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Superyachts and pollution at sea

The superyacht industry has an unavoidable history of causing pollution at sea through diesel consumption and waste pollution.

Bakom den tropiska fasaden – förgiftade vita stränder

Samtidigt som sjukdomsfall och dödsfall ökar i trakten. Men Solvay, som gett staden sitt namn, är den största arbetsgivaren med stor makt och har nu precis fått förnyat tillstånd att fortsätta med sina utsläpp.

Få gratis rådgivning av Sveriges främsta aktörer inom solenergi på Hem & Villamässan

Innovativa lyftlösningar på Empack 4-5 Oktober 2023: För en övergång till hållbara förpackningslösningar

Smidig tillgång till begagnade maskiner

The transition to green energy is crucial for the future health of the planet. But it requires vast amounts of copper. The growth in electric cars and renewable technologies in particular demand high volumes of the metal - which is often mined in South America, at a huge cost to the environment. One of the most important raw materials for key technologies in the energy transition is copper. For years now, the metal’s price has been rising steadily, and has now reached unprecedented levels. Copper mines and copper production is a billion-dollar business. But what’s the impact on the climate?

How Toxic Waste Is Dumped Into The Ocean | Lethal Cargo | ENDEVR Documentary from 2016 Episode 2: Toxic Waste The incredible story of how big industry and the mafia collaborated over the past 30 years to dispose of toxic waste under the sea and in secret waste pits in Italy, poisoning Mediterranean waters and agricultural land around Naples.

Plåt och ventilation: Stor satsning på rekrytering

Av Redaktionen Stordåhd | onsdag 30 augusti 2023 kl. 7:32

Att det saknas utbildade plåtslagare och ventilationsmontörer är ett stort hinder för branschen och något som det pratats om länge. För att det ska finnas kompetenta personer att anställa på lång sikt krävs att fler väljer att utbilda sig idag, och för det krävs en större generell kunskap om yrkena.

Algae are powerhouses when it comes to removing greenhouse gases.

In their 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart presented an integration of design and science that provides enduring benefits for society from safe materials, water and energy in circular economies and eliminates the concept of waste.

Meet The Mighty Green Bin

Markham Residents can now purchase a new larger green bin! The Mighty Green hold twice the amount as the regular-sized green bin, has a secure lid with gravity lock to help keep out pests, and larger wheels makes it easy to roll to the curb.

Keeping Warm the Roman Way

The ancient Romans had several methods for keeping their homes warm, including the earliest-known forms of central heating, space heaters, hot toddies, and a simple strategy of moving toward the sun. They vacated the northern-facing rooms that they enjoyed in the summer and inhabited the western-facing rooms that captured more warmth and light during the winter.

This revolutionary white paint cools houses in the Cyclades better than air conditioning

The World’s Whitest Paint May Soon Help Cool Airplanes and Spacecraft

The ultra-white color reflects up to 97.9 percent of sunlight and may reduce our reliance on air conditioning

Cleaner production: What is it?

Cleaner Production allows:

• Savings to be made in raw materials, water and energy.
• The disposal, reduction and/or replacement of hazardous materials.
• The reduction in quantity and hazardousness of waste and emissions.

Listing PFAS under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)

How we drive sustainable development

WBCSD is the premier global, CEO-led community of over 200 of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net-zero, nature positive, and more equitable future.

We do this by engaging executives and sustainability leaders from business and elsewhere to share practical insights on the obstacles and opportunities we currently face in tackling the integrated climate, nature and inequality sustainability challenge; by co-developing “how-to” CEO-guides from these insights; by providing science-based target guidance including standards and protocols; and by developing tools and platforms to help leading businesses in sustainability drive integrated actions to tackle climate, nature and inequality challenges across sectors and geographical regions.

Environmental impact assessment

The environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedure aims at reducing or preventing the negative environmental impact of projects.
Examples of projects include highways, landfill sites and power plants.

Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS)

Evaluate, report, and improve the environmental performance of your organisation

Environmental management system

A means of ensuring effective implementation of an environmental management plan or procedures and compliance with environmental policy objectives and targets. A key feature on any effective environmental management system (EMS) is the preparation of documented system procedures and instructions to ensure effective communication and continuity of implementation. There are certification systems for EMS ISO 14001 and EC's EMAS scheme (EMAS is now compatible with ISO 14001) which demonstrate that a system is operated to an internationally recognised standard.

GeSI facilitates real world solutions to real world issues within the ICT industry and the greater sustainability community.

DIGITAL WITH PURPOSE MOVEMENT

A Movement of leaders joining forces in a race to deliver against the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Innovators’ Network

The mission of the Innovators' Network to Enable Human Rights (INHR) is to coordinate the collective capabilities of ICT industry leaders, human rights organizations, policy-makers, academia, and social innovators, to accelerate and scale up the development and application of technology that enables human rights. INHR is an initiative of the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI).

The Global Recycled Standard (GRS)
is a voluntary product standard for tracking and verifying the content of recycled materials in a final product. The standard applies to the full supply chain and addresses traceability, environmental principles, social requirements, chemical content and labeling.

IAIA

The leading global network on impact assessment

Impact assessment, simply defined, is the process of identifying the future consequences of a current or proposed action. IAIA is the leading global network on best practice in the use of impact assessment for informed decision making regarding policies, programs, plans and projects. Members of IAIA believe that impact assessment is a practical tool for helping meet today's needs without compromising the opportunities of future generations

ISO/IEC 17065 Accreditation

Network of European Worldshops | Wikipedia audio article

Persistent Organic Pollutants: A Global Issue, A Global Response

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that adversely affect human health and the environment around the world. Because they can be transported by wind and water, most POPs generated in one country can and do affect people and wildlife far from where they are used and released.

ISCC Works Towards a
Sustainable World

ISCC’s mission is to protect forests, high-carbon stock lands and biodiversity, enable waste utilisation and increase traceability.

We believe that sustainable supply chains are crucial to fight the most severe impacts of the climate crisis. Since greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are major contributors to climate change, we also consider the identification and reduction of GHG emissions as an important part of our work.

Our vision is a world without deforestation and a true circular economy in which we stop producing waste in the first place and instead, create circular products and regenerate nature. Sustainable agriculture that increases biodiversity and creates healthy ecosystems is part of this vision as well as a resilient economic system which ends the consumption of finite resources.

Verified Emissions Reduction

Why finance Emission Reductions?

Purchasing Emission Reductions is a core component of responsible climate action for companies and individuals alike. It provides a direct way of contributing to the Paris Climate Agreement’s goal of limiting climate change to ‘well below 2°C.’ For business, financing Gold Standard Emission Reductions can help:

1. 1. Deliver on Best Practice Climate Action—Contribute to the Paris Climate Agreement through climate finance by purchasing Verified Emission Reductions from projects that also deliver sustainable development benefits, and gain recognition by organisations like CDP and WWF.

   2. Make an impact toward SDG priorities—Fund verified specific SDG impacts from high-impact projects or verify the SDG impacts of your supply chain interventions. Then use these to credibly report on shared value or meet “Net-Positive” goals.

   3. Gain recognition by civil society which is increasingly calling for accountability for an organisation's full carbon footprint as part of Best Practice Corporate Climate Action.

   
   

SME definition

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 99% of all businesses in the EU. The definition of an SME is important for access to finance and EU support programmes targeted specifically at these enterprises.

Introduction: Ecological Subsidies as a Framework for Understanding Contaminant Fate, Exposure, and Effects at the Land-Water Interface

 

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What Is Ecotourism?

Conservation

Offering market-linked long-term solutions, ecotourism provides effective economic incentives for conserving and enhancing bio-cultural diversity and helps protect the natural and cultural heritage of our beautiful planet.

Communities

By increasing local capacity building and employment opportunities, ecotourism is an effective vehicle for empowering local communities around the world to fight against poverty and to achieve sustainable development.

Interpretation

With an emphasis on enriching personal experiences and environmental awareness through interpretation, ecotourism promotes greater understanding and appreciation for nature, local society, and culture.

The Definition.

Ecotourism is now defined as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, and involves interpretation and education” (TIES, 2015). Education is meant to be inclusive of both staff and guests.

Principles of Ecotourism

Ecotourism is about uniting conservation, communities, and sustainable travel. This means that those who implement, participate in and market ecotourism activities should adopt the following ecotourism principles:

• Minimize physical, social, behavioral, and psychological impacts.
• Build environmental and cultural awareness and respect.
• Provide positive experiences for both visitors and hosts.
• Provide direct financial benefits for conservation.
• Generate financial benefits for both local people and private industry.
• Deliver memorable interpretative experiences to visitors that help raise sensitivity to host countries’ political, environmental, and social climates.
• Design, construct and operate low-impact facilities.
• Recognize the rights and spiritual beliefs of the Indigenous People in your community and work in partnership with them to create empowerment.

Eco-entrepreneurship: Meaning, Characteristics & Examples

Eco-entrepreneurship: Meaning, Characteristics & Examples – Eco-entrepreneurship, often known as ecopreneurship, is a new type of entrepreneurship. The reason for this rise is the world’s current environmental concerns. Environmental entrepreneurship, green entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, biosphere entrepreneurship, and eco-entrepreneurship are all names used to describe this notion.

Green Globe Standard

The Green Globe Standard includes 44 core criteria supported by over 380 compliance indicators in four key areas:

1.Sustainable Management
2. Social and Economic
3. Cultural Heritage
4. Environmental

About sustainable products

Making the EU a more resource-efficient, climate neutral, and pollution-free circular economy calls for more sustainable products.

Environmental racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’, must end, say UN human rights experts

The combined emissions of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) per year in a single parish could exceed those of 113 countries

EU to drop ban of hazardous chemicals after industry pressure

Exclusive: Leaked documents show that
as little as 1% of products
containing hazardous substances could be prohibited

In 2015, the WHO listed one of the additives in processed meats as carcinogenic.

That same additive was nearly banned in America in the 1970s – until lobbying from the meat industry discredited the scientists.

We reveal how, to impede or halt regulations on certain additives, lobbyists have been working in the shadows for decades.

At the heart of this strategy are the scientists who collaborate, who receive generous compensation for studies that promote meat consumption. In conjunction with this, those whose work finds health risks associated with meat are ‘shot down’.

From Brittany to Denmark, through California and Wisconsin, director Sandrine Rigaud conducted a year-long investigation on the tactics of the meat industry.

Morbi in sem

The average radon concentration of 88 Bq/m³ in Norway is higher than the average for many Western countries.
The average for the 29 OECD countries is
67 Bq/m³,
and the world average is reported to be 39 Bq/m³

YearBook Rome
part1

Yearbook Stockholm
part 1

Nyhets Magasiet Östersjön
Baltic Sea Weekly

Nyhets Magasinet Östersjön
Nummer 2

Svampar från din egen kaffesump

How children's makeup is poisoning kids

Buzz off! Nearly half of honey in European markets is fake, according to EU investigation

Sustainable packaging contains harmful chemicals: study

‘‘FRANKENSTEIN’’ BROILERS

The industry of broilers and laying hens has been the largest and most present industry in world for several years, and equally, it is one of the cruelest industries that exists in modern world.

Stena öppnar återvinningsanläggning för litiumjonbatterier

China’s unending demand for rosewood furniture is damaging African forests

Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer

Strawberries, blueberries, spinach make 2023 "Dirty Dozen" list

Some of the USDA's tests show traces of pesticides long since banned by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Chlormequat: A Dangerous Pesticide Coming to the U.S.

50,000 pallets of medicine damaged by tornado at NC Pfizer plant

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

With the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), tradable emission reduction certificates can be generated from emission reduction projects in developing countries.

How Big Pharma Gets Dangerous Drugs Approved | System Error

Confessions of a Big-food/Big-pharma Insider with Calley Means

Calley is the co-founder of TrueMed.com , a company that enables Americans to buy exercise and healthy food with FSA/HSA dollars, and the co-author (with his sister, Dr. Casey Means) of an upcoming book on food-as-medicine. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant for food and pharma companies and is now exposing practices they use to weaponize our institutions of trust. He is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Business School.

The Landscape of Food Waste in Canada | Second Harvest

Nearly 60% of all food is wasted or lost in Canada, but you might be surprised where this happens along the supply chain

Featured Member: 

Meet with Maria Sillanpaa : 

Founding Director - Sustainability Advisory Group

ISIE-SEM Session 9 - Combining material flow principles and 

input-output analysis

Canada’s Mining Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support

Three-quarters of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada. Canadian mining firms are mired in corruption and human rights abuses around the world, yet Justin Trudeau has reneged on pledges to regulate them and end the abuses.

“DuPont had evidence of PFAS toxicity from internal animal and occupational studies that they did not publish in the scientific literature and failed to report their findings to EPA as required under TSCA.

These documents were all marked as ‘confidential,’ and in some cases, industry executives are explicit that they ‘wanted this memo destroyed,’” the paper states.

Despite owning rights to Colorado River, tribes largely cut off from accessing water