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'Climate Heroes': New educational handbook encourages children to engage with nature

Business Green

The Wildlife Trusts today launched Nature's Climate Heroes, a new educational pack that aims to help primary school children learn about climate change in an effort and enhance environmental education across the country. This can be extremely daunting, especially for children with their whole lives ahead of them.

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'Make soil sexy': Supermodel Arizona Muse debuts biodynamic farming initiative

Business Green

Soil is suddenly in fashion. Dubbed Dirt, the new group aims to promote biodynamic farming by funding scientific research, education programmes, demonstration and conversion projects, as well as new and existing industry networks and associations. Dirt will help make soil sexy," she added.

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General Mills, Danone pilots provide proof for regenerative agriculture success

GreenBiz

We really don’t have a great understanding of what happens when farmers make these transitions to regenerative systems," said Steven Rosenzweig, senior soil scientist at General Mills. The company took baseline samples in 2019 of the birds, insects and soil carbon levels at each farm and plans to come back each year to see progress.

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EcoFABs could lead to better bioenergy crops, say researchers

Envirotec Magazine

A fabricated ecosystem, or EcoFAB (image credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) A greater understanding of how plants and microbes work together to store vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in the soil will help in the design of better bioenergy crops for the fight against climate change, say the authors of a new paper.

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How can farmers contribute to saving the earth?

The Environmental Blog

Many climate activists are working day and night to educate people regarding climate change and what effects it can have on human life. These changes can bring many benefits to farmers the health of the soil is increased, fresh crops are produced, and benefits to the climate are increased. appeared first on The Environmental Blog.

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Photocat, Laborat Partner on Self-Cleaning Solar Panel Glass

Solar Industry

Also, in regions prone to heavy soiling, the efficiency enhancement will lead to higher electricity output. An important quality of ShineOn is its potential to maximize electricity output, particularly in regions plagued by heavy soiling, such as dust, pollen or pollution. and up to 50% in some parts of the world.

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Zimbabwe permaculture education center promotes self-sufficiency

AGreenLiving

German architecture firm Studio Anna Heringer has completed the first kindergarten in Zimbabwe’s Chimanimani District, a rural and desolate region home to about 200 families that have long lacked access to education. Zimbabwe permaculture education center promotes self-sufficiency. Read the original post:Â .