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Why do we demolish buildings instead of deconstructing them for re-use?

...and the energy required to process them. And every home deconstructed created about twice as many jobs as a demolition. Today, more than 20 years after Reiff first started reselling...

Posted On 14 Oct 2018

, By Frank

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Urban forests add to cities’ health and wealth

...canopies already cover 20% of the area of their 10 sample megacities in five continents. They looked at their models of tree cover, human population, air pollution, energy use, climate...

Posted On 08 Jan 2018

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Rising sea levels come at steeper cost

...have much more information for policy makers who are responsible for preparing coastal communities for the impact of high energy storms,” said Rónadh Cox, a geoscientist at Williams College, Williamstown...

Posted On 02 Mar 2018

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Organic Waste is a major problem across all of North America

...consistent outreach and education programs for the general public, promoting or increasing incentives to spur growth related to expanded infrastructure, increasing landfill and waste-to-energy tipping fees for organic waste, and...

Posted On 13 Mar 2018

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New Guidelines on Donating Food and Reducing Food Waste

...an estimated $31 billion worth of food each year – accounting for more than $100 billion in indirect costs such as labour, infrastructure and energy,” said Malcolm Brodie, Chair of...

Posted On 20 Apr 2018

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Rethinking Urban Sprawl

...costs of providing public services that are key for well-being, such as water, energy, sanitation and public transport. Coherent and targeted policy action is urgently needed from different levels of...

Posted On 13 Jul 2018

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Forest carbon emissions are set to grow

...ambitious 1.5°C humans need not only to switch at speed to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, but to preserve and if possible restore the world’s great...

Posted On 30 Jul 2018

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Special report documents the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C

...require “rapid and far-reaching ”transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45 percent from...

Posted On 08 Oct 2018

, By Frank

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