Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

This change in the timing of the annual cycle of plant developmental stages, or phenology, in turn produces massive ripple effects that impact human health, cultural practices, farmer livelihoods, and food security. The quality and medicinal properties of such plants can be impacted as well by suboptimal growing conditions.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. The decision to regulate PFAS represents a huge win for public health. That win will come at a cost.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration. Soil management: Projects attempt to preserve or increase the amount of carbon sequestration in the soil.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 In West Bengal, farmers use bio-diverse integrated farming models that combine at least 5-6 types of food crops, 10-12 types of vegetables, trees yielding food, fuel, and fodder, and medicinal plants. Packaging accounts for 5.4%

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) admits that increasing human pressure on the natural environment may drive disease emergence. Protecting wildlife in this way is not simply a way to preserve the longevity and conserve the biodiversity of helpless beasts, but necessary to protect human health. Taking action now.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What business practices should change?

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? For individuals: A community garden can provide other yields as well as food, such as fuel, crafting materials, and natural medicine.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

Together, these fungi species are unlocking solutions for cleaning up the environment, developing greener construction and product materials and contributing significant medicinal benefits. Mycelium is a massive filter that removes toxins from the soil , improving water quality as a result. What are fungi?

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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. Particularly among millennials, Gen Z, and parents.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. We're bringing them in as formal employees and providing health insurance.". The same nutrients that benefit human health can also contribute to the healthy growth of farm animals.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. This analysis can aid in identifying pollution “hotspots” and estimating the relative burden of health and environmental risk contributed by a company’s operations. What business practices should change?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. This analysis can aid in identifying pollution “hotspots” and estimating the relative burden of health and environmental risk contributed by a company’s operations. What business practices should change?

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Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jesse Merrick, shown here in better health, covers a football game in his job as a sportscaster. 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. He developed pneumonia, which made everything hurt, even breathing. Walking was painful. “It

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2020

By contrast, the lush rainforests to the south of the Sahara have trees that both block the wind and hold on to the soil with their roots, keeping all the muck from taking to the air. So what does that mean for respiratory health, especially with COVID-19 being a respiratory disease? Yeah, it’s not good,” says Hand.

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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. Los Angeles: Latino children in Boyle Heights play in lead-contaminated soil.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. While former U.S.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Universal Healthcare A coronavirus-proof world requires massive international cooperation and global-scale public health infrastructure. Capitalist globalization took off in the stark absence of a global public health infrastructure. Here are the three major ones. In a March 25, 2020 TED talk that has already received over 1.9

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Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

What it also left, in Tsai’s words, was an opportunity for a sort of “geological sample” — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the creeks six months after a catastrophic derailment. Four months after the disaster.”

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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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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Health care, already a longstanding challenge in the islands, is expected to get worse, as temperatures rise and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika proliferate. Hotter temperatures have already limited harvests of traditional foods and medicine used by many indigenous nations.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 18, 2023

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