The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

High-tech, energy-efficient equipment such as LED lights and automated heating and cooling systems have been integrated into poultry houses. Water Usage Water is a critical resource in poultry farming, used in cooling systems, cleaning processes, and for the birds directly. Mitigation of soil degradation.

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Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 195

Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

We are altering the chemistry of our atmosphere and oceans in ways that will negatively impact future generations, and on land, we deplete our soil more rapidly than it can possibly replenish. And yet despite all this, I believe our system of capital markets and competition between companies has to be a major part of the solution.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 84

Grist

AUGUST 23, 2023

It was June 21, 2023 — the edge of summertime in Acadia National Park, and I was schlepping soil to help restore biodiversity to the park’s summits. “One reason for that is that there probably isn’t any soil left in these degraded areas,” Nadeau said.

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Soil Organic Climate change Health 52

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

It’s quiet, dark, and cool, even on a summer day. In the spring, as the sun beams down and melts snow and ice elsewhere, hemlock preserve circles of snow at their trunks, which leech slowly into nearby streams and creeks and keeps them cool. times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

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Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 144

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Gen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating burnout while advocating for climate justice Bathroom Battlegrounds A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray (April 2020). Heat Pumps for Sustainable Heating and Cooling (Green Energy and Technology) by Y. Venus Lun, S.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

A report out last Thursday found that the understudied cooling effects of trees — like their role in the water cycle and the compounds they emit — have kept the planet half a degree Celsius cooler, not even accounting for the carbon dioxide they capture. When tree planting goes wrong. So is it time to stop focusing on ‘planting’ trees?

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Climate change Carbon Africa Fossil fuels 109