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Paying farmers a living wage is essential to ensuring sustainable coffee production

GreenBiz

When production is reduced, farmers may use more chemicals in the growing process, which harms the soil and water sources, further degrading the planet and human health. From a high in 2014, prices paid to farmers have plummeted by 70 percent and now dance around $1 per pound. By 2014, Starbucks was only paying $1.72

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Government accused of 'staggering' failure to invest in soil health monitoring

Business Green

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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Time to muck in: Soils must take centre-stage in farming policy, study argues

Business Green

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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A zombie-fire outbreak may be growing in the North

Grist

For example, the particularly active fire years of 2009 and 2015 in Alaska, and 2014 in the Northwest Territories, generated multiple overwintering fires the following spring. Northern soils are loaded with peat, dead vegetation that’s essentially concentrated carbon. Then spring arrives and the ice retreats.

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Google Spinout Dandelion Energy Ramps Up Home Geothermal Installations

GreenTechMedia

He joined when Opower had about 30 employees, then served as chief marketing officer as the company went public in 2014 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Sachse’s appointment as CEO follows his experience at energy efficiency company Opower. cleantech startup.

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Carbon credits would enable restoration of UK saltmarshes, says CEH study

Envirotec Magazine

It is estimated that these accumulate up to around 700,000 tonnes of CO 2 a year and the top 10cm of UK saltmarsh soil hold a total of around 2.3 At present, the UK only has about 45,000 hectares of natural saltmarsh remaining. million tonnes of carbon.

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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist

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. Forest loss has only accelerated since the 2014 United Nations climate summit, when a collection of multinational food companies and governments committed to stop it entirely.