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Sustainable alternatives to garden lawns: Part 1

Low Impact

The type, pH, quality, and fertility of the soil. An eco-friendly and ethical life involves taking control of your needs, and working out how to meet them without harming either other people or the planet. Provide other yields, such as fuel for heating, timber, and natural materials for crafting and DIY projects, herbal medicines, etc.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration.

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How to start a community garden: Part 1

Low Impact

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? For individuals: A community garden can provide other yields as well as food, such as fuel, crafting materials, and natural medicine.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air, and humans?’ Instead, he believed the land was improved by ethical and sustainable management. The thick, green stems glisten atop jet-black patches of soil.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production.