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'Utmost importance': Worsening soil pollution among planet's biggest challenges, UN warns

Business Green

Global assessment of soil pollution warns of major threat to food supplies unless urgent action is taken to accelerate adoption of sustainable farming practices and tackle industrial waste. The report highlights how soils are being damaged on multiple fronts thanks to a combination of unsustainable farming and industrial practices.

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Geo-data firm supports complex environmental clean-up project

Envirotec Magazine

A consortium of COWI A/S, RAMBOLL A/S and Geosyntec, contracted by the Region of Southern Denmark to decontaminate the site, engaged Fugro to install 800 injection wells over a total area of 2000 m² using specialist direct push technology, which is lighter and safer than conventional drill technology.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed Inc. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. A former soil conservationist with a degree in agronomy, Hamilton’s mission became to annihilate fescue, on her property and across the fescue belt. The southeastern U.S.,

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Agriculture, Innovation, & Sustainability • 11/10/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Virginia Lamb, Groundwork Education and Consulting, is an Environmental Educator with over 25 years’ experience in recycling, composting, soil health and organic gardening. She has a BA in Environmental Studies from Stockton University, an MS in Soil Science from UMass Amherst, and is a NJ Certified Recycling Professional.

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There’s always one… (being negative about Sustainability)

Terra Infirma

Mrs K, aka Professor Karen Johnson, has appeared as a talking head in a Guardian video about soil health (see above). She’s super excited getting soil health some publicity and wanted my help with sharing it on social media. If soil fetishists want more of the stuff they can just go to their local garden centre and buy some.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

Epochs are typically stretches of several million years designated by clues left in the soil, rocks, and fossils. But it wasn’t until 2000 that the idea really took off. A press release shared by the committee’s chair said the alleged vote violated the group’s rules and that an inquiry into annulling it was being launched.

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Sculptural roof tops eco-minded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts expansion

AGreenLiving

In addition to a stormwater management plan, the eco-minded design includes adaptive reuse of the existing buildings’ most carbon-intensive elements, integration of native species into 11 acres of new landscape and the preservation of 90% of existing soils.