Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

This funding also provides financial and technical assistance to farmers who wish to voluntarily adopt new practices that improve environmental outcomes such as soil health, water quality, water quantity and biodiversity.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Soon Punjab started facing a new gamut of problems like deteriorating soil health, pest-infested crops and over exploitation of ground water resulting in disastrous consequences. 1] Vijay Jarhdhari , ”Barahnaja: Traditional Biodiverse Crop System in Uttarakhand”, Pg.114. The aftermath has revealed it fangs in ways never seen before.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

This blog covers our work with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Under a business-as-usual scenario, feeding a skyrocketing human population in the decades to come will require more land, which will put pressures on both biodiversity (by eliminating habitat) and the climate (by eliminating forests, which sequester carbon).

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The type, pH, quality, and fertility of the soil. Clovers are often considered to spoil the neat appearance of a grass lawn, but planting clover as an alternative open area could be a good move; by working with bacteria, they fix nitrogen from the air, which is excellent for the soil and surrounding plants. About the author.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The state of our environment today is due to the broadening issues arising from loss of biodiversity, inappropriate means of disposing of waste , overpopulation, the depletion of natural resources, and increased deforestation. Moreover, poor methods of managing waste lead to an increase in soil and water contamination and air pollution.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? Community growing areas can improve local biodiversity and protect local wildlife. Main image by by dylan nolte on Unsplash. About the author.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

Choose native plants, especially those that attract pollinators and support biodiversity. To support soil health and ensure only non-toxic compounds are going into the ground, opt for organic mulch and non-synthetic fertilizers. Here are some eco-friendly landscaping products for your business. First, let’s talk vegetation.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

While this contributes to soil fertility, it represents a waste of water, agrochemicals and energy used in production. This means more land and other resources must be used to ensure contract is fulfilled, resulting in in-built waste. Although the surplus might find a market, it is often ploughed back in.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

For this blog series, I will determine how much biomass exists, how much energy we use and how biomass can play a role in powering the world. And please let me know if you have more accurate numbers than I have used in this blog. It might be better to dedicate a separate blog on this topic altogether. billion tons per year.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Support biodiversity within your own community by including native plants in your landscaping. World Soil Day – December 5th. Plants nurture a diversity of soil microbes that in turn give nutrients and protect plants from disease. Soil fertility vitally depends on this symbiotic relationship.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

There are not many uncontested benefits arising from Brexit, but there is a wide consensus that leaving the EU presents a once in a generation opportunity to improve the agricultural subsidy regime, providing a massive boost to UK biodiversity and sustainable farming practices in the process.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. Industrial monocultures are destroying ecosystems, poisoning watercourses and removing soil, and don’t produce as much per hectare as small farms anyway. It’s not something that can continue if we want to survive, let alone thrive.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 31, 2021

But what we’re facing is not a normal problem – it’s not hyperbole to say that it’s the biggest and most dangerous problem that humanity has ever faced, and (when combined with biodiversity loss), the only one we’ve ever faced with the potential to make us extinct. Going for a walk? Conversation? No – it means human economic activity.

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Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

I tend to focus on biodiversity loss – but again it’s always bad news. And they’re the pollinators and soil manufacturers. You can go and find little growing areas, or parks that have been neglected, or bit of disused railway track that has a lot of biodiversity on it. That doesn’t happen any more.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Composting is another excellent way to divert organic waste from landfills and create nutrient-rich soil for your garden. Installing bird feeders and baths can invite a variety of bird species, contributing to the biodiversity of your surroundings.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

Effects include erosion, sinkholes, loss of biodiversity, plus contamination of soil, groundwater, and service water. Rare Earth minerals – such as neodymium, cerium, and europium – are in limited supply, meaning using these minerals in electronic hardware is inherently unsustainable.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Those that can restore natural carbon sinks through soil sequestration, ecosystem recovery, and regenerative agriculture. The Arctic sea ice, a driver of climate stability and biodiversity on this planet, might be preserved for future generations. They invest in less bad instead of different and better. .

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This post contains spoilers about the film Don't Look Up, although, let's be honest if you're reading this blog there's a good chance you've seen it already. "We We really did have everything, didn't we? I mean, when you think about it.". Dr Randall Mindy, Don't Look Up. It is entirely possible the worst case warming scenarios can be averted.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. . Can 10 technologies save the world?

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

National Ag Day also raises awareness on the environmental issues facing agriculture and how more sustainable, less intrusive methods of farming are critical to preserving soil health, supporting plant and pollinator biodiversity, cutting emissions and conserving water.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It enriches the soil, reduces landfill waste, and cuts down on methane, a potent greenhouse gas. It’s a full circle moment seeing food scraps turn into rich, nutritious soil. And what’s biodiversity? The post 25 Simple, Easy Ways to Go Green appeared first on The Environmental Blog.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. In May, Mark Mason flung open a door that’s rarely unlatched on Wall Street by publishing a wrenching company blog post against systemic racism. Mark Mason, CFO, Citi; New York City. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

This article is reposted from The Earthbound Report, a blog which deftly addresses equity amongst all the world’s peoples, protection of all non-human life, and ethical responses to the challenges that face our planet.) Biodiversity declines, crops fail. Tensions rise.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Loss of biodiversity. Soil degradation. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil. This belief, expressed in the Mr. Sustainability Future-Food Ratings ©, is elaborated upon below and will be the center of an upcoming blog. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Water scarcity.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Mark Mason, CFO, Citi; New York City LinkedIn | Company profile In May, Mark Mason flung open a door that’s rarely unlatched on Wall Street by publishing a wrenching company blog post against systemic racism.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

OK, so we’re talking about a definite break with the current system – and as I’ve said before many times on this blog, system change is something that we do ourselves, or nature will do it for us; and if we wait until nature does it, it won’t be pretty.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 21, 2021

As a topic for a blog, neonicotinoids just keep on giving. Then neonics started turning up in unexpected places – they weren’t just disappearing on contact with the soil but were mobile in the environment. The government must deliver its promises of action on biodiversity loss and climate change. An acceptable risk?

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Low Impact

AUGUST 30, 2020

If I look at the figures on biodiversity loss and climate change, it seems to be accelerating and unstoppable. There will be much less biodiversity, no easily-available resources, much higher temperatures, much more desert, much less soil, much lower human sperm count, much more difficult to develop from.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . But in a way, it doesn’t matter. Photo courtesy of C.J.

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