Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In addition, some health services have takeback programmes for expired or unused medication, preventing them from being flushed down the drain or disposed of improperly. Pharmaceutical companies are collaborating with universities and research institutions to develop more environmentally friendly drugs and production processes.

Agriculture 147

Agriculture Pollution Stormwater Ozone 147

Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Twenty-three speakers will cover a wide variety of topics, including selecting plants for pollinators, gardening for winter beauty and wildlife, principles for improving soil health, seeding and maintaining prairie plantings, native trees and plants, ecological restoration, replacements for invasive plants and green infrastructure.

Real Estate 91

Real Estate Stormwater Soil Health 91

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

They are also, in part, a response to stricter performance targets, changing government legislation, and increased public scrutiny of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) releasing sewage and stormwater into rivers and seas during heavy rainfall. How much more is needed to ensure resilience with a changing climate? •

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

As our nation sets about rebuilding our infrastructure and restoring our resilience, plastic will play an outsized role,” the American Chemistry Council, or ACC, a petrochemical industry trade group, says on one of its websites. The nonprofit Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, based in the U.K.,

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Plastics Construction Recycling Recycling 98

Greenability Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Land Use: MARC’s Tom Jacobs and Scott Schulte with Vireo Landscape Architects highlight green infrastructure for better soil health and stormwater retention. Watch it here. Watch it here.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

Like in the HEAL Act, a task force will be formed to further explore creating a state office dedicated to equity, and the decision-making body includes the people most impacted in all areas of government, such as environment, health care, employment and education. . Healthy Communities Rooted in Place Photo by Hannah Letinich.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The new frameworks will allow us to find ways to incentivise the restoration of woodlands and old growth forests, actions to revive soil health, the regeneration of peatlands, and the protection of our coastal habitats.

Climate change 50

Climate change Health Biodiversity Stormwater 50

Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

million for cities, counties, and utility districts to partner with housing developers supporting affordable housing by paying for water, sewer and stormwater utility improvements and/or waived system development charges for new affordable housing units. Currently, the Washington State Department of Commerce is granting out $55.5

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Law Climate change Health Pollution 52

The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish communities across several continents, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Global average temperatures are now perilously close to exceeding 1.5.

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Sea level rise South America Ozone Stormwater 96

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 16, 2021

Fort Collins directly provides a full slate of municipal services, including operating its own electric, water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. The City develops resiliency and sustainability through organization-wide systems and processes that ensure consistent employee work practices and alignment across service areas.

Sustainability 40

Sustainability Health Resilience Waste 40

AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

” Building community by planting trees To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. “Urban trees don’t just store carbon, they reduce stormwater, they improve air, they provide energy savings in terms of heating and cooling. .”

Health 28

Health Organic Stormwater Cooling 28

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Actions toward net zero that help deliver business resilience on multiple levels include onsite renewable energy, the central feature of net-zero energy buildings, because it withstands disruptions to a centralised energy grid. Bates advocates for embracing net zero as a competitive differentiator. "We

Carbon 48

Carbon Real Estate Carbon-neutral Sustainability 48

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It facilitates social resilience. A resilient city is better prepared to fight climate change. The Shared Public Way at Mission Rock will be a dynamic space with street rooms, stormwater gardens and tree groves that will create a lively and unique environment. This project plans to be a regenerative project.

Climate change 28

Climate change Transportation Europe Stormwater 28

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. This phenomenon — groundwater rise — could also have dire effects on people’s health, exposing them to new or unearthed pollutants. Pavement is degrading faster. As of last summer, they’ve only found five.

Energy Monitor 144

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 144

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

Swapping diesel-powered trucks for electric models and equipping ships to plug into the grid while at berth offers life-saving public health benefits. “There are real grid constraints to electrifying many ports’ infrastructure and they are interested in increasing resiliency while making these upgrades.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We emphasized COVID resiliency when selecting companies, weighing the ability to thrive (or pivot) during the pandemic as well as the ability to help respond and recover from it. ” And finally, the twin threats of a pandemic and economic calamity made this a year unlike any other in memory. Fervo Energy | EQUITY & ACCESS.

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Innovation Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 105

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 9, 2021

Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. Enhanced roadway infrastructure safety, resiliency, and disaster planning. We are particularly interested in innovations around: Soil health and carbon sequestration technologies. Improving energy resiliency. Systems enabling water reuse and resource recovery.

Business Energy Monitoring 52

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 52

EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.

Business Energy Monitoring 52

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

We have an innovation process for this work, and we are looking at ideas that could have a big impact on sustainability and resilience and would also make good business sense. The regulatory environment, in terms of fines for combined stormwater and sewage spills into surface waters, is more advanced than in other European countries.

Innovation 130

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Resiliency Planner, New York City Environmental Justice Alliance; Brooklyn, New York.

Sustainability 109

Sustainability Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 109

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

State and federal officials move forward plans and policies for water conservation, conveyance, and climate resilience. Stormwater and snowpack runoff represent a unique opportunity for groundwater recharge, which was highlighted in several executive orders issued by Governor Newsom in early 2023. By Michael G. Romey , Lucas I.

Climate change 59

Climate change Stormwater Business Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 59

The City Fix

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

For the 21 million residents of Lagos, Nigeria, climate change is not a distant concept it is a current reality. Over the past decade, the city has experienced devastating floods, exacerbated by the loss of over half of its wetlands.

Africa 52

Africa Climate change Sea level rise Stormwater 52

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. Diversification, whether it’s on a single farm or across a local economy, can make towns more resilient, the report says. It’s been called an early model of climate resilience.

Home Energy Monitoring 145

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 145

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. Northeast are especially at risk, and the region’s aging stormwater and sewage infrastructure only makes matters worse. Residents have ideas. Puerto Rico, U.S.

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Climate change Agriculture Fossil fuels Sea level rise 145