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ECOS reviews proposed `Carbon Farming Initiative`
The CFI aims to enable Australian farmers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and generate tradeable carbon credits. The agricultural sector accounts for over a quarter of the nation’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions. It also offers significant opportunities for emissions reductions through tree conservation and planting, improved land management, and new technology. Challenges ...
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Counting carbon on the farm topic of symposium
Agriculture is in the middle of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission equation, as well as carbon storage. The soil is a potential sink for carbon though “carbon sequestration” in soils as well as agricultural biomass. The “Counting Carbon on the Farm: Science, System, and Support” symposium planned at the Resilience Emerging from Scarcity and Abundance ASA, CSSA, SSSA ...
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Carbon Robotics Closes $27 Million in Series B Financing Round Led By Anthos Capital
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Robotics, an agriculture robotics company, today announced it secured $27 million in Series B financing from Anthos Capital, Ignition Partners, Fuse Venture Capital, Voyager Capital, Bolt and Liquid2 Ventures to accelerate the company's growth. The funding will be used to scale production of the company’s products, grow its engineering team, establish ...
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Is This the Future of Sustainable Energy?
Sustainable technology is becoming increasingly essential in today’s world. Finding ways to solve more than one problem at the same time is not only environmentally critical it can also be financially beneficial as well. As the principal by-product from incineration is heat, which in most cases just flows harmlessly out of the chimney and into the air. However hot air has many valuable ...
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Keystone XL foes turn focus to local government
Frustrated with state and federal officials, opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are turning to low-level county commissions and zoning boards in a new attempt to slow a project that has become a focal point of national battle over climate change. Landowners and other opponents of the pipeline, which could carry 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canadian tar sands to refineries on the Texas ...
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Iberdrola Renewables Announces Additional Blue Creek Wind Farm Customer
Iberdrola Renewables announced Ohio State University, in its ongoing efforts to become a carbon-neutral campus, has purchased 50 megawatts (MW) from its Blue Creek Wind Farm, located in Van Wert and Paulding counties in Ohio. “This commitment to wind energy is a great example of Ohio State’s leadership in sustainability issues,” said Ron Sega, vice president and enterprise ...
By Iberdrola
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America can learn from Australia’s new clean energy future package
Australia, one of world’s most carbon-intensive countries, recently began implementing a comprehensive national policy to address climate change and transition to a clean-energy economy. Yesterday, WRI had the pleasure of hosting Mark Dreyfus, Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, who outlined his country’s plans to a group of business, ...
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Green mountain power-Shelburne farms solar project moves ahead
Green Mountain Power and Shelburne Farms are working together to build solar generation at Shelburne Farms. Under the terms of a 25-year cooperative agreement, Green Mountain Power will install a 770 solar panel array at Shelburne Farms. The panels will occupy three quarters of an acre in a field that Shelburne Farms has recently designated as a "Solar Orchard." Mary Powell, Green Mountain Power ...
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CFA member Soil Capital launches European carbon payment programme with CFT
Soil Capital, a firm of independent agronomists and financial professionals, has launched the first European carbon remuneration programme, for farmers by ...
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Trees near homes boost incomes, sequester carbon
A form of small-holder agroforestry in which trees are planted around the home, maximising the land left available for cash crops, may prove the best balance between sequestering carbon and making money by farming other crops, a study has found. There has been a proliferation of projects that encourage small-scale farmers to adopt tree planting as part of efforts to sequester carbon from the ...
By SciDev.Net
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Carbon projects for smallholder farmers can `reduce poverty`
Projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on small-scale farms can help African farmers access carbon markets and reduce poverty, and should be scaled-up, according to a policy brief. Carbon projects that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane can earn farmers 'carbon credits' for sale in the global carbon market. But smallholder carbon projects face serious ...
By SciDev.Net
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ARS explores ways to keep carbon in the soil
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon in the soil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Soil organic carbon plays a major role in how well a cultivated field holds moisture, provides nutrients and remains productive. That can be a problem in ...
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Finding the real potential of no-till farming for sequestering carbon
The potential of no-tillage (NT) soils for increasing the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool must be critically and objectively assessed. Most of the previous studies about SOC accrual in NT soils have primarily focused on the surface layer (<20-cm soil depth), and not for the whole soil profile. The lack of adequate data on the SOC profile is a hindrance to conclusively ascertain the effects of ...
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Loeriesfontein wind farm turbine foundations amongst the world’s greenest
Loeriesfontein Wind Farm has announced that its wind turbine foundations are utilising one of the world’s lowest quantities of Portland cement in the concrete formulation. The foundations are designed using an 89% replacement of cement, resulting in, what we believe to be, one of the world’s lowest carbon footprints for any wind farm foundation; according to research scientist, and ...
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Cypress Creek partners with Starbucks for building solar farms in US
Starbucks has separately invested in six solar farms of Cypress Creek in Texas, which represents a total of 50 megawatts of solar energy Cypress Creek Renewables, a solar power company, and Starbucks have reportedly announced a partnership to build solar farms across Texas, United States. Apparently, the partnership will also involve two of the existing farms operated by Cypress Creek supply ...
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GlasPort Bio Wins RUSHLIGHT AWARDS 2020-21
Eventure Media announced the results of the 14th year of the Rushlight Awards, which were once again proudly supported by SocEnv. Due to the current global pandemic, there was no Awards Party this time, but many of the awards entrants are engaged with the forthcoming Rushlight Show, taking place on 10-11 March as a virtual event for the first time. Rushlight Show Sponsored by Innovate UK, ...
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Barrick inaugurates Punta Colorada Wind Farm in Chile
At an inauguration ceremony held today in northern Chile, Barrick Gold Corporation marked the official opening of the Punta Colorada Wind Farm, the largest wind farm ever built by a mining company in the country. The event was attended by the President of the Republic of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, the ministers of Mining and Energy, Hernán de Solminihac and Rodrigo ...
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Power Up while Cooling Down
Off-Shore Data Centers, Desalination Plants, Naval Mission Power Platforms, Off-Shore Fish Farms, Carbon Capture and Grid Quality Electricity – With Reliable, Robust OE Technology That Generates Sustainable Power from Waves. Irish marine innovation combined with U.S. engineering prowess is taking shape in an Oregon shipyard, where shipbuilder, Vigor, is constructing a marine hydrokinetic ...
By Ocean Energy
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The Role of Straw Charcoal Production in Advancing Sustainable Agriculture
Introduction The Vital Role of Agriculture Agriculture is the backbone of our global food supply. It sustains billions of people and contributes significantly to economies worldwide. However, this essential sector faces unprecedented challenges in the 21st century. Sustainable Agriculture and Its Challenges Sustainable agriculture, with its focus on environmentally friendly practices, resource ...
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OWA to support state-of-the-art BEACon dual Doppler radar project to reduce cost of energy from offshore wind
The Carbon Trust today announced its support for a state-of-the-art technology trial, through its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), to understand the viability of using dual Doppler radar to produce high-resolution dynamic maps of the wind flow through and around a wind farm. The measurement campaign is part of OWA partner DONG Energy's BEACon (Beamed Radar for Energy Assessment and Site ...
By Carbon Trust
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