of biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Ocean acidification Soil Medicine 74

Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Philip Landrigan, a public health physician and professor of epidemiology at Boston College, told Grist that the crisis has “quietly and insidiously gotten worse while all attention has been focused on the climate.” Volunteers pick up plastic nurdles at a beach in Tarragona, Spain.

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Plastics Health Pollution Microplastics 131

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Living in rural areas during this period of catastrophic fires driven in no small part by climate change has forced many people — myself included — to look at tree cutting, and forests, differently. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent.

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Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies. Similarly, environmental and sustainability organizations — heretofore largely absent from leadership of the environmental justice movement — can play an important role in holding businesses and governments accountable for environmental justice.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production.

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Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies. Similarly, environmental and sustainability organizations — heretofore largely absent from leadership of the environmental justice movement — can play an important role in holding businesses and governments accountable for environmental justice.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. One thing is nearly certain, though: Climate change plays a role. She decided to look at what would happen to Valley fever under a high-emissions climate change scenario.

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Health Soil Climate change Medicine 145

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. Despite being told after Sandy that his organization couldn't grow, he said, "We're still here.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Pollution 536

Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Climate change activists could learn from and utilise the current covid-19 crisis, to make this short-term environmental windfall become a lasting victory. By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS Unfortunately, there is no “easy” climate change solution equivalent to coughing into your elbow or washing your hands for 20 seconds.

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Climate change Health Fossil fuels Agriculture 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The oil and gas industry has long faced criticism for the role the carbon emissions from burning its products play in causing climate change. RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” They grow or forage some of their own food and medicine, including ginseng and morel mushrooms, and fish and hunt for trout and deer.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 125

AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. “If you don’t own anything, you’re not changing nothing.”

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Business Energy Monitoring 28