GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

The circular economy concept is all about making better use of natural resources such as forests, soil, water, air, metals and minerals. Protect human health and biodiversity. Every year, more than 9 million deaths occur due to air, water and soil pollution. Make better use of finite resources. Take the textiles industry.

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Plastics Fossil fuels Recycled materials Recycling 470

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

A joint collaborative project funded through Innovate UK and Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme aims to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of digital technology as a means of remotely monitoring wildlife diversity in a farming context.

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Biodiversity Technology Innovation Agriculture 130

GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. . Soil at the center . Poornima Param…. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:00.

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Soil Agriculture Health Meat alternatives 270

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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Soil Climate change Carbon Resilience 52

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. In addition, they disrupt soil microbes, which play a critical role in the ability of soils to sequester carbon. By degrading soil health, agrochemicals limit the capacity of soils to store carbon. Avoiding False Solutions.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor 97

Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. It's not the end of the journey just because the biochar goes in the soil, we should see what its true impact is."

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Soil Carbon-negative Carbon Agriculture 36

Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Evaluating regulations, subsidies, pricing mechanisms, and hybrid policies. The latest, most urgent call to action from the IPCC has increased attention on policies to reduce CO2 emissions and enhance carbon sequestration. In its simplest form, a carbon tax or fee reduces emissions due to the elasticity effect.

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Policy Carbon-neutral Carbon Pollution 72

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental is expanding its support for visionary entrepreneurs who are addressing climate challenges in innovative ways. Investors and innovators are taking note, and are pouring in to address climate change. The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030.

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Soil Recycling Recycling Carbon 111

Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

Despite clean energy’s economic and job opportunities, and scientific warnings that net zero emissions are needed by 2050 to prevent the worst impacts of climate change , Trump’s federal government has worked to implement policies that increase pollution. It is also designed, at its core, to generate economic and health benefits.

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Policy Health Agriculture Climate change 105

Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas created by, among other things, decaying trash , and it often seeps through the soil and plastic covers meant to contain it. We need to have regulations in place.”

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Methane Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 144

Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

The food and agriculture industry, responsible for 19 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, is ripe for climatetech innovations that reduce waste and emissions and restore healthy ecosystems. Additionally, deeply rooted social impacts exist within the current food system; 18.8 million people in the U.S., Regenerative Agriculture.

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Agriculture Resilience Carbon-negative Startups 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Spearheaded by the US and United Arab Emirates (UAE), Aim4C will be showcasing $13 billion-worth of joint projects (or “innovation sprints”) which feature many high-tech “climate-smart” solutions that are favoured by industry, and include some dubious technologies unproven at scale.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 144

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability 98

Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Chhaya Kolavilli’s ethnographic research in Kansas City, MO explores urban agriculture policy, food insecurity and the experiences of urban farmers looking at how race, gender and class impact the urban food system. Improving urban soils with low-cost materials. Collaboration and Innovation among Local Flower Farmers.

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Resilience Agriculture Climate change Soil 77

EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone and EDF will work together in such areas as improved science, data and reporting standards, innovative financing models to help farmers of all sizes, and catalyzing industry and policy leadership through advocacy. Danone and EDF will work together to pilot innovations to cut methane in years to come.

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Methane Agriculture Climate change Global warming 98

Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The UK government announced this morning that 45 countries had agreed to set out their commitment to transform agriculture and food systems through policy reforms, research, and innovation so as to reduce emissions and protect nature.

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Government Carbon Agriculture Biodiversity 94

Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energy, venturing beyond the surface to examine the environmental, economic, and social narratives that intertwine with the fabric of this energy form.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 91

Energy Innovation

JUNE 3, 2024

As cities expand, farmers will have to adapt their farms to more urbanized land use policies and growing conditions (Figure 1) or be forced to relocate. The different characteristics of RA, PUA, and UA create further challenges in dealing with situations according to local conditions and impact on agricultural planning and policy.”

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Agriculture Resilience Organic Education 52

EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, companies can support farmers to transition to more climate-smart agriculture practices that are known to improve soil health, making soils more spongy and able to hold and retain water in floods or droughts. Second, innovate to build resilience. Third, advocate climate policy.

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Resilience Sea level rise Policy Soil 52

Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

A variety of different materials found at a greenhouse and nursery can be composted including leaves, flower petals, dead plants, soil, grass clippings, different papers, and most other types of disease free organic waste. This compost can also be used to organically help plant health and growth by being used as a mulch or potting soil.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Organic 148

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Covid-19 has raised our public consciousness about just how interconnected our world is, a world where planetary health equals human health, equals economic health. Then, new patterns of operating emerge, new relationships and connections are formed, and niche innovations scale into the mainstream. But it is less so now.

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Health Carbon-negative Soil Biodiversity 74

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 16, 2021

From interior to exterior, GreenTech Painting not only guarantees quality workmanship and custom solutions but promotes the health and safety of their customers, communities and environment too. Their dedicated teamwork sparks the innovation and ambition needed to create solutions and drive change in the painting industry.

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Health Biotechnology Sustainability Biodegradable 97

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. According to the Pesticides Action Network, over a third of Bayer’s sales derive from products that are highly hazardous to the environment, animal or human health.

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Agriculture Health Europe Biodiversity 87

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. See Table.).

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Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 95

GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

"Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth," writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book "Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret," published by The New Press in November.

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Waste Waste Climate change Organic 417

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 26, 2022

SF Environment is a department within the City and County of San Francisco, a local government committed to innovation, leadership and collaboration in creating environmental change.? We’re a passionate, mission-driven team that values credibility , collaboration, impact, innovation and equity. Job Description.

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Transportation Electric vehicle Climate change Policy 40

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

New report from Tony Blair Institute explores how cities could source 30 per cent of their own fresh produce by 2030 using a range of innovative new technologies. By 2050, two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities and will consume 80 per cent of all food produced," the report states.

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Agriculture Resilience Innovation Soil 69

EDF + Business

MAY 12, 2021

Through context-based solution sharing and pre-competitive collaboration, companies early in their sustainability journeys can follow the path of those who have walked before them and help the entire food and ag industry improve water and soil health, build resilience and ultimately get us closer to net zero emissions by mid century. .

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Resilience Agriculture Climate change Soil 52

Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

A variety of different materials found at a greenhouse and nursery can be composted including leaves, flower petals, dead plants, soil, grass clippings, different papers, and most other types of disease free organic waste. This compost can also be used to organically help plant health and growth by being used as a mulch or potting soil.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Organic Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 90

Elemental Excelerator

JULY 7, 2022

Since 2012, Elemental has invested in more than 130 companies, funded 100+ projects, celebrated its 20th portfolio exit, and launched a Policy Lab and Career Pathways program to strengthen the systems around our innovation economy.

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Agriculture Organic Soil Investment 52

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Coming from backgrounds in economics, ecology and public policy , we have spent several years focusing on carbon drawdown. A Proven Method: Trees, Plants, and Soil. But how effective are these solutions, and what are their consequences? We have watched mechanical carbon capture methods struggle to demonstrate success, despite U.S.

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Climate change Carbon Fossil fuels Soil 90

Planet Pulse

MAY 9, 2024

These authors designed their analyses so that satellite data producers can convey a comparable, reliable, and consistent message on global biomass estimation methods to create actionable policy impacts. Our team will continue to innovate at the intersection of earth observations and forest carbon science to address the needs of our users.

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Carbon Policy Technology Innovation 136

Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to the report, those involved in the beef sector in Devon's 'Ruby Country' are taking steps to promote biodiversity and soil health, but their efforts are being hampered by a lack of clarity about future incentives, such as which net zero and sustainable farming approaches will be provided with government subsidies and to what extent.

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Biodiversity Agriculture Policy Government 68

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2021

Are you a team leader with the creative and organizational skill to pilot new approaches and policies which will advance energy efficiency and clean transportation? We’re a passionate, mission-driven team that values credibility, collaboration, impact, innovation and equity. SF Environment Statement on Racial Equity. Who You Are.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy 40

Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The influence of climate change on plant phenology and increased pollen loads has significant implications for human health, particularly for individuals with asthma and allergies.

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Climate change Medicine Agriculture Soil 59

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. Dubbed 'Sanctuary of the Unseen Forest', by Marshmallow Laser Feast and Andres Roberts, the work in question is the very first visitors saw upon entering the exhibition.

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Fashion Soil Innovation Sustainability 68