Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. A wave of companies are exploring how seaweed can deliver multiple environmental and commercial benefits. Farmers as a group don't typically embrace change. A silent killer on a massive scale.

Pollution 48

Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 48

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Miscanthus fulfils these for enhanced breeding – saving money and space for farmers, and lending a hand to our over polluted environment by emitting CO2. The paper ‘Physiological and transcriptional response to drought stress among bioenergy grass Miscanthus species’ is published in Biotechnology for Biofuels.

Biotechnology 130

Biotechnology Resilience Agriculture Soil 130

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Agricultural practices that maximize crop yields over soil health have given us fruits and vegetables with 38% less nutrients than those grown in 1950.

Soil 111

Soil Recycling Recycling Carbon 111

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 16, 2021

As a member of Green Business Bureau, the Canada Green Building Council, and Green Economy Canada through the Green Economy London Hub, GreenTech Painting has confronted the pollutive nature of today’s painting industry by making some significant changes to their own practices.

Health 97

Health Biotechnology Sustainability Biodegradable 97

Grist

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Runoff from fields also pollutes water bodies, leading to toxic algal blooms. Given all that nastiness, scientists have long been on a quest to reduce agriculture’s dependence on fertilizers by giving cereal crops their own nitrogen-fixing powers. While energy has been cheap, it’s been easy for us to overuse nitrogen fertilizers.”.

Soil 83

Soil Biotechnology Agriculture Climate change 83

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. Pollution : Uncontrolled disposal. Mushroom packaging : Mushroom packaging is created using a process that turns agricultural waste into packaging using a matrix of mushroom roots.

Packaging 78

Packaging Retail Innovation Sustainability 78