Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

It is published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is described as an integrative approach that goes further than sustainable farming methods. CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Announced on 20 February, the voluntary framework is presented as an advance in the effort to support deployment of carbon removal and soil emission reduction activities across the EU. Carbon removal activities need to meet four overarching criteria for certification: quantification, additionality, long-term storage, and sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

million cubic meters* of peat used in horticulture with sustainable alternatives is a huge challenge, but one which has been boosted by £320,000 of grant funding secured from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Innovative trial will use household food and green waste Replacing the estimated 1.7

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

This confirms our long-held view that in order for AD projects to be fully sustainable, both economically and environmentally, the entire process must be considered and optimised. Many studies into the value of AD only look at the value of the energy or biomethane produced by the plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Marc McElhinney For today’s modern farmer, sustainability is at the heart of agricultural best practice. The AD process also produces an organic biofertiliser and soil conditioner, called digestate. Benefit #5: Soil health AD offers significant benefits in terms of soil health. What’s in it for farmers?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With applications ranging from drone surveys to in-situ soil and water analysis, photonics is enabling more sustainable practices and transforming the way we monitor and protect our environment. These devices empower scientists and researchers to perform rapid, accurate soil analysis directly in the field.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

How can we sustainably feed our growing population as the climate changes? As climate change affects weather patterns and soil health, agricultural productivity could decrease substantially. The microbiome of cropland soils could be manipulated to accelerate soil carbon sequestration.

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 4, 2023

Artists can help us reimagine our connection to the planet and move us toward a more sustainable future. Charlotte Street Foundation’s Earth/Work: Artists and Sustainable Living series features conversations with local artists who share their creative paths and how nature plays into their life work.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

C, a variety of different sustainable agriculture solutions will be on display at the Urban Farm. A Healthier Earth will have a central plot to demonstrate biochar’s role in both carbon capture and soil improvement, including its ability to tackle food and water security in desert environments. “It

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 21, 2023

Study found that in some cases up to 77% of fertiliser spread on UK soil went into atmosphere Some nitrogen fertiliser types spread on UK farmland are ending up in the atmosphere, with the worst offenders emitting on average 18% of the applied nitrogen fertilizer as ammonia gas into the air. of the applied nitrogen fertiliser types.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

A research group from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has found that impact glass beads in Chang’e-5 (CE5) lunar soils contain some water. Therefore, there must be a yet-unidentified water reservoir in lunar soils that has the capacity to buffer the lunar surface water cycle.

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

This compost system provides a maximum environment for microbes to grow and create rich compost soil that increases soil fertility and helps sequester carbon. The post Learn how to build your own composter appeared first on Greenability Magazine. . – 2 p.m., Sunday, June 13 at the Antioch Urban Growers, 2727 NE 44th St.,

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Recent works completed in South Croydon used the proprietary soil enhancement system developed by Soil Science. But new technologies and new ways of conceptualising the problems are starting to appear, as specialist contractor Soil Science explains. It’s incredibly easy to create waste in the construction industry.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

Factors including a European shortage of available seeds and tree-stock, changing climate, changing soil conditions and low seedling survival rates are negatively impacting reforestation efforts at historical estates like Blenheim.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It supports and sustains animal, and plant life by regulating the flow of water, greenhouse gases, nutrients and energy. It more clearly shows how human activities like farming, mining, forestry and industry can contaminate water, cause soil erosion, and pollute the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2020, the EA published a strategy for safe and sustainable sludge use stating that the “do nothing option is unacceptable” and that regulations would be introduced by mid-2023, bringing testing and regulation of sludge into the Environmental Permitting Regime (EPR). The rules are at fault.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

For example, unabated fertiliser use means phosphorus is accumulating in soils in forms not directly available to crops and in ways that are harmful to the environment. The need to make food production more sustainable is recognized by the newly adopted Farm to Fork strategy.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

Three new stops have been added this year: Five Mile Farms uses regenerative farming practices that are more environmentally friendly for the soil and the climate. Visitors will learn about regenerative soil practices on this cattle and poultry farm. Photo: Timber View Farm Alpacas in Paola, KS.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

Pyrolysis – heating in the absence of oxygen – produces biochar, a residue of nearly pure carbon, which can be infused into the soil, sequestering carbon indefinitely. This is the only genuinely sustainable solution to the problems facing the Wye Valley.”

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Greenability Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2023

Through classroom work and outdoor training, participants learn about tree identification, site suitability, urban soils, basic tree biology, proper planting techniques, plant care, diseases and pruning. The post Care for urban trees as a Tree Keeper appeared first on Greenability Magazine. on September 30. The course costs $50.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Doug Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. The post Plan It Native landscape conference goes virtual appeared first on Greenability Magazine. To learn about additional native plant resources, visit Deep Roots KC. Photo: Tom Schroeder.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Three quarters (71%) do not think the industry is currently equipped to deal with the challenges of climate and nature loss, at the same time as sustainably producing food. The research also reveals over eight in ten people (86%) want to support farmers who are creating wildlife habitats and restoring soil health.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The ‘living wall’ at the University of Plymouth’s Sustainability Hub. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, centred around the Sustainability Hub – a pre-1970s building on the university campus – and compared how effectively two sections of its walls retained heat.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Water leaving your property carries particles of soil and organic debris with it. Rain gardens and bioswales slow the movement allowing it to soak into the soil and reduce flash flooding issues. Rain gardens are a depression in the soil, collecting runoff from rooftops and driveways. appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free fertilizer for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. As we rediscover the incredible role of microbial life in our soil, we realize how important it is for us to do whatever we can to support them.”. “As

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Undeterred, De Decker responded by publishing an article on the sustainable benefits of harvesting coppice wood. ” 2. .”

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

online on Putting Hope into Action with featured speakers on seed diversity, resilient living, herbalism and social change, food insecurity, human health and soil health, native plants and pollinators, perennial agriculture and more with farmers, The Land Institute and KC Farm School’s Let’s Grow Wyandotte.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The restriction would hopefully prevent further groundwater and soil contamination and health risks for people and the environment. Firefighting foams containing PFASs have caused many cases of environmental contamination in the EU, both in soil and drinking water. EU’s chemicals strategy for sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The creation of biochar, a charcoal used as a soil amendment, from Japanese knotweed plant waste is a carbon negative process which harnesses the carbon-scavenging power of Japanese knotweed in a positive way and contributes to the fight against climate change by locking carbon away for thousands of years.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 27, 2023

Industry-wide targets to improve the sustainability of key ingredients in millions of household products in seven years have been set by a task force comprising 10 of the world’s most influential chemicals companies. These two goals underpin an ambition for industry-wide transition for the $125 billion sector to become sustainable by 2040.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Their goal is to create new, sustainable uses for non-traditional water sources and to disrupt humanity’s reliance on traditional fresh water for crops and other needs. Jim Ippolito, CSU associate professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, will work on biochar synthesis and optimization. The CSU team has received a $1.9

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free nutrients for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. As we rediscover the incredible role of microbial life in our soil, we realize how important it is for us to do whatever we can to support them.”. “As

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Soil Nitrogen Promotes Rice Branching: Nitrogen fertilizers (High N, right) increase the number of rice plant flowering branches (compared with Low N, left), thus boosting grain yield. Developing new GRVs combining increased tiller number and grain yield with reduced nitrogen use is thus an urgent global sustainable agriculture goal.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2022

“This will in turn provide support for policymakers so that they can make better policy decisions for the sustainable management of peatlands.”. The project is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and involves 23 UK and international project partners contributing vital datasets and expertise.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The key outcomes are expected to include: improvements in soil health and its carbon sequestration potential; enhanced biodiversity; reduction in synthetic fertiliser use; enhanced water quality; and improved farmer livelihoods. The ambition is for the barley grown to be used to brew beautiful tasting Guinness.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Barnaby Coupe, land use policy manager at The Wildlife Trusts, said: “The Farming Minister’s decision to authorise the use of a banned neonicotinoid pesticide on sugar beet for the fourth year in a row is a deathblow for wildlife, a backwards step in evidence-based decision making, and a betrayal of farmers who are producing food sustainably.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. With that broad context, let’s look at 8 fascinating developments in sustainability from 2019. People are taking notice.

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