In November 2011 the Duchy of Cornwall was ordered to disclose environmental data from an oyster farm.
Defined under the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 14025, EPDs provide quantified, third-party-verified environmental data for products.
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The water companies insist they have a good record of releasing environmental data without having to be bound by the regulations.
Zoo staff are currently raising funds to provide weather stations and camera traps to assist researchers in Madagascar to collect environmental data.
If calorie numbers can change the eating habits of New Yorkers, could environmental data change the purchasing habits of the average consumer?
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The Data Sensing Lab is the next step in Google's quest to master environmental data collection after absorbing the team behind Behavio last month.
Platypus LLC build autonomous robotic airboats that can be deployed for a wide range of usages including environmental data and monitoring hard-to-reach spots after natural disasters like flooding.
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It also provides environmental data, like noise and pollution levels.
It provides environmental data on 1, 700 firms, and in September helped the Florida state treasury launch the nation's first review of the financial impact of climate change on investments.
Smarr is filling a nature reserve at UC Irvine with sensors to transmit environmental data to San Diego supercomputers, which are modeling weather patterns, seismic activity and behavior of animal populations.
In his new book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman argues that comprehensive, targeted and organized environmental data can trigger real market shifts among consumers.
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Kearns and a team of scientists led by Alan Strong of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service analyzed sea surface temperature data from the agency's polar-orbiting satellites from 1984 through 1996.
According to the National Environmental, Satellite, Data and Information service, July 2012 was the hottest July on record for North America, and 3rd hottest overall.
Instead, the environmental impact of the data centers that power the Web and private networks is about as visible as the electrons moving around a company's servers.
Expect that to change over the next few years as the U.S. and other governments scale up investments in the environmental monitoring systems and data infrastructure assets.
Environmental group Greenpeace released a report Thursday handing out failing marks in one or more categories to Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and Amazon, among others, on the environmental impact of their data centers.
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Because of Apple's recent statements about clean energy, however, Greenpeace actually raised the company's grades for the environmental friendliness of its data centers from Ds and an F, which it gave the company in April, to Cs and Ds.
Solar power may be not be best way to reduce the environmental impact of sprawling data centers built by companies such as Apple and Facebook, James Hamilton, an Amazon vice president and distinguished engineer argued on his personal blog last Saturday.
So heavy are the current energy demands of our expanding data usage that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pegged servers and data centers as responsible for nearly two percent of total national electricity consumption.
Finally there is Living Earth, which covers data on the environmental impact of technology and industrialization.
Increasingly, investors weigh environmental, social and governance data when making investment decisions.
But when the environmental groups used the 2010 data from the federal government to calculate per person gasoline consumption, a different picture emerges.
For example, a survey of 100 chief information officers in the U.K. last year revealed that over half did not know the environmental impact of their own data centers.
Data from the US Environmental Protection Agency were used to work out levels of pollution for addresses in California.
The end result of GEOSS will be access to an unprecedented amount of environmental information, integrated into new data products benefiting societies and economies worldwide.
We think immediately of genes, but recent data show clearly that environmental exposures (especially early in life) play a large role in programming how one's genes are expressed.
I'm one of a number of researchers at NOAA who are working on ways to combine all of the environmental, radar and other weather data into a computer model that will attempt to predict when the tornado will develop and how strong it will be as much as an hour in advance.
However, little data are available on the environmental impacts associated with insect production, said researcher Dennis Oonincx at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
The mission is part of Esa's Earth Explorer programme - seven spacecraft that will do innovative science in obtaining data on issues of pressing environmental concern.
The data was reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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