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Frontiers community engagement update – fall 2023 

Frontiers

The team behind the blog has had engaging discussions with each of the women, discovering how their work contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Today’s World Cleanup Day event traces its roots back to 2008 when 50,000 Estonians came together to clean up 10,000 tons of waste in just five hours.

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FRESH, April 5, 2022: U.S. Lawmakers Propose Great Lakes Federal Agency

Circle of Blue

lawmakers are pushing to create a new agency dedicated to sustainable development in the Great Lakes region. Five water systems in the community, which have been under long-term drinking water advisories since 2008, are now being served by a new water filtration plant.

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What today’s students think about climate change

Legal Planet

Royce Hall at UCLA following a rain event, Los Angeles, CA (Charlie Nguyen, 2008, Flickr). I have been relatively surprised and impressed to see what many developing countries are accomplishing and continuing to accomplish in their attempts to sustainably develop while limiting emissions, and equally disappointed in developed country efforts.

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MAS Launches Singapore-Asia Taxonomy

Clean Energy Law

This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. Early Phase-Out of Coal-Fired Power Plants (CFPP) The Taxonomy also provides a hybrid framework to phase out CFPPs at both a facility and entity level.

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Celebrating 15 years of blogging

Edouard Stenger

The Great Recession of 2007-2008 made it hard to get just any job and I had to capitalize on my marketing experiences to find employment. After 15 years and over 1,900 blog posts, I can say it has been a success on all three accounts but the road to getting an impactful job was longer and rockier than I first thought.

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Nobel Prize winners inspire young minds in new scientific articles for kids 

Frontiers

Molecular Flashlights that Light Up Science , written by Martin Chalfie , awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008. Martin Chalfie developed a way to use GFP as a marker that scientists can use to learn what is going on inside cells and organisms. About Frontiers Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher.

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German Agencies Publish Joint Perspective on Risk Governance of Advanced Materials

Nanotech

A material that could pose a concern regarding additional sustainability aspects.