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Book Review: the New Sustainability Advantage

Edouard Stenger

“ First published in 2002, a second 10-year anniversary version was published in 2012. This is the one I read. If the case for sustainability was compelling then, imagine how much more it is now that renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are at grid parity. The book is divided in seven parts.,

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Wearing nubbly woolen sweaters and a full grey beard, he started each class with a brief meditation before launching into the subject at hand: the social and environmental devastation wrought by the corporate world the students were clamouring to enter. Nowhere did these by-products of economic growth appear on balance sheets.

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Management and maintenance of effluent and discharge in railway depots

Envirotec Magazine

Once used, water is almost always returned to the environment in the form of effluent discharges and waste, either to the foul sewer system managed by the local water utility company or to controlled sources such as rivers and streams. What is effluent and where can it be found on the railway?