Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

As part of the plan, farmers are provided with training and support as they adopt regenerative farming methods that reduce pesticide use, carbon emissions, and soil erosion, while simultaneously improving organic soil matter and biodiversity.

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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. The need for organic agriculture.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Over the years, anything “organic” is associated with something healthy. This explains why organic labeled food sells at a higher price compared to others. As more people learn about the benefits of organic herbal farming, it is becoming popular. Not only is organic herbal farming beneficial to humans alone but.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

DeSmog recently reported how HealthforAnimals, a Belgium-based organization representing some of the world’s biggest animal pharmaceutical companies, presented “misleading” information to back their current business models. Agriculture’s role in fuelling the climate and biodiversity crisis has become increasingly apparent in recent years.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. The world’s soils are the second largest carbon sink, second only to oceans.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. These same principles of human healthcare, and these same scientific and technological advances, are starting to be applied to soil — our most important asset for securing our food supply. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 10, 2022

Food & Agriculture: I’m excited to fund solutions that build a more climate-resilient food system and help farmers transition to regenerative practices that restore land, promote biodiversity, sequester carbon, and improve economic livelihoods. Biodiverse crops: Just four crops provide 60% of the world’s calories.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Through the plan, Nescafé said it would work with its coffee farmers to improve soil health and fertility, protect water resources, and support biodiversity in order to increase yields and help improve farmers' livelihoods, while also helping to sequester carbon through healthier soils.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The are beneficial in so many ways, including biodiversity, community cohesion, local food, carbon storage and human well-being. It is important that they provide benefits to both biodiversity and human wellbeing. NbS must support or enhance biodiversity. We are also protecting our orchards against climate change.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energy, venturing beyond the surface to examine the environmental, economic, and social narratives that intertwine with the fabric of this energy form.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Corporate Lobbying and Lawsuits.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 This “rewilded” land fosters biodiversity while improving crop yields. The farmers also use local organic fertilizers from biogas slurry. 71% of food system emissions come from the use of land for agriculture. ?

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

In some cases an irrigation system (temporary or permanent) or enhanced drainage system should be considered to reduce stress conditions on the plants and to improve soil biology. Soil/Media extension layer (often described as drainage layer) to mimic natural soil profiles and avoid anaerobe conditions in rooting zone.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

This trial is very much about ensuring we create a sustainable long term supply chain that benefits farmers, the planet and biodiversity. They help farmers to integrate a range of innovative ideas into their processes to reduce carbon emissions and improve soil health; exactly the things we need to make our barley more sustainable.".

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2021

Unlike the CAP, which has long been criticised by environmental groups, England's new subsidy system aims to incentivise farmers to undertake measures to enhance so-called 'public goods' such as through efforts to benefit biodiversity, improve soil, air, and water quality, enhance flood resilience, and store carbon through nature-based solutions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Bayer’s commitment to inclusive growth means it is providing more people in all regions of the world with access to health care and food security, and developing solutions to environmental protection with a focus on decarbonization, climate adaptation, and biodiversity preservation. Learn more about them here. ###.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But regenerative has an older, more established, type-A sister that could be a path to legitimacy: organic. In the 1980s, organic was the new buzzword for farmers, grocers and consumers.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

And nothing is healthier for human bodies or for nature than local, organic food. Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. We’d be eating in-season, local, organic food virtually all the time, apart from some preserves.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 29, 2023

How much does healthy soil impact our climate resiliency? Optimizing best practices in land management can increase biodiversity, enrich soil, and protect water quality, ultimately making our soil more resilient to climate instability. It turns out quite a lot. The problem?

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more. Eosta now has new plans for living wage pineapples.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It owns and operates its own fleet — its corporate customers hire its services for analysis or seeding applications — and uses artificial intelligence and high-resolution data capture to map land and come up with a restoration plan that takes into account a region’s unique biodiversity needs.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

He added: “Reducing emissions from livestock requires involving farmers, ranchers, and companies and organizations across animal agriculture. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon.

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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 gardens ensure access to good-quality, local, and organic food. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

These five areas include (1) adaptation, planning and resilience for health, 2) climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerabilities, 3) finance and economics, 4) mitigation actions and 5) public and political engagement.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. Read Next The cost of wildfires is rising.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

As we begin the recovery from Covid-19, we should evaluate the potential of emerging technologies to give us a smarter, more interconnected and resilient food system that works with nature, rather than against it. It has also led to significant declines in biodiversity and soil health.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet Poornima Param… Thu, 08/27/2020 – 01:00 Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. Undoubtedly, soil is foundational to human life, yet we know very little about the soil itself.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Backers say the coalition aims to unlock new technologies that can help reduce the sector’s major contribution to climate change and make harvests more resilient. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Aim4C’s participants skew heavily towards the Global North.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Our food supply chain uses an excessive amount of land leading to biodiversity loss. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Other organizations, by contrast, promote the same practices as necessary for natural climate solutions. Debate is critical for addressing uncertainties related to building soil carbon.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. Climate impacts 2.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2021

Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more. Eosta now has new plans for living wage pineapples.

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