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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Emissions from farm to table to landfill Emissions are generated at every stage of the food system, from the production of food on farms to transport and refrigeration to processing and packaging to consumer dietary choices and, ultimately, to food waste. Seventy percent of total food system emissions come from land-use change.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands. Or they can pay to protect a forest from logging.

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Hotel Sustainability & Waste Management: Reducing Food, Water and Plastic Waste

Green Business Bureau

Create a food waste log to keep track of where your food waste comes from, how much and at what frequency. Another way to save food from entering landfills is by starting a composting program to turn food waste into useful, nutrient-rich soil. Food waste reduction programs can be organized into four steps: Conduct A Food Waste Audit.

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Eco-innovations tackling food waste at every level

AGreenLiving

Related: Thoughtful Human makes zero-waste cards for every occasion Then the food moves to the manufacturing step, where more resources are used to produce secondary products and packaged goods. It also produces coffee logs that are fuel for wood stoves, pizza ovens and other uses.

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Climate Impacts Of Scaling Up Biofuels And Bioenergy

Energy Innovation

In response, senators and representatives from ethanol-producing states like Iowa have been advocating for biofuel aid in the next coronavirus relief package. In switchgrass scenarios planted on croplands or pasturelands, gains in NECB reflect increases in soil carbon stocks. refiners’ biofuel bills soar. Source: Nair, Reuters.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics.