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Northgate Sustainability Forum: December 2013
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Monday, December 2, 2013. Trees Capture Particulate Matter From Road Exhaust. Naomi Lubick, Chemical and Engineering News, November 22, 2013. Trees planted along a city street screen residents from sun and noise—and from tiny particles that pollute urban air. A new study shows that tree leaves can capture more than 50% of the particulate matter. That’s a prime component of urban pollution and a trigger for disease ( Environmental Science and Technology. By examining silver birch leaves with a scanning el...
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Good Stuff: Behavior change
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More about us and what we do. See how we're connected. October 30, 2008. Making medicine as ubiquitous as Coca Cola. I just read about this. Berry has since met with high-ranking officials at the company, and talks are under way to push the idea further. Meanwhile, ColaLife groups have been added on Google and Flickr, and a YouTube video was created earlier this month to promote the projects submission to Google’s Project 10 100 initiative. Currently, ColaLife is seeking an NGO to participate in the proj...
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Northgate Sustainability Forum: March 2014
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014. An Allegory about NIMBYism. Restore the aquifer to drinking water quality. Replace air strippers that vent to the atmosphere with carbon filters. Redevelop properties to bring in new tenants and raise property values. What do these objectives have in common? Throughout the history of a particular Silicon Valley Superfund site. Only more recently has the concept of sustainable remediation. In the 2008 Optimization Evaluation reports prepared by Northgate. Published an article on...
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Northgate Sustainability Forum: Levee Breach in San Pablo Bay
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Friday, April 25, 2014. Levee Breach in San Pablo Bay. A landmark moment in the effort to restore Bay Area marshland habitat. Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2014. A cheer went up as salt water from San Pablo Bay poured through a breached levee Friday and flooded old, abandoned Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato. Read the complete article here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Subscribe to our blog. CARB Gives Truckers More Time to Meet Emissions St. Levee Breach in San Pablo Bay.
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Northgate Sustainability Forum: July 2013
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Thursday, July 25, 2013. Sustainability for the Nation: Resource Connection and Governance Linkages. Is the committee's report on the issue. The report includes insight into high-priority areas for governance linkages, the challenges of managing connected systems, impediments to successful government linkages, and more. Read or download the report here. Labels: national academy of sciences. Friday, July 19, 2013. Sustainable Remediation Basics : Online Education Opportunity. This course presents an overv...
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Northgate Sustainability Forum: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Happy 150th Birthday, Academy of Sciences! The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Despite the contentious times in which they lived, President Lincoln and Congressional leaders recognized the value of science and the importance of an independent, nonprofit organization that could advise the government on scientific and technical matters. As an NGO to focus...
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Northgate Sustainability Forum: January 2013
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Monday, January 14, 2013. Beyond LEED: The Living Building Challenge. Will be the greenest, most energy efficient commercial building in the world, firmly planting Seattle at the forefront of the green building movement. The vision. The world’s most strenuous benchmark for sustainability. For example, a solar array will generate as much electricity as the building uses and rain will supply as much water, with all waste water treated onsite. Wednesday, January 9, 2013. More than 4,000 managers from 113 co...
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Northgate Sustainability Forum: Oakland Museum of California to Receive $20M Sculpture Studio and Gardens
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Thursday, October 9, 2014. Oakland Museum of California to Receive $20M Sculpture Studio and Gardens. Angela Hill, Oakland Tribune, October 9, 2014. Bruce Beasley has bequeathed his two-block cluster of studios and sculpture gardens - plus many of his own massive abstract works, personal archives of his illustrious career and an endowment for future sculpture-related events and programs - to the Oakland Museum of California. Read the complete story here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sustainability...
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Sustainability Research: Government involvement is critical to the success of responsible business standards
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Explore the latest corporate sustainability research findings and make evidence-based decisions. Government involvement is critical to the success of responsible business standards. The OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. Are a set of standards that are underestimated by many corporations. But, the OECD is preparing for some revisions and a major push of the guidelines. Dr Sue Konzelmann and her colleagues at the London Centre for Corporate Governance and Ethics (LCGGE). This spring, the OEC...
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Sustainability Research: CCC says UK growth is dependent on low-carbon funding
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Explore the latest corporate sustainability research findings and make evidence-based decisions. CCC says UK growth is dependent on low-carbon funding. In the new report 'Building a low-carbon economy - the UK's innovation challenge'. The prestigious Climate Change Committee warns that economic growth and progress towards climate targets are dependent on continued funding of low-carbon technologies. Additional recommendations to the UK Government include longer-term climate change objectives (beyond 2020...
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