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Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem

Envirotec Magazine

This approach is far from ideal and ignores other key players such as pharmaceutical companies and agriculture when tackling micropollutants. Farming and agriculture Agriculture can contribute to micropollutant contamination in several ways, primarily via the use of pesticides.

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Biodigester in Practice: Real World Examples of Biodigesters in Business

Green Business Bureau

It could be said that the earliest and simplest example of a biodigester is the humble compost heap – a sustainable agriculture favorite with roughly 12,000 years of evident use. Anaerobic reactors are a good fit for agricultural businesses and wastewater treatment facilities as they are more worthwhile to operate at a large scale.

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Biophilia and Biophilic Design: Incorporating Sustainability Into The Built Environment

Green Business Bureau

Biophilic urbanism is more capable of optimizing the health of a city in different ways such as improving the city environment, providing economic growth for the municipality through stormwater management, and nurturing the mental health of society.[6] Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 26(5), 999–1014. Greenwich, CT.

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Biospherian will share water stories from ‘Spaceship Earth’

Envirotec Magazine

acre) virtually air-tight ecological system containing five areas, modelled on Earth’s biomes, and an agricultural system. Through a radical two-year experiment living inside a mini-Earth, ecologist Dr Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the planetary biosphere and their impacts on the water cycle.

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How To Reduce Lagoon Pollution

The Environmental Blog

The industrial and community wastewater discharge, irresponsible use of agricultural chemicals, land-based pollutants carried by storm water runoff, and the growth of tourism activities all contribute to the pollution of lagoons. Over the past years, lagoons have been under constant threat. One of the main threats to lagoons is pollution.

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What we’re looking to fund for Cohort 11

Elemental Excelerator

Think of us as a nonprofit VC: First the investor part: We invest $300,000 (for growth strategy development) or $600,000 (for project deployment) to companies across six systems – water, food and agriculture, nature-based solutions, energy, mobility, and the circular economy. Optimize stormwater and flood management. Zero Carbon.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

Some communities have taken up agriculture to offset the loss of traditional food sources, like bird eggs that erosion has made harder to find. With dam failures and overflows from combined sewer and stormwater systems common, there’s more work to do. A Connecticut law empowers cities to create their own stormwater management plans.