GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Founded in 2007, New York based Ecovative Design leverages the naturally binding properties of mycelium — mushroom’s root structure — in several sustainable materials. In the cases of Mushroom Packaging and Piñatex, their biological source is considered an agricultural byproduct or waste. Here’s what I uncovered. Producing just 2.69

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

They can also cause soil and water pollution. In 2007 only 10% of mobile phones were recycled. Recycling programs that run properly cost the government, taxpayers and business owners less money than waste programs. For every job created in the waste management industry, recycling creates four. Environmental benefits.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

It includes the people who make our homes waste less energy: insulators and HVAC operators. Our relatively clean grid means the things we build on Canadian soil have a lower carbon footprint than they might elsewhere. It also includes the people who manufacture electric cars and buses. million cars off the road.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Basically “everything” with the exception of forestry and farming waste biofuels, which can be used for difficult sectors such as aviation, long distance, freight and even agricultural liquid fuels. It won't be boats, it will be solar farms. It won't be airplanes, it'll be wind turbines.". You can already hear the earth recovering.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

This includes reducing energy consumption, using renewable resources whenever possible, minimizing waste production and pollution output, ensuring safe handling practices during product transportation, and providing clear labeling about any hazardous materials contained in the product or service. Non-GMO Project Standard.

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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

APRIL 11, 2023

By 2007 , 82 businesses were certified by B Lab. Do you and/or your company responsibly dispose of hazardous waste, e.g. batteries, paints, and/or electronics? The aim of a product LCA is to reduce the environmental footprint of the given product, eliminate waste, reduce costs, support marketing claims, and improve brand image.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The broader and more technology agnostic a subsidy is the less likely it is to have large economic waste associated with it. Most importantly we should never apply subsidies to established technologies that have already surpassed the “valley of death”, as this does nothing but prevent innovation, competition, and waste economic resources.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The True Cost, 2015 The True Cost exposes another major contributor of pollution, waste and consumption — the fast fashion industry. It also highlights toxins added to the soil and waterways via plant growth (such as cotton) and throughout the manufacturing process (such as dyes).

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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. Basically "everything" with the exception of forestry and farming waste biofuels, which can be used for difficult sectors such as aviation, long distance, freight and even agricultural liquid fuels.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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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. Producing just 2.69

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Basically “everything” with the exception of forestry and farming waste biofuels, which can be used for difficult sectors such as aviation, long distance, freight and even agricultural liquid fuels. It won’t be airplanes, it’ll be wind turbines.” You can already hear your children breathing more easily.”

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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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