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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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Mathur, a plant geneticist, leads the Plant Breeding & Genetics Laboratory for the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, a collaboration between two United Nations agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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Agriculture Climate change Resilience Organic 58

Low Impact

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Let me just read something that’s on your website, which blew me away: “The UK fleet is made up of 5,911 boats, 21% of which are more than 10 metres in length, while 79% are 10 metre or smaller – the official ‘small-scale, inshore fishing’ definition, and the boats that Sole of Discretion work exclusively with.

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Soil Government Agriculture Seafood 99

Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

In addition, there is the need to continue working with Planet images in other future projects led by PRIAS such as evaluating the feasibility of the soil in planting crops, monitoring of crop yield, health analysis of crops, and disease monitoring,” said Vargas. . To learn more about our products, visit our site.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

And nothing is healthier for human bodies or for nature than local, organic food. Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. We’d be eating in-season, local, organic food virtually all the time, apart from some preserves.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. Even the definition of “microplastics” is slippery. It allocates actions to stakeholders including the EA, local authorities and organic processors.

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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.

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 28, 2021

In addition to improving profitability and productivity, the technology enables better grazing techniques that can improve soil health, stimulate grass productivity and root growth, and turn our vast grasslands into more efficient carbon sinks. It’s a labor and capital resource constraint thing.

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Soil Carbon-negative Carbon Technology 59

Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? Community gardens ensure access to good-quality, local, and organic food. Community farms.

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Global warming Ethics Biodiversity Agriculture 95

AGreenLiving

JUNE 19, 2020

The program collects information about soil health, biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is related to water cycle, mineral cycle, energy flow and community dynamics. This fall, Timberland plans to introduce a collection of boots using regenerative leather sourced from Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed ranches.

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Investment Agriculture Fashion Soil 36

Front And Centered

JUNE 20, 2020

Advocacy by Front and Centered, our members, and allies helped create this Task Force during the 2019 Legislative Session in order to develop strategies that address environmental health disparities with guidance from the communities most impacted by pollution. The proposed definition is a modified version of the EPA’s EJ definition.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. In Mexico, Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association, is courting investors for funds to support a new agave agroforestry project.

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Agriculture Investment Soil Carbon 545

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. While these distinctions are helpful, they’re definitely not exhaustive or absolute. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 59

Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. She wants to take her kids out hunting and foraging with her, but she doesn’t want to expose them to the environmental health hazards she suspects are lurking in the soil. Grist / Zoya Teirstein.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Other organizations, by contrast, promote the same practices as necessary for natural climate solutions. Debate is critical for addressing uncertainties related to building soil carbon.

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Soil Carbon Agriculture Organic 52

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog. “If In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode.

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Government Fossil fuels Energy Energy 97

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. This revised edition is filled with proven strategies and tools for organizations to integrate sustainability into their business models. Forward thinking organizations are seeking to include sustainability into a comprehensive strategy that makes sense for the business.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. Soil degradation. This book is all about how we can increase our food production for all mankind in a tasty, sustainable manner.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

That is, more and more studies indicate business sustainability delivers greater prosperity, and designs organizations to last. If we apply this definition in a business context, we define a sustainable business as an endlessly operational organization. 2100 : Global food production enters crisis mode as soils become exhausted.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Carbon-negative Climate change 158

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Tyson told the Progressive Grocer it is “trying to be upbeat and different”, with something that speaks definitively to younger Millennial and Gen Z consumers. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. The company is frank about the product’s marketing strategy.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. In Mexico, Ronnie Cummins, co-founder and international director of the Organic Consumers Association, is courting investors for funds to support a new agave agroforestry project.

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Agriculture Climate change Investment Soil 28

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. Wilson saw WOCOL as a definitive study that would buoy support for coal among policymakers around the world.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

What it also left, in Tsai’s words, was an opportunity for a sort of “geological sample” — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the creeks six months after a catastrophic derailment. He sent it to a Eurofins lab in Cleveland to test for the presence of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.

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Health Soil Pollution Organic 139

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. By bringing the two events together, we will better serve both the REBA and VERGE Energy communities by offering both cross-sectoral content and deep conversations about how to uplevel organizations’ clean energy strategies.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . But in a way, it doesn’t matter. Photo courtesy of C.J.

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Grist

JANUARY 10, 2024

Predator and prey dynamics are complex: The calves may have died anyway from injury or disease, and their removal may reduce competition for food and resources, improving the herd’s overall health. The lichen the caribou feed on is a symbiotic partnership between two organisms. The tundra is quite literally made from relationships.

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