Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Great Britain's trees and woodlands contribute more than £400m a year to the economy through their contribution to flood resilience, new research has calculated. The report outlines how forests help to reduce flooding in a number of ways.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 21, 2021

An integrated farming system pioneered to help tackle soil erosion in the northeast Indian state has boosted the profits and resilience of indigenous communities.

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GreenBiz

JULY 1, 2020

This coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic. The past 15 years have tested the resilience of everyone living along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast, including the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band and the four other state-recognized tribes that live nearby. Resilience. Barry Yeoman. Food Systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Soil scientist Neil Fuller launches the Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme with East Yorkshire farmers. A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil quality on the Yorkshire Wolds. per cent to 6.0

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Green water is the water cycle available to plants, including rainfall and soil moisture. This is now affecting the health of the entire planet, making it significantly less resilient to shocks,” says lead author Lan Wang-Erlandsson from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. The post Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

The initiative will work with farmers to create stores of water – both in soil “sponges” as well as lakes and ponds – that can be “re-charged” through wet weather, then drawn on through ever-more common dry seasons, to the benefit of either the farmers themselves, or local communities.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Results are a major milestone in drive to create climate-resilient infrastructure, company claims. A vertical farming company has announced it has successfully grown wheat indoors using no soil, no pesticides, and limited water. tonnes per metre squared annually, or 26 times current open-field farming yields.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience. Department of State to share how their organizations are assessing climate risk and building climate resilience.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . But in a way, it doesn’t matter. Photo courtesy of C.J.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Fast food giant working with McCain and Prince's Countryside Trust to help farmers improve soil health and boost resilience to climate change and Brexit. The money will also fund research looking at the benefits of using cover crops to retain soil quality.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The new Rethink Farming report presents evidence that farming with nature can restore natural assets and improve resilience to a warming world. But it’s in farmers’ best interests to start acting on climate change and nature recovery now, where on-farm action can make businesses more resilient.”. “We

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks. Here are some of the key takeaways.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

Fraction of budget spent on soils in England despite importance for combatting floods and boosting food security, Sustainable Soils Alliance warns. The Sustainable Soils Alliance (SSA) said it found just 0.41 The news comes amid growing concern about the health of soils both in the UK and worldwide. With an estimated 2.2

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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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altenergymag

MAY 4, 2023

Solarplaza Summit Agri-PV | 4 October 2023 Rome, Italy - Considering the ever-growing demand, rising temperatures, extreme weather conditions as well as land and water scarcity, how can we ensure that our global food and clean energy systems are resilient and future-proof? Agri-PV presents a highly promising dual land-use solution.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases. Businesses in response are making strategic, longer-term changes to become more resilient to increased climate impacts like drought, wildfire, extreme weather and sea level rise. And so too is mitigation.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2022

It is time for soil health to rise up the climate agenda, in particular at the companies whose products depend on it, argues Moët Hennessy's Sandrine Somers. Healthy soil is the common thread between agriculture, viticulture, and fighting climate change. As living ecosystems, soils support biodiversity. They filter water.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. Cultivating more resilient crops. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

million m3 of water storage and increased flood resilience to 15,000 homes, said a statement. NFM is viewed as a key way to address the challenges of the biodiversity and climate crisis, by improving resilience to flooding, enhancing biodiversity, storing carbon and helping regulate the local climate. What is it?

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

Monocultures of some of the UK’s most economically important conifers may be more resilient to spring drought than mixed species forests, new research seems to have shown. However, to our surprise, monocultures of both species appeared to be more resilient to spring drought than any of the mixtures of the two species that we considered. “As

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They also looked more agile and resilient. And how do we transform this moment of crisis into a more resilient, sustainable, healthy and just food system? If we’re going to actually build an agile and resilient system going forward, then we have to invest in it.". Crises often present an opportunity to reimagine current systems.

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EDF + Business

MAY 12, 2021

Food and agricultural companies in particular face challenges associated with more extreme and volatile weather, both in terms of the impact it has on their bottom line, as well as their long-term resilience and ability to withstand disruptions. . Ame Igharo, Project Manager, Sustainable Food & Products.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

How can CSOs shape business resilience? Digging into the debate over soil carbon credits (36:45). Bill McDonough at 70: A look back. and ahead (featuring interview highlights at 10:40). Navigating a successful sustainability career (24:55).

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

It also builds on the company's existing 'Farms of the Future' initiative, which aims to promote regenerative farming practices that can enhance biodiversity and soil health. McCain is one of a number of leading food brands to step up investment in enhancing the climate resilience of their supply chains.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. It's not the end of the journey just because the biochar goes in the soil, we should see what its true impact is."

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When biodiversity is protected, and ecosystems are healthy and diverse, farmers are more productive and more resilient to climate change.”. Biodiversity supports food production through soil formation, land productivity, pest and disease control, replenishing ground water and pollination services. million tons of carbon dioxide. “If

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After 20 years, they can attain on average nearly 80% of the soil fertility, soil carbon storage, structure, and tree diversity of old-growth forests. By using such a mix of approaches we can create more natural, biodiverse, and resilient landscapes.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“Using the Bluesky LiDAR we can precisely measure stocks such as soils, trees and hedges,” he continued. Having assessed the current position, we can then prioritise future management practices whilst also making each business more economically resilient.

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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. Photo: Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems. ., Sunday, June 13 at the Antioch Urban Growers, 2727 NE 44th St., Kansas City, MO.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The latest official sales data from the Soil Association, which certifies products as meeting organic standards, show that sales grew 5.2 Credit: Soil Association. The market for organic certified products topped £3bn for the first time last year, as the sector enjoyed a "phenomenal" 23 per cent growth over the past two years.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. A new report highlights differences in the approaches used to produce agricultural soil carbon credits and how this can cause uncertainty for companies looking to purchase or generate them. Does soil carbon have a role to play in corporate climate strategies?

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sustainable agriculture includes a variety of practices, such as using more environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, conserving water, and reducing soil erosion. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. Sustainable agriculture is not a new concept.

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