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Advanced Techniques for Vegetation Monitoring With Planetary Variables

Planet Pulse

Vegetation monitoring involves inspecting and measuring the growth of trees and other plants to understand ecosystem health. These products translate raw satellite observations into quantifiable metrics about biophysical properties such as soil moisture, land temperature, crop biomass, and forest carbon stocks.

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

GreenBiz

The berry grows best in boggy, water-soaked soil that can’t be used for many other crops. It's a symbiotic relationship," said Chris Ferzli, director of global corporate affairs and communications for Ocean Spray, the well-known agricultural co-operative, which generates annual revenue of about $2 billion. "The

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Monitoring for flood management

Envirotec Magazine

Historically, floodplains have been exploited for agricultural and urban development, which has increased the exposure of people, property and other infrastructure to floods. These land use techniques are designed to reduce the soil compaction which increases run-off. Conveyance. They also enable more species to move between habitats.

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This ancient bit of ingenuity keeps carbon trapped for thousands of years

Grist

For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforests soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food. Thousands of years ago, the regions Indigenous peoples solved this problem by creating terra preta from table scraps and charcoal and tucking it away in the hostile soil.

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Danone's Eric Soubeiran: 'The food system is broken'

GreenBiz

Danone, founded more than a century ago and famously declared an asset of national importance by the French government in 2005, has long prided itself on being a purpose-led business. If you really want to do sustainability well in a company, you need to know your business well," Soubeiran said.

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

The company’s first technology, MycoComposite, precipitated the subsidiary Mushroom Packaging , which I discussed with Ecovative’s business development lead, Meghan Olson. In the cases of Mushroom Packaging and Piñatex, their biological source is considered an agricultural byproduct or waste. trillion opportunity by 2030.

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Farmland water “battery” storage and leak-detecting broadband cables among winners in Ofwat innovation competition

Envirotec Magazine

The initiative will work with farmers to create stores of water – both in soil “sponges” as well as lakes and ponds – that can be “re-charged” through wet weather, then drawn on through ever-more common dry seasons, to the benefit of either the farmers themselves, or local communities. A full list of the winners is included below.