Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 26, 2022

Indoor air quality can be impacted by printers and copy machines that emit toner particles and toxic gasses such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs). More than 90% of operational costs linked to human resources and financial losses due to absenteeism and presentism account for 4% of this cost.

Health 148

Health Ozone Pollution Sustainability 148

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Around 70 million barrels of hydrocarbons are lost yearly due to evaporation of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) during loading, storage and transportation of crude oil on ships. VOCs are a large group of organic compounds. As a consequence of this and other studies, several countries and organizations began to look into the problem.

Methane 100

Methane Organic Transportation Ozone 100

Econaur

JULY 14, 2020

Dissolving the pathogenic micro-organism using strong solvents like alcohol or soap. Oxidising (much-localised burning / disintegrating) the pathogenic micro-organism. There are two basic methods of disinfection-. To resolve this for disinfection of surfaces and contact points like handles etc. How Chlorine Di-Oxide acts?

Organic 98

Organic Ozone Transportation 98

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 22, 2023

Indoor air quality can be negatively impacted by printers and copy machines that emit toner particles and toxic gasses such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Applying Biophilic Design to the Office Environment Biophilic design has many applications that could be used directly or indirectly.

Health 145

Health Pollution Ozone Education 145

Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

For the major tech giants Salesforce , Lenovo , and Microsoft , sustainability lies at the core of these organizations. With this in mind, it’s important tech startups globally follow suit, to establish proactive and forward-thinking organizations. Many benefits come from running a sustainable company.

Business Energy Monitoring 147

Business Energy Monitoring Startups Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 147

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

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. A variety of creative thinking and imaginative responses to such challenges can be found across the Global South.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Ozone Biodiversity Policy 52

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

The International Geoshpere-Biosphere Programme and Stockholm Resilience Center published a dashboard of 24 indicators that each depict a synchronous acceleration of upward trends from the 1950s to present day. This increased acidity makes it difficult for organisms such as corals and some shellfish and plankton species to grow and survive.

Resilience 78

Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

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 2, 2021

Duane Levine gives a presentation to the company’s board of directors where he’s comparing what governments did with these chemicals called CFCs that were destroying the ozone layer, with what might happen to fossil fuels when governments start to focus on climate change. View on DocumentCloud. The gloves are coming off.

Fossil fuels 98

Fossil fuels Global warming Building Energy Monitoring Climate change 98

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 144

Recycling Recycling Plastics Earth Day 144

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ozone-safe or ozone-friendly. The FTC considers these terms deceptive if a product has any substance, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), known to erode the ozone layer. Expect 'ozone-friendly' to be under scrutiny as the next Green Guides are developed, as the FTC recently flagged the term. Recyclable.

Recycling 36

Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

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.

Logging 96

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 96

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Which refrigerant gases are linked to present-day ice rinks? CFCs and HCFCs are synthetic gases attributed to ozone layer destruction. Again, its leakage would be harmful to the environment, poisoning living organisms, their habitats and ecosystems. Ethylene glycol is a type of antifreeze, and it is highly toxic.

Global warming 36

Global warming Carbon-negative Microplastics Pollution 36

AGreenLiving

APRIL 20, 2021

William Vizuete, associate professor at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Public Health, investigated this issue, and “his research showed that cannabis plants produce volatile organic compounds or VOCs that can produce harmful pollutants,” journalist Jodi Helmer reports in the article.

Building Energy Monitoring 28

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Pollution 28

Business Green

APRIL 1, 2022

Coalition of campaign groups present wide-ranging plan to help countries meet and exceed the cuts the promised to make through the Global Methane Pledge. Composting alone could reduce solid waste methane emissions by 78 per cent by 2030, the report states. degrees in the short-term.

Methane 65

Methane Waste Waste Ozone 65

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 97

Plastics Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 97

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With this in mind, this article presents the 20 best climate change and sustainability documentaries. The documentary does close on a happier note, presenting green changes happening today, such as human diet changes – eating less meat – and government intervention reversing deforestation in Costa Rica. 6: Kiss the Ground.

Climate change 147

Climate change Sustainability Fossil fuels Law 147

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

Mike Ferner, giving a presentation in August to retired locals at the West Toledo YMCA, reminded them that this happened five years earlier “and some people” — he meant state officials — “are still looking for solutions.”. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie.

Agriculture 123

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 123

Unsustainable

MAY 1, 2019

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. one that poses serious threats for both our near and long-term future.

Climate change 40

Climate change Fossil fuels Global warming Pollution 40

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. The auditor’s report said that while the information presented at the council meeting was “technically accurate,” it “could be considered to be misleading.”

Energy Monitor 99

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 99

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Ozone, which can aggravate lung diseases including asthma and emphysema, was well above the EPA’s eight-hour limit. The data was presented by Juan Flores, a lifelong Galena Park resident and clean-air advocate. They gather real-time readings for ozone, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter. Nitrogen oxides, which the U.S.

Energy Monitor 93

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 93