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How using space tech helps humanity move toward a sustainable future today

The Environmental Blog

“The interest in precision farming among the industry players is driven by their intention to withstand competition amid increasing risks of crop failure caused by climate change-related weather extremes and ever-growing food demand. A National Forest Law prohibits lumbering in these areas adopted at the end of 2007.

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

These land use techniques are designed to reduce the soil compaction which increases run-off. The planting of shrubs and trees also helps infiltration and retention by generating a demand for soil moisture, so that soils have a greater capacity to absorb water. Conveyance. Monitoring NFM.

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Can organic farming feed the world?

Low Impact

Not only can large, industrial farms not feed the world in the future, they will destroy the very soils and ecology of the only planet that we have to provide food at all. In this article, Chris discusses whether small, organic farms can feed the world, and, of course, he concludes that they can. We think that this is very important.

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Ÿnsect attracts $372m backing as it gears up 'world's largest' insect farm in France

Business Green

Our ambition is to revolutionize the food chain which, literally, starts from the basics: insects and soil," said Antoine Hubert, Ÿnsect's co-founder, president and CEO. But the spike in demand poses a serious risk to the world's already fragile ecosystems, requiring extra water and land while generating greenhouse gas emissions.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials. After saving water and energy in its fiber processing, Ananas Anam uses excess biomass to create compost and add nutrients back to its farmers’ soil.

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#Solar100’s Jigar Shah and Van Skilling on the Evolution of the Solar Asset Class

GreenTechMedia

We sold a lot of those projects to Wells Fargo in 2007. And over time, there’s a resulting drift in P50s as you said with — “a couple basis points here, a couple basic points there; turning the soiling knob here, turning the shading knob there.” We were extremely conservative in the early days.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. Logan Green has cited growing up with Southern California traffic and carpooling as a student in Zimbabwe for inspiring the launch of Zimride in 2007. million acres the 4.4