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National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building

Greenbuilding Law

You can provide feedback on the draft national definition for a Zero Emissions Building. A broadly accepted common minimum definition for a zero greenhouse gas emissions building, as well as a pathway for verification, is foundational in efforts by public and private entities to transition the building sector to net zero emissions.

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From Curiosity to a Career: Tigers, Elephants, and Everything In Between

Frontiers

As a first year PhD student, I had my whole life planned. How did your career evolve? This may sound silly, but I was terrible at drawing and everyone in the biology undergraduate programme was drawing these complex diagrams, but I just could not do it! However, in that year India tested nuclear weapons so the U.S.

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Anna Savage – The canary in the coal mine

Frontiers

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 15 Life on Land is about aiming to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. How has your career developed so far? “Now

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Rachel Schattman – Sustainable management & community engagement are the keys

Frontiers

Our team works together to better understand the complexity inherent in agroecosystems, which includes water, soil, and plants; human and non-human interactions; and abiotic factors like weather and climate. However, the mission of my lab is broader than this. Frontiers is a signatory of the United Nations Publishers COMPACT.

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Unraveling Hydrogen: Part I

Legal Planet

Despite the wave of hype that has driven recent investment and policy relating to hydrogen, I’ve found that the world of hydrogen energy is complex, nuanced, and ever-changing. In overall life cycle emissions, it’s very likely that gray hydrogen is more carbon intensive than both coal and natural gas. The distinction here is important.

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Sonifying science: from an amino acid scale to a spider silk symphony

Physics World

Interestingly, these concepts are deeply rooted in the physics of vibrations of macroscopic objects such as strings or membranes, and have evolved through the interaction of humans with physical objects. Generally speaking, proteins are the building blocks of all life, creating materials as diverse as human cells, hair and spider silk.

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Speaking of Water: “How Do We Consider Mass Resettlement Of The World Population?” With Parag Khanna

Circle of Blue

Political geography of borders and so on, in a complex interplay. They are definitely all on the maps page of my website. We are turn to almost survivalist hunter gatherer mode, and there’s still limited migration and localized, but it’s definitely haphazard. Natural geography, the functional geography, I mentioned.

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