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How Riverford is balancing, risk, resilience, and regenerative farming in drought-hit Devon

Business Green

George Monbiot's latest book, Regenesis , is the latest in a string of studies to warn how essentially extractive agricultural practices are damaging soils and biodiversity to such an extent that food security is being threatened. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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The road to a sustainable economy

The Environmental Blog

As Oxford professor Dieter Helm points out in his latest book – Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy – we need to mend our ways in order to meet the needs of future generations. Techniques, such as organic farming and biodiversity can make all the difference. It’s then up to the consumer to make their own choice.

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Rewriting the green growth rule book: How environmental regulation could help fast track the UK's economic recovery

Business Green

Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support. A fair COP?

COP 130
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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

A new book deals with the psychological, cultural and practical changes many believe will be necessary to avoid climate catastrophe – or, if it’s too late to avoid it, to advance strategies of adaptation. Since then, the term has gained currency in the climate community, and financial support. A fair COP?

COP 130
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What policies are needed to put the whole financial sector on track to deliver net zero?

Business Green

Ahead of COP26 in November, where mobilising green finance will rightly be one of the four key themes, the UK government has announced a number of exciting initiatives to mobilise capital towards tackling climate change and biodiversity loss whilst delivering a green economic recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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A wave of climate-conscious startups are brewing ‘beanless coffee’

Grist

And as coffee growers venture into new regions, they’ll tear down more trees, threatening biodiversity and transforming even more forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. Some Grist-y swag, and a book of your choice lovingly packaged and mailed to you by Claire. per pound in 2022. Make us feel something!