GreenBiz

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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. Despite glowing media coverage, experts warn that regenerative agriculture lacks a clear definition. based environmental organization.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil. Nature-based Solutions Often associated with: trees, offsets, soil sequestration, conservation, nature-positive.

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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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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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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vandersat’s innovative products help customers better measure and understand water management and crop health in major markets. We are excited to announce that Planet has entered into an agreement t o acquire VanderSat , a leading provider of advanced earth data and analytics. Participants in the Solicitation .

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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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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 also investigated how to measure plastics levels in composts, digestates and soils, and what process interventions are available to reduce it.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. Industrial monocultures are destroying ecosystems, poisoning watercourses and removing soil, and don’t produce as much per hectare as small farms anyway. It’s not something that can continue if we want to survive, let alone thrive.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The document urges governments, companies, and greenhouse gas crediting programmes to work together to promote "clear and transparent" carbon accounting methods, by establishing definitions, rules and a common understanding of approaches. All carbon reductions conferred by projects should also be verified, real and additional, it adds.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. And better, more plentiful green space boosts people's health and wellbeing and lessens the burden on our already stretched NHS.". Far from it.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. Learn more: Food Navigator spoke with the startup that’s ” expanding the definition of what a food crop is.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

On EVs, it calls for countries to agree a common definition and target dates by which all new road vehicles should be net zero emissions, suggesting fossil fuel cars and vans should be phased out by 2035 at the latest, with petrol and diesel heavy duty vehicles to be removed from sale in the 2040s.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

This enhanced rock weathering process forms a critical part of Earth's natural carbon cycle that, among other things, helps to make the planet habitable by keeping soils fertile and oceans alkaline. Moreover, there is evidence the approach can deliver wider benefits in terms of soil and ocean health.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The 18 works in the exhibition encompassed visual art, sculpture, film, and sound, taking visitors on a journey through forests, soils, seas, cities, and innovations. And if the size of the crowd during BusinessGreen 's visit on a hot, stuffy August evening is anything to go by, there is definitely an audience for such an approach.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

As a result, the UK is already facing a catalogue of physical threats to public health, infrastructure, and businesses which are costing the country billions of pounds each year, according to the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) latest five-yearly comprehensive climate risk assessment. The pandemic is a new context for that," Stark argued.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

There is significant uncertainty among many contractors and clients over the legal obligations and practical measures required around projects that entail the disturbance of asbestos in soil, according to SOCOTEC, a UK provider of testing and compliance solutions. What activities on site give rise to the highest risk?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. Learn more: Food Navigator spoke with the startup that’s ” expanding the definition of what a food crop is.”

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2022

On top of storing carbon, the trees planted through the programme protect soil, boost local biodiversity, and provide new income opportunities to farmers from timber and fruits, according to the company.

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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? While starting a community garden can be a very rewarding experience, it entails a lot of work. Community farms.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

And since there’s no legal definition of “green” or “eco-friendly”, they often get away with it. Safer Choice certification is done by the Environmental Protection Agency and is a certification and labeling program that shows consumers which products perform well and are safe for human health and the environment.

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

million hectares, is is inevitable farming has a central role to play in improving the health of woodlands, habitats, soils, water quality, flood resilience, and air quality, as well as helping the UK achieve its climate targets. Given agriculture accounts for almost 70 per cent of England's land mass, or around 8.9

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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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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. Farmers rotate livestock from place to place, allowing soil to hold onto more carbon. There is no clear definition. This was no esoteric inquiry.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

As such, the company is working with farmers worldwide to adopt a regenerative approach to farming that encourages healthier soil and ecosystems, better water stewardship and a broader diversity of cultivated seeds and crops. And by definition, a commodity has no value or very limited value.

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Grist

AUGUST 25, 2022

Trees are essential to human health and survival. Their shade cools us down on hot days, they clean the air and trap water in the soil, they provide food and shelter to countless other species, and they suck planet-warming carbon out of the atmosphere. Both older & young trees have succumbed.”.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s going be increasingly difficult to grow food with water scarcity, soil depletion, and volatile climates and warming climates. There are definitely improvements that we can make in terms of how we’re raising beef to bring down emissions, but it’s also the amount of beef that we’re eating that’s the problem.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s going be increasingly difficult to grow food with water scarcity, soil depletion, and volatile climates and warming climates. There are definitely improvements that we can make in terms of how we’re raising beef to bring down emissions, but it’s also the amount of beef that we’re eating that’s the problem.

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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. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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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. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets.

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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. Or rather, the dogs do.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

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. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground. Credit: Nick Cunningham However, the hub is situated on seismically unstable land.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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