Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Between 2000 and 2014, 45 percent of rainfall records were broken in terms of wettest year, wettest period and wettest months on record. Defra estimated the economic damages from the 2013/2014 floods were in the region of £1 billion to £1.5 We are already seeing the impacts of climate change on rainfall in the UK.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 17, 2022

Another challenge of our research is the integrated use of optical constellation satellite and SAR data for monitoring soil-vegetation productivity of agricultural land area. We have been using Planet imagery to map kelp cover along the coast of Sonoma and Mendocino counties following a collapse in kelp forests that occurred in 2014.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Education 104

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

He joined when Opower had about 30 employees, then served as chief marketing officer as the company went public in 2014 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Sachse’s appointment as CEO follows his experience at energy efficiency company Opower. cleantech startup.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. Forest loss has only accelerated since the 2014 United Nations climate summit, when a collection of multinational food companies and governments committed to stop it entirely.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Asia 135

The Environmental Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Contaminants can also enter the water through natural processes like leaching from soil or rock. A study conducted in 2014 showed that children exposed to polluted water have a higher chance of developing learning disabilities and developmental disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The FIA previously introduced hybrid engines into F1 and created the world's first all-electric racing series Formula E in 2014, before later setting up a dedicated Environment and Sustainability Commission in 2017 chaired by former Mexico President Felipe Calderón. by the end of the century. by the end of the century.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. By 2014, it had become an epidemic in Jamaica, and an outbreak of 107 cases had been documented in Florida. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S. Valley fever Carried by soil containing the fungus Coccidioides. Virgin Islands. and how quickly they are rising.

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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. Fast forward to 2014 and my very first – and all-time favourite – experience of a compost loo came courtesy of Carol Atkinson’s Straw Bale Cabin , near Howden in East Yorkshire (as featured here ).

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Constructed over approximately 11 months in 2014, the kindergarten consists of a pair of domed buildings set on stone foundations. Using community labor to support the local economy, the buildings are constructed from locally sourced timber, thatch and stone. The structural frames use timber from Zimbabwe tree plantations.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 26, 2019

SatAgro provides customers access to Planet’s daily satellite imagery, alongside data from NASA and ESA missions, and complementary information like weather and soil sampling, to increase the efficiency of their farms via their app. SatAgro was founded in 2014, when ?elazowski

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Green Roof Technology

DECEMBER 31, 2017

The green roof growing media (soil for the green roof plants) is a blend of different mineral components with an organic content of typically less that 15%. See blog post from 2014. It is practically impossible to set this material on fire – even when the natural moisture content is not considered. Nature is (literally) so cool.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

Founded in 2014 as Symbiota, Indigo Ag focused initially on developing microbe-based seed coatings that substituted for chemically based ones and, the company claims, dramatically increased crop yields. From there, Indigo Carbon consults with the farm on how it might absorb more carbon into its soil or release less to begin with.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

“No other tree species in our eastern landscape exerts such a widespread and profound influence on the environment and other organisms, including ourselves,” researchers who work in the Harvard Forest, Orwig among them, wrote in a book published in 2014 titled Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Resources were thin.”

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Grist

JULY 25, 2019

As The Guardian reported in 2014, “Researchers have suggested the radiation from these weapons has poisoned the soil and water of Iraq, making the environment carcinogenic.” ” But the idea dates back to the Vietnam War.

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Green Roof Technology

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The green roof growing media (soil for the green roof plants) is a blend of different mineral components with an organic content of typically less that 15%. See blog post from 2014. It is practically impossible to set this material on fire – even when the natural moisture content is not considered.

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Organic Soil Cooling 40

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Soon Punjab started facing a new gamut of problems like deteriorating soil health, pest-infested crops and over exploitation of ground water resulting in disastrous consequences. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations. The aftermath has revealed it fangs in ways never seen before.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3 million trees. +

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. The beavers’ dam building activities had also helped reduce the risk of flooding to some flood-threatened human settlements.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 1, 2020

Like watching plants sprout from beneath the soil, we have seen Hawaii’s entrepreneurial ecosystem grow. I got to know Olin in 2014 after Shifted Energy, a cleantech startup Olin founded, landed in Elemental’s second cohort. The team includes Kai Matthes, M.D.,

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

But instead of tweaking seeds so they are optimised for different weather and soil in the field, they are trying to create the best seeds for controlled-environment agriculture. One organization helping fund that research is the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR).

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

That’s roughly 20 percent cheaper on an installed per-megawatt basis than the $14 billion quoted to the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2014 for the two 1.25-gigawatt soil will be the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems plant that NuScale expects to have operating by 2027. When will we see an SMR in the U.S.?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Erosion can be a big problem along Georgia’s interstates and highways, and wildflower meadows could help stabilize the soils in the right-of-way.” Anderson (1934-2011), a Georgia native and green business pioneer, in 2014. + ” Quirey also sees potential for the wildflowers to benefit bees and other pollinators.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

When production is reduced, farmers may use more chemicals in the growing process, which harms the soil and water sources, further degrading the planet and human health. From a high in 2014, prices paid to farmers have plummeted by 70 percent and now dance around $1 per pound. By 2014, Starbucks was only paying $1.72

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

The problem is too complex for straightforward answers: Its outcome relies on rainfall, ocean temperature, soil health, and crop growth rates. Dredged soil from much of that construction was piled on the edges of waterways, forming piles known as spoil banks, or spoil levees, which impede the natural flow of water.

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Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 125

AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

Low-income communities and communities of color are especially at risk; think Flint, Michigan, when a 2014 policy change led to at least 100,000 people losing access to clean water. Throughout the country, there are even neighborhoods without access to healthy food, and communities with toxic waterways and soil due to oil and gas extraction.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

The NASA Harvest team, with international partners from the GEO Global Agricultural Monitoring (GEOGLAM) initiative, measure multiple environmental factors—including precipitation, soil moisture, and temperature—to assess the health of crops and anticipate end-of-season yields.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Since the bug was first identified in 2014, it has been devastating vineyards and orchards in the Northeast. We’ve toyed with basically everything,” said Yolanda Chen, associate professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. “It’s a misnomer,” Levengood said of the sweet-sounding residue.

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Agriculture Asia Medicine Climate change 78

Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

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 sources cited by Garson are a 2019 article in the New York on-line news service vox.com, and a 2014 feature on the website Ecowatch.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The stock of natural capital per person declined by nearly 40 per cent between 1992 and 2014, a period when produced capital per person doubled, and human capital per person increased by about 13 per cent. This imbalance must be addressed, according to the report, or else disaster awaits.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 19, 2019

But agriculture can also be a carbon sink, where carbon is stored (sequestered) in both crops and soil. California’s recycling rate is down from a high of 50% in 2014 to 44% in 2016. Regenerative agriculture is key to mitigating carbon emissions and to reducing the amount of carbon already in our atmosphere. California goals.

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Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 72

AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2021

According to an article about the history of Olive Hill written by Nathan Masters in 2014 , Spires selected olives because that crop was three to four times more profitable than the produce from lemon trees. His ultimate goal was to build a grand hotel atop the hill.

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Grist

JUNE 4, 2021

For example, the particularly active fire years of 2009 and 2015 in Alaska, and 2014 in the Northwest Territories, generated multiple overwintering fires the following spring. Northern soils are loaded with peat, dead vegetation that’s essentially concentrated carbon. Then spring arrives and the ice retreats.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. In 2014, Austin Master received an ODNR order , known as a Chief’s Order, giving the company temporary approval to “process, recycle, and treat brine” and other oilfield waste.

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