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Financial Investments In Smallholder Farmers Are Big Talk At UN Climate Change Conference

November 21, 2024 admin 0 Comments Agriculture, carbon emissions, climate change, cop29, Farmers, farming, green jobs, investment, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:05:19 +0000

Smallholder farmers sustain humanity every day of the year. The 600 million smallholder farmers around the world, who are working on less than two hectares of land, are estimated to be responsible for 28-31% of total crop production and contribute 30-34% of food supply on 24% of gross agricultural area. … [continued]

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Enbridge Renewable Natural Gas A 1% Greenwashing Rounding Error

November 5, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, biofuel, biofuels, biomass, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, heat pumps, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:50:43 +0000

One of the amusing side notes of my recent foray into the challenges that the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is having was the tone deaf and counterproductive social media responses of their board member from Enbridge, the biggest natural gas firm in North America. When that … [continued]

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Rewilding Must Help Damaged Forests To Work Symbiotically With Nature

November 1, 2024 admin Agriculture, carbon emissions, climate change, green economy, reforestation

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:29:12 +0000

Did you know that reestablished forests — revitalized through planting and seeding — rarely manage to fully replicate the rich ecosystems of natural forests? Forests support all kinds of life, such as insects, flora, fauna, humans, and microbes. Compromised woodlands have an innate capacity to regrow and flourish — if … [continued]

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Methane Expert Rob Jackson Of Global Carbon Project Talks Solutions

October 26, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, buildings, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, cattle, clean power, climate change, Energy, Fossil Fuels, HEALTH, heat pumps, Landfill, methane, natural gas, policy & politics, research, shale oil, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:21:39 +0000

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Rob Jackson, scientist, author, and director of the Global Carbon Project to talk cow burps, landfills, and shale oil, all in aid of the very big global warming problem that is methane. This is the second half of our conversation, lightly … [continued]

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A Model Estate Will Be Restored To Nature & Packaged As A Tradable Biodiversity Credit

October 24, 2024 admin Agriculture, carbon emissions, climate change, forestry, heat pumps

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:50:19 +0000

A recent media story highlighted how some very wealthy Brits were adding purpose-built garden water features to their properties as a kind of a wild swimming experience — within a controlled environment. (We middle class folks might call them “ponds.”) Goals of these natural swim spaces include to enhance water … [continued]

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It’s Time To Accept That There Is No Such Thing As Climate Smart Beef

October 23, 2024 admin Agriculture, beef, carbon emissions, climate change, co2 emissions, global weirding, HEALTH, meat, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:28:55 +0000

Tyson Foods — that enormous industrial beef consortium — has found itself the object of a consumer-protection lawsuit that alleges the company was disingenuous in its communication to consumers about its efforts and progress to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. What’s at issue are claims in marketing materials like suggesting … [continued]

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The Nature Conservation Index Is A New Tool For Policy Development & Biodiversity Protection

October 13, 2024 admin Agriculture, biodiversity loss, climate change, HEALTH, nature climate change, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:10:07 +0000

Species do not exist in isolation; they are interconnected. A key element to addressing environmental problems, such as improving water quality and renewing biodiversity, involves addressing nature conservation at its core. What can be done to support a more effective global approach to biodiversity protection and sustainable development? The time … [continued]

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Cow Farts And Belches Targeted For High Tech Methane Removal

October 8, 2024 admin Agriculture, cows, dairy, farming, farms, green economy, meat, methane emissions, research, SCIENCE, us department of agriculture (usda), us environmental protection agency (epa)

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:34:12 +0000

An innovative Danish startup has developed a solution to the serious problem of methane emissions from belching, farting cows, using a farm in Indiana as a test site.

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Working For Climate Solutions No Longer Requires Career Or Life Compromises

October 1, 2024 admin Agriculture, carbon emissions, China, clean energy jobs, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Europe, future, green economy, green jobs, grid, heat pumps, jobs, Solar energy, waste reduction, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:55:39 +0000

A regular feature of my life is having long-term friends, co-workers, collaborators and even complete strangers reach out to me to ask how they can pivot or start their careers to help with climate change or the environment more generally. Most recently, a recent sciences graduate from Cambridge, Hari Kukreja … [continued]

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The Sustainable Agriculture Fair Of The Future

September 27, 2024 admin Agriculture, carbon emissions, climate change, events, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:43:07 +0000

As the summer wound down, I immersed myself in a local cultural tradition: the agriculture fair, a harvest tradition in New England that dates back over a century. With it are competitions for the best examples of cows, pigs, sheep, ducks, and horses, with wide-eyed young future farmers eagerly and … [continued]

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