Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. The southeastern U.S.,

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. to participate in and contribute to the cultural, political, and economic shift to a new carbon economy.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and TNC are also members of the Forest-Climate Working Group, a political advocacy organization, alongside scores of wood product companies, including Enviva and Drax, biomass energy behemoths whose carbon-intensive operations have polluted U.S.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 94

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

The political economist and policy fellow at Harvard University likens the industry’s techno-fix mentality to the fossil fuel industry’s sustained push for carbon capture and storage, a technology as yet unproven at scale. “We In 2006, he famously challenged the methodology of the UN’s landmark Livestock’s Long Shadow report.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. Thanks to the university's new environmental literacy gen-ed requirement, students sign up for courses like Politics of Oil and Insects, Food, Culture. In nearby Sacramento, UC Davis is developing Aggie Square, a fully electrified satellite campus.

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Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Waste 52

Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today, the government spends about $6 billion every year on the problem, but all that money has not made a detectable difference in the dead zone, the regular algae blooms in Lake Erie, and the health risks posed by fertilizer. A cover crop is simply something grown over the winter, when fields are usually bare. Scott Olson / Getty Images.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

Here is a brief introduction to 50 young activists that fighting for the health of our planet and our communities. He is also concerned about health problems in black communities due to poor air quality. Media is ever reporting politics and celebrity gossip. org after a powerful cyclone devastated her community. So here I am."

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