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A growing aging population means greater demand for residential care services. Is the notion of an environmentally sustainable care home realistic? What is the current environmental impact of the residential care sector? Can reducing environmental impact have cost, health and wellbeing co-benefits? These questions are explored in a recent study, Sustainable Care Homes, carried out.
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A new edition of WWF’s Green game-changers highlights examples of innovation for sustainability in big business. In the previous Green game-changers report (November 2011) the WWF published a collection of case studies of small-scale sustainability innovators contributing to a greener global economy. This latest report investigates how ‘large corporates’ (those with revenues of over US.
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This is not a good time to be a climate change denier. After a record-breaking year of dangerous weather in 2012—following a destructive year in 2011—scientific reports are rolling out this month showing extreme weather in the U.S. is on the rise, threatening Americans today with bone-bleaching drought, fueling more devastating floods and violent storms,.
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Leading medical organisation the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has joined with the Climate and Health Alliance and the Climate Commission to issue a health alert in response to recent heatwaves (14 January 2013). Heat is the silent killer. Most Australians do not realise that heat is the leading cause of weather-related death. The three organisations are.
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Ian Lowe writes in the Sydney Morning Herald that for decades now, the insurance industry has recognised the reality of climate change and its costs. As Australia recovers from the events of last week, we face a future of increasing average temperatures and more severe extreme events: heatwaves, bushfires, cyclones, floods. It is getting harder to.
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