Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A bio-degradable product that is available either in loose form as granules or packaged in a porous geotextile material to form a range of ready-to-deploy booms mats and pads that effectively and efficiently absorb an impressive list of chemicals & contaminants from hydrocarbons to metals.

Patents 130

Patents Organic Soil Packaging 130

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030. produces less than 2% of the global total.

Soil 111

Soil Recycling Recycling Carbon 111

Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Small-scale growers, selling via farmer-focussed supply chains, are better able to deliver public goods due better calibrated supply and demand and to customer understanding of issues such as seasonality, waste and packaging avoidance and trade-offs between crop damage and agrochemical use.

Building Energy Monitoring 74

Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil 74

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Conventional food production of the modern day, along with packaging and distribution, has been tied to environmental, societal and financial burdens in different parts of the world. Food miles, the distance food is transported, and eco-friendly food packaging materials are also important variables of the sustainable food equation.

Packaging 148

Packaging Sustainability Biodegradable Plastics 148

Green Business Bureau

JULY 23, 2020

Also,the composting process averts methane emissions that cause global warming, and it converts organic material into valuable fertilizer that can be used to enrich poor soil and improve plant growth. One way businesses can reduce their environmental footprint is by using biodegradable packaging that can be recycled and composted.

Agriculture 99

Agriculture Sustainability Methane Biodegradable 99

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Conventional food production of the modern day, along with packaging and distribution, has been tied to environmental, societal and financial burdens in different parts of the world. Food miles, the distance food is transported, and eco-friendly food packaging materials are also important variables of the sustainable food equation.

Packaging 133

Packaging Sustainability Biodegradable Plastics 133

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

Packaging 78

Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 78

Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

Conservationists have urged the government to make nature restoration a key pillar of its forthcoming economic recovery package, claiming it could create thousands of jobs across the country while tackling biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. It remains to be seen what will be included in the government's recovery package.

Packaging 74

Packaging Biodiversity Government Climate change 74

Green Tech Challenge

JULY 4, 2017

The process of growing and transporting high-quality organic produce requires a high level of effort, and coordination and some luck. Getting the Soil Ready In organic farms, having the right type of soil that is nutrient-rich is a major step to growing high-quality produce.

Soil 40

Soil Plastics Transportation Packaging 40

Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

The package of policies would also avoid an estimated 62,000 premature deaths annually by 2050 and deliver nearly $8 trillion in climate and health benefits by 2050. Electrification drives down transportation and building sector emissions. This brighter future is ours for the taking. Clean electricity by 2040.

Policy 105

Policy Health Agriculture Climate change 105

The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. Create a composting area since wasted food may enrich the soil with nutrients and lower your carbon footprint. And when we discard it, it continues to produce greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere as it rots.

Waste 221

Waste Waste Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 221

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

charity Feedback have criticised the focus of meat producers’ emissions strategies on scope 1 and 2 emissions, stating in 2020: “They’re farming companies using the emissions reduction strategies of transport companies rather than coming up with strategies that are consummate with the fact that they are meat and dairy companies.”.

Agriculture 90

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 90

Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Whenever we put anything on our plates, or into our mouths, we should think about: The carbon cost of both growing the food and transporting it to us. Here are some of the main issues: Much of our food is not grown locally, but instead transported great distances around the world. The human cost of food growth and production.

Ethics 62

Ethics Agriculture Packaging Organic 62

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

It includes calls for an improved focus on green jobs training, tighter home energy efficiency standards, support for natural climate solutions such as tree planting and better soil health, accelerated clean technology development, and schemes to incentivise cycling and low carbon transport.

Policy 88

Policy Fossil fuels Carbon Packaging 88

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? SF Environment is also a great place to work, offering an attractive benefits package that includes healthcare and retirement.

Building Energy Monitoring 40

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Energy 40

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2022

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. It is recommended that employees providing services use eco-friendly transportation such as scooters and electric vehicles. .

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor 148

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

Waste 98

Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Left unchecked, he warned, current trends are driving unsustainable management of the planet's bioresoures that threaten to damage both the climate and the natural world, largely by driving deforestation that in turn leads to biodiversity loss and soil depletion, and reduces the natural world's ability to mitigate climate change.

Sustainability 77

Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels Biodiversity 77

Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

In industries like agriculture, fishing, transportation logistics, and construction, workers must work outside and generally have little protection against high temperatures. This summer has already witnessed heat impacts on transportation like roads buckling, rail lines expanding, and delaying aircraft from taking off. Decarbonize.

Climate change 52

Climate change Carbon-negative Government Transportation 52

The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 24, 2024

Composting is another excellent way to divert organic waste from landfills and create nutrient-rich soil for your garden. Sustainable Transportation Canada’s vast landscape often necessitates extensive travel, but there are still ways to make transportation more eco-friendly.

Home Energy Monitoring 195

Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Sustainability Energy Monitor 195

GreenTech Gazette

APRIL 26, 2020

And most communities have been dealing with mass waste that pollutes soil and water systems, and poses a risk to our wildlife. But America’s Plastic Makers have pledged to reuse, recycle, or recover 100% of used plastic packaging in the US by 2024. However, in many cases the damage has already been done. Fueling AI and The Cloud.

Plastics 52

Plastics Waste Waste Climate change 52

Green Business Bureau

JUNE 8, 2022

Contaminate water supplies and soils, making them toxic for the animals and plants that live there. Cause severe environmental accidents when it seeps down into the soil and reach drinking water aquifers. It is recommended that employees providing services use eco-friendly transportation such as scooters and electric vehicles. .

Building Energy Monitoring 78

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor 78

Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Germany announces plan for €49 public transport passes. The German government has this week announced plans to build on the success of the €9 a month public transport pass Ministers launched in response to soaring fuel costs, with plans for a new €49 pass for use on local public transport throughout the country.

Transportation 36

Transportation Government Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 36

Low Impact

MAY 5, 2021

As with the previous options, cardboard will simply rot away into the soil; ideal for a green burial. The benefit of using a shroud rather than a coffin is that you or your loved one will return even more quickly to the soil. All-natural arrangements without floral foam/Oasis or any other harmful/plastic components or packaging.

Sustainability 71

Sustainability Ethics Biodegradable Upcycling 71

Grist

MAY 18, 2021

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. That’s where carbon removal comes in. Courtesy of Charm Industrial.

Climate change 133

Climate change Startups Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 133

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Transportation habits are changing drastically. The hottest trend of the year was the electrification of transportation, which is on the precipice of a major upswing: Less than 1 percent of fleet vehicles were electric at the beginning of the year, but that number is expected to grow to 12 percent by 2030. . Close Authorship.

Sustainability 538

Sustainability Plastics Agriculture Carbon-negative 538

Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The plan includes climate adaptation measures across seven sectors - water, agriculture, land, forestry, human settlement, health, transport, and mining - as well as measures to scale up hydropower and solar energy, improve energy efficiency and rollout electric vehicles, the according to the news site.

Fossil fuels 92

Fossil fuels Biodiversity Investment Climate change 92

GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

If we want to have a healthy planet long into the future, we must also look after nature: forests, soil biodiversity and water ecosystems," he said. "In Last year, the company pledged to halve its use of virgin plastic and ensure it collects and recycles more plastic packaging than it sells. Pull Quote.

Carbon-neutral 433

Carbon-neutral Plastics Biodiversity Blockchain 433

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Those that can restore natural carbon sinks through soil sequestration, ecosystem recovery, and regenerative agriculture. That is likely enough capital to mitigate emissions from seven sectors: cement, chemicals, electric power, mining, steel, transport, and oil and gas. They invest in less bad instead of different and better. .

Climate change 63

Climate change Carbon-negative Carbon Electric vehicle 63

Elemental Excelerator

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As I argued in Part 1 of this piece , many biological removal credits (such as soil and afforestation) shouldn’t qualify for Scope 1 or 2 carbon offsets because of varying concerns over durability, additionality, and/or shortcomings in monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV). What to Do About Scope 3 Carbon Offsets.

Carbon 52

Carbon Soil Organic Logistics 52

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The global food system accounts for around 19-29% of GHG emissions (estimates vary), a tally that owes much to globalisation and industrialisation, with its wasteful, transport-heavy propensities, and reliance on soil-degrading, chemical-heavy monocultures. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

COP 130

COP Climate change Resilience Sustainability 130

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Consumers need new options for less wasteful and less pollutive products, packaging, transportation, and energy. 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. Eco Friendly Distribution, Shipping and Packaging. Clean Energy.

Startups 148

Startups Waste Waste Soil 148

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The global food system accounts for around 19-29% of GHG emissions (estimates vary), a tally that owes much to globalisation and industrialisation, with its wasteful, transport-heavy propensities, and reliance on soil-degrading, chemical-heavy monocultures. There is also much more processing and packaging involved.

COP 130

COP Climate change Sustainability Construction 130

Low Impact

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This in turn can lead to less transportation (with its associated pollution and greenhouse gas emissions), less refrigeration, fewer hothouses, and less irradiation of produce. Choosing local, seasonal produce reduces demand for out-of-season produce, further supports additional local produce, and local farming in your area.

Cooling 78

Cooling Ethics Sustainability Fossil fuels 78

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

To achieve LEED certification for a commercial or residential project requires meeting the USGBC’s requirements in six key areas of sustainable design: energy efficiency; water savings; materials used; indoor air quality; innovation and design processes; as well as location and transportation options. Cost: Non-Members – $750 USD.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 148

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2021

A World Wildlife study that compared the life cycle assessment of lettuce grown traditionally in California and transported to St. There's the soil degradation side. The loading, unloading, harvesting and packaging is automated but pockets of manual work are needed as well. Louis against indoor farming solutions based in St.

Building Energy Monitoring 61

Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 61

Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

They were recently found in samples of plastic food packaging from around the world, and a study published last month linked them to 20 percent the United States’ preterm births. According to one 2022 study , more than 1,000 chemicals — including many EDCs — commonly used in packaging like takeout containers can migrate into food.

Plastics 140

Plastics Health Microplastics Pollution 140