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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Farmland water “battery” storage and leak-detecting broadband cables among winners in Ofwat innovation competition

Envirotec Magazine

The initiative will work with farmers to create stores of water – both in soil “sponges” as well as lakes and ponds – that can be “re-charged” through wet weather, then drawn on through ever-more common dry seasons, to the benefit of either the farmers themselves, or local communities.

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The Nature Conservancy and Planet Collaborate to Map Blue Carbon

Planet Pulse

The world’s mangroves alone sequester more than 31 million tons of carbon in their soils and biomass each year. These ecosystems really are a great ocean-climate link, and part of our strategy is to unlock this blue carbon potential for climate mitigation,” said Lindsey Smart, Climate and Ocean Scientist at TNC.

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Inflation Reduction Act Activation Guide: Climate-Smart Agriculture

EDF + Business

Key Takeaways IRA adds $2 billion of funding to REAP in the next decade and increases grant share to 40% for all projects starting in 2023 Covers a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as wind, solar, biomass (incl. biomass, anaerobic digester, wind, solar) Energy Efficiency Investments (e.g.,

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

If you’re in the US, your 2020 likely included living through record-breaking temperatures , hurricanes , and/or wildfires , as the academic warnings of climate change quickly became a reality (my personal experience was Blade Runner in SF ). believing the government was doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.

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Isle de Jean Charles Community Members Moved into the First Federally Funded Resettlement Project in Louisiana Despite Visible Engineering Issues

DeSmogBlog

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) National Disaster Resilience Competition. As previously reported by DeSmog, shortly after securing the federal funds in 2016, OCD radically transformed the Tribe’s proposal , revising its focus from relocating a tribal community impacted by climate change to relocating the island community.

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Meet the Innovators in Elemental Excelerator’s 9th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

We’re grateful to partner with this latest group of innovators and, with a portfolio that’s now 117 companies strong, work together to commercialize an abundance of solutions to reverse climate change — starting today. “These are technologies that are primed for deployment and growth. Evrnu | DEMONSTRATION TRACK.