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How Ocean Spray cranberries became America’s '100 percent sustainable' crop

GreenBiz

Specifically, the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform (SAI Platform) used its Farm Sustainability Assessment to verify that each organization within Ocean Spray’s 700-farm co-op is operating with regenerative agriculture in mind. . In 2017 , Wisconsin produced 5.4 s cranberries grown in Wisconsin or Massachusetts.

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Waste heat reuse and CO2-neutral energy supply concept among winners of German energy efficiency awards

Envirotec Magazine

The following have been recognised for their achievements: The building materials manufacturer, Adolf Gottfried Tonwerke GmbH , together with the technology provider, Orcan Energy AG , in the Energy Transition 2.0 category, for exploiting previously unused waste heat from two furnaces for electricity generation.

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Storing Energy in the Freezer: Long-Duration Thermal Storage Comes of Age

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Jason Dreisbach fields at least half a dozen calls every week from people trying to sell him a technology to lower his energy costs. Cold storage — from frozen food warehouses to grocery and restaurant refrigeration — has one of the highest energy costs of any industry; energy expenditures are usually second only to payroll.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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PlanetScope and Planet Basemaps Utilized for Carbon Credits Monitoring in Indonesian Tropical Forest

Planet Pulse

Fortunately, organizations around the world are using Planet data to help protect these forests, including mission-based company Permian Global. This project embraced natural climate solutions (NCS), which a 2017 paper by Griscom et al. Each verified carbon unit purchased by a company stops the emission of one ton of CO2.

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

GreenBiz

There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond]," says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. In-state emissions were offset by purchasing cleaner power and carbon credits from other projects that reduced emissions elsewhere.).

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Community-led science

Envirotec Magazine

They suspected these symptoms were the result of air pollution from fracking facilities that dominate the area and the subsequent investigation offers a powerful example of what can be achieved by citizen scientists. Volunteer scientist Yuri Gorby with a Summa canister for collecting air samples.