GreenBiz

JULY 23, 2021

Yet as a consumer, I’ve found it too daunting to evaluate whether the seafood at my restaurants or supermarkets are truly sustainable and ethical. . Food & Agriculture. I’m well aware of many sustainable fishing initiatives and their economic importance. Hopefully, they help bring a better catch to your plate this summer. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

On the supply side, we only partner with ethical and sustainable brands who manufacture natural toxin-free clothing using organic agricultural practices, which regenerate natural systems,” Butler said. “We "We achieve true circularity by hitting on all three pillars of the circular economy.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Each partner brings a relevant monitoring technology to the table and expertise or a track record working in a key industry such as transport, agriculture or the energy sector. Ultimately, all these impacts from increased transparency will have to be accommodated. For the unprepared, the damage could be severe.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Eating three meals a day plus snacks has a considerable impact on the environment, our health, soil, plants and animals, agricultural and food service workers. The post Ethical Eating – A Concise Guide appeared first on Green Living Guy. To look after our planet, more people are paying attention to food production.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

More than 1 million acres of forests have been lost since 1990, leaving the global stock at near 10 million acres, according to a July report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Soybean production and cattle raising activities are linked to deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2023

The UK’s 650 anaerobic digestors use microbes to consume waste, predominantly from agriculture and the food supply chain, capturing the greenhouse gases which are emitted as part of that process and purifying them to create a carbon-neutral substitute for natural gas.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Another question I would categorise of an ethical nature arises is in the light of the growing number of solar PV installations in what were agricultural lands, as observed recently driving around Kent in southern England. Agrivoltaics can help India secure energy and food supply – IEEFA.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Dr Malone said unlike the biofuels we know today, which are dependent on agricultural land to produce corn and sugar beets, bio-production in seawater would avoid ethical concerns of ‘fuel vs food’.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Social and environmental ethics have never been such a driving force in consumer food choice – so producers need to keep up with demands. Scottish salmon farmers can tap into the growing demand for sustainably and ethically produced food: leading to potentially growing profits for rural farmers to spread and support local rural economies.

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Unsustainable

JUNE 19, 2022

By making small changes, like buying local or seeking transparent companies, anyone can shape demand for compliance with human rights.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

This lifecycle starts with the sourcing of natural resources via agriculture, to the distribution of ingredients to manufacture food items, and then the transportation of these food items across the globe for their consumption and disposal. Food loss refers to unused products from the agricultural sector, such as unharvested crops.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Amid these challenges, meeting the ambitions of the 2030 agenda will require us to redesign and optimize countless systems, from transport and agriculture to energy and manufacturing. Managing Ethical Supply Chains – Planet’s technology has been used to shine a light on illegal supply sourcing.

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Business Green

JULY 12, 2020

HSBC appear to be funding Brazilian beef linked to deforestation and forest fires, despite their own ethical investment policies forbidding them to do so.". There is no version of industrial animal agriculture production that is compatible with climate justice and a zero carbon future.".

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Grist

MAY 25, 2021

The coordination hub for the new trials will consider the social, ethical, and legal issues related to removing carbon. The joy is that if it does sequester CO2 and lead to enhanced agricultural productivity, then everybody’s laughing,” said Hepburn. acres) of arable fields and grasslands.

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Low Impact

MAY 20, 2020

It offers everyone the chance to be part of the transition to a more eco-friendly, ethical and sustainable future. Permaculture was originally a word made up of the two words ‘permanent’ and ‘agriculture’. At its heart are three very simple tenets, or ethics: – Care for the planet. What is permaculture? Care for people.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Join us for a discussion of innovation in agriculture and advocacy facilitated by Climate Solutions' Gregg Small. Mimi returned to Bethel Heights, then in 2016 left to grow and make wine at her home vineyard and living laboratory, Hope Well, a living model for a habitat-based regenerative model for agriculture. Drivers of Change.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 26(5), 999–1014. The anatomy of human destructiveness. Greenwich, CT. [2] 2] Wilson, E. Harvard University Press. [3] 3] Clowney, D. Biophilia as an Environmental Virtue. 4] Calabrese, E. F., & Dommert, A. Biophilia and the practice of Biophilic Design.

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Low Impact

JUNE 24, 2020

Foraging can be a wonderful way to engage with the natural world – an important step in achieving a more sustainable and ethical lifestyle. Even long after large-scale agriculture became the primary means of Western food production, it was still common to supplement an agricultural diet with wild food foraged from the surrounding environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The work is important because chemicals produced in domestic and industrial processes, as well as in agriculture, are not eliminated by wastewater treatment and end up in our waterways. From there, they accumulate through the food chain, eventually finding their way onto our tables as food and drinking water.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Department of Agriculture (USDA) developed their Green Purchasing Affirmative Procurement Program (GPAPP) from legislation such as the Energy Policy Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act. Look for fair trade labels and other ethical certifications. For example, the U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Riding on the coattails of campaigns from the likes of Stop the Money Pipeline coalition, come ever louder calls for financial institutions to divest from industrial agriculture across the board, with meat producers drawing particular attention. Criticism of industrial agriculture and meat producers is certainly not new for NGOs.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Named “Brazen TM Beef”, it was the first ever product of its kind to receive the “Climate-Friendly” stamp from the US Department of Agriculture. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. At the last count, livestock production contributes 14.5 They’re all getting bigger.

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Low Impact

MARCH 10, 2021

Why farmers’ markets are good for shopping ethically. By contrast, farmers’ markets have greater transparency and a much shorter chain between food production and consumer, making them a more ethical choice for shoppers. The overall environmental impact of the growing system or form of agriculture employed.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Good Food Institute report details record-breaking year for the fledgling sector, amid growing interest in greener, more ethical alternatives to livestock-reared meat. The report also highlights seafood as the next frontier for alternative proteins, amid growing concern over severely over-fished oceans and dwindling marine biodiversity.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

The expansion of the 'lab-grown' meat industry promises to slash emissions, free up land for trees and regenerative agriculture, and tackle food insecurity, writes Meatable's Krijn De Nood. To do this, however, we need to enable a complete shift in resources for the food system - from ethics to efficiency and geography.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Here, two experts in food and agriculture - Nicola Patron from the Earlham Institute and Catherine Price from the University of Reading - discuss GM food, touching on both its challenges and its potential benefits for increasing yields and easing pressure on land, water and biodiversity. Agriculture does not operate and exist in isolation.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Agriculture 6. As businesses and society continue to transition towards further sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, the key challenge faced is in rethinking the philosophy of management and business ethics to achieve this change in deep and lasting ways. Climate impacts 2. Sustainability and business 3.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

investment through its current seed funding round - with a series A round to follows later in the year - to help scale up its carbon offsetting programme, which it said offered a "huge opportunity" for the agricultural sector to reduce its emissions. As such, the company is seeking a further $2.5m

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

From packaging to supply chains to recycling behaviours - staying environmentally ethical can, at times, feel like a full-time endeavour. Using less energy and water, plus a reduced carbon dioxide impact, the agricultural method is promising both health and climate advantages and is viewed as an acceleration of existing farming commitments.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

cation scheme has this week been relaunched and expanded in a bid to accelerate the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices that can help tackle the enormous loss of UK biodiversity. Ethical consumerism is on the rise, especially when it comes to food," Varney said. The RSPB's Fair to Nature food and farming certi?cation

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

Source from sustainable and ethical food providers. Businesses have an obligation to source both ethically and sustainably. To learn more about sustainable sourcing, read our article Sustainable Business Practices for the Food and Agricultural Industries. Sustainable Food Choices.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The company also today promised to work more closely with suppliers through its existing Sustainable Cotton Programme to boost biodiversity by training farmers to use more regenerative agriculture practices by 2030. We've been working to become a more sustainable and ethical business for over 10 years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Highlands Rewilding's plan is to turn the two estates into biodiverse carbon sinks through "ethically profitable land management", with the close involvement of the local communities, with hopes of then expanding the model to further lands across the region. So that's my aspiration."

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Europe’s Green Deal.

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Business Green

MARCH 2, 2021

The latest developments came as the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) - an independent advisory board set up to inform the government's trade policies - today published its final report, setting out a host of recommendations to ensure fairer and greener post-Brexit trade for UK farmers.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Could you join a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme? If you want to support local growers, but not necessarily get your hands dirty yourself, consider a Community Supported Agriculture scheme – another potential way to get your hands on locally and sustainably-grown food. They aim to make ethical the new normal.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 6, 2020

Why the private sector needs to invest in conservation agriculture right now William Ginn Sat, 06/06/2020 – 02:00 This is an excerpt from ” Valuing Nature ” by William J. Copyright 2020 William J. Reproduced here with permission from Island Press, Washington, D.C. Resistance to change is universal.

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