Cities Seek Advice On Pandemic
Obama, Bloomberg Offer Advice On Virus Management Participants from more than 300 cities around the world, including mayors, local leaders, and members of response teams joined Bloomberg...
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Reforming Energy, Transportation and Agriculture By Ewa Krukowska, Bloomberg Europeans are forming a new alliance to build its recovery package after the coronavirus crisis around the Green Deal...
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Urban Planning Creates Sponge Cities
Natural Systems Help Cities Weather Climate Change Experts say that the battle against climate change will be won or lost in our cities. China hopes to win the battle with sponge cities that embrace...
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Wastewater Reuse Threatens Public Health
Risk Assessments Ignore Prion Disease The United States produces about 33 billion gallons of wastewater every day. Meanwhile, agriculture uses about 128 billion gallons of water every day. The...
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Municipal Wastewater An Indicator Of COVID Pandemic
Sewage Also A Pathway That Demands New Risk Assessments Scientists are unraveling mysteries surrounding the coronavirus every day. One of the most unusual discoveries deserves further inspection...
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California Caught In The Crossfire Of Climate Change
Drought, Wildfires, Power Outages, Air Pollution and a Pandemic Climate change has already cost states like California billions of dollars in damage to agricultural, tourism, recreation, and other...
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Biden Promotes Greener Nation, Cities
Free-Market Forces Support Transition To Alternative Energy Climate change was a hot topic during the last presidential debate. Trump spewed hot air about clean air and clean water, despite his...
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Urban Sprawl Impacting Global Land Use
Cities, Population Growth Displacing Agriculture Degraded lands are the center of much attention as global demands for food, feed and fuel continue to increase at unprecedented rates. Meanwhile, the...
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Greener Cities Have Greener Buildings
Greenery Promotes Efficiency, Resiliency and Public Health Cities are home to about 50 percent of the world’s population, but they generate 80 percent of our planet’s greenhouse gases, which...
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Pandemic Underscores Need For Sustainability
Greener Cities Are Healthier Cities The global response to the Covid-19 pandemic is barely making a dent in the continued rise in atmospheric concentrations of CO2. Carbon emissions have fallen...
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Electric Vehicles Can Transform Postal Delivery
USPS Burns Millions Of Gallons Of Fuel Per Day By U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-California) The United States Postal Service, our reeling economy and our warming planet all need saving — and we...
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The World’s Greenest Cities
Greener Cities Are More Competitive, Efficient, Responsible The battle for sustainability will be won or lost in our cities. It’s where the majority of the global population lives, works and consumes....
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Urban Agriculture Making Cities Greener
Cities Must Evolve As Footprints Expand Land use is one of the most important issues facing a growing global population. Cities are gobbling up farmland for development. Many farms are being relocated...
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U.S. EPA Not Protecting Public Health
Agency Hits Bottom Under Trump Administration President Biden’s EPA takes over after four long years of industry favoritism and regulatory rollbacks under the Trump Administration. Not only did Trump...
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Paving The Road To Glasgow
COP26 Conference Will Strengthen Climate Commitments The COP26 summit will be in Glasgow, Scotland November 1-12. Global stakeholders hope to accelerate progress to limit the emission of greenhouse...
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Drought Threatens Cities Across American West
Heat Waves, High Winds Compounding Water Shortage Water has always been the key to life in the American West. Without a series of land-grabs, water schemes and the industrial revolution, sprawling...
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How To Make Your City More Resilient
Rapid Assessment Uncovers Opportunities, Threats Cities around the world are feeling the pressures of climate change. Fires, droughts, floods and other factors are forcing evacuations of some towns,...
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China’s Demand For Electricity Soaring
Government Enforcing Energy Conservation Targets China consumes more energy than any other nation in the world. As the world’s top producer of carbon dioxide and other harmful gases, China must be...
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reach Record Level
Cities Must Become Carbon Sinks Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record last year. The planet hasn’t had this much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in more than 3 million years. The...
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COP26 Calls For Forest Conservation
Leaders Must Stop Subsidizing Fossil Fuels After extending the COP26 climate negotiations an extra day, world leaders still fell short of a meaningful plan to save the world from global warming and...
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