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Adriana Trujillo

IPCC report: 6 things you must know about reducing emissions | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's newest installment, Working Group III: Mitigation and Climate Change, highlights an important message: It's still possible to limit average global temperature rise to 2°C - but only if the world rapidly reduces emissions and changes its current energy mix.
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California's Drought Is So Bad, They're Drinking Toilet Water - 1 views

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    According to a recent billion dollar allocation of taxpayer money for water recycling programs, drinking toilet water is one way. Don't throw up quite yet. Water recycling refers the process by which municipalities process wastewater so that it's okay to drink. It's a very safe, very clean process and might even produce water that's cleaner than what's coming out of your tap.
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Turns Out, You Can Make Solar Panels Work in Cloudy Cities - Jenny Xie - The Atlantic C... - 0 views

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    Photovoltaics made from organic semiconductors that can be 3D printed to cover large areas also turn out to be better than their silicon-based counterparts at capturing solar energy in cloudy environments, writes Jenny Xie. The key is the ability of organic photovoltaics to generate electricity regardless of the angle of the sun's rays
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The Business Case for Seafood Traceability - 0 views

  • actually saves us time and money,”
  • There’s less waste [with our traceability system],” Kraft says. “It improves efficiency and our utilization of the material.”
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    Norpac Fisheries Export is one of several companies that has found it profitable -- as well as environmentally helpful -- to track seafood catches along their entire supply chain and make sure they were not caught using illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) practices. Norpac's tracking system "actually saves us time and money," Managing Director Thomas Kraft said.
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Merged Company Launches Reforestation Program · Environmental Management & En... - 0 views

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    Vietnam's Asia Green will undertake an agroforestry and reforestation program following a merger with Touchlink Communications and a deal to acquire a majority stake in Hoan Vu, which was granted the land for the program's initial phase. Asia Green said it will plant Paulownia trees, along with bananas, as a preservation and economic move.
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One Million Households Added to Carton Recycling · Environmental Management &... - 0 views

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    The Carton Council of North America says that just over one million households had cartons added to their recycling programs between January and March. That brings the total of US households with access to 56,970,294.
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GHG Emissions Fell 10% From 2005 to 2012 · Environmental Management & Energy ... - 0 views

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    Greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, according to the latest national emissions inventory released by the EPA.
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The world's first net-zero energy skyscraper rises in Indonesia | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    The Pertamina Energy Tower's curved façade is precisely calibrated for Jakarta's proximity to the equator to mitigate solar heat gain year-round.
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H&M launches first campaign to promote sustainability initiatives | News | Marketing Week - 0 views

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    H&M is running a series of print ads in British newspapers to promote its "Conscious" line of eco-friendly clothing, and to tout a clothing-collection service that rewards shoppers with a £5 discount voucher for each bag of used clothes they drop off at a branch of H&M. "We want to inspire people to make a difference and engage with our customers to do things that are more sustainable," says Linda Maggs, H&M's sustainability manager.
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This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air | Innovation | Smithsonian - 0 views

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    A new product could help people in remote, parched places gain easy access to clean drinking water. The Warka Water, a 30-foot-tall tower shaped like a vase, uses a straw mesh and a nylon net to capture airborne humidity in the form of dew, which it then collects for human use. The device can reportedly gather more than 25 gallons of potable water in a single day, even in desert conditions
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Fighting climate change, one contest at a time | Guardian Sustainable Business | thegua... - 0 views

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    Based on the Wikipedia model, MIT started Climate CoLab, a collaborative online community centred around a series of annual contests that seek out promising ideas for fighting climate change. P
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Over 75% of Unilever's factories achieve zero non-hazardous waste to landfill | Media c... - 0 views

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    London/Rotterdam, 9 April 2014. Unilever announced today that all its factories across Europe have joined those in North America in achieving zero non-hazardous waste to landfill. With similar achievements in countries from Argentina to Indonesia, it means more than three-quarters of the company's global factory network no longer sends such waste to landfill, up from 20% just three years ago.
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Avon will remove triclosan from products - what will replace it? | Guardian Sustainable... - 0 views

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    Avon will phase out the antibacterial chemical triclosan from all of its products. Triclosan has been identified as a potential hormone disruptor
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Carbon Dioxide Rises to Highest Levels in 800,000 Years - weather.com A First in 800,00... - 0 views

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    Atmospheric carbon levels have reached 402 parts per million, the highest level in about 800,000 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. "Humans have caused carbon dioxide concentrations to rise 120 ppm since preindustrial times, with over 90% of that in the past century alone," said James Butler, director of NOAA's Global Monitoring Division
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Transit-Oriented Development Trend Growing · Environmental Management & Energ... - 0 views

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    ITDP assessed the developments using its new TOD Standard, a policy guide that evaluates real estate developments using eight key elements to integrating sustainable transport, land use planning and sustainable urban design.
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Consumers Unaware of Recycling Options for E-Waste · Environmental Management... - 0 views

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    According to a new survey by EcoATM, 57 percent of American device owners have idle cell phones in their homes, yet only 22 percent state they have previously recycled cell phones they no longer use.
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P&G pledges zero deforestation by 2020 | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Consumer products giant Proctor & Gamble has become the latest company to cave into pressure from Greenpeace, revealing new goals to eliminate deforestation from its entire palm oil supply chain by 2020.
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How Cargill cultivated greener soybean production in the Amazon | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    By teaming up with The Nature Conservancy, this leading agricultural company has helped to mitigate deforestation in Brazil
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Watch Out Whole Foods? Walmart Aims To Drive Down Organic Prices With New Cheaper Line - 0 views

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    Starting this month, the big box giant aims to drive down the price of organic food nationwide with its new in-house line of 100 or so products in exclusive partnership with Wild Oats, a pioneering health brand of the 1980s. Walmart's new Wild Oats organic products - including kitchen cupboard staples like olive oil and black beans - will cost about 25 percent less than those sold by competitors, based on price comparisons of 26 national brands.
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Ecover adopting algae-based laundry liquid to cut palm oil use | Environment | theguard... - 0 views

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    Green cleaning products company Ecover will launch an algae-based laundry detergent in Europe later this year. The product eliminates the need for palm oil, a common ingredient in traditional detergents.
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