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Sustainability Guide For Commercial Landscaping And Lawncare Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable Commercial Landscaping and Lawn Care. Lawncare and landscaping businesses that are eco-friendly and practice sustainability are realizing real benefits including cost savings, new customers, and sales growth. Now more than ever consumers are using their purchasing power to push companies to be more sustainable.

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

Vertical farming is increasingly being regarded as one of the solutions to the problems faced by global food production systems, and in the following article Antti Viitanen explains why measurement and control technology will be key to the success of this rapidly growing sector. billion people by 2050.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? Rather than focusing on 25 million potential new American jobs, he provided details about the billion machines to electrify, and how that can happen with existing technologies. CO2 emissions. Next is the demand side. Sixty-nine million U.S.

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How Ocean Spray cranberries became America’s '100 percent sustainable' crop

GreenBiz

The berry grows best in boggy, water-soaked soil that can’t be used for many other crops. The water in natural land supports the cranberry bog and in return, the cranberry bog enriches the soil that supports outside land.". And every one acre of cranberry bog requires 5.5

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Do or dye: Synthetic colours in wastewater pose a threat to food chains worldwide

Envirotec Magazine

The authors say this poses a wide range of direct and indirect threats to human, animal and plant health. The research highlights that currently, up to 80% of dye-containing industrial wastewaters created in low- and middle-income countries are released untreated into waterways or used directly for irrigation.

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Finding a Sustainability Career in Business

Green Business Bureau

The field of sustainability in business offers many career paths, including roles in corporate, consulting, government and entrepreneurship. Examples include energy engineers, environmental attorneys, urban planners, water resource engineers, wildlife conservationists and environmental researchers. Energy Manager. Consulting.

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The road to sustainable health

Business Green

In order to achieve this, there are a number of pressing environmental issues that we face, with governments, business and citizens focusing their efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and become more sustainable as a nation. Organisations should also be looking for innovative and creative ways to help make their business more biodiverse.

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