Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Seafood firms can reduce their impact on climate and the oceans - and in doing so can ensure they have a long-term thriving business that delivers healthy and sustainable seafood to millions, writes Nigel Topping, UN High Level Champion for Climate Action at COP26. Seafood is big business and demand is going up.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam, and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other’s efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA).

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

Dean Blanchard Seafood, headquartered on the barrier island of Grand Isle in the Mississippi River Delta, is one of the largest shrimp suppliers in the United States. Dean Blanchard Seafood took a hit, and Blanchard later told a reporter that he estimated his business was worth 15 percent of what it was before the spill.

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Grist

MAY 23, 2024

No human organ is safe from microplastic contamination, it seems — not even the testicles. The findings add to a growing list of studies finding microplastics throughout the human body, including in livers , lungs , carotid arteries, breast milk , and placentas , the organs that form to provide nutrients to growing fetuses.

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Grist

AUGUST 31, 2023

PCBs are synthetic organic chemicals that are long-lasting in the environment and can be harmful to human health. Army study found dangerous levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, more commonly known as PCBs, and arsenic in fish around Kwajalein Island in the Marshalls, which has served as a U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau article, we wanted to help you support a sustainable food supply model on a global level, starting at a smaller scale with your organization’s cafeteria. Tip #15 – Buy organic produce : Organic foods have been grown without the involvement of fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial chemicals.

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Grist

AUGUST 21, 2024

The organization argues that if those acres weren’t used to grow crops, they could instead be transformed into carbon sinks or used to restore threatened ecosystems. Seafood is notably absent from the report, as is protein imported from abroad. the authors of the GFI report significantly limited the scope of their analysis.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Republic of the Marshall Islands and the US environmental organization the Nature Conservancy have today announced a new partnership to launch a new brand of tuna that will see profits returned to Pacific island communities that are facing escalating climate risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Also speaking to The Guardian, Geraldine Thomas, a molecular pathology specialist and radiation expert at Imperial College London, suggested there was no risk to health or seafood from either tritium or carbon-14.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The FAIRR investor network and the Good Food Institute (GFI) have launched two new reporting frameworks for alternative meat, seafood, dairy, and egg companies to use when revealing their environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts to would-be investors and others.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 21, 2021

The land loss caused may be due to the increased nutrient availability for organic soils, greater flooding and physical scouring. Two days before the public comment period closed on the EIS statement, I attended a June 1 CPRA public meeting in Buras, Louisiana, a small town reliant on the seafood industry near the tip of Plaquemines Parish.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

About 17 per cent of the animal protein consumed by humans comes from fish, crustaceans and mollusks, and about three billion people depend on wild-caught and farmed seafood as their primary source of protein. Demand for sea creatures such as tuna, salmon and shrimp grew 3.2 in a recent report.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A third of wild stocks are overexploited , and sourcing seafood from farms should allow ocean biodiversity to recover. The larvae will feed on organic waste from the corn processing and be warmed by excess heat generated by the plant. Some large aquaculture firms, including Grieg Seafood , are already making use of this mechanism.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Beyond offering ample opportunities for sport and recreational activities, the estuary supplies a bounty of seafood. A vibrant and productive Florida Bay does more than allow wildlife to thrive — it boosts commerce, too. Everything in our economy is somehow intertwined with our environment,” Cox said.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

For instance, they don’t require that public sector meals should reflect a climate-friendly diet, i.e. more low-carbon vegetables and pulses and only small amounts of organic or free range meat and dairy products. Unfortunately these proposed standards fail to join the dots between diets and the climate and nature emergency. Concerning’.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Gabriella Harlamert, coordinator of the Audubon Nature Institute’s wildlife stranding network , says the organization is trying to build up its resources, and that it now has its first boat on order. Experts say many dolphins likely have died unidentified.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 15, 2017

billion by 2023, according to a new report from Fish 2.0 , a business competition designed to increase investment in sustainable seafood startups. Microalgae are single-celled organisms such as chlorella and spirulina and are fairly commonly found in health-food stores or mixed into shakes and nutritional supplements. Microalgae.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 15, 2017

billion by 2023, according to a new report from Fish 2.0 , a business competition designed to increase investment in sustainable seafood startups. Microalgae are single-celled organisms such as chlorella and spirulina and are fairly commonly found in health-food stores or mixed into shakes and nutritional supplements. Microalgae.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 7, 2022

Microplastics are a pathway for pathogens on land to reach the ocean. It can lead to consequences for human and wildlife health, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. The study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, is the first to connect microplastics in the ocean with land-based pathogens.

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Grist

AUGUST 27, 2019

There are crusty boatyards and pristine yacht clubs, seedy seafood joints and fancy oyster bars, “my she was yar” schooners and “I’m on a boat” party cruisers. It’s an especially important value to instill in new sailing enthusiasts, and something organization says it is uniquely situated to do given its 300 schools and 7,000 instructors. “It

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). You have to be engaged in aquaculture, you have to be successful in aquaculture, to be successful in seafood. “By producing an increasing amount of seafood sustainably as farmers, the industry can help relieve pressure on wild stocks that might currently be overfished commercially.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before taking that perfect bite of your favorite hamburger or cheese burst vegetarian pepperoni pizza, did you stop to consider that the process of creating a delightful platter meant mercilessly slaughtering of endless animals? It’s justifiable if you did not because most people don’t.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Roishetta Ozane, a community organizer for the environmental group Healthy Gulf, questioned whether regulators were really listening to the communities’ concerns at an LDEQ hearing on Commonwealth LNG’s proposed export air quality permit. She sees the greenwashing the company uses to push its project as a form of gaslighting.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 9, 2023

The Roadmap is organized around five major objectives, with each further broken down into strategies and supporting actions. Support Maine’s Vital and Thriving Seafood Industries and Coastal Communities.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Today, studies have found microplastics in food items such as tea, salt, milk, seafood, sugar, beer, vegetables, and soft drinks. However, a 2018 study stated that a single organic cotton bag would need to be used 20,000 times to offset its environmental impact. Microplastics enter food chains, transferring from one species to another.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 10, 2021

Habits of Waste, a nonprofit environmental organization, was formed to support everyone in their desire to make an impact — no matter how large or small. Now, the organization’s new app, #8meals, is making it easy to save the planet just by adding some more plants to your diet each week.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2020

With guidance from a tutor, Hughes discovered a fish processing plant called MCB Seafoods, where she took a tour to learn more. KE LifeProof phone cases use recycled ocean-bound waste The result is MarinaTex, a bioplastic film made primarily from fish scales and skins and bound with an organic binder. Related: W?KE

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 5, 2019

After a trip to Yellowstone, SBP observed how certain extremophile organisms can survive in the National Park’s volcanic streams sparking a quest to create edible proteins with nutritional value from these hearty microbes. And there’s the fact that only 5% of the US population is vegetarian and only 3% is vegan.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Register your own coastal cleanup — wherever that may be One conservation organization, Heal the Bay in Los Angeles County, serves as an example of this campaign by helping citizens coordinate their own cleanup efforts with a centralized registration system. Animals are harmed by items like six-pack rings and plastic bags.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Although the conference organizers know the carbon footprint of dairy and meat products, they still included them on the menu. For the world’s biggest climate change conference, you would expect a climate-friendly menu. On the contrary, about 60% of the foods served are either meat or dairy-based.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

While we can be more vigilant at home by making a meal plan, only buying foods we need, making use of scraps and focusing on proper storage so foods last longer, larger organizations with substantial impacts are stepping up to reduce consumption and focus on smarter acquisition of foods.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2020

A third of wild stocks are overexploited , and sourcing seafood from farms should allow ocean biodiversity to recover. The larvae will feed on organic waste from the corn processing and be warmed by excess heat generated by the plant. Some large aquaculture firms, including Grieg Seafood , are already making use of this mechanism.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2024

Even when survey respondents described climate change as very or extremely important to them, less than a third reported signing petitions (32 percent), contacting elected officials (12 percent), and donating money to (30 percent) or volunteering with (9 percent) organizations working to reduce climate change.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In the absence of something like the Soil Association to certify that your meat or veg is organically produced, how can the consumer really know? On your fish packs you name the person who caught your fish, which I think is great. That’s one of the things I like – transparency and traceability.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Membership at Crowd Cow , a marketplace for craft meat and seafood, doubled in April alone. The backstory: This is good news from a sustainability perspective, because both companies provide additional sales channels for producers that practice organic and regenerative agriculture.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Related: The differences between organic, natural, biodynamic and sustainable wines It’s easy to be inspired to save oysters and their habitat, because they are a critical filter for the oceans. I can see how it would pair well with oysters and other seafood. In fact, a single oyster cleans 30 gallons of ocean water each day.

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