Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the world gets hotter, soils are getting drier; it takes more and more precipitation to water the same crops and fill the same reservoirs. The atmosphere is like a sponge: It sucks up water from soils, plants, rivers, oceans, and lakes. But scientists can say some things with certainty. The sky gets thirstier.

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Low Impact

MARCH 3, 2021

Organic matter is ultimately allowed to go back to the soil where it belongs, improving soil structure and nutrition. Having previously taken toilets somewhat for granted, a trip to the Hockerton Housing Project in 2007 gave me pause for thought. No chemical cleaners or bleaches are used in the toilet. Back to basics.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

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. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that consumption of animal proteins will grow by 52 per cent between 2007 and 2040.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It was 2007 when the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change was published by HM Treasury with the simple message that it is much cheaper to take action on climate change than not. This inspiring initiative encompasses a broad and rich variety of landscapes from the Derbyshire Peak District to the Cotswolds and the Trent lowlands.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

Its 2007 report stated that the warming of the climate was "unequivocal". The capacity for trees, soils, and oceans to naturally soak up human-caused CO2 would be reduced under higher emissions scenarios, the report warns, further limiting the planet's ability to help regulate the climate.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Later, when the Aroostook Band of Micmacs took over the site’s ownership, they found its soil was rife with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, cancer-causing compounds that are so difficult to break down they’re commonly known as “forever chemicals.”. Loring has undergone years of cleanup since the base closed.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

For example, a drought from 2007 until 2010 is considered one of the main factors leading to the civil war in Syria. The IR8 variety of rice, for example, which was integral to the Green Revolution in the 1960s, is being phased out in places in favor of native cultivars that are easier on the soil and more disease-resistant.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 2, 2021

It’s also used for soil stabilization to counter erosion. “Since the launch of the brand in 2007, our mission has been to empower everyone to live an eco-friendlier lifestyle without compromising luxury and comfort,” said Jeff Pedersen, CEO and founder of Cariloha. ” + Carihola Images via Carihola.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas. What about golf?

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Although Xiong’s previous research using space-exposed seeds has identified mutant varieties of wheat that are more tolerant to saline soil , which can prove useful as saltwater encroaches on agricultural fields thanks to rising sea levels, she hopes to identify others that are resistant to dry conditions or use nitrogen more efficiently.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It also highlights toxins added to the soil and waterways via plant growth (such as cotton) and throughout the manufacturing process (such as dyes). The Story of Stuff, 2007 The Story of Stuff appears to be a playful, 20-minute video that is actually a dart thrown directly into the bullseye of consumerism and capitalism.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Griffith, an MIT-trained engineer, holds multiple patents, launched a site that later became Instructables and was lauded by the MacArthur Foundation in 2007 for being "a prodigy of invention in service of the world community.". It won't be boats, it will be solar farms. It won't be airplanes, it'll be wind turbines.".

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Turning mycelium into packaging that’s ‘compatible with the planet’ Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials. Here’s what I uncovered.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In 2007 Washington State passed Initiative-937. The sequestration credit applied to all current entities storing carbon in trees and soil internalizes the environmental benefits rural landscapes provide society. This Renewable Portfolio Standard established a regulatory pricing mechanism focused on the electric sector.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Leggett, who sat on Solarcentury's board after stepping down as the UK-based firm's CEO in 2007, could see the sale coming, and immediately began plotting the next phase of his varied and influential career. "I The company he had founded back in 1998, Solarcentury, was in the process of being sold to Statkraft in a £117.7m

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Natura, which issues a regular environmental profit-and-loss statement , went carbon-neutral in 2007 and became the first public B Corporation in 2014. The charismatic “unboss,” as he has called his role, has been at Novartis since 2007, with a stint at Sandoz. million acres the 4.4 million acres it protects in the Amazon.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. At worst, it could include high levels of invasive woody shrubs, which are already common at the temperate-boreal border and are moving north quickly.”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. “Low productivity systems” tend to be managed by pastoralists and small farmers who handle most dairy production in low and middle-income countries like Kenya, Nepal, and Mongolia.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

It was founded in 2007 with the mission of preserving and rebuilding our non-GMO food supply. The standard also requires producers to practice environmental stewardship, monitor soil health, protect biodiversity, reduce water usage and manage chemical applications responsibly. Non-GMO Project Standard.

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Business Green

MAY 28, 2021

Griffith was introducing a dramatic approach to slowing climate change and creating tens of millions of new jobs on US soil. It won't be boats, it will be solar farms. It won't be airplanes, it'll be wind turbines.". Don't believe the alternative lies," Griffith said. This is going to save American money. It's going to save our children.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Griffith, an MIT-trained engineer, holds multiple patents, launched a site that later became Instructables and was lauded by the MacArthur Foundation in 2007 for being “a prodigy of invention in service of the world community.” It won’t be airplanes, it’ll be wind turbines.”

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Grist

JULY 6, 2024

Local entities, national governments or state governments, can regulate soil health, more or less, on their own,” Keith explained. “So So in that sense, it’s not global the way solar geoengineering would be.”

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. For example, hazardous waste can contaminate soil and water supplies and pollute the air. The story of B Lab, however, really starts back in 1993 with Jay Coen Gilbert. Why is meeting this initiative important? How can you implement this initiative in your business?

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

Our relatively clean grid means the things we build on Canadian soil have a lower carbon footprint than they might elsewhere. Similarly, Ontario reduced its coal-fired power generation from 25 per cent in 2007 to zero seven years later and saw a pollution cut equal to taking seven million cars off the road. million cars off the road.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

And the best way to approach landowners was through the Kosciusko County Soil and Water Conservation District, a local agency run by a board of farmers and residents. This coalition managed to widen the first half mile of the ditch in 2007. A cover crop is simply something grown over the winter, when fields are usually bare.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. In this 2007 photo, hogs are shown in a pen at a 4,800-head swine farm in Amanda, Ohio. Kiichiro Sato / AP Photo. The state sets no phosphorus cap for most farms.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Silvopasture could make for healthier soil — and keep cattle alive during sweltering summers. Drier soils and limited surface water caused by climate change make it ever-harder to sustain thirsty crops like wheat and alfalfa. Anita Hofschneider Midwest Livestock are dying in the heat. This little-known farming method offers a solution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

The EPA’s Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators database reported an 800% cancer hazard increase due to petrochemical facilities in the parish between 2007 and 2018. “We want clean air, water, and soil. James Parish is as high as 105 per million, compared with 60 to 75 cases per million in majority white areas.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . But in a way, it doesn’t matter. Photo courtesy of C.J.

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Grist

DECEMBER 23, 2024

New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earths land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion of excessively salty soils. They also promote erosion and the salinization of water and soil. That requires farmers to rely upon brackish water, increasing soil salinity.

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