Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The dextrin backbone can be degraded by natural enzymes that are present in soil.’ Reference: Xiaohong Lan, Wenjian Li, Chongnan Ye, Laura Boetje, Théophile Pelras, Fitrilia Silvianti, Qi Chen, Yutao Pei, and Katja Loos: Scalable and Degradable Dextrin-Based Elastomers for Wearable Touch Sensing.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To warming target.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. A former soil conservationist with a degree in agronomy, Hamilton’s mission became to annihilate fescue, on her property and across the fescue belt. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 142

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This cycle depends on a healthy balance of nitrogen inputs and outputs, particularly in terms of nitrate; this reactive form of nitrogen is produced through a range of biological and chemical processes, and is required by plants and crops to grow, but human activities may be increasing nitrate production to dangerous levels.

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Pollution Soil Fossil fuels Agriculture 221

ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Superhot rock energy refers to geothermal energy harnessed from deeper, hotter dry rock systems with temperatures of over 400 °C. The report indicates that superhot rock exists across about 40% of the land area of the Middle East, potentially providing 1791 GWe of energy capacity in the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia alone.

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Natural gas Soil Demand Energy 102

The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Carbon-free refers to activities and lifestyles that don’t generate any carbon emissions. With gardening, you improve soil and air quality, grow your own food, and add and tend to something beautiful and green instead of taking away from the natural world. Carbon neutrality concept. Writes and draws an illustrative image.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Carbon neutral refers to a policy of not increasing carbon emissions and of achieving carbon reduction through offsets. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater. Biological approaches to mineralise PFAS (i.e.

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Ozone Soil Health Technology 130

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 26, 2024

Transitioning to Environmentally Friendly Fluids While effective, traditional hydraulic fluids can pose serious environmental risks in the event of leaks or spills, contaminating soil and waterways. As a result, industries benefit from hydraulic systems that meet their operational needs and contribute to their sustainability goals. 

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability Biodegradable 87

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Agriculture Methane Carbon-neutral COP 140

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Improve soil texture – Fine textured soils like clay have a lower infiltration rate, thus higher risk of runoff. Add a layer of well-drained topsoil along with compost or manure to improve the infiltration rate of your soil as well as attract worms to continue conditioning your soil.

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Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability HVAC Soil 148

Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over time, they suck the soil dry of metals like nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold. At the midpoint of that range, a farmer would net a cool $3,800 per acre of nickel at today’s prices – which, van der Ent added, is “on par with some of the best-performing agricultural crops on fertile soils, while operating costs are similar.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

Mark Lloyd, CEO of Rivers Trusts, said: “Rivers Trusts were delighted to work in partnership with others to deliver many of the pilot projects referred to in this excellent report, which we welcome.

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Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 246

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Indoor air quality specialist and Radon expert Airthings, was among firms offering insight into the problem: “Radon enters a building as the air pressure within a building is usually lower than the pressure in the soil and rocks around the building’s foundation. It enters through a process referred to as advection.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Soil 174

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Refer to the membership options here. Virginia Lamb, Groundwork Education and Consulting, is an Environmental Educator with over 25 years’ experience in recycling, composting, soil health and organic gardening. General ticket: $15. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. No promo codes needed. B ecome a member here.

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Agriculture Innovation Sustainability Education 52

Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The report warns that if nothing changes, by 2050, we can expect significant hits to crop yields, the degradation of an additional expanse of land the size of South America, and the loss of carbon locked up in poor soils and threatened peatlands. The authors used “restoration” to refer to sustainable management of land and water.

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Global warming South America Agriculture Logging 132

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

A new ‘data pack’ available to anaerobic digestion (AD) operators provides a reference point for UK digestate characteristics. It is said to comprehensively report key positive and negative characteristics of UK digestates produced from different feedstock types.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Moving away from UAVs and ships and back to dry land, ET is pleased to have supplied two leading UK cities (Liverpool and Cardiff) with ‘reference method’ air quality monitoring stations in 2020. An AQM Station at Castle St, Cardiff. as well as a T200 NOx analyser has now been installed in pride of place, right outside Cardiff Castle.

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Fashion Natural gas Methane Soil 130

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

There are also increasing concerns about the effects of agriculture on soil health, with detrimental effects including erosion, pollution (nutrients and pesticides), compaction, desertification and salinisation. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology Solar Energy Monitor 147

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

POPs are ubiquitous in our environment (water systems, soil, air and sediments) and they bioaccumulate, passing from species to species through the trophic chain, ultimately ending up in the human body. References [1] Lallas, Peter L., “The Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.”

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Organic Pollution Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 147

Low Impact

JULY 14, 2021

The project that I am referring to started in 1983 and was centred around sustainable and affordable living, away from the busy ‘non-sensica’ of what was then (and is now) modern life. The soil in those days was dead from decades of industrial scale ‘factory without a roof’ agricultural thinking, producing food for an unthinking populace.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 28, 2020

As mentioned above, the obvious choice is to become an actual environmental scientist which is often referred to as an environmental analyst. This type of chemist studies how pollution moves through both water and soil and how it impacts both the environment and the population. This includes everything from oil spills to contamination.

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Pollution Soil Government Law 195

Grist

JUNE 9, 2021

Commonly referred to as “forever chemicals,” their legacy can be found everywhere — in soil, groundwater, lakes, oceans, and now, even the rain. The findings highlight the ubiquitous nature of PFAS chemicals, man-made substances used in common household products because of their water-, oil-, and grease-resistant qualities.

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Pollution Soil Health Transportation 138

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. It’s a term favoured by many food companies, despite the fact that scientists have said that soils are not a reliable way to store carbon in the long term, and that removals can be easily undone.

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Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 141

Low Impact

JUNE 16, 2021

Not only can large, industrial farms not feed the world in the future, they will destroy the very soils and ecology of the only planet that we have to provide food at all. Plant and Soil. In this article, Chris discusses whether small, organic farms can feed the world, and, of course, he concludes that they can. Outlook on Agriculture.

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Organic Agriculture Soil Africa 79

Low Impact

AUGUST 9, 2020

Natural organic reduction, a technique for turning human remains into “soft, beautiful soil” is being billed by its American developers, Recompose , as the greenest of green funerary practices. Was the deceased a member of the Soil Association? The devil could well be in the detail – hopefully not in the soil.

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Soil Organic Recycling Recycling 74

Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Increase carbon removal in soil, forests, and ocean ecosystems. Apply or refer your favorite company to be part of Cohort 11 today! • • •. Elemental’s patient, risk-tolerant capital and impact-first approach are vital ingredients in commercializing early-stage carbon solutions. We aim to: Capture, store, and utilize CO2.

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Stormwater Resilience Smart Cities Startups 98

Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What does it cost over the course of 100 years to ensure that the tillage isn’t happening on the soil such that the carbon isn’t re-emitted into the atmosphere?” How do we ensure forests are managed to minimize risk of fires? We don’t truly know what those costs are today for nature-based solutions.”.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative 83

AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These new tools — under development or in the early phases of testing — are helping put numbers to the abstract concept of regenerative agriculture and helping measure metrics such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration and other soil health considerations. The resistance sensors on the probe calculated the density of the soil.

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Agriculture Cooling Soil Health 36

Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

Reference: Pollutant Formation in Combustion Processes, Grzegorz Wielgosi?ski, It will quickly absorb moisture from air and soil and again get into non-composted organic form. Which will now rotten in the open soil. Reference: [link]. Such reaction at lower temperatures have a very harmful ratios of CO-CO2 and Nox gases.

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Pollution Waste Waste Organic 98

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The irrigation error we experienced was not visible to the naked eye,” says Nicolle, referring to vegetation indices that leverage the invisible, near-infrared spectral band. Imagery from RHIZA’s Contour app showing irrigation errors and changes over time after farmer took action to manage the field // Credit: RHIZA.

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Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil Africa 72

Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

farmers are already adapting by planting different crop varieties (or cultivars), diversifying and rotating which crops are grown, shifting planting dates, improving soil health and applying fertilizers, adopting new irrigation practices, trying out new technologies, and investing in crop insurance. Ishtiaque found that U.S.

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Climate change Medicine Agriculture Soil 59

Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is studying samples of soil and ice extracted from the north Alaskan coast in 2018. Emily Bristol takes soil samples off the coast of Alaska. At nearly 20 feet long, the cylinders of ice reveal the deep past, holding the frozen remains of dead plants from 40,000 years ago. Sasha Peterson. “I We got hammered by Hurricane Harvey.

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Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 141

The Environmental Blog

JUNE 6, 2022

Water contamination refers to the presence of harmful substances in water. Contaminants can also enter the water through natural processes like leaching from soil or rock. What Is Water Contamination? These substances can come from various sources, including agricultural runoff, sewage effluent, and industrial discharge.

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Health Pollution Agriculture Waste 195

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 23, 2021

Refer to the membership options here. Plastic pollution wreaks havoc on our oceans, soil, air, and has become a leading cause of climate change. This event is free not only to WCS members, but to the general public as well. Bring a friend! But have you wondered how best to fight plastic pollution?

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Plastics Pollution Biotech Climate change 98

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

The title refers to the portion of emissions that are traditionally difficult to reach, compared to the more obviously pollution-belching propensity of sectors like electricity, transport, and heating (which account for 80% of GHG mitigation efforts). license ).

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Plastics Agriculture Recycling Recycling 130

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 67