Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They will measure rainfall, soil properties and streamflow and track changes over time. Already on site, scientists are using specialist equipment such as soil moisture and temperature sensors, weather stations and state of the art “lightning detectors” to measure extreme weather events. Less is known about new woodlands.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Industry Voice: A recent study by Boston Consulting Group underscores the huge economic value created through biodiversity — and how pressures on natural ecosystems poses risks to business growth. The value of biodiversity to business. Biodiversity is at the heart of all human life and activity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

With applications ranging from drone surveys to in-situ soil and water analysis, photonics is enabling more sustainable practices and transforming the way we monitor and protect our environment. This technology is invaluable for monitoring landscapes, biodiversity, and changes in terrain over time.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Ditch the plastic gift cards and give employees experiences they’ll remember instead! Many are unaware of the dangers of improper recycling such as how food residue in containers can actually contaminate whole batches of recycled material and that not all items can be recycled even if they’re made from metal, glass, paper or plastic.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 17, 2022

UCHU is a progressive leader driving a sustainable paradigm shift in the food industry, supporting smallholder farmers, local communities and biodiversity, while bringing high-quality pepper spice products to a global market. In doing so, they defend biodiversity by keeping heirloom peppers alive and preserved. Business sustainability.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The potatoes are grown with farming methods that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, help improve soil health, and increase local biodiversity, according to Puffin Produce, which is investing in carbon offset projects to neutralise any remaining emissions from the potatoes' production.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Forest Stewardship Council offers certified printing paper with varying weights and sizes, while HP offers an ink cartridge and plastics recycling program. Through their Planet Partners program, roughly 1 million plastic bottles are collected each day and then incorporated into new products. First, let’s talk vegetation.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Reduce Single-Use Plastics. As we all probably know by now, plastic waste is a huge global problem. Help combat the millions of tons of plastic waste that enter landfills, oceans and our own backyards by finding ways to reduce single-use plastics in your business.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Consider purchasing alternative pavement materials such as interlocking tiles, pervious asphalt or plastic grid pavers. Use native plants as a vegetative buffer – Incorporating native plants into your yard is a great defense against runoff that requires minimal care and simultaneously supports biodiversity.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Climate change, nature degradation, biodiversity decline, water scarcity - all these issues are interconnected, and we must address them all simultaneously," he said. "In If we want to have a healthy planet long into the future, we must also look after nature: forests, soil biodiversity and water ecosystems," he said. "In

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The collaboration, which was announced late last week, includes an undisclosed level of investment to support wine producers keen to adopt regenerative viticulture practices focused on boosting soil health, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration, according to the firm. Mark Pardoe, master of wine at Berry Bros.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources. Such waste items include dunnage , shoring, pallets, lining, transit and packing materials, plywood, paper, cardboard, wire, plastic wrapping, and steel strapping. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution?

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Recycling 148

Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The global business group today published its new Nature Benchmark , just days ahead of the report being presented at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal which kicks off on Wednesday. The urgent first step for companies is to carry out a deep assessment on nature.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When well managed the land helps regulate water and air quality, sequester and store carbon, and minimise flood and soil erosion risks. Soil erosion, wildfires, floods, monocultures, and pollution can all pose a serious threat to life and the viability of the economies and communities that are dependent on the land. Cristiana Pa?ca

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2021

Global demand for biomass is likely to exceed environmentally sustainable supplies in the coming years as the drive to decarbonise takes hold across different industries - a situation which risks undermining climate mitigation efforts and causing major damage to biodiversity and the natural world.

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The retailer said the LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming) Marque environmental assurance system would help its growers to advance their sustainable farming practices in key areas such as soil and water management, reducing waste, enhancing wildlife and biodiversity, energy efficiency and carbon foot printing.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This means the company would remove water from the pond, pack soil around it, then seal the ash with a combination of crushed rock, artificial turf and plastic. Original post: Toxic coal waste threatens biodiverse Alabama delta. Now Alabama Power plans to do a “cap-in-place” disposal method. Alabama Power says this is enough.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

In order to deliver its net zero supply chain goal and drive down its farming footprint, therefore, Carlsberg said it was looking to implement a range of regenerative agricultural practices, which would have the added benefits of enhancing biodiversity, soil health, and natural carbon sequestration on farmlands.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Modern, large-scale agriculture destroys soil and wildlife, and uses vast amounts of fossil fuel energy. Industrial monocultures are destroying ecosystems, poisoning watercourses and removing soil, and don’t produce as much per hectare as small farms anyway. It’s not something that can continue if we want to survive, let alone thrive.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

In some cases an irrigation system (temporary or permanent) or enhanced drainage system should be considered to reduce stress conditions on the plants and to improve soil biology. Soil/Media extension layer (often described as drainage layer) to mimic natural soil profiles and avoid anaerobe conditions in rooting zone.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Our food supply chain uses an excessive amount of land leading to biodiversity loss. Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. Compost will give nutrient-rich soil that’s good for the environment.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

While this contributes to soil fertility, it represents a waste of water, agrochemicals and energy used in production. Packaging – More plastics are needed to package produce that is stored for longer periods, to prevent dessication and wilting. Although the surplus might find a market, it is often ploughed back in.

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Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Waste 74

Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

The bottle is not yet fully plant-based with current iteration still using a conventional plastic bottle cap. with a sustainable plastic cap, which is expected to be delivered in 2023. However, Carlsberg indicated that there are plans for an updated Fibre Bottle 3.0

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A blue cooler lies open on the ground, filled to the brim with neatly stacked plastic vials. “I A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. Dietschler runs his thumb along the bumps. They’re alive.”.

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Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 145

Business Green

APRIL 25, 2024

This year, the theme is ‘ Planet vs Plastics'. Given that SIM cards play a big role in our business, this is one area in which we are taking meaningful steps to remove unnecessary plastic waste from our own chain. The first was to reduce the size of our plastic SIM card holders by half.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Supermarket claims fava beans could help promote healthy soils and cut emissions by locking in soil carbon and replacing some of the soy used in animal feed. It really could be a miracle crop in terms of improving sustainability across our food system".

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 5, 2021

Make better use of finite resources The circular economy concept is all about making better use of natural resources such as forests, soil, water, air, metals and minerals. The world produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste every year, nearly equivalent to the weight of the entire human population. Take the textiles industry.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

GreenBiz readers got excited about climate change solutions that ranged from the new, from the emerging potential of hydrogen as an energy source to changes in plastics manufacturing, to the ancient, such as planting trees. In the $500 billion-per-year cosmetics space, small-scale packaging leads to large-scale single-use plastic waste.

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Sustainability Plastics Climate change Agriculture 28

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Nitrogen and phosphorous are both essential for plant growth, thus they are made into fertilizers that pollute waterways and coastal zones, and accumulate in the world’s soil and land. Land-system change – Forests, grasslands, wetlands, and other land types have been converted to agricultural land all across the globe.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

Deforestation affects rainfall, potentially triggering a vicious circle of dryer conditions, soil erosion and desertification. Biodiversity declines, crops fail. Like plastic , there is an under-reported wave of African leadership on forests. Tensions rise.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Ethics 40

AGreenLiving

JUNE 16, 2020

“Climate change, nature degradation, biodiversity decline, water scarcity — all these issues are interconnected, and we must address them all simultaneously,” he said. “If we want to have a healthy planet long into the future, we must also look after nature: forests, soil biodiversity and water ecosystems,” he said.

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Carbon-neutral Plastics Carbon Biodiversity 28

Green Roof Technology

MAY 17, 2021

The poorly draining site soils and the tight site precluded traditional ground-based stormwater best management practices, so they looked to a vegetated rain-detaining roof for a solution. ” Next comes the layers of the green roof, which are integrated into the high-density plastic bases for the solar array racks.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles. Thirteen years ago, this ahead-of-its-time cool school eliminated plastic water bottles (though it's had to temporarily suspend the policy due to COVID-19).

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