The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 17, 2023

They address rampant challenges such as deforestation, energy overuse, and excess waste. Precision agriculture, employing cutting-edge sensors and digital tools to real-time monitor crop vitality, soil moisture, etc., Such insights guide decisions on irrigation, fertilization, or harvesting, ensuring yield spikes and waste reduction.

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Energy Monitor Soil Agriculture Carbon 195

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This means the company would remove water from the pond, pack soil around it, then seal the ash with a combination of crushed rock, artificial turf and plastic. No (new) waste disposal facility would be permitted in this physical location,” he declared, as reported by CNN. Now Alabama Power plans to do a “cap-in-place” disposal method.

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Biodiversity Waste Waste Biodegradable 28

GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. emissions. . Atomo Coffee.

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Startups Soil Upcycling Technology 430

Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health - government leadership is needed to change course, argues Pukka Herbs' co-founder Sebastian Pole. It's no secret that our current food system is driving climate change, biodiversity loss and poor health. Reward sustainable farming.

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Soil Health Agriculture Biodiversity 90

The Environmental Blog

JULY 14, 2020

The health of human beings depends on the state of the environment as well. 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. Minimizes Waste Deposits.

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Global warming Waste Waste Ozone 195

Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The potatoes are grown with farming methods that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, help improve soil health, and increase local biodiversity, according to Puffin Produce, which is investing in carbon offset projects to neutralise any remaining emissions from the potatoes' production.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Soil Biodiversity 89

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Leaky ducts can dump conditioned air into attics and crawl spaces, wasting energy and lowering HVAC performance. HVAC refrigerant, often freon, leaks as a gas, making it difficult to detect and imposing a serious health hazard to humans and the environment the longer the leak persists. Check for HVAC Leaks. Repair Plumbing Leaks.

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Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability HVAC Soil 148

Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. Frozen chips giant McCain has pledged to use potatoes grown using regenerative agricultural practices across its portfolio of products worldwide by the end of the decade, it announced today.

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Agriculture Soil Biodiversity Climate change 98

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This exploration into the realm of biomass energy untangles the complexities and delves into its multifaceted nature, uncovering the potential of plant-based and waste-derived materials as alternative sources of power. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 92

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

In recent decades, growth in agricultural production has come with a heavy price; causing unsustainable harm to the environment and biodiversity. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology Solar Energy Monitor 147

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

But all of this stuff is made from resources of some kind, uses up energy and eventually winds up as waste. Improving data center energy efficiency helps cut down on energy waste, supports cyber security and avoids technical failures, thus creating financial savings and aiding the planet.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Biodegradable Energy Monitor 148

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. cropland and help the U.S.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 94

Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

The UK must rally the international community behind the to drive to protect nature at the upcoming UN Biodiversity Summit, argues Henry Smith MP. It could also worsen the impacts of flooding and undermine public health and wellbeing. Our once green and pleasant land is increasingly devoid of biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Health Climate change Soil 36

Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

We should claim back our food heritage and fight climate change with nutritious foods that benefit the soils we're rapidly depleting, argues Bold Beans founder Amelia Christie-Miller. If the government acts decisively, we can tackle the three pronged challenges of climate change mitigation, biodiversity net gain and the obesity crisis.

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Meat alternatives Soil Climate change Biodiversity 38

Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

It's illustrated again the importance of our relationship with nature and the importance of treating nature with respect, and that the loss of biodiversity and climate change are two sides of the same coin. It is climate change that is sadly driving the loss of much of our nature and much of our biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Health 73

Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Achieve zero waste with our waste management checklist. The ultimate goal of this waste management checklist is to achieve zero waste. By zero waste, we mean the conservation of all resources utilizing responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials.

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Recycling 148

Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. Whales feed in deep waters and release nutrients in their waste at shallower depths, stimulating the production of phytoplankton, which are essential to fixing carbon in the ocean. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said.

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Carbon Global warming Biodiversity North America 127

The Environmental Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations.

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Energy Monitor Health Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 195

Grist

MAY 25, 2021

Degraded peatlands will be re-wetted and replanted in the Pennines and west Wales, while rock chips that absorb CO2 as they break down in soil will be tested on farms in Devon, Hertfordshire and mid-Wales. In degraded soils, the rock chips can also help reverse acidification and replenish essential plant nutrients.

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Carbon Soil Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 121

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil. Nature-based Solutions Often associated with: trees, offsets, soil sequestration, conservation, nature-positive.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 145

Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Biodiversity 72

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Innovation Can Save Nature’.

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 97

Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Other key areas of focus in the ESG strategy include sustainable farming, driving down packaging waste, and further slashing its water use, the latter of which is backed by a goal to replenish 100 per cent of the water used at Carlsberg breweries in high water risk areas by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Much of the cost would be borne by governments because there is no “customer” for burying waste underground. The issues with burying highly pressurized CO2 underground will be analogous to the problems that have faced nuclear waste siting, but at enormously larger quantities. A Proven Method: Trees, Plants, and Soil.

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Climate change Carbon Fossil fuels Soil 94

Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Small-scale growers, selling via farmer-focussed supply chains, are better able to deliver public goods due better calibrated supply and demand and to customer understanding of issues such as seasonality, waste and packaging avoidance and trade-offs between crop damage and agrochemical use.

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Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil 74

Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The strategy foregrounds the importance of "regenerative agriculture" practices, which prioritise improving soil health and maintaining and restoring diverse ecosystems, aiming to counter the habitat destruction caused by deforestation and other damaging practices frequently linked to global agricultural supply chains.

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Agriculture Carbon-neutral Climate change Soil 96

Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

While promising "the same distinctive Carlsberg taste", the methods used to farm the barley will improve farmland biodiversity, enhance soil health, and increase natural carbon sequestration from the soil in comparison with conventional farming methods, the firm said.

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Packaging Sustainability Plastics Soil 36

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

Added to that, without us honouring our contracts with growers and finding alternative outlets, they would have been left with a huge surplus of wasted potatoes due to COVID-19 shutting down the hospitality industry.".

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

It is more urgent than ever to shift from linear, use-it-up-and-throw-it-away models to a circular economy: where waste and pollution are designed out, products and materials are kept in use for longer, and natural systems can regenerate. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. Take the textiles industry.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

Climate strategies to date have targeted production efficiency, minimising waste, substituting decarbonised energy and transport, and offsetting. Shifts that account for growers' livelihoods, the environment, biodiversity, animal welfare and more. Minimising food waste and shifting to renewable energy will be just the start.

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Agriculture Resilience Biodiversity Carbon 77

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every effort must be expended on reducing risks and unknowns, whether from changes in weather, crop disease, and livestock health, or fluctuating commodity and market prices, not to mention consumer tastes and regulatory requirements. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year.

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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Projects are certified by Gold Standard , Verified Carbon Standard , Climate Action Reserve , American Carbon Registry , Plan Vivo , and The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance. Energy-efficiency buildings : The amount of energy wasted from buildings is reduced by using efficient heating, insulating, cooling, or lighting systems.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. Whales feed in deep waters and release nutrients in their waste at shallower depths, stimulating the production of phytoplankton, which are essential to fixing carbon in the ocean. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said.

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Carbon Global warming Biodiversity North America 52

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tony Juniper reflects on the outcome of the COP15 Biodiversity Summit and what is now needed to deliver on the agreement signed by governments in Montreal. nJanuary is a time for new beginnings and new resolutions to drive self-improvement, and that applies to nations just as much as individuals.

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Biodiversity COP Carbon-neutral Government 38

Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. But if Ministers want to stand any chance of delivering on their promise to restore the UK's hugely damaged environment they need to act fast.

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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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Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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