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For educational facilities, adaptable learning environments empower students and staff even through disruptive times. One school in Illinois exemplifies this strategy. Among the many lessons of the pandemic, school leaders have come to expect the unexpected — and in turn, to explore new ways to shape more resilient learning environments. COVID-related worries and concerns plagued…

NFPA 25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems, provides the criteria for the routine activities that must be conducted to ensure that water-based fire protection systems can be relied upon in the event of a fire. These activities range from simple visual confirmation of some things such as valve…

  When chemicals are used, stored, or generated in the workplace, there are unique hazards. Some have properties that make them an immediate safety concern, like explosive, flammable, and corrosive chemicals. Others cause adverse health effects on our body and even long-term illness. The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety notes that over the…

  In Canada, the governing Liberal Party announced a mandatory target for all new light-duty cars and passenger trucks to be zero-emission by 2035. Many suburban homeowners are warming up to the idea of trading in their tried-and-true gasoline engines. With gas prices on the rise, and the federal government expanding its electric vehicle rebate…

  Today (16 June) marks Clean Air Day, the UK’s largest air pollution campaign, bringing together communities, businesses, schools and the health sector. The WHO blames exposure to pollution for seven million premature deaths a year worldwide and says there is “clear evidence” that air pollution harms human health “at even lower concentrations than previously understood”….

Access to reliable, affordable and clean energy is increasingly recognized as the “golden thread” tying together and enabling many other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite progress over the last decade in making solutions to energy poverty more accessible to the more than 800 million people currently without electricity (and the many more with intermittent or…