Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 8, 2020

However, other NETs are ready to be deployed at scale, this includes land management practices that store more carbon in agricultural soils and forests. According to the IPCC and almost all climate models, cutting CO2 emissions over the next few decades won't be enough to stop climate change.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Also, the loss of trees and other vegetation causes soil erosion, which increases the risks for flooding and a host of other problems such as land loss for indigenous people and habitat loss for endemic flora and fauna species. Hence, when ecosystems weaken, all species, even humans, are placed at risk.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

Together, these fungi species are unlocking solutions for cleaning up the environment, developing greener construction and product materials and contributing significant medicinal benefits. Mycelium is a massive filter that removes toxins from the soil , improving water quality as a result. What are fungi?

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Lycorma delicatula , named for the lantern-shaped body of the adult that appears to glow under its dull wings, is used in traditional medicine in China, its native land. In America, the bug is still too new to say for sure that it’s able to thrive because of climate change. In the U.S.,

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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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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

Land is under growing pressure from human activity and climate change is adding to these pressures, according to a report released by the IPCC on 8 August. And the report also shows that better land management can contribute to tackling climate change, but should not be the only solution. Working the land.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Natural fertilizers or " biostimulants " are part of a burgeoning seaweed industry in the West, driven more by the slippery superfood's potential as a climate solution than by kids clamoring for seaweed snacks in their lunchboxes. You hear a lot about climate change and CO2, but not about nitrogen.".

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Several years of sustained funding increases are necessary to build the appropriate federal, state and local capabilities to maintain environmental justice effectiveness.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Philip Landrigan, a public health physician and professor of epidemiology at Boston College, told Grist that the crisis has “quietly and insidiously gotten worse while all attention has been focused on the climate.” Volunteers pick up plastic nurdles at a beach in Tarragona, Spain.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

And it provides vital services to society and the economy including: Regulating environmental stability, e.g. climate, water, air, disease. Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. The business risks of biodiversity.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Living in rural areas during this period of catastrophic fires driven in no small part by climate change has forced many people — myself included — to look at tree cutting, and forests, differently. Stephens told me that fire, wildlife, and soil ecologists at Blodgett sometimes recommended removing large white fir trees.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.

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Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 81

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If we lose that battle, the world will give up a lot of the gains that we’ve had and perhaps many we could have in areas like environment and climate change.".

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AGreenLiving

MAY 26, 2021

Their goal is to create a 100% regenerative food forest and show other neighborhoods what’s possible when it comes to taking action against climate change. Realizing the benefits of carbon sequestration through soil regeneration, we started ‘ Bee The Garden ’ to formalize the movement.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Several years of sustained funding increases are necessary to build the appropriate federal, state and local capabilities to maintain environmental justice effectiveness.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies. A prominent example of these characteristics is the Formosa Plastics Group proposal to build a $9.4 Several years of sustained funding increases are necessary to build the appropriate federal, state and local capabilities to maintain environmental justice effectiveness.

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Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production.

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Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. One thing is nearly certain, though: Climate change plays a role. She decided to look at what would happen to Valley fever under a high-emissions climate change scenario.

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Health Soil Climate change Medicine 145

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. It also extends to climate justice.". Climate Change. Contributors. Judy Fahys.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. He serves on the National Academy of Medicine and on boards including African Parks.

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Climate change activists could learn from and utilise the current covid-19 crisis, to make this short-term environmental windfall become a lasting victory. By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS Unfortunately, there is no “easy” climate change solution equivalent to coughing into your elbow or washing your hands for 20 seconds.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. “If you don’t own anything, you’re not changing nothing.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The oil and gas industry has long faced criticism for the role the carbon emissions from burning its products play in causing climate change. They grow or forage some of their own food and medicine, including ginseng and morel mushrooms, and fish and hunt for trout and deer. While former U.S.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Every four years, the federal government is required to gather up the leading research on how climate change is affecting Americans, boil it all down, and then publish a National Climate Assessment. We need more transformative adaptation actions to keep pace with climate change.” Here they are.

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