Greenability Magazine

APRIL 4, 2023

the series will feature Brooke Salvaggio , an organic farmer in Kansas City. This food waste is brought to the farm and turned into nutrient-rich compost, curbing climate change and improving the farm’s soil. participants can make beautiful organic inks from the black walnut commonly found in Kansas City, to create block prints.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Since then, the fruit has thrived in the state, thanks to its favorable climate and soil profile. Related: SCAD students fight food insecurity in Georgia with organic farming and beekeeping Since the 1960s, Georgia and the South overall have experienced a 5 degree Fahrenheit rise in average temperatures.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

Catherine Coleman Flowers guides Senator Cory Booker through Lowndes County, Alabama, as part of his 2017 environmental justice tour. With that in mind and because the GreenBiz audience is mostly corporate sustainability people, I'm curious about how companies can help rural communities and support organizations like yours.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But digging into innovations being advanced by that organization - AGCO, based in Duluth, Georgia - reveals much about the potential future of technology for cultivating regenerative and precision agriculture. My focus is really to harness the energy of the entire organization. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million images from the Planet database dating back to 2017, AMAGGI was able to conduct trend analysis and take a preventative approach to various challenges it faces. Leveraging over 8.7 AMAGGI has also increased the value of each image by extracting NDVI data from it, which unlocked powerful insights for sustainability.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 28, 2020

He now co-owns Grand Prismatic Seed , which specializes in hardy organic seeds, and works as the assistant horticulturalist in Red Butte’s Water Conservation Garden. Ten years of planning and preparation came before the grand opening in the spring of 2017. Banner worked as a field botanist for federal agencies like the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 2, 2020

On the heels of its wildly successful 2017 Kickstarter campaign for a lightweight and durable shoe called Monsoon, Tropicfeel moved into the clothing realm, directly aimed at disrupting the wasteful and polluting mainstream clothing industry.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is studying samples of soil and ice extracted from the north Alaskan coast in 2018. In the two long weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, research into our warming climate has been put on hold. Emily Bristol takes soil samples off the coast of Alaska. Bristol is one of the lucky ones.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

The berry grows best in boggy, water-soaked soil that can't be used for many other crops. The water in natural land supports the cranberry bog and in return, the cranberry bog enriches the soil that supports outside land.". In 2017 , Wisconsin produced 5.4 And every one acre of cranberry bog requires 5.5

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But regenerative has an older, more established, type-A sister that could be a path to legitimacy: organic. In the 1980s, organic was the new buzzword for farmers, grocers and consumers.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

According to an analysis of hourly rainfall data released Wednesday by the nonprofit science and media organization Climate Central, the U.S. These extremes elevate the risk of dangerous flash floods, soil erosion, and the destruction of crops. has seen widespread increases in rainfall intensity since the 1970s.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

hectares in 2017 to 65,442.41 In addition, there is the need to continue working with Planet images in other future projects led by PRIAS such as evaluating the feasibility of the soil in planting crops, monitoring of crop yield, health analysis of crops, and disease monitoring,” said Vargas. . hectares in 2019.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Related: Indonesian eco village features rammed earth domes and ocean views In 2017, a village organization called the Community Disaster Management Group (CDMG) was formed to create a plan for the village that would improve disaster response. The results come from an organized effort to include villagers in the process.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But digging into innovations being advanced by that organization — AGCO, based in Duluth, Georgia — reveals much about the potential future of technology for cultivating regenerative and precision agriculture. “My focus is really to harness the energy of the entire organization. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. It allocates actions to stakeholders including the EA, local authorities and organic processors. And not all rivers carry the same load of microplastics.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. “If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It needs land, water and - in the case of non-organic cotton - chemicals to grow, plus energy and additional chemicals to find its way from the field gate onto our clothes hangers. From socks and shirts to dresses and denim, it makes up for around one third of all fibres in textiles. More and better data means greater insights for farmers.

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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. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5, which covers much of the Midwest, joined local organizers in a conference call in July and made an in-person visit to the area earlier this month.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

More frequent and more intense storms create land runoff that can overwhelm water treatment facilities, contaminating drinking water with hazardous waste or soils with intestinal parasites. Furthermore, elevated CO 2 concentrations can result in greater uptake and concentration of soil toxins (such as arsenic or cadmium) in rice.

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Earth Gratitude

JULY 11, 2017

The Earth Day Network is the world’s largest environmental organization, partnering with over 50,000 organizations in over 190 countries. According to Kathleen, the farm-to-school programs tend to be much more organized. Ron Finley grows organic food in the food desert of South Central Los Angeles, California.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If a farmer wants to transition a farm from conventional practices to organic or regenerative ones, costs are associated with that transition. These factors are different for organic and regenerative farmers, so the numbers often don’t work, resulting in loans being denied or unaffordable. These farms accounted for 5.5

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. Garden supporters had to raise $20 million by the end of 2017 to claim the city-owned property. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. The garden has been built from the ground up.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. If the U.S. Then if you think, wait, what if we lost all hemlocks?

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Nuvoda (US) (category: circular economy): Nuvoda’s Mobile Organic Biofilm (MOB) technology operates as a hybrid of an attached biofilm and aerobic granular sludge process, enabling the simultaneous removal of nitrogen and phosphorous. It can simultaneously remove suspended solids and digest organic contaminants without the use of chemicals.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Satellite observations have shown that between 1997 and 2017 alone, the region lost around 31 trillion tons of ice. But it seems that the thawing of underlying permafrost, the frozen mixture of soil and organic matter that blankets the far north, is counteracting the expansion effect. degrees C (2.7

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Nuvoda’s Mobile Organic Biofilm (MOB) technology operates as a hybrid of an attached biofilm and aerobic granular sludge process, enabling the simultaneous removal of nitrogen and phosphorous. It can simultaneously remove suspended solids and digest organic contaminants without the use of chemicals. Nuvoda (US) – circular economy.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Still, UN evidence shows the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 — one in every nine people — according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018. One report by Deutsche Bank sees the earth’s population peaking at 8.7 This term passes unmentioned, Herren complained.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce. In 2017, containers and packaging made up a significant portion of municipal solid waste (MSW), about 80.1 And not into the ocean, the soil and bits of them go into our bodies.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Other organizations, by contrast, promote the same practices as necessary for natural climate solutions. Debate is critical for addressing uncertainties related to building soil carbon.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They could also be the changes in soil moisture, soil temperature, and biomass, derived from the different spectral index of satellite data, for deeper crop health analysis. Planet’s Dove satellites that produced this imagery were launched February 14, 2017 ( news release ), therefore they didn’t image Sacramento County back in 2015.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

At the same time, more and more people might be susceptible to Aspergillus fumigatus infection because of growing numbers of people receiving stem cell or solid organ transplants, being on immunosuppressive therapy, or having lung conditions or severe viral respiratory infections.”.

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