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

December 25, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, composting, food waste, Massachusetts, policy & politics, waste reduction

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

December 23, 2024 admin Agriculture, beef, cattle, climate change, Denmark, industrial agriculture, livestock, methane, methane emissions, policy & politics

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

December 19, 2024 admin africa, Agriculture, agrivotaics, clean power, east africa, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, solar power plants, University of Sheffield, us department of agriculture (usda), Water

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

December 19, 2024 admin Agriculture, ATHENS, drought climate change, Greece, Irrigation, policy & politics, Water

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

December 15, 2024 admin Agriculture, China, chn energy, clean power, Solar energy, solar power plants

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

December 14, 2024 admin Agriculture, agrivoltaics, clean power, Italy, Solar energy, solar power plants

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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Dam Removal Revitalizes Salmon In Win For Native Tribes

December 13, 2024 admin Agriculture, clean power, dam removal, dams, hydroelectric, klamath river, policy & politics, usfws, Water

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 23:45:14 +0000

If you read One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest years ago, you may recall how Chief Bromden’s psychosis originated with the loss of his people’s fishing habitat due to the construction of a monstrous dam. Ken Kesey brought the loss of annual fish runs of the Columbia River, estimated at … [continued]

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France Reaches 23.7 GW of Solar Power

December 11, 2024 admin Agriculture, clean power, France, france solar energy, france solar power, market research, research, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 01:15:31 +0000

France is among the top nations for significant growth in solar energy generation in recent years, and that continued in the third quarter. The Ministry of Ecological Transition has shared the most recent data from its third-quarter (Q3) 2024 solar photovoltaic energy dashboard. “As of September 30, 2024, [power from … [continued]

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Truth In Food Labeling Would Reveal Hidden Harms To Biodiversity, Including Humans

December 11, 2024 admin Agriculture, FOOD, HEALTH, policy & politics, usda

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 14:58:55 +0000

Should we let businesses that contaminate community water systems write their own rules for what counts as unhealthy? Should we allow factories to spew dangerous emissions into the air? Should we turn our backs when employers force workers to endure dangerous conditions? Of course not. We want to protect each … [continued]

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Mercedes-Benz Seeks Sustainable EV Battery Made From Rice Hulls

December 10, 2024 admin Agriculture, artificial graphite, batteries, bioeconomy, biowaste, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, graphite, green economy, hard carbon, lithium-ion batteries, mercedes, Mercedes Benz, palm oil, rice, Waste management

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:37:05 +0000

The humble rice hull could provide EV battery makers with a more sustainable, bio-based graphite supply chain that outperforms conventional graphite, too.

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