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Sustainable Business Practices for the Food and Agricultural Industries

Green Business Bureau

Some companies might install energy-efficient lighting and allow their employees to have flexible schedules, while others might invest in sustainable sourcing of materials and a cleaner production process. Sustainable Business Practices for the Food and Agriculture Sector. What are Sustainable Business Practices?

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Latest and Greatest Recycling Technologies

GreenTech Gazette

This process is more efficient than traditional mechanical recycling, which can only process certain types of plastics. Plasma gasification: Plasma gasification is a technology that uses high-temperature plasma to convert waste into a gas that can be used to generate electricity.

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Repairing an off-grid wind and solar electrical system

Low Impact

We recently blogged about a project : ‘rebuilding a home, and changing the surrounding fields from dead agricultural land into an oasis of natural life’ – as well as building an off-grid electrical and heating system. The post Repairing an off-grid wind and solar electrical system appeared first on Lowimpact.org.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2023

Greentown Labs

Agriculture Aquosmic Corporation analyzes bodies of water using satellite images, providing thorough, actionable information on surface-water quality. Buildings frakktal is a B2B materials company developing bio-based polymer processes for the replacement of fossil-fuel-based feedstocks across industries.

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'Reality check': McKinsey highlights true scale of the net zero challenge

Business Green

The first assumes rapid decarbonisation of all sectors and would see all major sectors, covering agriculture, industry, transport, buildings, avoided deforestation, and power, abate at least 30 per cent of their 2016-level carbon dioxide emissions by the end of the decade. degree pathways'. degree pathway, under all scenarios.

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'Repair our planet': First Earthshot prize winners revealed

Business Green

In the Clean our Air category, New Delhi-based company Takachar won for its technology that can be attached to tractors and converts agricultural waste into fuel or fertilizer to prevent the heavily polluting burning of crop waste. The initiative recovers about 130 tonnes of food a year, equivalent to about 260,000 meals.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. LinkedIn | Company profile. and Canadian cities.