GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

And despite impressive improvements in the efficiency of new aircraft and the progress in certifying new types of renewable jet fuels (five thus far), the aviation sector burns 10 billion more gallons of polluting conventional jet fuel per year than it did a decade ago. In fact, we’re already seeing this play out.

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EDF + Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Climate-smart agriculture practices, protective measures for soil health, and reduced fuel and energy use are all recommended solutions across the crop commodities. Our Recommendations Cattle: Methane. Across the crop commodities, nitrous oxide emerges as the most significant GHG.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It more clearly shows how human activities like farming, mining, forestry and industry can contaminate water, cause soil erosion, and pollute the atmosphere. Professor Larissa Naylor, of the University of Glasgow’s School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, led the design of the new diagram and is the paper’s corresponding author.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 11, 2022

Quantifying the long-term financial benefits of conservation practices that build farm resilience and recognizing that value in the financing offered to farmers would be transformative for farms, lenders and the environment. Nitrogen losses to the environment are invisible and have historically been difficult to measure and monitor.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 7, 2020

He found that protected areas around temples, shrines and cemeteries in Japan contained a huge variety of native vegetation that co-existed to produce resilient and diverse ecosystems. The method is based on the work of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. Urban forests bring many benefits to communities beyond their impact on biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.

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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.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The government has today confirmed plans to ensure new developments in England have to adopt new sustainable drainage systems (SUDS) designed to reduce the risk of flooding and water pollution by curbing the use of impermeable services and better replicating natural drainage patterns.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

One of the top sources for air pollution at a construction site is diesel equipment. Water Pollution. One of the biggest problems with construction is sediment — fine silt that comes from loose soil — that pollutes waterways and damages aquatic habitats. Air Quality.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

These land use techniques are designed to reduce the soil compaction which increases run-off. The planting of shrubs and trees also helps infiltration and retention by generating a demand for soil moisture, so that soils have a greater capacity to absorb water. The dams also help to remove pollutants such as phosphates.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s a process that requires numerous steps, from soil cultivation to product distribution and everything in between. Unfortunately, modern agriculture practices contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, as well as water pollution, reduced biodiversity and other environmental issues.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Wastewater from overburdened urban septic systems and air pollution from burning fossil fuels contribute to nitrogen pollution, but often runoff of the synthetic fertilizers used in industrialized agriculture is the primary culprit. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Some grasses are a sustainable energy source that could be a driving force towards achieving net zero carbon emissions, according to new research that appears to demonstrate their resilience to harsh growing environments.

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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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2021

Farmers must be rewarded properly for growing ‘good' food with polluters paying the cost of their environmental damage through taxes or subsidies designed to encourage or discourage farming methods according to their true cost to the planet. Reward sustainable farming.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

This makes securing equitable access to affordable, climate resilient and healthy food a personal issue for our generation. Food insecurity According to a study from the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health , one in four young adults in 2020 faced food insecurity, with Gen Z adults being twice as likely.

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Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They also stabilize soil, provide food and shelter for animals, and purify water. A tree’s life cycle is an important process that helps to sustain the environment. Trees produce oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the air, which helps to regulate the climate.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Engineered Growth Media or soil that meets parameters of FLL*. Vegetation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The winning Lighthouse organisations, named so because they are shining a light for others to follow, have developed new ways of using technology, finance or partnerships, including circularity in their practice, to reduce their impact in water-stressed regions, or build resilience in their local water systems.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Suggestions included water companies implementing their drought plans and accelerating infrastructure plans to improve the resilience of water supplies. in two separate court cases after being accused of causing four pollution incidents in watercourses as a result of blockages and broken infrastructure.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They are coastal farmers in Senegal whose soil is being salinated by rising sea levels; they are maize and rice farmers in Nigeria facing extended dry spells and unpredictable rainfall; and they are fishers and pastoral farmers watching Lake Chad disappear before their eyes.

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Green Roof Technology

MARCH 17, 2020

Additionally the Green Roof components and the plants are exposed to more extreme environmental impact like higher wind speeds, reflecting surfaces, higher temperatures, air pollution, artificial light at night, lower bio-diversity and more. Engineered Growth Media or soil that meets parameters of FLL*. Vegetation. . .

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

High profile international commitments like the Global Methane Pledge and the Global Methane Hub have raised the profile of methane as a powerful climate pollutant among policymakers and investors. Nitrous oxide is another potent greenhouse gas presenting opportunities for impact for the food & agriculture sector.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Healthy soils and clean water underpin sustainable food production, keeping food on our plates and providing for our next generations. These natural assets are also fundamental tools in making places more resilient to the shocks of climate change and in locking away carbon. Far from it.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2020

Of course, that record too shall fall soon enough if we continue to pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities.". There has been more focus on soils, how they can store more water to be more resilient," he said.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

Their sustainability teams love telling me about ambitious goals of transforming hundreds of thousands of acres to regenerative stewardship and storing significant amounts of carbon in the soil. They include: Which type of cover crop makes sense for your soil type, weather and crop rotation? Agricultural pollution is rampant.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Human destruction of natural habitats on land and at sea, climate change, pollution, invasive species and over fishing and hunting are responsible for the loss of nature "at a rate never seen before", according to the latest edition of the long-running report, which provides one of the world's most comprehensive measures of global biodiversity.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

In a bid to cushion farmers from surging energy and commodity costs, the UK government today announced it is to delay planned restrictions on the use of some fertilisers linked to air pollution, while also setting out plans to encourage organic and sustainable agricultural production in the longer term.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We have no hope of solving one without solving the other, and by plenty of measures (such as the work on ‘Planetary Boundaries' by Johan Rockström and others at the Stockholm Resilience Institute), we have gone even further beyond the ‘safe operating space for humanity' on biodiversity loss, than on climate change.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That's why forward-looking companies are investing in their value chains and working with suppliers to build resilience and prepare for the worst. This must focus on those vulnerable communities - and the women within them - that have polluted the least and now suffer the most.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Stark new report argues governments and businesses risk coming to COP26 with 'grievously undercooked' climate resilience plans. The report was also welcomed by the Aldersgate Group of businesses, which argued a "step change" in policymakers approach to climate resilience was urgently needed. It is adapt or die.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The cooling effect of community orchards, as well as their potential to capture carbon and reduce air pollution, make them a great contribution to climate change solutions – particularly in urban areas! Through practical orchard design and site management measures, we are making our orchard ecosystems as resilient as possible.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 27, 2021

Millennial and Generation Z students learned about the importance of car pollution in school. Many educational facility pickup lines encourage parents to turn off their vehicles while waiting for their kids. These efforts solidify the information students learn in the classroom. Fortunately, transportation technology is constantly evolving.

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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. economy, while bringing U.S. emissions to net zero by 2050.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Pointing to the reddish river water mixed with mud, Xing said: “The mountain can’t hold soil anymore. There’s no future in cultivating low-quality coffee, to pollute the environment and get stuck in the vicious circle,” said Ms.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

Higher temperatures also fuel droughts causing snow pack melt, more moisture to evaporate from lakes, reservoirs, and soil, and drier shrubs and trees. The only way to slow down a warming planet is to stop adding pollution to the atmosphere. What alternatives can businesses invest in to make them more resilient? Plant trees.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2021

The survey results come off the back of a surge in prices in the EU's ETS in recent years, with the price per tonne of pollution recently surpassing €50 per tonne for the first time.

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