Is 2025 The Year Of Food Consumption Patterns That “Break the Rules?”

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:17:32 +0000

Food consumption is on the minds of many individuals as the new year rolls on, with nearly half of US adults saying that they’re starting a new diet. Our contemporary food selections have been carefully cultivated for taste and convenience; exotic food luxuries in many of our childhoods are now … [continued]

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UK Engine Manufacturers Report Hydrogen Engines Essential For Solving Climate Change

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:33:55 +0000

The hydrogen for transportation community is all abuzz about a late-year report from a working group of the UK’s Hydrogen Delivery Council and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. The working group, made up almost entirely of professionals whose entire career, livelihood, and indeed the future of the … [continued]

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UK Engines Manufacturers Report Hydrogen Engines Essential For Solving Climate Change

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:33:55 +0000

The hydrogen for transportation community is all abuzz about a late-year report from a working group of the UK’s Hydrogen Delivery Council and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. The working group, made up almost entirely of professionals whose entire career, livelihood, and indeed the future of the … [continued]

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Year In Review: The State of Biodiversity 2024

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:58:43 +0000

The state of biodiversity is at a critical crossroads as 2024 comes to an end. Nature in all its gifts provides the basic elements on which all life depends: clean air, temperature control, fertile soil, and clean water. Too few people, though, seem to grasp the centrality of protecting and … [continued]

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How Has One US State Cut Food Waste When Others Continue To Struggle?

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:28:14 +0000

Two years ago, Massachusetts banned businesses that generate more than 1,000 pounds of food waste a week from tossing those scraps in the garbage. Restaurants, grocery stores, schools, and hotels all had to reconsider what it meant to dispose of scraps left over from food preparation and diners’ plates. And … [continued]

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Methane-Emitting Livestock Burps & Farts Need To Be Taxed In The US

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:51:02 +0000

Burps and farts. They’re the fodder of fun prepubescent comedy. When the burps and farts come from livestock, though, they generate significant amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming the planet. In fact, animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gas emissions … [continued]

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Study Reveals Benefits Of Agrivoltaics In East Africa

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:29:53 +0000

More research shows that agrivoltaics — the combination of solar and agriculture — can pay big dividends for communities and farmers.

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Athens Has A Water Problem, So They Looked Back To The Ancients For Answers

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:50:44 +0000

It’s been another year of record-breaking heat and dwindling rainfall in Greece. Lake levels have noticeably receded. Struggles in the agriculture sector to irrigate make crop production tenuous. Wildfires have complicated water scarcity problems, because, as firefighters battle the infernos, the water they use depletes already weakened supplies. Water reservoirs … [continued]

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1-Gigawatt Offshore Solar PV Project & 3-Gigawatt Solar Plant on Coal Site — CHN Energy News

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:57:16 +0000

The scale of solar projects has gotten unfathomable. About 10 years ago, I visited a 100-megawatt solar power plant in Crimea, Ukraine. You could ride around the solar power facility on a 4-wheeler for about 15 minutes. The solar panels went further than I could see. 100 megawatts is tiny … [continued]

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Italy: 1.5 Gigawatts for Agrivoltaics

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:57:00 +0000

Agrivoltaics have been all the rage this year, and perhaps they’re raging nowhere more than in Italy. Italy just recently held its first ever tender for agrivoltaics, and it was a big one! Bel Paese awarded contracts for 1.5 gigawatts of agrivoltaics solar projects within its borders. That’s spread across … [continued]

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