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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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WHO values are insufficient, say developers of European map of aerosol pollution

Envirotec Magazine

They have, they say, determined the major sources of organic aerosols – stemming both from natural and from anthropogenic sources – and their variations over the course of days, months and seasons. In rural areas of the Alps, for example, many homes are still heated with solid combustibles. Wood is a natural material.

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How AutoGrid Supports Compliance Using AWS Cloud Security Services

AutoGrid

AutoGrid builds enterprise software that enables a smarter distributed energy world. AutoGrid has contracted more than 5,000 megawatts of DERs and works with more than 50 leading energy companies around the world, including Schneider Electric,CLP, Shell, CPS Energy, Eneres, and Total.

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Pianca redesigns Calatea Green chair for the circular economy

AGreenLiving

The piece is a redesign of the company’s Calatea chair, originally developed in 2017, with new, eco-friendly materials and organic aesthetics for a greener version of the classic chair. The legs are made of FSC-certified ash wood sourced from responsibly managed forests with controlled logging.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.).

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New research reveals ‘megatrends’ that will affect forests in the next decade

Envirotec Magazine

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Although they can be accessed by those involved in illicit activity such as logging and mining, these technologies also provide opportunities. Around the world, 1.6

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

AGreenLiving

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.