Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The type, pH, quality, and fertility of the soil. Provide other yields, such as fuel for heating, timber, and natural materials for crafting and DIY projects, herbal medicines, etc. Decreasing the impact of pollution/smells from nearby roads. Reducing noise pollution from roads or nearby properties.

Sustainability 89

Sustainability Ethics Medicine Soil 89

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Chock-full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, seaweed has been a staple of Asian diets and traditional medicine for centuries, and its various applications in food production and scientific research date back decades. Seaweed's potential as a solution to this crisis is two-fold, scientists and environmentalists say.

Pollution 48

Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 48

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The stoves have improved combustion, reducing household air pollution and the adverse health effects of this. Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration. Soil management: Projects attempt to preserve or increase the amount of carbon sequestration in the soil.

Carbon 148

Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Methane 148

Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Two Medicine River, sacred to the Amskapi Pikuni, the Blackfeet, rushes nearby. The mammals leave their scat, infused with whatever toxins were originally in the insects, on the sides of the Two Medicine and other water bodies on the reservation. She knows this landscape by heart. The threat of oil extraction still looms today.

Health 145

Health Medicine Waste Waste 145

Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.

Biodiversity 82

Biodiversity Climate change Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 82

Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Lycorma delicatula , named for the lantern-shaped body of the adult that appears to glow under its dull wings, is used in traditional medicine in China, its native land. Land use, pollution, fire history—all factor into ecology. Since the bug was first identified in 2014, it has been devastating vineyards and orchards in the Northeast.

Agriculture 83

Agriculture Asia Climate change Medicine 83

Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Wildfires now account for nearly half of the fine-particle pollution in the West. This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air, and humans?’ The runoff can pollute watersheds with ash and harm water-treatment facilities.

Resilience 98

Resilience Biodiversity Soil Logging 98

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

Pollution 430

Pollution Health Politics Policy 430

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. The invention of the car came with urban sprawl, pollution, and over 1.25

Technology 52

Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

All outdoor lighting is Dark Sky Rated to help minimize light pollution and allow girls to see the stars. Curriculum lessons also include information about soil contamination, agriculture, global warming and noise pollution, in addition to other topics. Several efforts can be found throughout the site.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Education Medicine Global warming 28

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Grist

JUNE 27, 2020

The pandemic is still raging, the Arctic is burning up , and microplastics are polluting every corner of the Earth , but do try to take a deep breath. By contrast, the lush rainforests to the south of the Sahara have trees that both block the wind and hold on to the soil with their roots, keeping all the muck from taking to the air.

Africa 117

Africa Cooling Microplastics Solar Energy Monitor 117

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

Health 28

Health Pollution Politics Policy 28

Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Certainly, it appears that significant drops in pollution levels all over the world as carbon emissions plummet from a stumbling global economy is a good thing. Likewise, pharmaceutical companies, in the quest for billion-dollar profits, focused most of their R&D on the big sellers: heart medicines, painkillers and male impotence drugs.

Climate change 52

Climate change Health Fossil fuels Agriculture 52

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

If they were coming from Europe and had a superior system that would actually free us from the pollution and the toxicity that would be welcome,” said Jill Hunkler, executive director of Ohio Valley Allies, a grassroots advocacy group fighting for environmental justice in northern Appalachia. While former U.S.

Waste 141

Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 141

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn't lack is pollution. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth.

Home Energy Monitoring 496

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Energy Monitor 496

Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

What it also left, in Tsai’s words, was an opportunity for a sort of “geological sample” — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the creeks six months after a catastrophic derailment. Rick Tsai searches for evidence of lasting pollution in the creek water at a construction site at Leslie Run.

Health 145

Health Soil Pollution Organic 145

AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn’t lack is pollution. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth.

Home Energy Monitoring 28

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Pollution Business Energy Monitoring 28