Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research underscores a trend that scholars have warned of for decades: climate change presents new and intensified challenges for human health. Experts are urging decision-makers headed to COP27 to center human health in this year’s discussions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. Source: Mora et al. a) and RCP8.5 (b).”

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

conference of virtual and on-farm events at the KC Farm School at Gibbs Road this weekend. Join farmers, artists, chefs and musicians at a three-day Let’s Grow! Saturday, November 7: Virtual lectures and demonstrations are scheduled from 9 a.m. – Sunday, November 8: An on-farm gathering from 9 – 11 a.m.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Join WCS for a virtual event panel discussion on agriculture and ways to increase adoption of sustainable practices, from creating new technologies to educating local farmers and providing funding to those making big impacts. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. November 10, 2022. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST. Virtual Panel.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 5, 2024

A root-dense sample of wet meadow soil. The soil microbiome is a complex life system dominated by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and numerous other microorganisms. However, climate change may alter the function and composition of soil microbial communities. 1) and has direct consequences for agricultural productivity.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The Summit provides the largest international platform on which to highlight the value of AD and biogas as solutions to the global challenges of organic waste management, food and energy security, and climate change. David Newman, WBA President, said: “We are honoured to welcome Lord Deben to the World Biogas Summit 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

The event takes place on 6 – 8 July. In particular, it will explore the need to capture and recycle the 105bn tonnes of organic wastes generated by human activity every year – and turn these wastes into a valuable resource (1). ” Notes. (1)

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Thia event offers well organized scientific program including keynote presentations, workshops and networking opportunities. The 7th Global Summit and Expo on Pollution Control will take place in Paris, France on December 03-04, 2019. This summit is subtitled: Advanced Technologies and Brilliance of New Era in Pollution Control.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As the AP reported , “grassroots anti-hunger groups and food experts blasted the event as too corporate, tech-focused.”. DeSmog recently reported how HealthforAnimals, a Belgium-based organization representing some of the world’s biggest animal pharmaceutical companies, presented “misleading” information to back their current business models.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The combined factors of this continued drought and the unprecedented heat waves sapped the soil moisture of the region, threatening a range of crops , including wheat, berries, and evergreen trees harvested for the Christmas season. Such severe weather events present unpredictable and damaging impacts for the agricultural industry.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Like many corporations, the global COVID-19 pandemic and lack of usual in-person events meant they had to get creative about how to shape the political debate and find new allies to support their agendas. Europe’s Green Deal.

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EDF + Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Climate impacts on agriculture, from catastrophic weather events to temperature and rainfall variability, increase risks for farmers and their financial partners. For example, recent studies indicate that farmers who adopt soil health practices are less likely to file prevent-plant crop insurance claims after heavy rainfall events.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Cultivate KC Annual Farmers & Friends event includes 10 speakers in this virtual program from 1 – 5 p.m. As director of the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Center for Neighborhoods she works to engage, equip and empower neighborhood leaders to work towards a community culture of health. on Saturday, February 5.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

The Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021 was one of the most extreme ever recorded globally , a “ historic, dangerous, prolonged, and unprecedented ” event that took a hefty toll on people and infrastructure. Unlike other extreme weather events, heat waves are highly context-dependent. But that may be starting to change. In the U.S.,

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 16, 2022

Virtual Event. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. All registrants will receive access to a recording of the event. All registrants will receive access to a recording of the event. Event Agenda (times in PT): 9:00 – 9:05 Arrival, introductions, and housekeeping. February 24, 2022.

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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

To help your family, here are a dozen ways to reduce food waste that can save you money, help people in your community, enrich your garden soil, preserve fresh harvests and even feed local farm animals. Transform food scraps like potato peelings, melon rinds, corncobs and stale bread slices into soil by composting them. Start small.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 3, 2023

Agriculture generates 34 percent of the world’s anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s own Food and Agriculture Organization. The UN’s Food Systems Summit “Stocktaking Moment” (“FSS+2”), held last week, came as countries look to slash agriculture’s climate footprint in the runup to the COP28 summit in December.

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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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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Today, Malando is serving his community to the fullest: as a youth pastor with Shiloh Baptist Church, a union organizer with SEIU 1199NW, and the 3rd Vice President for the NAACP Tacoma Branch overseeing the youth work. Arsenic is in our soil. Malando Redeemer. Environmental, racial, and economic justice go hand in hand.

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

The trial will see the bottles made available in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, Poland, Germany, and France, with customers given the chance to experience the bottles at select festivals and flagship events, as well as through targeted product samplings.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Planet’s monitoring data provide an unprecedented combination of frequency, scope and resolution, allowing observation of large-scale events as they unfold. Up-to-date information — on everything from vegetation health to fire behavior — is critical in the effort to combat wildfires. meters per pixel.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Whilst COP27 is a vital event which rightly receives significant attention, we must avoid climate ‘tunnel vision'. There are a multitude of organisms that support food production through "associated biodiversity", which means all the roles nature plays in getting produce from farm to fork which are less obvious.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Having recognised the pitfalls of intensive farming, Yunnan is encouraging organic cultivation as its coffee industry booms This is the second of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. Recognising this, Yunnan is taking measures to promote organic coffee farming. Part one is available here.

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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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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2021

For corporations unsure where to begin on their biodiversity events, here are some guiding tips based on our experience of preserving forests and water, managing bird habitat and communicating our biodiversity efforts. Groundwater health, both in quality and quantity, is also greatly affected by vegetation. million to 425 projects.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

Poor neighborhoods have a right to local, healthy, organic food.”. “50 They might recycle and buy organic, but haven’t scrutinized their own lifestyles much. In 2020, the US health/sustainability market was $355 billion and growing 10% per year. Enjoy fresh veggies from our organic greenhouse all winter.

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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. Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. We reviewed corporate reports, lobbying records, official position papers, responses to public EU consultations, minutes of meetings with EU officials, media events, and third-party civil society and news reports.

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

How might these regenerative approaches restore the health of ecosystems? They are transitioning to organic farming, together with so-called ‘dynamic' agroforestry including cocoa, oil palm and other timber and fruit trees to create a diverse ecosystem of production. This is an opportunity to flip how we frame impacts.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

We also encourage wildlife-friendly management in our trainings, such as organic methods of pest control and growth enhancement. With the harrowing IPCC report published this month, and news of extreme weather events across the world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless when it comes to climate change.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Related: Indonesian eco village features rammed earth domes and ocean views In 2017, a village organization called the Community Disaster Management Group (CDMG) was formed to create a plan for the village that would improve disaster response. To better prepare the village for these events, Mana and his team coordinated a disaster response.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often. How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. Land changes, such as deforestation and desertification, also contribute to extreme weathers events.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With these recent events only being a precursor for what is to come, I would say our future actually looks pretty bleak unless we start taking large-scale action. Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. Insight Engines. Pachama (Seed | $9.2M

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably. Sustainability directors and managers often lead a small organization of full-time employees or team of part-time representatives from various organizations within a company.

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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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