Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. For decades, governments of Southeast Asia gave agricultural companies the rights to develop vast swathes of forest, and those companies turned wilderness into plantations as fast as they could.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

That explains why a once indigenous plant to South Asia can now thrive in virtually any region around the world. Cannabis is unquestionably one of the world’s most resilient plants. Cannabis is informally known as weed, a name that resonates with the fact that the plant can flourish on its.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Having recognised the pitfalls of intensive farming, Yunnan is encouraging organic cultivation as its coffee industry booms This is the second of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. Recognising this, Yunnan is taking measures to promote organic coffee farming. Part one is available here.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition. Usually, they're more excited about this because we replace the limestone they're using to de-acidify their soil and restore nutrients with something that can do a better job.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

He added: “Reducing emissions from livestock requires involving farmers, ranchers, and companies and organizations across animal agriculture. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Scoones explains that this can lead to unhelpful discussions.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. If the U.S. Then if you think, wait, what if we lost all hemlocks?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

By planting three billion trees over the next decade, increasing organic farming to a quarter of agricultural land, reversing the decline of bee populations, cutting pesticide use in half, and restoring at least 25,000km of EU rivers to a free-flowing state, the strategy promises to "fix our broken relationship with nature".

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. The plant has evolved to grow underneath forest canopy, where the quality of the soil provides it with good nourishment. As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Banana leaves as packaging If you’ve ever had the good fortune to visit a southern Indian restaurant in Asia, you may have been served dinner on a banana leaf instead of a plate. This cactus plastic begins breaking down in a month when placed in soil and only a few days in water. Here are a few high points from 2019.

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Planting garlic ( Allium sativum ), a crop native to Central Asia and grown for more than 5,000 years, is a quintessential fall garden activity. Plant cloves two to three inches deep into loose soil with the pointed end covered but going up. When you apply the mulch, sprinkle a little loose soil over the mulch and wet it down.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Grape plants at Tablas Creek are grown organically and biodynamically on land with a natural source of water from Tablas Creek. The soil, the plants and the resulting wines are propagated with attention to culture, history and a connection to the land. It’s zero-waste, biodegradable and handcrafted.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. This revised edition is filled with proven strategies and tools for organizations to integrate sustainability into their business models. Forward thinking organizations are seeking to include sustainability into a comprehensive strategy that makes sense for the business.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

First is the emergence of social media , which led to the formation of new food tribes and trends including organic, gluten-free, vegan, keto, flexitarian and reducetarian. Plant-based products have been around for a long time, so why is this happening now? We believe it traces back to four key trends. .

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity. Business and nature have been opposing forces for far too long, but a far more intertwined future is now being mapped out.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you took a cubic-metre sample of the soil here, around 90 per cent of the content would be water, with the rest made up of partially decayed vegetation and organic matter that contain vast amounts of carbon. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. He served as corporate counsel on policy at Greenspot Smart Mobility, an EV charging startup, after clerking at various organizations, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council. Myisha Majumder.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. By bringing the two events together, we will better serve both the REBA and VERGE Energy communities by offering both cross-sectoral content and deep conversations about how to uplevel organizations’ clean energy strategies.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” In southeast Asia, Veolia has worked on water treatment solutions for the cosmetics industry, and has recently developed new desalination technology. To put it simply,” the report states. In Morocco, the company distributes drinking water and electricity. and Geneva, Switzerland. “Is

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Grist

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We need to protect and improve the carbon sequestration by agricultural soils and grazing lands. Even what we think of as mature forests are still accumulating carbon because carbon makes up about roughly half of the dry weight of wood, but it is also in the soils. Even older forests continue to accumulate carbon in the soils.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Still others are driving sustainability at nonprofit organizations and consultancies. He served as corporate counsel on policy at Greenspot Smart Mobility, an EV charging startup, after clerking at various organizations, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council.

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