GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

Beef rightly gets attention when we think of the foods destroying South America’s forests, but the second-most important driver of deforestation is less known to people outside of food and agriculture. Read more about food & agriculture. ]. Food & Agriculture. See the report for the full set of scores. Pull Quote. Deforestation.

Agriculture 290

Agriculture Ethics Demand Asia 290

GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

As the population grows, we may see more demand for this land to be used for agriculture, parks and real estate. As the population grows, we may see more demand for this land to be used for agriculture, parks and real estate. Nearly every country in the world, including the U.S., In the U.S. In the U.S. The time is now. Pull Quote.

Climate change 545

Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 545

Unsustainable

JUNE 19, 2022

By making small changes, like buying local or seeking transparent companies, anyone can shape demand for compliance with human rights.

Agriculture 72

Agriculture Demand Ethics Politics 72

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK’s 650 anaerobic digestors use microbes to consume waste, predominantly from agriculture and the food supply chain, capturing the greenhouse gases which are emitted as part of that process and purifying them to create a carbon-neutral substitute for natural gas.

Energy Monitor 264

Energy Monitor Waste Waste Home Energy Monitoring 264

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The adoption of shorter, more transparent palm oil supply chains and working exclusively with suppliers that meet specific environmental, social and ethical standards has made it easier for the company to keep track of its palm oil supply chain, which the company said is no longer contributing to the destruction of tropical forests as a result.

Energy Monitor 489

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Resilience 489

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. So that's my aspiration."

Ethics 36

Ethics Biodiversity Carbon Agriculture 36

The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Promoting sustainable agriculture The agricultural sector is a contributor to a rise in greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, and water pollution. Through investment, countries can help support renewable energy, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. This in turn can motivate other businesses and industries to follow their lead.

Sustainability 195

Sustainability Fossil fuels Climate change Government 195

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Social and environmental ethics have never been such a driving force in consumer food choice – so producers need to keep up with demands. Scottish salmon farmers can tap into the growing demand for sustainably and ethically produced food: leading to potentially growing profits for rural farmers to spread and support local rural economies.

Seafood 130

Seafood Ethics Retail Demand 130

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Each partner brings a relevant monitoring technology to the table and expertise or a track record working in a key industry such as transport, agriculture or the energy sector. Ultimately, all these impacts from increased transparency will have to be accommodated. For the unprepared, the damage could be severe.

Energy Monitor 474

Energy Monitor Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 474

AGreenLiving

JUNE 6, 2020

Why the private sector needs to invest in conservation agriculture right now William Ginn Sat, 06/06/2020 – 02:00 This is an excerpt from ” Valuing Nature ” by William J. Copyright 2020 William J. Reproduced here with permission from Island Press, Washington, D.C. Resistance to change is universal.

Agriculture 28

Agriculture Investment Soil Ethics 28

GreenBiz

JULY 23, 2021

Yet as a consumer, I’ve found it too daunting to evaluate whether the seafood at my restaurants or supermarkets are truly sustainable and ethical. . Food & Agriculture. I’m well aware of many sustainable fishing initiatives and their economic importance. Hopefully, they help bring a better catch to your plate this summer. Pull Quote.

Seafood 507

Seafood Sustainability Startups Patents 507

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

degrees Celsius world, we’ll need a paradigm shift in the way we raise animals, and regenerative agriculture practices can and should be a part of the solution. From a sustainability standpoint, animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector (all the planes, ships, cars in the world combined).

Health 534

Health Sustainability Agriculture Organic 534

Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Why farmers’ markets are good for shopping ethically. By contrast, farmers’ markets have greater transparency and a much shorter chain between food production and consumer, making them a more ethical choice for shoppers. The overall environmental impact of the growing system or form of agriculture employed.

Ethics 62

Ethics Agriculture Packaging Organic 62

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Riding on the coattails of campaigns from the likes of Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, come ever louder calls for financial institutions to divest from industrial agriculture across the board, with meat producers drawing particular attention. Criticism of industrial agriculture and meat producers is certainly not new for NGOs.

Fossil fuels 69

Fossil fuels Agriculture Climate change South America 69

Low Impact

JUNE 24, 2020

Foraging can be a wonderful way to engage with the natural world – an important step in achieving a more sustainable and ethical lifestyle. Even long after large-scale agriculture became the primary means of Western food production, it was still common to supplement an agricultural diet with wild food foraged from the surrounding environment.

Ethics 75

Ethics Agriculture Sustainability Pollution 75

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Amid these challenges, meeting the ambitions of the 2030 agenda will require us to redesign and optimize countless systems, from transport and agriculture to energy and manufacturing. Managing Ethical Supply Chains – Planet’s technology has been used to shine a light on illegal supply sourcing.

Energy Monitor 115

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Agriculture 115

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The work is important because chemicals produced in domestic and industrial processes, as well as in agriculture, are not eliminated by wastewater treatment and end up in our waterways. From there, they accumulate through the food chain, eventually finding their way onto our tables as food and drinking water.

Pollution 130

Pollution Ethics Health Sustainability 130

Eco-Business

APRIL 19, 2020

The aim of the meeting is to review and discuss ways in which urban agriculture can contribute to achieving sustainable cities.As As such, the food system cannot be considered secure, ethical or sustainable.In

Agriculture 10

Agriculture Sustainability Ethics Innovation 10

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

On the supply side, we only partner with ethical and sustainable brands who manufacture natural toxin-free clothing using organic agricultural practices, which regenerate natural systems,” Butler said. “We "We achieve true circularity by hitting on all three pillars of the circular economy.

Startups 540

Startups Recycling Recycling Waste 540

Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

HSBC appear to be funding Brazilian beef linked to deforestation and forest fires, despite their own ethical investment policies forbidding them to do so.". There is no version of industrial animal agriculture production that is compatible with climate justice and a zero carbon future.".

Agriculture 101

Agriculture Fossil fuels Policy Investment 101

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Dr Malone said unlike the biofuels we know today, which are dependent on agricultural land to produce corn and sugar beets, bio-production in seawater would avoid ethical concerns of ‘fuel vs food’.

Biotechnology 174

Biotechnology Waste Waste Agriculture 174

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small. Mimi returned to Bethel Heights, then in 2016 left to grow and make wine at her home vineyard and living laboratory, Hope Well, a living model for a habitat-based regenerative model for agriculture. Drivers of Change.

Carbon-neutral 98

Carbon-neutral Agriculture Climate change Retail 98

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

We can expect to hear a lot about how the Agricultural Innovation Mission for Climate , or Aim4C, will be harnessing new technology – from big data to precision fertilizer – to slow ballooning emissions from agribusiness, and fight worsening global hunger. Protecting the Industrial Agriculture Status Quo. But the U.S.

Agriculture 96

Agriculture Biodiversity Policy Ethics 96

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Projects specifically encouraged to bid for funding include uses of AI which could enable a faster transition to renewable energy, decarbonise industry by improving energy productivity and fuel switching as well as decrease emissions in the agricultural sector.

Building Energy Monitoring 59

Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 59

Grist

MAY 25, 2021

The coordination hub for the new trials will consider the social, ethical, and legal issues related to removing carbon. The joy is that if it does sequester CO2 and lead to enhanced agricultural productivity, then everybody’s laughing,” said Hepburn. acres) of arable fields and grasslands.

Carbon 132

Carbon Soil Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 132

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 26(5), 999–1014. The anatomy of human destructiveness. Greenwich, CT. [2] 2] Wilson, E. Harvard University Press. [3] 3] Clowney, D. Biophilia as an Environmental Virtue. 4] Calabrese, E. F., & Dommert, A. Biophilia and the practice of Biophilic Design.

Sustainability 146

Sustainability Stormwater Health Ethics 146

AGreenLiving

JULY 14, 2021

In bringing together these diverse services, we are perfectly placed to guide clients from first steps to sustainability leadership, and from strategy through to on-the-ground implementation, no matter where the client is along their sustainability pathway. .

Ethics 28

Ethics Asia Sustainability Agriculture 28

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

More than 1 million acres of forests have been lost since 1990, leaving the global stock at near 10 million acres, according to a July report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Soybean production and cattle raising activities are linked to deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region.

Policy 545

Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 545

Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

cation scheme has this week been relaunched and expanded in a bid to accelerate the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices that can help tackle the enormous loss of UK biodiversity. Ethical consumerism is on the rise, especially when it comes to food," Varney said. The RSPB's Fair to Nature food and farming certi?cation

Biodiversity 101

Biodiversity Soil Ethics Government 101

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

From packaging to supply chains to recycling behaviours - staying environmentally ethical can, at times, feel like a full-time endeavour. Using less energy and water, plus a reduced carbon dioxide impact, the agricultural method is promising both health and climate advantages and is viewed as an acceleration of existing farming commitments.

Ethics 88

Ethics Sustainability Plastics Climate change 88

Low Impact

MAY 5, 2021

One option for a sustainable burial is simply to opt for a traditional wooden coffin – but one made from a more ethical choice of wood, from sustainably managed woodlands and forests. Some bamboo products will be better than others when it comes to both their human and environmental ethics. They aim to make ethical the new normal.

Sustainability 71

Sustainability Ethics Biodegradable Upcycling 71

Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The firm has also vowed to ensure all key raw materials in its own-brand products will be from "sustainable or recycled sources" by 2025, and to reduce the emissions produced by agricultural processes on its farm in Hampshire to net zero a year by 2024.

Ethics 49

Ethics Fossil fuels Fashion Biodiversity 49

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small. Mimi returned to Bethel Heights, then in 2016 left to grow and make wine at her home vineyard and living laboratory, Hope Well, a living model for a habitat-based regenerative model for agriculture. Drivers of Change.

Carbon-neutral 52

Carbon-neutral Agriculture Climate change Retail 52

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 2, 2021

And, therefore, to create ethically-sourced and locally-fabricated high-performance sustainable products. ” For these lampshades, Biohm has used a material they call Orb, or organic refuse biocompound, to combine food and agricultural bioproducts with a plant-based binder. .

Biodegradable 36

Biodegradable Biotechnology Biotech Waste 36

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

investment through its current seed funding round - with a series A round to follows later in the year - to help scale up its carbon offsetting programme, which it said offered a "huge opportunity" for the agricultural sector to reduce its emissions. As such, the company is seeking a further $2.5m

Carbon 91

Carbon Methane Climate change Ethics 91

Business Green

MARCH 7, 2023

The report argues legislation will have a huge role to play in the future of cultivated meats, as effective rules are reqiured to reassure customers that cultivated meats can be ethically produced and safe to eat.

Building Energy Monitoring 45

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture 45

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Europe’s Green Deal.

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98