Green Business Bureau

MARCH 14, 2022

A carbon footprint is defined as a measure of the total GHG emissions caused directly or indirectly by a person, organization, product, or service. E.g. Organizations may account for the carbon footprint of a given product or service, which would contribute to but be different from the carbon footprint of the business as a whole. .

Carbon 78

Carbon Carbon-neutral Global warming Organic 78

Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. Earth Day organizers educated people about the value of sorting through their trash and advocated for community recycling programs. I recycle these.”

Recycling 145

Recycling Recycling Plastics Earth Day 145

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Pathological waste includes human or animal tissues and organs, while pharmaceutical waste includes expired or unused medications. Best practices for biomedical waste management include regular training and education of staff, the use of personal protective equipment, and proper documentation of waste management activities.

Waste 68

Waste Waste Health Carbon-negative 68

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 20, 2024

A holistic and well organized sustainability plan will include several key components: Part 1: Sustainability Drivers – This section summarizes the aspects of your business that use scarce natural resources, contribute to climate change, cause environmental harm or produce useless waste. Use energy efficient light bulbs such as LEDs.

Business Energy Monitoring 60

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 60

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S. Christopher Ketchum / Grist.

Logging 98

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 98

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

Pollution 430

Pollution Health Politics Policy 430

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Stanford science historian Ben Franta and I continue our discussion of these key documents, what they say, how they were found, and what this means for the fossil fuel industry. Document 7: 1981. THACKER: What I love about this document is that you can see they’re kind of getting concerned. Document 8: 1981.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 98

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Meanwhile, despite “some rinks add[ing] ordinary salt to the water to keep them from freezing,” Wondergy documents, “most modern rinks now add ethylene glycol.” HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

Global warming 36

Global warming Carbon-negative Microplastics Pollution 36

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels. In a PDP, the maximum volume of VOC emissions that a factory can emit is stated.

Building Energy Monitoring 28

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

AGreenLiving

MARCH 23, 2021

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. When energy use surges in the autumn and winter seasons, particulate matter and ozone increase to dangerously high levels. In a PDP, the maximum volume of VOC emissions that a factory can emit is stated.

Building Energy Monitoring 28

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Grist

MAY 30, 2024

Researchers, including Basu, had already documented the impacts of air pollution on adverse pregnancy outcomes. billion people — notably in South and East Asia and the African Sahel — experienced at least 31 days of extreme heat, hotter than 90 percent of documented temperatures between 1991 and 2020, according to a new report.

Health 135

Health Pollution Climate change Africa 135

Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Carbon accounting – also known as a carbon or greenhouse gas inventory – is the process of measuring the amount of carbon dioxide, or other greenhouse gases (GHG), an organization emits. The process helps organizations highlight and target high GHG emitting operations with emission reduction strategies.

Carbon 78

Carbon Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

James’ march was set to take place, Lavigne learned that the town required her organization to post a $10,000 bond to obtain a permit for the march, money the group didn’t have access to on short notice. James Parish would violate the EPA’s standards for soot and ozone-forming nitrogen dioxide. Two days before RISE St.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Health Law Home Energy Monitoring 98

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

Health 28

Health Pollution Politics Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens. Such a risk assessment should be available for public comment and independent scientific review.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2024

million on consulting and signature collection for the effort, according to public documents. Soon after the 2024 legislative session kicked off in January, lawmakers introduced a suite of proposals intended to rein in ozone pollution from oil and gas activity, the very sort of bills the industry’s ballot measures seemed designed to block.

Fossil fuels 132

Fossil fuels Ozone Pollution Law 132

DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

Rather than transforming the fossilized remains of organisms into gasoline and other motor fuels, the Texas plant breaks apart the molecular structure of oil, through a process called cracking, which turns it into the primary ingredient for car seats, single-use plastic bags, plastic coffee cups and much more.

Plastics 98

Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time.

Energy Monitor 124

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 124

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Little information about how much farms fertilize is publicly available beyond some documentation from operations raising large numbers of animals, such as several thousand or more pigs. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. It hasn’t done that, either.

Agriculture 133

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 133