GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

Moreover, it has led to the mass production of commodity crops and the proliferation of unsustainable practices — such as clear cutting to expand production, intensive livestock production, environmental contamination through pesticide and fertilizer use, soil degradation and more. Eosta now has new plans for living wage pineapples.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Climate Corps does this by plac ing talented fellows at leading organizations to advance sustainability goals and deliver tangible results , such as recent fellow Carter Purcell , who worked with Chubb on a groundbreaking new project. You can explore all past Climate Corps projects here. Ready to Drive Sustainability in 2025?

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Resilience Agriculture Sustainability Organic 59

Greenability Magazine

MAY 3, 2021

Venture out to the Miami County Farm Tour to see a slice of farm life and explore an organic lavender farm and a regenerative farmstead. Three new stops have been added this year: Five Mile Farms uses regenerative farming practices that are more environmentally friendly for the soil and the climate.

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Organic Soil Health Education 103

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry.

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Agriculture Biodiversity Organic Technology 364

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Soil scientist Neil Fuller launches the Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme with East Yorkshire farmers. A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil quality on the Yorkshire Wolds. per cent to 6.0

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The International Civil Aviation Organization anticipates that in 2020, global international aviation emissions will be 70 percent greater than in 2005. Soil itself can hold immense amounts of carbon and is capable of absorbing — through sequestration — more carbon than either oceans or forests. That’s no small task.

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Carbon Soil Aviation Climate change 186

Greenability Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

Here are seven easy strategies for organic control of pests, weeds and disease that you can try now. Likewise, many from this growing cohort of urban homesteaders have a personal preference for non-chemical and/or organic practices. The post Try 7 organic strategies to control garden pests appeared first on Greenability Magazine.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

Planet recently participated in a virtual discussion with US Government leaders focused on leveraging satellite data to improve climate resilience. Department of State to share how their organizations are assessing climate risk and building climate resilience.

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Resilience Government Climate change Sea level rise 98

Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. The post Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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Agriculture Resilience Carbon-negative Startups 98

Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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Resilience Climate change Agriculture Soil 77

Planet Pulse

AUGUST 29, 2023

How much does healthy soil impact our climate resiliency? Optimizing best practices in land management can increase biodiversity, enrich soil, and protect water quality, ultimately making our soil more resilient to climate instability. It turns out quite a lot. The problem?

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Agriculture Energy Monitor Soil Building Energy Monitoring 98

Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free nutrients for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. As we rediscover the incredible role of microbial life in our soil, we realize how important it is for us to do whatever we can to support them.”. “As

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Soil Waste Waste Organic 97

Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Events are listed below by sponsoring organizations. If your organization would like to include an event, please email details to Greenability Weekly using Submit an Event. Composting Food Waste & Trying To Stop It , Missouri Organic Recycling. Heart & Soil , CinemaKC. Sew”-stainability , The Sewing Labs.

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Earth Day Resilience Organic Stormwater 99

Green Living Guy

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s a process that requires numerous steps, from soil cultivation to product distribution and everything in between. But through organic farming, we may be able to find a better way to supply … Read More How Organic Foods Can Help the Earth.

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Organic Soil Biodiversity Pollution 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Sales of organic certified product rose over five per cent last year, delivering 10th consecutive year of growth. The market for organic certified products topped £3bn for the first time last year, as the sector enjoyed a "phenomenal" 23 per cent growth over the past two years. per cent in 2021 to £3.05bn.

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Organic Resilience Soil Demand 41

Greenability Magazine

JUNE 8, 2021

This compost system provides a maximum environment for microbes to grow and create rich compost soil that increases soil fertility and helps sequester carbon. Photo: Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems. . – 2 p.m., Sunday, June 13 at the Antioch Urban Growers, 2727 NE 44th St., Kansas City, MO.

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Soil Resilience Waste Waste 104

Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. The world’s soils are the second largest carbon sink, second only to oceans.

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Energy Monitor Carbon-neutral Agriculture Soil 122

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. A new report highlights differences in the approaches used to produce agricultural soil carbon credits and how this can cause uncertainty for companies looking to purchase or generate them. Does soil carbon have a role to play in corporate climate strategies?

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Soil Agriculture Carbon Resilience 96

Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil.

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 145

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BusinessGreen takes a tour around Riverford Organic Farms to explore how the veg box firm is contending with worsening climate impacts. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year. Riverford Organic Farms founder Guy Singh-Watson | Credit: Riverford. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Resilience Agriculture Soil Organic 68

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

DeSmog recently reported how HealthforAnimals, a Belgium-based organization representing some of the world’s biggest animal pharmaceutical companies, presented “misleading” information to back their current business models. based sustainable farming research organization. based environmental organization.

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Soil Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Carbon-negative 98

Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free fertilizer for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. As we rediscover the incredible role of microbial life in our soil, we realize how important it is for us to do whatever we can to support them.”. “As

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Soil Waste Waste Organic 72

Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Over the years, anything “organic” is associated with something healthy. This explains why organic labeled food sells at a higher price compared to others. As more people learn about the benefits of organic herbal farming, it is becoming popular. Not only is organic herbal farming beneficial to humans alone but.

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Organic Global warming Soil Biodiversity 52

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Greater diversity gives greater resilience According to the researchers, a likely reason behind the result is that different tree species occupy different positions, or ‘niches’, within an ecosystem. This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms.

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Logging Biodiversity Resilience Soil 147

Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The combined factors of this continued drought and the unprecedented heat waves sapped the soil moisture of the region, threatening a range of crops , including wheat, berries, and evergreen trees harvested for the Christmas season. Data generated by ClimateEngine.com with modification by Max Borrmann under Creative Commons License.

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Soil Agriculture Climate change Resilience 98

Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

online on Putting Hope into Action with featured speakers on seed diversity, resilient living, herbalism and social change, food insecurity, human health and soil health, native plants and pollinators, perennial agriculture and more with farmers, The Land Institute and KC Farm School’s Let’s Grow Wyandotte.

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Health Soil Agriculture Resilience 96

EDF + Business

MAY 12, 2021

Food and agricultural companies in particular face challenges associated with more extreme and volatile weather, both in terms of the impact it has on their bottom line, as well as their long-term resilience and ability to withstand disruptions. . Ame Igharo, Project Manager, Sustainable Food & Products.

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Resilience Agriculture Climate change Sustainability 52

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Some grasses are a sustainable energy source that could be a driving force towards achieving net zero carbon emissions, according to new research that appears to demonstrate their resilience to harsh growing environments.

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Biotechnology Resilience Agriculture Soil 130

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But regenerative has an older, more established, type-A sister that could be a path to legitimacy: organic. In the 1980s, organic was the new buzzword for farmers, grocers and consumers.

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Organic Agriculture Soil Government 41

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Energy Monitor 98

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

GreenBiz 21 brought together so many different organizations and individuals sustainably transforming business, allowing me to see that everyone has a unique career path. Attending conferences like GreenBiz 21 serve as perfect soil and ground to grow meaningful connections and partnerships! Kristina Chu .

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Mulched leaves and grass clippings return nutrients to the soil and reduces the need for fertilizing. The Johnson County K-State Research and Extension recommends composting yard waste to reduce the amount of waste entering landfills and for a finished compost that improves garden and landscape soils. Start a backyard compost.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 93

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Improving crop resilience. Improvements to land use are one pathway to tackling these problems. “The

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Soil Climate change Waste Waste 100

Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Water leaving your property carries particles of soil and organic debris with it. Rain gardens and bioswales slow the movement allowing it to soak into the soil and reduce flash flooding issues. Rain gardens are a depression in the soil, collecting runoff from rooftops and driveways.

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Soil Stormwater Construction Plastics 85

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

Trusted third-party organizations like LEED, B Corp and Green Business Bureau provide certification programs that can prove your company’s green cred. They say their product is “eco-friendly”, “natural”, “organic”. In other words, a certification program can drive systemic change in an organization. What Does “Green” Even Mean?

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Organic Sustainability Health Waste 140

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

As part of the plan, farmers are provided with training and support as they adopt regenerative farming methods that reduce pesticide use, carbon emissions, and soil erosion, while simultaneously improving organic soil matter and biodiversity.

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