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Environmental Awareness Days in December

Green Business Bureau

Support biodiversity within your own community by including native plants in your landscaping. World Soil Day – December 5th. Plants nurture a diversity of soil microbes that in turn give nutrients and protect plants from disease. Soil fertility vitally depends on this symbiotic relationship.

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Best of GBB in 2021: Green Businesses Leading the Sustainable Business Movement

Green Business Bureau

The large volume of gloves used in the industrial market means that often gloves are thrown into the garbage after they are soiled or worn out. A rain barrel collects water while a compost bin turns food scraps into nutrient-rich soil for their organic garden.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Zimride merged into Lyft in 2013, its vehicles announced by a fuzzy pink "grill-stache." After joining Levi’s in 2013, Singh visited its factories in Turkey and India. and Canadian cities. "At

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Government says beavers can stay in their Devon home

Envirotec Magazine

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. These include flood attenuation, water quality improvement, carbon storage, greater biodiversity and socio-economic benefits to local businesses through wildlife tourism.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Green MEPs protested in 2013 against pesticides that may harm vital pollinators. If you take away the homes and food of wild insect pollinators, it is inevitable that their populations will decline.”. Credit: greensefa.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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'Deteriorating': England's natural world in worsening state, government warned

Business Green

Natural Capital Committee again warns there has been virtually no zero progress against the government's own biodiversity, water, air, and soil quality goals. Meanwhile, progress has stalled in several other key areas, the report states. Our report highlights the limited evidence of progress and some worrying declines.".