Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. It also investigated how to measure plastics levels in composts, digestates and soils, and what process interventions are available to reduce it. References.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions. Peatlands are carbon sinks, no different to rainforests like the Amazon – and yet peat decimation is happening on British soil.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2011, water issues reached a critical level in the region. The project also contributes to the hydraulic recharge of a local aquifer and is protecting the ecosystem by avoiding soil erosion, enhancing the soil profile and recovering native vegetation. Project: Zero liquid discharge at Tirupur textile factory, India.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. In 2011, the government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that it would stop handing out forest land for palm oil plantations. Palm oil is a dirty word for many environmentalists.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

However, they noticed that there was wet soil with faint traces of steam around the boarded area. The team inserted thermometers into the wet soil, finding that the temperatures exceeded 90°C. 2011) ‘Engineered geothermal power systems for Singapore’, The IES Journal Part A: Civil & Structural Engineering , 4(4), pp.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

This document was first published in 2011 but revised in July 2020 with an Action Plan to follow in April 2021 detailing how this will be implemented over the coming years. It is estimated that for every £1 spent on protecting properties against flooding, £5 in damages are avoided.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Launched by the German government in 2011, the Bonn Challenge centres on a global goal to encourage national and regional governments around the world to together bring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2020, rising to 350 million hectares by 2030.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. “If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the world gets hotter, soils are getting drier; it takes more and more precipitation to water the same crops and fill the same reservoirs. The atmosphere is like a sponge: It sucks up water from soils, plants, rivers, oceans, and lakes. But scientists can say some things with certainty.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Greentown Labs has a decade-long track record of supporting climatetech entrepreneurs as they scale technologies, and sees meaningful opportunities to advance agtech innovation around food and soil, digital tools and monitoring, and farmer resilience and equity. The incubator is currently home to more than a dozen agtech-focused startups.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: Perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence. Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management 1 , 179–203 (2011). Conservation Letters 5 , 28–36 (2011). REFERENCES. Thamo, T. & & Pannell, D. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016). Richards, K.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant. Goolarabooloo protesters stand at a 2011 rally against construction of the natural gas plant. Broome residents attend a 2011 protest in response to Woodside Energy’s plans for oil and gas exploration along the Kimberley coast.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

A voluntary approach to ending the use of peat in horticulture was agreed with the professional horticultural sector in 2011, but this did not succeed. Sizzle said the project will demonstrate to gardeners how best to use alternatives to peat and highlight how composting and the use of wormeries can create soil enhancers. "We

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Living Green Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Additionally, the plastic bags ban is working well, seeing a 58% reduction in plastic bags being disposed of since 2011. These come as a result of a new waste transfer station, as well as a way to offset costs from its discount program for low-income residents. Overall, recycling in Seattle has gone up by 20% since 2003.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. The volume of timber products commercially recycled as woodfuel in the UK almost quadrupled between 2011 and 2018 when it reached 2.1

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. This was certainly true in 2011, when a bitter cold snap impacted four million people and caused losses of 1.5 As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But it seems that the thawing of underlying permafrost, the frozen mixture of soil and organic matter that blankets the far north, is counteracting the expansion effect. A team of scientists gather samples from Arctic sea ice and melt ponds in 2011. The lake is no more, but the samples teem with life.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility. Back in 2011, the company worked with Trucost to develop an environmental profit and loss (EP&L) account to help measure and manage environmental impacts across its operations and supply chain.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Despite the UN declaring a 'decade of biodiversity' from 2011-2020, not one of the 20 global targets agreed by nations worldwide a decade ago have been met, prompting Swedish activist Greta Thunberg argue slow progress on the issue threatens to lock in "decades of further destruction".

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has this week published its fourth annual report on its progress against the objectives set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, analysing its performance against 50 natural capital indicators spanning air, water, waste, biodiversity, and soil. per cent between 2011 and 2016.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Erosion can be a big problem along Georgia’s interstates and highways, and wildflower meadows could help stabilize the soils in the right-of-way.” Anderson (1934-2011), a Georgia native and green business pioneer, in 2014. + ” Quirey also sees potential for the wildflowers to benefit bees and other pollinators.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

These include CO2 sequestration or removal, protection from soil erosion and flood risk, habitats for wildlife, pollination and spaces for recreation and wellbeing. The combination of soils, species, communities, habitats and landscapes which provide these ecosystems services are often called 'assets'.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2024

5G-connected drones and sensors can help farmers manage their crops and livestock more efficiently by monitoring soil, fertilisers, feed and water conditions to help maximise yields and significantly reduce wastage produced on farms. 5G has a role to play in every step of the supply chain, from agriculture to manufacturing and logistics.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. He cited a dredging project that he oversaw when he was president of Plaquemines Parish that helped protect the coast from oil that was washing up from the BP oil disaster in 2011. A couple days later Gov.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

One example of an organization with which BCG already works is Indigo Ag, the company behind the Terraton Initiative, an effort to draw down 1 trillion tons of atmospheric CO2 through regenerative agriculture and soil wellness initiatives. It has reduced its direct emissions by 70 percent since 2011, with a pledge to reach 90 percent by 2040.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets. Any decision-maker looking to abate their climate impact and/or minimize their risk to climate change is a potential customer.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

In 2011, a study in the journal PLOS One already identified gold mining as the leading cause of deforestation. “Each pit is surrounded by de-vegetated areas of muddy soil ,” Justin Wilkinson, a grant specialist at Texas State University, wrote for NASA’s Earth Observatory. Then things got worse.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground. Credit: Nick Cunningham However, the hub is situated on seismically unstable land.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

We know that war is bad for the environment, with toxic chemicals left polluting the soil and water for decades after fighting ceases. Concrete problems Our most recent research, looking at the US military’s use of concrete in Iraq from 2003 to 2011, illustrates some of the calculations involved.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

By the way, Bendell was one of the first people to introduce me to the way money works, and how mutual credit could provide an alternative, in this TED talk from 2011.]. Let’s call these people ‘business-as-usual types’, and those who are predicting collapse, ‘adapters’. [By Is collapse going to happen?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2011, just a year after entering parliament, Truss founded the ‘Free Enterprise Group of backbench Conservative MPs described as the “parliamentary wing” of the IEA. But for the ideas whose reputation her incompetence soiled,” as reported in the New Statesman’s Morning Call newsletter. Not for her own benefit.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

In 2011, Lynch visited the Geneva Motor Show to look at the model of a car of the future, which the company hoped to introduce in London. That's why we chose to use sustainable packaging, including a refillable glass jar, refill pouches and our tamper proof that can be decomposed in the soil.". It was to become the Tesla Model S.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This is also the lowest amount of household waste generated since the start of the current recording period in 2011. Of reduction in household waste landfilled since 2011. Most of the decrease was due to a reduction in household and similar waste and soils.  Of this, 43.5% was recycled, a 0.2% increase from 2022.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. If we look at the overlap with soil temperatures, we do really see that Cocci seems to be somewhat restricted by freezing.” Jesse had a disease called Valley fever.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The firm's suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares of natural forests between 2008 and 2011 alone, the report claimed. Farmers are given support and advice on protecting soil health and cultivating rice paddies and bananas as opposed to inefficient palm oil plantations.

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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. It has, and continues to be a valuable conduit for the dissemination of best practice information and advice to farmers and the wider sector.”

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