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JEA and the Environment
JEA strives for environmental excellence and to be a responsible steward of the environment. As a community-owned, not-for-profit utility, we are committed to meeting our customers’ energy, water and sewer service needs in a manner that is environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.
How Would Libertarians Protect the Environment?
Patrick Michaels says that free markets and wealth provide better incentives and means for human beings to care for the planet than any government policy.
Should We Have Smaller Families To Save The Environment?
Conventional discussions about the depletion of natural resources are full of empty cliches, which, for consecutive generations, have turned out to be false.
Going Green: 10 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Impact on the Environment
In a new V column, we explore issues of sustainability and the environment. To kick off the series, we put together a simple guide for reducing your contribution to climate change
a hazard to the environment?
The mining process of cryptocurrency is affecting the global environment. However, will the adaption rate decrease to keep the planet safe from global warming?
Stewards of the Environment?
It may be tough to view yourself as an "environmentalist" but in many ways contractors have led the way when it comes to reducing, reusing and recycling on site.
Biofuels: Good or bad for the environment?
Industrialized countries have subsidized the use of biofuels in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But campaigners say a focus on bio-based crops for fuel may actually be doing more harm than good.
What do women have to do with the environment?
Global Greengrants Executive Director, Terry Odendahl, talks about why women are key to addressing environmental issues like climate change and how an intern...
Why the Environment Needs Leadership
Leaders know guilt, blame, doom, and gloom don't work. What works better?
Why Spreadsheets Are Bad For The Environment
As useful as spreadsheets can be, global organizations may actually be doing more harm than good, especially when using them to calculate air emissions.
Celebrities Who Care About the Environment
Hollywood is all about the green, and for some, that just doesn’t mean money. Many celebrities have used their status to start eco-friendly nonprofit organizations, inspire political action and promote cleaner living.
Can the Caring Middle save the environment?
In a time of unprecedented efforts to divide us, the unifying conscience of the American people can prevail.
Not everyone who cares for environment an extremist
Frequently these days, anyone who opposes industrial activities that result in ecosystem destruction, widespread pollution, climate change, and health hazards such as arsenic, lead, and mercury in our waterways and
Five tips for a healthier environment
Christiana Figueres, who helped secure the Paris Climate Change Agreement, gives her suggestions.
10 Simple Steps to Save our Environment!
These are 10 very simple steps everyone of us can take to help save our environment! Taking these steps not only reduces your carbon footprint, but it can sa...
25 Everyday Techniques to Save Environment
No, I’ll not be asking you to plant trees around your town. And I will not ask you to go back to the stone-age and stop singing all modern amenities that take a toll on our environment. I am going …
Will A "Balloon Ban" Be Next To Aid The Environment?
Now that plastic straws are pretty much on the way out environmentalists nationwide are weighing in and saying that baloons are also dangerous when they fall back to earth proving deadly to marine life that eats them. According to a news story from WFLA , “The issue of straws has really broadened the marine debris…
Socialism Hurts the Environment, and Examples are Everywhere
Socialist policies are presented as the solution to climate change, but this directly contradicts the history of socialism.
How Tech Companies Are Helping The Environment
It doesn't take much to have a negative impact on the environment, but tech companies are doing their part to offset the damage.
Let the environment guide our development
Human growth has strained the Earth's resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine "planetary boundaries" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems.
