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Environmental Awareness Days in December

Green Business Bureau

Support biodiversity within your own community by including native plants in your landscaping. Without a healthy microbial population, important biochemical reactions are disturbed, altering soil formation, the decomposition of organic matter, elemental cycles (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur) and the processing of pollutants.

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How carbon-smart farming is catalyzing the big bucks needed to transform the way America eats

GreenBiz

The soil becomes richer and healthier, runoff that pollutes water is reduced, biodiversity and habitat for the birds, bees and other wildlife increases, farm animals live better, and the food produced is more nutritious. The foundation hired Ben Dobson to implement the transition in 2013. I thought I’d get five responses," she said.

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Using urban forestry to fight for environmental justice

GreenBiz

To better support the health of these communities, Berckes’ organization employs local teenagers to plant and care for trees. He applied after hearing about a friend’s positive experience working with the organization. "It "People are getting sick or dying from heat," Berckes said, "and their utility bills are going up.

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Terreform ONE’s plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world

GreenBiz

That may sound fanciful — and, for some, less than appetizing — but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report. In a world with more than a billion undernourished souls, not to mention as many as 1.6

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: Incorporating Sustainability Into The Built Environment

Green Business Bureau

Examples include prospect and refuge, organized complexity, mobility, navigating and more.[5]. A living roof helps reduce stormwater runoff, purifies air, creates biodiversity, among other benefits. Biophilic Design and Biophilic Urbanism. Credit: Ginkgo Sustainability. References: [1] Fromm, E. The anatomy of human destructiveness.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.