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Taxonomy Archive: renewable/clean energy
20 Apr 2018 |
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Defining indoor heat thresholds for health in the UK
INTRODUCTION: It has been recognised that as outdoor ambient temperatures increase past a particular threshold, so do mortality/morbidity rates. However, similar thresholds for indoor temperatures have not yet been identified. Due to a warming climate, the non-sustainability of air conditioning as a solution, and the desire for more ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Renewable energy and occupational health and safety research directions: a white paper from the Energy Summit, Denver Colorado, April 11-13, 2011
Renewable energy production may offer advantages to human health by way of less pollution and fewer climate-change associated ill-health effects. Limited data suggests that renewable energy will also offer benefits to workers in the form of reduced occupational injury, illness and deaths. However, studies of worker safety and health ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Renewable energy and sustainable communities: Alaska’s wind generator experience
BACKGROUND: In 1984, the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development (DCED) issued the State’s first inventory/economic assessment of wind generators, documenting installed wind generator capacity and the economics of replacing diesel-fuel-generated electricity. Alaska’s wind generation capacity had grown from ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: Our greatest health threat, or our greatest opportunity for better health?
This short video produced by the Global Climate and Health Alliance explains how climate change threatens human health and the perspective that this challenge is an opportunity to improve health and equity.
20 Apr 2018 |
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An Assessment of the Health and Safety Implications of Coal Transport through Oakland
A panel of public health experts considered the health and safety implications related to the potential transport, storage and handling of coal at the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (OBOT) proposed to be constructed on the former Oakland Army Base. The panel reviewed evidence submitted to the Oakland City Council in conjunction ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Analysis of Health Impacts and Safety Risks and Other Issues/Concerns Related to the Transport, Handling, Transloading, and Storage of Coal and/or Petroleum Coke (Petcoke) in Oakland and at the Proposed Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal
This report prepared for Oakland City Council presents the health risks of coal transport through Oakland. There is substantial evidence that the proposed transport, handling, transloading, storage, and export of coal through the bulk and oversized terminal proposed at the site of the decommissioned Oakland Army Base would endanger ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate action will make our cities safer
In Arlington County, as with much of the country, climate change has turned up the heat. Our residents are feeling the effects. And when it comes to taking action on climate to protect our communities, we are not waiting.
20 Apr 2018 |
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NCDs & Climate Change: Shared Opportunities for Action
Climate change and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are two of the defining challenges of the 21st century, each posing significant threats to health and sustainable development. Climate change is projected to have increasingly damaging effects on communities and economies over the coming decades, being set to cause several hundred ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change: A Risk Assessment
This report argues that the risks of climate change should be assessed in the same way as risks to national security, financial stability, or public health. That means we should concentrate especially on understanding what is the worst that could happen, and how likely that might be. The report presents a climate change risk ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Resilience and Urban Opportunity Initiative
Kresge’s Environment Program is launching an initiative to assist community-based nonprofits positioned to help influence local and regional climate-resilience planning, and related policy development and implementation. Support provided through the initiative focuses on improving the resilience of low-income, urban communities in ...