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Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom

GreenBiz

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00. Here are four: 1. Global population is peaking sooner and lower.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

My perspective began to shift in August 2020 when I attended a class led by Clint McKay, the Indigenous education coordinator at Pepperwood Preserve , a research station in eastern Sonoma County on the traditional homeland of the Wappo people. This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity.

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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

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The cultivation of biomass can lead to alterations in land use, occasionally resulting in the depletion of valuable ecosystems, including forests and grasslands, which in turn jeopardizes biodiversity. For instance, ash resulting from combustion necessitates careful handling to prevent soil and water contamination.

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Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom

AGreenLiving

Yosie Mon, 07/19/2021 – 02:00 In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Here are four: 1.

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Greener buildings: How to make offices, warehouses, factories, and shops more climate resilient

Business Green

There are also a number of slower-moving threats to buildings in the UK, such as the impact drying soils have on building foundations. New types of data To understand the climate risks to their buildings, organisations need to get educated. And this means getting to grips with new data streams. "To

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LA’s Barnsdall Art Park revives historic olive grove

AGreenLiving

Related: Los Angeles is the largest US city to be certified as a biodiversity haven Inhabitat: Who first planted olives on Olive Hill in the 1890s, and why? I took tissue samples from the trees’ roots, stems and surrounding soil and had them analyzed at a laboratory to confirm that there was no disease present in the grove.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.