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Soil goods

Business Green

The buzz around negative emissions is getting louder all the time. But equally it is wrong to dismiss the nascent negative emissions sector out of hand. As such, the innovation currently underway in both the technology-based negative emissions sector and the nature-based solutions market is worth keeping a close eye on.

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Blenheim Estate project aims to boost reforestation effectiveness

Envirotec Magazine

Factors including a European shortage of available seeds and tree-stock, changing climate, changing soil conditions and low seedling survival rates are negatively impacting reforestation efforts at historical estates like Blenheim.

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3 big trends headlining a tumultuous year in food

GreenBiz

dairy brand that committed to going carbon-negative by 2025 ? The twist: No one disputes that these efforts will be good for soil health. But do regenerative methods sequester as much carbon as advocates claim? If so, should we be building an offsets market around soil credits? Far less, in many cases.

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Continuum Ag: Helping Farmers Sequester Carbon in Soil

Clean Energy Trust

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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Dealing sensibly with knotweed (with a nod to emissions)

Envirotec Magazine

We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a UK specialist in the topic. As far back as 2008 we thought it eco-crazy to dig up knotweed infested soils from one site only to dump it in a landfill site, many miles away.

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E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays

E8 Cleantech Angels

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.

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E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays

E8 Cleantech Angels

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.