AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

5 cool measurement tools attempting to quantify regenerative agriculture Jesse Klein Thu, 02/11/2021 – 00:05 Many practices are associated with regenerative agriculture — anything from no-till practices to pesticide-free farming. Just by taking the snapshot, you can tell an awful lot about the health of that environment.”

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Promotion Of Good Health. This reduces the negative effects caused by cooling and heating systems. The structures also allow cool air without having to use air conditioners that require electricity. Fabric structures also protect workers from heat stress in that they provide a shade for people to cool off. Conclusion.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The buildup of dust can weaken HVAC system efficiency, causing it to work harder and use more energy to heat or cool your home. HVAC refrigerant, often freon, leaks as a gas, making it difficult to detect and imposing a serious health hazard to humans and the environment the longer the leak persists. Clean or Replace Dirty Air Filters.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 21, 2022

The main challenges with building sustainability involve reducing overall impact to human health the and the environment. Follow this checklist to help your building become more sustainable in the following areas: lighting, construction, heating and cooling, water, energy, waste, indoor environment, landscaping, and maintenance.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Improve physical and mental health of residence. Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads. Soil-Based Green Wall Systems. Lower energy costs of the building. Increase connectivity to natural environment. Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Benefits of Living Roofs. Increase lifespan of roof membrane.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

into climate solutions and will spearhead the development of 15 transformative technologies crucial for heating and cooling our homes, reimagining critical resource extraction, advancing carbon removal and transforming our food system. The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Improve physical and mental health of residence. Provide insulation and reduce cooling loads. Soil-Based Green Wall Systems. Lower energy costs of the building. Increase connectivity to natural environment. Reduce urban heat island and noise pollution. Benefits of Living Roofs. Increase lifespan of roof membrane.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

For the year following COP26 this calendar showcases twelve practices and activities that are part of the solution for cooling the planet and building the world we know is possible. From Agroforestry to Seed Saving, Soil Health to Coppicing, there’s a range of stories, all beautifully told by on the ground practitioners.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2022

To assist, Planet is delivering analysis-ready Basemaps with Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series data to help ZEP-RE measure vegetation health for an area of more than 600,000 km2 of Eastern Africa. How does that work? Climate mitigation and adaptation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth. In June 2021, Dryad was named as a cool vendor in Gartner’s Cool Vendors in IoT Thingification report.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The vision “We know that there are actual real-life impacts between communities that don’t have access to the health benefits of trees and those that do.” “In addition to what they do for the air, they benefit the soil and the water and in my opinion, every living thing in between.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

The effluent is actually perfect organic fertilizer, and we take it back to the farms to build soil fertility and further sequester carbon — just like the sheep does. Their moisture management will meet or exceed the performance of the Adidas Climate Cool or Nike Dri Fit with no chemical finishing and all recycled and organic inputs.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Yafali and his family found respite in their AC, but they were fortunate outliers; Seattle, known for its cool, wet winters and mild summers, is one of the least air conditioned big cities in the country. They took refuge in shady parks or in community cooling centers. Kathryn Elsesser / AFP via Getty Images The short answer is yes.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

What a cool way to show off your company name and commitment to sustainability! Indoor air quality is critical to the health and wellbeing of your staff and visitors, in and beyond the lobby. Plants are also a great addition to a space, both aesthetically pleasing and good for the environment and public health.

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Grist

AUGUST 23, 2023

It was June 21, 2023 — the edge of summertime in Acadia National Park, and I was schlepping soil to help restore biodiversity to the park’s summits. This loss of flora has already had far-reaching consequences for the health of Acadia’s ecosystems. Their research found that bringing the soil back was the key.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Last year's floods, droughts, and storms hurt transport and building infrastructure up and down the country, taking a toll on public health, worker productivity, and the wider economy. There are also a number of slower-moving threats to buildings in the UK, such as the impact drying soils have on building foundations.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 11, 2021

It also means improving the health and overall yield of individual plants. Other benefits of one plant to another include natural shade protection, weed suppression and healthier soil. The beans, like all legumes, balance nitrogen in the soil, which feeds the corn. Intermingle sage to deter cabbage moths.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The new app assesses the impact along the lines of five metrics: savings in carbon emissions , measured in grams; water saved in gallons; soil health improvement in square feet; organic land supported in square feet; and milligrams of antibiotics avoided. Some parts of the app can be a little misleading.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Vertical walls of plants envelop visitors in an inviting three-dimensional green space that provides a cool respite from the buzz and excitement of the Expo grounds. Leaf litter is also used to replace water-consuming ground cover and retain water in the soil. These prototypes from Oceania Robotics work in service of plant health.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Energy-efficiency buildings : The amount of energy wasted from buildings is reduced by using efficient heating, insulating, cooling, or lighting systems. The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The staircase-shaped rocks that protrude out from the Irish Sea at the Giant's Causeway are the best known example of the geological phenomenon that results from rapidly-cooling magma. Moreover, there is evidence the approach can deliver wider benefits in terms of soil and ocean health.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In response, a Seattle-based company is tackling the issue of replanting and restoring forestry health in a rather science-fiction way. The very cool technology is not only fun to watch, but it performs the crucial task of dropping tree pods in a targeted way that emphasizes the best chance of growth success.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

The new frameworks will allow us to find ways to incentivise the restoration of woodlands and old growth forests, actions to revive soil health, the regeneration of peatlands, and the protection of our coastal habitats.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The cooling effect of community orchards, as well as their potential to capture carbon and reduce air pollution, make them a great contribution to climate change solutions – particularly in urban areas! At TOP, we are well aware that urban orchards are not a replacement for rapid decarbonisation.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Give each plant a thorough soaking with cool to lukewarm water, allowing the water to both wash the leaves and provide moisture to the soil. If you do not have drain holes in your planter, strain off excess water from the soil to avoid root rot. Remove any dead leaves from the plant and the soil below it.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Unilever is already working with suppliers to try and slow the decline of soil health and biodiversity and improve water quality and efficiency while Nestle is working on regenerative farming to make crop yields more resilient. Planting native tree species can reduce flood risk and cool city streets.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

While the government has been focussing on meeting net zero, it has forgotten about the risks to soil health and subsequent disruptions to food supply. Protecting and restoring nature - including habitats, soils and trees - is crucial to limiting global warming to 1.5°C The Climate Change Committee has provided the evidence.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

🧪 Cascade Biocatalysts , a Brooklyn, NY-based sustainable chemicals platform, raised $3M in Pre-Seed funding from Ten VC, Amplify.LA, Boost VC, Cool ClimateCollective, Range Ventures, and other investors.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

It includes solar powered heating and cooling as well as equipment that uses solar energy to illuminate the inside of a structure using fiber-optic distributed sunlight or electrochromic glass Fuel Cell Solar Energy Storage Wind Biogas (e.g., Key Takeaways IRA adds $4.95 Sources: Deloitte Analysis, P.L. 117-119 , WH IRA Guidebook , IRC.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Here is a countdown of Sierra's top 20 Cool Schools as described by Katie: 20. Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Others press double-forked meters into the ground, measuring the soil moisture below the solar panels and in open ground. Nearby, beekeepers check on the health of local hives. They also help retain topsoil and improve soil health over time, even in “brownfield” areas with polluted soils.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 17, 2020

The effluent is actually perfect organic fertilizer, and we take it back to the farms to build soil fertility and further sequester carbon — just like the sheep does. Their moisture management will meet or exceed the performance of the Adidas Climate Cool or Nike Dri Fit with no chemical finishing and all recycled and organic inputs.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Meanwhile, for reducing the amount of cow burps, the report praises the Dutch company DSM for “its product called 3-NOP that reduces these methane emissions by 30% in tests, and does not appear to have health or environmental side effects.” . Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

And they’re the pollinators and soil manufacturers. Slime moulds are one example of nature being very cool. That doesn’t happen any more. People might think ‘so what – fewer creepy-crawlies is a good thing. But it’s the base of the food chain, that everything else depends on. If we can’t live with insects, we’re in serious trouble.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Pulling heat from the subsurface of the earth has been a proven method for powering the cooling and heating of buildings for ~70 years. He realized that O&G technology can be reengineered and redesigned for geothermal direct-use heating and cooling for buildings. Geothermal energy is climate tech but it isn’t new tech.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Documents also revealed that Mitloehner was the figurehead of “a massive campaign” to undermine the findings of the influential 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission into food, planet and health – which prescribed wealthy countries make deep cuts to meat and dairy consumption – before the Commission’s report was even released.

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