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. Although we are able to Gen-manipulate plants for better yield, more pest resistant, and for more stress resistance, but the nature’s laws won’t change.

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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. Although we are able to Gen-manipulate plants for better yield, more pest resistant, and for more stress resistance, but the nature’s laws won’t change.

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Stormwater Soil North America Law 52

AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

You’re breaking the law, at least in Vermont. The Green Mountain State is the first state to pass a law requiring businesses and residents to compost. Related: 12 things you should never compost Instead, when food scraps are composted, their valuable nutrients can boost soil health. It is counting on voluntary compliance.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 14, 2021

California state law (SB 1383) takes effect January 1, 2022, requiring the majority of homes and businesses in the area to recycle all food and yard waste in their yard debris carts. It is then returned to the neighborhoods and public spaces in the same community the materials came from. The process is nothing new to Republic Services.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 10, 2023

While Trees Forever provided the materials and tree planting expertise, Campus Ambassador Lauren Litterer educated attendees on the benefits of tree cover in densely populated cities, why equitable tree distribution is so important, and how the recently-passed climate law is making this all accessible.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

You’re breaking the law, at least in Vermont. The Green Mountain State is the first state to pass a law requiring businesses and residents to compost. Related: 12 things you should never compost Instead, when food scraps are composted, their valuable nutrients can boost soil health. It is counting on voluntary compliance.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. CropLife has echoed COPA-COGECA’s arguments against pesticides reduction plans and the intensification of organic agriculture across Europe.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

You’re breaking the law, at least in Vermont. The Green Mountain State is the first state to pass a law requiring businesses and residents to compost. Related: 12 things you should never compost Instead, when food scraps are composted, their valuable nutrients can boost soil health. It is counting on voluntary compliance.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But regenerative has an older, more established, type-A sister that could be a path to legitimacy: organic. In the 1980s, organic was the new buzzword for farmers, grocers and consumers.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The bill’s backers hope the law will make it easier for farmers and landowners to get paid for storing carbon in their fields and forests. But it’s unclear how the law will address farmers’ biggest concerns. The Biden administration’s climate strategy includes investing in so-called nature-based solutions like storing carbon in soil.

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Soil Carbon Agriculture Law 81

Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who specializes in climate science, social science, policy and the law, the climate change effects that California has experienced so far are just the tip of what’s to come. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D. If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis?

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Soil Health Pollution Climate change 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Jim Giles explores the deep divisions that are shaping the emerging field of soil-based offsets. This week, I'll try to untangle one of the more complex, confusing and contentious aspects of our food systems: the emerging market for soil carbon offsets. A second Young Turk heresy concerns the use of soil sampling.

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Soil Carbon Agriculture Sustainability 65

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JUNE 8, 2022

Implementing “climate smart” practices, land easements, and conservation annually for certain crops and increasing organic agriculture to 20% of all cultivated acres by 2045. The Draft Scoping Plan indicates that these measures can increase soil water holding capacity while also reducing pesticide use.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

It’s the work of some leading players in this area: ReFED, a nonprofit that works on food waste; WWF; Natural Resources Defense Council; and Harvard’s Food Law and Policy Clinic. Here are just a few highlights — and ideas on how your organization can get involved. Keep organic waste out of landfills and incinerators .

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5, which covers much of the Midwest, joined local organizers in a conference call in July and made an in-person visit to the area earlier this month.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Health 98

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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

He says: “Dyes create several problems when they reach water systems, from stopping light reaching the microorganisms that are the bedrock of our food chains, preventing their reproduction and growth, to more direct consequences like the toxic effects on plants, soils, animals and humans.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Similarly, environmental and sustainability organizations — heretofore largely absent from leadership of the environmental justice movement — can play an important role in holding businesses and governments accountable for environmental justice. .

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. The number of companies voluntarily reporting on environmental risk is rapidly increasing and regulations making this type of disclosure mandatory are beginning to be written into law. We would love to chat!

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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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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sustainable agriculture means farming and grazing in a way that doesn’t work the soil to death, or deforest en masse to make way for croplands. Sometimes it’s as simple as rotating crops on a plot of land to allow the soil a season or two to rest, or switching from chemical fertilizer and pesticide to compost and organic anti-pest solutions.

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Startups Waste Waste Soil 148

Grist

JUNE 7, 2023

We’re going plastic-free; my future mother-in-law procured all of our mismatched plates, silverware, and glasses from thrift shops and yard sales; and we’re planning to decorate with bundles of invasive grasses that we’ll pick the day before. . The process takes about a month, and produces roughly one cubic yard of soil.

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Sustainability Climate change Waste Waste 83

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. She also questioned why it was possible for the project to get a waiver from the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), the federal law that protects species like dolphins by protecting their habitat.

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Seafood Sea level rise Pollution Law 98

Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Josep Lago / AFP via Getty Images At the end of the plastic life cycle, incinerators and landfills can release PFAS, dioxins, PCBs, and other endocrine disruptors as air or soil pollution — some of which may contaminate nearby food supplies. Volunteers pick up plastic nurdles at a beach in Tarragona, Spain.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 20, 2020

The Task Force aims to deliver proposals that reshape the way the state government plans, develops policy, distributes funding, and enforces laws. Our findings must be based on input gathered across regional public meetings (five held so far) and research conducted by the Task Force subcommittees. What do you think?

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Health Law Policy Investment 111

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

“I didn’t expect it at all,” Nick Caleb, a staff attorney with Breach Collective, an Oregon-based climate justice organization, told DeSmog. “If In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 97

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. Soil degradation. This book is all about how we can increase our food production for all mankind in a tasty, sustainable manner.

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Solar Energy Monitor Organic Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which represents many of the world’s biggest economies, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predict that global meat production will continue to rise in the coming decade as incomes increase in developing countries.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 9, 2023

Frequent visits by housekeeping to change bed sheets and replace soiled towels leads to more laundry which translates to more water and energy consumption. Many restaurants have started to replace plastic cutlery, straws and stir sticks with organic materials made of bamboo and other wood products.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Similarly, environmental and sustainability organizations — heretofore largely absent from leadership of the environmental justice movement — can play an important role in holding businesses and governments accountable for environmental justice.

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Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Similarly, environmental and sustainability organizations — heretofore largely absent from leadership of the environmental justice movement — can play an important role in holding businesses and governments accountable for environmental justice.

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Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

As they meticulously canvassed high-rise apartment buildings, the major relief organizations and the NYPD seemed strangely missing in action. Despite being told after Sandy that his organization couldn't grow, he said, "We're still here. Los Angeles: Latino children in Boyle Heights play in lead-contaminated soil.

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