Unsustainable

MARCH 3, 2020

Native plants help preserve the soil and prevent soil erosion. This helps aerate and stabilize the soil and maintain its pH balance, while producing edible forms of agriculture. Medicinal herbs preserve traditional knowledge. Besides the maqui mentioned above, boldo is a very popular medicinal herb to grow.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. At the same time as taking out more than is sustainable, we also pollute the soil, water and air. Cultural, spiritual, education and recreation needs.

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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. Of course, the species you see popping up in your lawn will largely depend on the soil type and conditions where you live.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

Changing phenology also impacts plants with cultural and medicinal significance, some of which have been used for centuries to nourish the body, heal wounds, or aid in ceremonies. This is the case for dozens of medicinal plants in Nepal , where 83 percent of the population relies primarily on herbal remedies. Ishtiaque found that U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Josep Lago / AFP via Getty Images At the end of the plastic life cycle, incinerators and landfills can release PFAS, dioxins, PCBs, and other endocrine disruptors as air or soil pollution — some of which may contaminate nearby food supplies. Volunteers pick up plastic nurdles at a beach in Tarragona, Spain.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

They can remove several harmful compounds from the air and break them down into their soil. She has taught several workshops and courses on fermentation, natural medicine-making, and other self-sufficiency skills in Chicago and Austin. Plants are an excellent way to improve air quality in an office setting.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Titled Nature Means Business , the study gathers evidence from 43 farms to demonstrate that when farm businesses reach a point where outputs, such as food produce, require additional inputs, like fertilisers and medicines, they can degrade natural assets and eventually corrode long-term profitability.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. The beavers’ dam building activities had also helped reduce the risk of flooding to some flood-threatened human settlements.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

Examples include forest sinks and soil carbon sequestration. Soil management: Projects attempt to preserve or increase the amount of carbon sequestration in the soil. For instance, projects include extensive agricultural training and the commercialization, collection, transport, and sale of açaí, rubber, and medicinal plants.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. “If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 7, 2021

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 In West Bengal, farmers use bio-diverse integrated farming models that combine at least 5-6 types of food crops, 10-12 types of vegetables, trees yielding food, fuel, and fodder, and medicinal plants. Packaging accounts for 5.4%

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The genetic code of the world’s flora and fauna is currently used to develop a host of commercial products – everything from groundbreaking medicines, to ingredients for detergents – but companies are only asked to make voluntary donations for its use.

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Green Tech Challenge

MARCH 14, 2019

The red clay soil is getting so greasy I’m making Bambi on ice look like a sure-footed heart-surgeon ready to operate. The knee-high walls of the “room” are made from white 20kg rice bags filled with soil. As the road changes from dirt road to heavily rocky foot passage i lock my bike and proceed on foot.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 8, 2020

However, other NETs are ready to be deployed at scale, this includes land management practices that store more carbon in agricultural soils and forests. Some NET technologies can be costly, controversial and many are still in the early phase of testing. Other more technological solutions need more research.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Also, the loss of trees and other vegetation causes soil erosion, which increases the risks for flooding and a host of other problems such as land loss for indigenous people and habitat loss for endemic flora and fauna species. Hence, when ecosystems weaken, all species, even humans, are placed at risk.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

Commercial agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation across the world, with land dedicated to growing trees and other plants cleared to grow crops or support livestock, causing soil erosion and animal and plant extinction.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

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?’ But thinning without fire rarely brings additional ecological benefits, such as regeneration of fire-resilient trees and plants and promoting soil health.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? For individuals: A community garden can provide other yields as well as food, such as fuel, crafting materials, and natural medicine.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

Together, these fungi species are unlocking solutions for cleaning up the environment, developing greener construction and product materials and contributing significant medicinal benefits. Mycelium is a massive filter that removes toxins from the soil , improving water quality as a result. What are fungi?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 26, 2021

By growing, nurturing and utilizing our own garden for its natural medicinal and nutritional benefits, we’re also helping protect our precious pollinators , like hummingbirds and bees, at the same time. Realizing the benefits of carbon sequestration through soil regeneration, we started ‘ Bee The Garden ’ to formalize the movement.

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Medicine Soil Climate change Waste 28

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. We’ve toyed with basically everything,” said Yolanda Chen, associate professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. In the U.S.,

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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.

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GreenBiz

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. Patti Poppe, CEO, PG&E; San Francisco.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Larger enrollments from minority and low-income populations will provide important services to measure health status, deliver more affordable purchase of medicines and therapies, and better document acute and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular and other health endpoints that can directly connect to environmental exposures.

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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. Much of this knowledge was lost with industrialisation, but some local traditions have continued, Wouters said.

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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 market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Curriculum lessons also include information about soil contamination, agriculture, global warming and noise pollution, in addition to other topics. Inhabitat: How important is it for you to be able to show girls real-life applications for STEM outside of classroom settings?

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Mitchell, from the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston. The lawyer lists off other places PFAS have been found: soil, sediment, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, drinking water, human blood, umbilical cord blood, breast milk, shellfish, fish, indoor house dust, outdoor air, and polar bear blood. the lawyer asks.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2020

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. Graham Carlos of the Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health. “We

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. If we look at the overlap with soil temperatures, we do really see that Cocci seems to be somewhat restricted by freezing.” Jesse had a disease called Valley fever.

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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

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Larger enrollments from minority and low-income populations will provide important services to measure health status, deliver more affordable purchase of medicines and therapies, and better document acute and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular and other health endpoints that can directly connect to environmental exposures.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Larger enrollments from minority and low-income populations will provide important services to measure health status, deliver more affordable purchase of medicines and therapies, and better document acute and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular and other health endpoints that can directly connect to environmental exposures.

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