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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment

The Environmental Blog

Apart from industry-led changes, external factors such as consumer demand for ethically sourced products and government regulations promoting sustainable farming practices also push the sector toward being more eco-friendly. Mitigation of soil degradation. Preservation of natural resources.

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Jobs – Geothermal drilling project manager, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Directorate General for the Environment – Geology, Soil, and Waste Division (DGE-GEODE) of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland is advertising a job opening for the position of Deep Geothermal Drilling Project Manager. More details on the job opening and instructions on application are available via this link.

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Swedish EV maker declares intent to develop “a truly climate neutral car by 2030”

Envirotec Magazine

Questions around the long-term carbon-storage capacity of forests and soils remain, as a forest might be logged, devastated by fire or altered by climate change. By pushing ourselves to create a completely climate-neutral car, we are forced to reach beyond what is possible today. This makes things very clear.

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McDonald's and McCain offer climate resilience funding for potato farmers

Business Green

Fast food giant working with McCain and Prince's Countryside Trust to help farmers improve soil health and boost resilience to climate change and Brexit. The money will also fund research looking at the benefits of using cover crops to retain soil quality.

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Waitrose to ban sales of peat compost from 2022

Business Green

Marija Rompani, director of ethics and sustainability at the John Lewis Partnership, stressed that peat bogs were critical carbon stores that would help tackle the climate crisis. "If Restoring peatland is vital to tackling climate change and boosting biodiversity.

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What Jeremy Leggett did next: The British solar pioneer turning his hand to 'ethically profitable' rewilding

Business Green

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. And so, with proceeds from the sale of Solarcentury, he ploughed £3.3m

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Trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK

Grist

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. The coordination hub for the new trials will consider the social, ethical, and legal issues related to removing carbon.

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