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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. The volume of timber products commercially recycled as woodfuel in the UK almost quadrupled between 2011 and 2018 when it reached 2.1

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets. Any decision-maker looking to abate their climate impact and/or minimize their risk to climate change is a potential customer.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

The firm's suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares of natural forests between 2008 and 2011 alone, the report claimed. Farmers are given support and advice on protecting soil health and cultivating rice paddies and bananas as opposed to inefficient palm oil plantations.