Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Hamamatsu. With applications ranging from drone surveys to in-situ soil and water analysis, photonics is enabling more sustainable practices and transforming the way we monitor and protect our environment.

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Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. Sponsored Article. Heather Clancy. Featured Column.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. Sponsored Article. emissions. .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He said careful planning of future forest projects could boost the biodiversity of species, carbon sinks, economic development and people’s livelihoods. “Forests are crucial for the health and economies of our planet, but they must be better planned, managed and monitored to ensure sustainable benefits for people as well as nature,” he said.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Almost one-third of the money that Nestlé intends to invest will be dedicated to cultivating regenerative agricultural practices that improve soil health and reduce dependence on synthetic fertilizer across 500,000-plus farms from which Nestlé sources ingredients. Sponsored Article. Media Authorship. Close Authorship. Food Systems.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 6, 2020

soy, wheat, and corn farmers use cover crops, and only 25 percent have adopted crop rotation and conservation tillage practices, even though the country is losing more than 10 billion tons of soil each year as well as more than $50 billion in social and environmental benefits. Biodiversity. Sponsored Article. Corporate Strategy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

The circular economy concept is all about making better use of natural resources such as forests, soil, water, air, metals and minerals. Protect human health and biodiversity. Every year, more than 9 million deaths occur due to air, water and soil pollution. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. Sponsored Article.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2021

Addressing biodiversity authentically and effectively Takeshi Yamada Tue, 06/29/2021 – 00:10 Biodiversity provides humanity and our economies with the resources needed to thrive. However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

The program collects information about soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is related to water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). Sponsored Article. Supply Chain. Regenerative Agriculture.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. These same principles of human healthcare, and these same scientific and technological advances, are starting to be applied to soil — our most important asset for securing our food supply. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change Alex Thornton Fri, 08/07/2020 – 00:30 How much space do you think you need to grow a forest? They act as oases for biodiversity, supporting up to 20 times as many species as non-native, managed forests. Photo by Rap Dela Rea on Unsplash. Close Authorship.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Vertical farming is increasingly being regarded as one of the solutions to the problems faced by global food production systems, and in the following article Antti Viitanen explains why measurement and control technology will be key to the success of this rapidly growing sector. Antti Viitanen of gas instrumentation firm Vaisala.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Soils lack nutrition from years of tough farming practices making crops harder to grow each year. Organisations are working on creating metrics for biodiversity and nature that retroactively correctly value those ecosystems and thus encourage greater uptake and attention from businesses. This article originally appeared at GreenBiz.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Climate and greenhouse gas emissions have been at the forefront of risk and investor conversations around the environment but recently biodiversity and nature have been working their way into corporate commitments. Nature and biodiversity do not. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. Deforestation, or building carbon in the soil, or even social things like human rights and forced labor is not a product attribute," Rabinovitch said. This article first appeared at GreenBiz.com.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Use native plants as a vegetative buffer – Incorporating native plants into your yard is a great defense against runoff that requires minimal care and simultaneously supports biodiversity. Improve soil texture – Fine textured soils like clay have a lower infiltration rate, thus higher risk of runoff.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Such initiatives, which include a new pilot growing program from General Mills in Kansas and two financing programs from Danone, will be necessary to help farmers weather the lengthy, three-year time period it takes to transition their operations to new cover crops and tilling practices that promote healthier soil. What's the right recipe?

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services states that approximately one million plant and animal species are under threat of extinction worldwide due to human-induced climate change. Modeling post-glacial ecosystems In a recent article published in Nature , J.B.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil. Nature-based Solutions Often associated with: trees, offsets, soil sequestration, conservation, nature-positive.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These new tools — under development or in the early phases of testing — are helping put numbers to the abstract concept of regenerative agriculture and helping measure metrics such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration and other soil health considerations. The resistance sensors on the probe calculated the density of the soil.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. The New York Times put it another way in the headline to its article on the report: “Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace ‘Unprecedented in Human History.’”. Understand your biodiversity footprint.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This was a frankly scary report from the UN about how humanity is destroying biodiversity. The New York Times put it another way in the headline to its article on the report: “Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace ‘Unprecedented in Human History.’”. Understand your biodiversity footprint.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

A Proven Method: Trees, Plants, and Soil. Science, politics, religion or just plain interesting articles: Check out The Conversation’s weekly newsletters.]. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Thinking about this, this Green Business Bureau article details how you should go about purchasing carbon offsets while listing 6 certified and vetted carbon offset options for you to choose from. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

This article includes several eco-friendly office products and supplies that will lower your carbon footprint. The eco-friendly office products mentioned in this article are divided into five common areas of a workplace: Office, Breakroom, Bathroom, Lobby and Outdoors. Here are some eco-friendly landscaping products for your business.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

The initiatives given in this article will give you the foundation to then build a comprehensive green strategy. Effects include erosion, sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, plus contamination of soil, groundwater, and service water. Within this program, you need green initiatives to prioritize.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. You can’t stick an instrument in a bucket of palm oil and measure whether there was deforestation or forced labor in its supply chain. Courtesy of Unsplash.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

“Burning biomass is just another path to environmental destruction,” claims a recent article in The Ecologist. In May 2020 The Land received an unsolicited article entitled The Dangerous Bioenergy Delusion. Undeterred, De Decker responded by publishing an article on the sustainable benefits of harvesting coppice wood.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Carbon markets are set to be one of the key issues at the upcoming COP climate talks, with negotiators tasked with finalising the rules for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which aims to create a framework for countries and companies to meet their climate goals by trading carbon credits.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Industry Voice: A recent study by Boston Consulting Group underscores the huge economic value created through biodiversity — and how pressures on natural ecosystems poses risks to business growth. The value of biodiversity to business. Biodiversity is at the heart of all human life and activity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 28, 2022

According to English and Kunen, just having more biodiversity on farms brings great ecological benefits. That often results in better soil health, meaning farmers can use less fertilizer. Beyond those general benefits, oats are a particularly good crop for soil health and water quality, according to Larson.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets out how countries can "pursue voluntary cooperation" to reach their climate targets. Biodiversity. These include CO2 sequestration or removal, protection from soil erosion and flood risk, habitats for wildlife, pollination and spaces for recreation and wellbeing. Black carbon. Zero emission.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In this article, the LWA’s Horticulture Campaigns Coordinator Rebecca Laughton explains why we have to produce and trade a greater percentage of food locally. While this contributes to soil fertility, it represents a waste of water, agrochemicals and energy used in production.

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