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Green Space Can Slow Biological Aging

The Horizons Tracker

Specifically, they employed DNA methylation-based epigenetic age as a metric to gauge this influence. DNA methylation-based epigenetic age refers to modifications in the chemical composition of DNA that may exert an influence on various age-related health outcomes.

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Trees Aren’t A Silver Bullet For Solving Urban Air Pollution

The Horizons Tracker

The researcher also discovered that these trees produce around 10 times more substances that create ozone compared to what they can remove, and they release 130 metric tons of certain compounds (BVOCs) each year. These findings highlight how human activities release enough pollutants (nitrogen oxides) that lead to specific chemical reactions.

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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

Of the 8 core principles of More Human leadership , it’s #6 - Measuring, monitoring and managing with the right metrics - that presents the biggest “nuts and bolts” challenge to any leader. It was like we were mad scientists fiddling around with different chemical formulas. That’s where we need to look”.

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People In Small Towns Face Greater Public Health Risks

The Horizons Tracker

The analysis found a significantly higher rate of environmental exposure to toxins in the air, to lead paint in their homes, and even to potentially dangerous chemical accidents than is the national average. Environmental exposure. Environmental risk.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business Review

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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One CEO???s Reflections On Measuring Impact And Purpose

Tanveer Naseer

In my experience, impact is frequently understated within organizations; it often gets relegated to a set of lifeless metrics that quantify part of the story but obfuscate qualitative understanding. No single metric can tell the real story of impact. The video, introduces us to a courageous, brave, and grateful woman named Cheryl.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.