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 Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Leaky ducts can dump conditioned air into attics and crawl spaces, wasting energy and lowering HVAC performance. According to the EPA, 10% of homes waste 90 gallons of water or more each day due to plumbing leaks. Espoma Organic Weed Preventer. Eco Garden Pro Organic Vinegar Weed Killer. Check for HVAC Leaks.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 9, 2020

Recently opened in the Brazilian city of São Paulo and designed by local architecture and design practice VAGA, the Cajuí Restaurant offers a menu of vegan , organic and natural ingredients supplied by small farmers from different regions of Brazil. The red pigment in the cement floor of the restaurant mirrors the color of the Cerrado soil.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 1, 2022

For the major tech giants Salesforce , Lenovo , and Microsoft , sustainability lies at the core of these organizations. With this in mind, it’s important tech startups globally follow suit, to establish proactive and forward-thinking organizations. Many benefits come from running a sustainable company.

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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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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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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2023

Tesco said six of the eight "promising" fertiliser alternatives being used in the trial on field veg such as carrots and potatoes would be manufactured from low carbon or waste-based materials such as food waste, chicken litter, fire extinguisher waste, and algae.

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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. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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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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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. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Supermarket claims fava beans could help promote healthy soils and cut emissions by locking in soil carbon and replacing some of the soy used in animal feed. The supermarket said its new plant-based tea bags will allow shoppers to compost their teabags through kerbside food waste collections.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

When thinking about carbon offsets, organizations must choose certified and vetted options, as certification bodies enforce the rules of carbon offsetting, to maximize the effectiveness of offset schemes. Native Energy offers a wide range of projects for organizations wanting to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

It will also address the latest advances in computational approaches in the field of soil management and research on ecosystem sustainability as well as many other topics. The meeting will be relatively small with a maximum of around 200 participants, allowing ample time for discussions, interactions and networking.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

In addition to using more sustainable packaging, the pilot will see the beer giant use barley malt cultivated using fully organic and regenerative agricultural practices in partnership with its supplier Soufflet.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

No-till and organic farming fall under the banner of regenerative agriculture, as well as the use of cover crops. 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.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

5 opportunities of a circular economy David McGinty Fri, 03/05/2021 – 00:12 More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. percent gets recycled and used again.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 11, 2019

Ecology 2019 is organized around the theme of "the future of ecology" and it will include keynote speeches, presentations, talks, and exhibitions. Vendors will introduce the latest advancements in the fields of ecology, soil microbiology, and biochemistry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. Biodiversity loss, driven in part by chemical-intensive farming, is a major threat to food production, points out Pierre-Marie Aubert, director of the agriculture and food policy programme at think tank IDDRI. Innovation Can Save Nature’.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this article, we have organized the world’s top sustainability certifications by purpose, procedure, and cost so that you know how to select a sustainability certification with confidence. Below we have organized the world’s most popular sustainability certifications into these categories: Corporate sustainability reporting certifications.

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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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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Support biodiversity within your own community by including native plants in your landscaping. World Soil Day – December 5th. Plants nurture a diversity of soil microbes that in turn give nutrients and protect plants from disease. Soil fertility vitally depends on this symbiotic relationship.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Land biomass can be divided into four distinct groups suitable for energy production: wood and processing waste, agricultural crops and waste materials, food, yard and wood waste in garbage, and finally animal manure and human sewage. Biomass is organic material that comes from plants and animals.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

From reducing carbon footprints to minimizing waste, there are numerous steps one can take to establish a more sustainable and environmentally conscious lifestyle. Waste Reduction and Recycling Canada generates a substantial amount of waste each year, and adopting a zero-waste mindset can help mitigate this environmental impact.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Industry Voice: A recent study by Boston Consulting Group underscores the huge economic value created through biodiversity — and how pressures on natural ecosystems poses risks to business growth. The value of biodiversity to business. Biodiversity is at the heart of all human life and activity.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

In the UK, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare, foodbanks have faced unprecedented demand and producers are now calling for a 'land army' to prevent fields of crops from going to waste. It has also led to significant declines in biodiversity and soil health. This can lead to huge amounts of food waste.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste. At beauty and hygiene products company Lush, for example, working to implement zero-waste when possible has led to innovation across the board. But solutions exist, and we wrote about them. Media Source. Shutterstock.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

An iridescent green beetle called the emerald ash borer has lain waste to ash trees. The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 can’t afford to lose its trees.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Those that can restore natural carbon sinks through soil sequestration, ecosystem recovery, and regenerative agriculture. The Port’s circular economy could recycle waste carbon into the biochemical feedstocks and clean products of the future. They invest in less bad instead of different and better. .

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Happening worldwide on September 17th, World Cleanup Day is one of the largest civic movements in which nations unite to reduce trash and mismanaged waste. By 2050 , global municipal solid waste is expected to rise by ~70% and reach a massive 3.4 Conduct a Waste Audit. Educate Staff on Sustainable Waste Management Practices.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

The large volume of gloves used in the industrial market means that often gloves are thrown into the garbage after they are soiled or worn out. From automotive and waste management to food handling and gardening, Watson Gloves provides sustainable hand protection for everyone at work, at home and at play. Operating in most major U.S.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

That synthesis looked impressive at first glance; it outlined how we could change global food systems, so they emit fewer greenhouse gases, occupy less land, and protect the earth’s biodiversity — all while producing ever higher volumes of food for a global population approaching ten billion by 2050. .

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 17, 2022

UCHU is a progressive leader driving a sustainable paradigm shift in the food industry, supporting smallholder farmers, local communities and biodiversity, while bringing high-quality pepper spice products to a global market. In doing so, they defend biodiversity by keeping heirloom peppers alive and preserved.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Sustainable food management is a systematic approach that concentrates on reducing wasted food, supporting local communities and employees, and mitigating the environmental impact of operations over the complete life cycle of food items. Our food supply chain uses an excessive amount of land leading to biodiversity loss. In the U.S.,

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

On the plus side, the demands upon nature can be reduced for water resources, energy, crop and meat production, forests and soils, and critical materials. Innovation marches forward. Historically, the private sector invested in research and development to produce world-changing innovations.

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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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