AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

Sustainability 52

Sustainability Agriculture Methane Soil 52

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. The outlook is certainly worrying.

Resilience 68

Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

To stay below the 1.5ºC warming threshold , we have to cut global emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, meaning we have just under a decade. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets. First Street Foundation (Nonprofit): flood risk data provider.

Building Energy Monitoring 59

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 59

Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Residents in disproportionately burdened communities—frequently lower-income communities of color—endure greater air, water, and soil pollution, as well as other environmental harms. compared existing rooftop solar policies and solar adopter income from 2010 to 2018 in more than 70 percent of the U.S. Last year, Shaughnessy et al.

Energy 52

Energy Energy Cooling Climate change 52

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions. How cool is that?

Cooling 52

Cooling Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Sustainability 52

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ” outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report warned that “many species of trees, plants, animals and insects would not be able to move and adapt.”

Climate change 98

Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

But the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils. Latest figures show that instead of cutting its agricultural emissions, Ireland has increased them – by 10 percent over the period 2010-2023.

Agriculture 145

Agriculture Policy Methane Soil 145