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Del Birmingham

The Toll of Tourism: Can Southeast Asia Save Its Prized Natural Areas? - Yale E360 - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 18 Apr 19
     
    From Thailand to Bali, a huge increase in tourists, many from China and other rapidly developing economies, is straining sensitive ecosystems to the breaking point. Some countries are trying to control the boom, with a few closing popular destinations to allow damaged areas to heal.
Adriana Trujillo

No country for coal gen - Below 2°C and regulatory risk for US coal power owners - Carbon Tracker Initiative - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Oct 17
     
    Phasing out unprofitable coal plants could save U.S. consumers $10 billion a year by 2021 and boost the country's competitiveness, according to a new report by Carbon Tracker launched today. No Country for Coal Gen: Below 2°C and Regulatory Risk for U.S. Coal Power Owners is the first study to look at the economics of each U.S. coal power plant and provide investors with a tool to support a rational closure program to keep global warming below 2 C°.
Del Birmingham

How to feed 10 billion people: Landmark report lays out a sustainable diet for the planet - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 18 Jan 19
     
    Billed as a planetary health diet for both the Earth and its people, the set of guidelines put forward by the EAT-Lancet Commission gun for nothing short of a "Great Food Transformation," something they say would feed 10 billion people, save lives and avoid large-scale environmental destruction.
Del Birmingham

In Defense of Biodiversity: Why Protecting Species from Extinction Matters - Yale E360 - 0 views

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  • Del Birmingham on 15 Feb 18
     
    A number of biologists have recently made the argument that extinction is part of evolution and that saving species need not be a conservation priority. But this revisionist thinking shows a lack of understanding of evolution and an ignorance of the natural world.
Adriana Trujillo

Equinix Press Release - 1 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 17
     
    Equinix announced plans to install on-site fuel cells, with a total capacity of more than 37MW, at 12 of its data centers across the United States, marking what the company claims is the largest deployment of fuel cells in the colocation data center industry to date. The fuel cells are projected to avoid 660,000 tons of carbon emissions and save 87 billion gallons of water over the course of 15 years.
Adriana Trujillo

Study: Corporate renewable energy buying - Smart Energy Decisions - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 03 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 03 Oct 17
     
    As an ever-expanding group of U.S. businesses commit to using more renewable energy to power their operations, a new study has found that for many companies, cost savings is the single most important reason for doing so. This is according to results of the first major survey of large electricity users since President Donald Trump announced his decision to pull the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, conducted by SED Research. The Sept. 13 report, "Post-Paris: the State of Corporate Renewable Energy Sourcing," analyzes responses from executives at 94 companies and institutions, more than 40 of which are in the Fortune 500.
Adriana Trujillo

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Cuts Water Use, Increases Recycling - Environmental Leader - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 01 Dec 17
     
    In 2016, Hershey Entertainment & Resorts had environmental achievements that included saving 12.2 million gallons of water, recycling more than 17,000 pounds of paper for charity, and recycling over 23,000 gallons of cooking oil, according to the company's latest CSR report.
Adriana Trujillo

An open letter on COP23 from Walmart and WWF | GreenBiz - 1 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 30 Nov 17
     
    Walmart has saved over $1 billion in fuel costs by upgrading its fleet, and plans to continue to cut consumption and emissions through an effort called Project Gigaton. The plan, announced in conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund, will reduce emissions from Walmart suppliers by a gigaton by 2030.
Adriana Trujillo

Coca-Cola is First Fortune 500 Company to Replenish All Water Used Globally: The Coca-Cola Company - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Sep 16
     
    The Coca-Cola Company has achieved its goal to replenish 100% of the water used in its global sales volume and production by the end of 2020, five years ahead of schedule. The company also made progress against another water-related goal by increasing its water use efficiency by 2.5% from 2014 to 2015.
Adriana Trujillo

Everglades' water at risk from sea-level rise, scientists say - 0 views

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shared by Adriana Trujillo on 21 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • Adriana Trujillo on 21 Dec 16
     
    Climate change and other hurdles mean it will take more water - and potentially more taxpayer money - to save the Everglades, according to new scientific findings released Thursday. The report to Congress warns that rising seas and warming temperatures are threatening to worsen damage already done by decades of drainage and pollution, caused by development and farming overtaking the Everglades. A recent report showed that climate change, pollution and other factors could increase the cost to restore the Florida Everglades. So far, restoration costs are pegged at $16 billion, but additional efforts, such as proposed reservoirs, could add to that cost.
Adriana Trujillo

Researchers point to infrastructure as part of the solution in a carbon constrained environment - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 18 Mar 16
     
    Most people know that properly inflated tires can improve a vehicle's fuel efficiency, but did you know that properly maintained roadways can improve fuel efficiency across an entire pavement network?
Adriana Trujillo

Bringing Back the Night: The Fight Against Light Pollution by Paul Bogard: Yale Environment 360 - 0 views

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  • France
  • within an hour of workers leaving
  • cannot be turned on before sunset
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  • two years
  • designed to eventually cut carbon dioxide emissions by 250,000 tons per year, save the equivalent of the annual energy consumption of 750,000 households, and slash the country’s overall energy bill by 200 million Euros ($266 million).
  • “reduce the print of artificial lighting on the nocturnal environment
  • lighting in many parts of the world is endangering our health and the health of the ecosystems on which we The good news is that light pollution is readily within our grasp to control.rely
  • ecological light pollution, warning that disrupting these natural patterns of light and dark, and thus the structures and functions of ecosystems, is having profound impacts
  • China, India, Brazil, and numerous other countries are becoming increasingly affluent and urbanized
  • glowing white
  • Connecticut and California — have enacted regulations to reduce light pollution, but most nations and cities still do little to dial down the excessive use of light
  • LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, can improve our ability to reduce and better regulate lighting
  • “blue-rich
  • disruptive to circadian rhythms.
  • reducing
  • or Loss of Night
  • 30 percent of vertebrates and more than 60 percent of invertebrates are nocturnal
  • bright lights
  • All are potentially impacted by our burgeoning use of artificial light
  • We have levels of light hundreds and thousands of time higher than the natural level during the night
  • computer-generated maps that dramatically depict the extent of light pollution across the globe
  • Every flip of a light switch contributes to altering ancient patterns of mating, migration, feeding, and pollination, with no time for species to adapt
  • 2012 study of leatherback turtles
  • “artificial lighting of the nesting beaches is the biggest threat to survival of hatchlings and a major factor in declining leatherback turtle populations.”
  • eflected light of the stars and moon from the beach to the ocean
  • follow the light of hotels and streetlights
  • drawn off-course by artificial light
  • between 100 million and 1 billion, we don’t really know — killed each year by collision with human-made structures
  • our outdoor lights are irresistible flames, killing countless moths and other insects, with ripple effects throughout the food chain
  • natural pest control
  • for bats
  • artificial light disrupts patterns of travel and feeding since many bat species avoid illuminated areas.
  • that street lighting influences the migratory pattern of Atlantic salmon,
  • studies on light pollution, ranging from research into the socio-political challenges of cutting light pollution in the Berlin metropolitan area to the effects of light pollution on nocturnal mammals
  • composition of entire communities of insects and other invertebrates.
  • humans
  • nocturnal light disrupts our sleep, confuses our circadian rhythms
  • hormone melatonin
  • most disruptive to our body’s
  • blue wavelength light tells our brain that night is over,
  • consequences of excessive exposure to light at night include an increased risk for obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease
  • American Medical Association
  • “risks and benefits of occupational and environmental exposure to light-at-night
  • “new lighting technologies at home and at work that minimize circadian disruption
  • are concerned about the impact of some new lighting
  • make LEDs a
  • these lights may actually make things significantly worse
  • often brighter than the old lights they are replacing
  • LEDs could “exacerbate known and possible unknown effects of light pollution on human health (and the) environment” by more than five times.
  • preventing areas
  • recommends limits for the amount of light in five different zones of lighting intensity
  • banning unshielded lighting in all zones.
  • researchers have identified numerous practical steps to reduce light pollution:
  • spectral composition of lighting (
  • limiting the duration of lighting
  • altering the intensity
  • the Model Lighting Ordinance
  • simple act of shielding our lights — installing or retrofitting lamp fixtures that direct light downward to its intended target — represents our best chance to control light pollution
  • lines of shielded lighting fixtures
  • light equals safety, and darkness danger
  • with little compelling evidence to support common assumptions.
  • The objection
  • For example, ever-brighter lights can actually diminish security by casting glare that impedes our vision and creates shadows where criminals can hide.
  • light effectively than abundantly
  • Del Birmingham on 22 Aug 13
     
    As evidence mounts that excessive use of light is harming wildlife and adversely affecting human health, new initiatives in France and elsewhere are seeking to turn down the lights that flood an ever-growing part of the planet
  • Adriana Trujillo on 22 Aug 13
     
    mounts that excessive use of light is harming wildlife and adversely affecting human health, new initiatives in France and elsewhere are seeking to turn down the lights that flood an ever-growing part of the planet.
Del Birmingham

Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A Debate Over Trash by Nate Seltenrich: Yale Environment 360 - 0 views

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shared by Del Birmingham on 29 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • recycling most materials from municipal solid waste saves on average three to five times more energy than does burning them for electricity.
  • As it turns out, countries with the highest rates of garbage incineration — Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, for example, all incinerate at least 50 percent of their waste — also tend to have high rates of recycling and composting of organic materials and food waste. But zero-wasters argue that were it not for large-scale incineration, these environmentally Zero-waste advocates say a major problem is the long-term contracts that waste-to-energy plants are locked into.conscious countries would have even higher rates of recycling. Germany, for example, incinerates 37 percent of its waste and recycles 45 percent — a considerably better recycling rate than the 30-plus percent of Scandinavian countries.
  • (In the United States, more than half of all waste is dumped in landfills, and about 12 percent burned, of which only a portion is used to produce energy.)
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  • In Flanders, Belgium, an effort to keep a lid on incinerator contracts has led nearer to zero waste, said Joan Marc Simon, executive director of Zero Waste Europe and European regional coordinator for GAIA. Since the early 1990s, when recycling rates were relatively low, the local waste authority in Flanders has decided not to increase incineration beyond roughly 25 percent, Simon said. As a result, combined recycling and composting rates now exceed 75 percent, GAIA says. "They stabilized and even reduced waste generation when they capped incineration," Simon said.
  • Without incineration, he believes, most European countries could improve current recycling rates of 20 or 30 percent to 80 percent within six months. Hogg agreed, saying that rates of 70 percent should be “easy” to attain. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which calculates recycling and composting together, puts the current U.S. rate at 35 percent, compared to a combined European Union figure of 40 percent.
  • Del Birmingham on 29 Aug 13
     
    Increasingly common in Europe, municipal "waste-to-energy" incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste.
Adriana Trujillo

Xeros System Cuts Water Use 'Up to 80%' · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader - 0 views

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  • The Capital Athletic Club’s installation of the Xeros Laundry System, which uses polymer beads rather than water, has enabled it
  • Adriana Trujillo on 02 May 14
     
    A California athletic club has reduced water usage for laundry washed with a machine using Xeros laundry system by nearly 50 percent.
Adriana Trujillo

Renewable Wind Energy Source Adoption | The Energy Collective - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 14 Oct 14
     
    The U.S. could reduce electricity costs by $7.68 billion per year by installing 54 gigawatts of offshore wind power, according to a study supported by the Department of Energy. The goal of the National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study was "to identify and help address the market barriers to the large-scale introduction of offshore wind energy into the U.S. energy portfolio," according to its authors. The report said offshore wind power could be especially useful in densely populated coastal areas
Adriana Trujillo

-- Oceans: Public, private sectors must boost cooperation to save seas -- World Bank panel -- Wednesday, October 16, 2013 -- www.eenews.net - 0 views

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  • Mounting ocean health problems -- which are threatening the primary food source for more than 1 billion people -- can be fixed, but only with public and private sectors working together to a much greater extent, according to a World Bank blue ribbon panel.
  • Adriana Trujillo on 23 Oct 13
     
    Mounting ocean health problems -- which are threatening the primary food source for more than 1 billion people -- can be fixed, but only with public and private sectors working together to a much greater extent, according to a World Bank blue ribbon panel.
Adriana Trujillo

Craft Brewers Dramatically Reducing Carbon Emissions by Sharing Kegs | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 16 Oct 14
     
    By sharing a pool of kegs rather than owning their own, over 200 leading craft brewers have helped reduce their collective carbon footprint by over 3 million kg of CO2e in 2013. These findings, based on a study by John Heckman, Ph.D with PE International and commissioned by MicroStar Logistics, will be used as a benchmark to help the craft beer industry further minimize its carbon footprint each year.
Adriana Trujillo

Restored Forests Breathe Life Into Efforts Against Climate Change - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Adriana Trujillo on 05 Jan 15
     
    In the battle to limit the risks of climate change, it has been clear for decades that focusing on the world's immense tropical forests - saving the ones that are left, and perhaps letting new ones grow - is the single most promising near-term strategy.
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