Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

We must have effective resilience measures in place to withstand the impacts of such events. Over the next few decades, with the impacts of climate change and the demand for new properties to be built on floodplains, the level of investment and choice of resilience measures seen in the past decade will not be enough. Summary.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sustainable agriculture includes a variety of practices, such as using more environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, conserving water, and reducing soil erosion. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. Sustainable agriculture is not a new concept.

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Agriculture Sustainability Soil Organic 195

Defend Our Future

MAY 10, 2023

Can you think of a better way to spend Earth Day than planting trees to build heat resilience in your community for years to come? Planting trees to create equitable green space access and heat resilience is an engaging way to build climate solutions right at home while also getting active and strengthening community ties. We can’t!

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Heart & Soil , CinemaKC. Starting Small: Simple Steps to a More Sustainable Lifestyle – The Resilient Activist. Interwoven: An Earth Month Retreat – The Resilient Activist. Power of Respect for Climate Resilience & Recovery – The Resilient Activist. Sew”-stainability , The Sewing Labs.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

In some cases an irrigation system (temporary or permanent) or enhanced drainage system should be considered to reduce stress conditions on the plants and to improve soil biology. Soil/Media extension layer (often described as drainage layer) to mimic natural soil profiles and avoid anaerobe conditions in rooting zone.

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Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

In some cases an irrigation system (temporary or permanent) or enhanced drainage system should be considered to reduce stress conditions on the plants and to improve soil biology. Soil/Media extension layer (often described as drainage layer) to mimic natural soil profiles and avoid anaerobe conditions in rooting zone.

Stormwater 52

Stormwater Soil North America Law 52

Greenability Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

Three new stops have been added this year: Five Mile Farms uses regenerative farming practices that are more environmentally friendly for the soil and the climate. Visitors will learn about regenerative soil practices on this cattle and poultry farm.

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Organic Soil Health Education 103

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Now in their second year, the awards come from the Brave Blue World Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to scientific and educational water-inspired storytelling.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A whopping 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide in the near term, nitrous oxide emissions account for 46% of GHG emissions from agricultural soils, largely from soil and nutrient management such as tillage and fertilizer application. Collaboration will be key to driving down emissions and creating a climate stable future.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

The report argues that a range of high and low-tech solutions are already available that could support cities in growing a significant proportion of their own fruits and vegetables, with more tech innovations in the pipeline, but few places are utilising them as part of their resilience planning.

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Agriculture Resilience Innovation Soil 69

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

Corporations including Apple, Nike and Facebook, along with utilities such as South East Water, Australia, have been named as recipients of the inaugural Lighthouse Awards, launched in December 2020 by the Brave Blue World Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to scientific and educational storytelling.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Recycling 147

Elemental Excelerator

MAY 1, 2020

Like watching plants sprout from beneath the soil, we have seen Hawaii’s entrepreneurial ecosystem grow. Especially in times of crisis, an entrepreneurial mindset and ability to rapidly prototype solutions are invaluable assets for building community resilience.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Shelar volunteered to drive a KC Can truck to pick up food waste, which gets put back into soil to grow healthy foods. According to Kansas City’s Climate Protection & Resilience Plan, investment in clean energy provides three times as many jobs as investment in fossil fuels.

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Education Waste Waste Resilience 52

Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Twenty-three speakers will cover a wide variety of topics, including selecting plants for pollinators, gardening for winter beauty and wildlife, principles for improving soil health, seeding and maintaining prairie plantings, native trees and plants, ecological restoration, replacements for invasive plants and green infrastructure.

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Real Estate Stormwater Soil Health 91

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

For instance, ash resulting from combustion necessitates careful handling to prevent soil and water contamination. Meanwhile, the production of biochar —a byproduct of pyrolysis—presents a beneficial opportunity to sequester carbon and enhance soil fertility, provided its application is executed judiciously.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 89

Green Living Guy

APRIL 27, 2021

Many educational facility pickup lines encourage parents to turn off their vehicles while waiting for their kids. Millennial and Generation Z students learned about the importance of car pollution in school. These efforts solidify the information students learn in the classroom. Fortunately, transportation technology is constantly evolving.

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Energy Energy Education Pollution 52

Business Green

JANUARY 16, 2023

They must examine ways to decrease the use of all materials, improve resilience and minimise the negative environmental, health and social impacts associated with the extraction, use and end of life of these resources. EU policies should not simply be aimed at securing access, but also at minimising critical raw material needs.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

All plants are grown organically, demonstrating what is possible to grow in the Kansas City soil and climate. There are six specialized gardens: the vegetable garden, fruit garden, herb garden, seed and grain garden, curiosity garden and water garden. Children are encouraged to sample the ripe edibles.

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Soil Organic Education Resilience 53

EDF + Business

APRIL 18, 2023

100-$300 million per year) and extended program until 2031 Types of Projects Eligibility Requirements Partner Types: Producer associations, farmer cooperatives, water and conservation districts, institution of higher education, and companies (e.g., Key Takeaways IRA adds $4.95 New or Modified Provision: Modified – the IRA provides $1.7

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Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Regenerative and conservation agriculture are increasingly hyped for the myriad benefits they can provide to soils, water and a farmer's bottom line. Examples: Better Cotton Growth & Innovation Fund , Resilient Agriculture Accelerator Fund. Examples: Soil and Water Outcomes Fund , municipal ag-watershed partnerships.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With that in mind, he and his team planted trees to slow land erosion, filter the air and balance nutrients in the soil. In addition, the farmer’s were educated about native plants, especially food crops that required less water to grow in the region. The results come from an organized effort to include villagers in the process.

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Education Organic Agriculture Government 36

Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

It’s about allowing people to live balanced lives – educated, but including physical work, close to nature. Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. However, in this review, I won’t go into the details of farming covered in the book.

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Agriculture Fossil fuels Soil Health 139

Greenability Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Land Use: MARC’s Tom Jacobs and Scott Schulte with Vireo Landscape Architects highlight green infrastructure for better soil health and stormwater retention. Watch it here. Watch it here.

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Stormwater Waste Waste Transportation 52

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

My perspective began to shift in August 2020 when I attended a class led by Clint McKay, the Indigenous education coordinator at Pepperwood Preserve , a research station in eastern Sonoma County on the traditional homeland of the Wappo people. Read Next The cost of wildfires is rising. But by how much?

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Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 97

Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

And what’s worse, perverse government subsidies and regulations make it cheaper to do the less sustainable thing — burn more fossil fuels or degrade soil to maximize yields today at the expense of tomorrow. They also get, for free, the tens of trillions of dollars in value and services nature provides. Solution: Price the unpriced.

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Investment Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 147

Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

McDonald's Canada and McCain Foods Limited have this week launched a new partnership to deliver a Future of Potato Farming Fund, which will deliver $1m of investment in education, demonstration, and cost-sharing grants to support potato farmers adopt regenerative practices and technology.

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Europe Fossil fuels Climate change Soil 36

GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future. Here are four: 1.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

The standards focus on the following themes: Forests – Promotes best practices for protecting standing forests, preventing the expansion of cropland into forests; fostering the health of trees, soils, and waterways; and protecting native forests. This program is based on the three P’s: People, Planet, Prosperity.

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Organic Sustainability Health Waste 140

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 136

Grist

MAY 1, 2024

Gardens can provide spaces for education, and, of course, sources of food. She visited schools to discuss various possibilities, like fundraising partnerships or educational programs. Vegetation can reduce stress and tension for the humans around it, and it provides habitat and sustenance for pollinators and other wildlife.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

"GreenBiz 21 reaffirmed that there are multiple paths when navigating a career in sustainable business," said Anna Koskol, an Emerging Leader who serves as an environmental educator at Hudson River Park Trust in New York City. "It Environmental Educator, Hudson River Park Trust. Anna Koskol .

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It takes a lot of education.". The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. To some of them, it sounds a little like a joke. They look at you and say, 'So my plants are going to taste like fish?'

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Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 43

Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Our food supply chain does not educate the consumer on the importance of healthy living and sustainably sourced ingredients. Our food supply chain demands an extravagant amount of energy.

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Residents in disproportionately burdened communities—frequently lower-income communities of color—endure greater air, water, and soil pollution, as well as other environmental harms. Systemic barriers, including persistent structural racism, often have left such groups with fewer resources to protect themselves and to build resilience.

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Energy Energy Cooling Climate change 52

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Combining insights from psychology, sociology, social movements, mindfulness, and the environmental humanities, Ray explains why and how we need to let go of eco-guilt, resist burnout, and cultivate resilience while advocating for climate justice. It is the first book in a series on Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Governments and businesses would be wise to take their cues from higher education" Katie said. This past school year also marked the first that the coolest among the Ivies offered the entire campus community—students, faculty, administrators, and other staff—peer-to-peer sustainability education.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

” For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Politics Innovation Fossil fuels Climate change 36