Countdown supermarkets will stock more reusable, cloth and compostable nappies in a bid to drastically reduce the amount of waste produced each year. Babies and toddlers get their nappies changed an estimated 6000 times in their first two-and-a-half-years, most nappies …
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When sales reps peddling energy companies ask Jose Flores who he has as his electric provider, he doesn’t miss a beat: “Oh, I’ve got Flores Electric,” he replies cheerfully. And then waits for the inevitable, “Huh?” Forgive the zeal of …
Out of service fuel pumps are covered in plastic wrap and tarps at an Exxon Mobile gas station. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Is the oil barrel half empty or half full? In the past week you had your …
Imagine a community of 200,000. Convivial, walkable, six times the density of Manhattan but with a smaller ecological footprint. It provides low-cost services and affordable housing mixed with productive uses such as recycling, farming and trading. It’s a city within …
For Venkat Maroju, growing up in the hinterlands of Karimnagar in Telangana made him witness and understand farmers at close quarters. Something that has always been on his mind. When the engineer saw an opportunity to make a difference in …
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Mother Jones. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cloverleaf Farm, a small produce operation in Davis, California, managed to do okay during the extreme drought that lasted from 2012 to 2016. …
Sponsored by BASF and Farm419 Six entrepreneurs with cutting-edge ideas and technologies to advance agriculture will battle it out in front of a panel of judges next month for a £40,000 development prize. Here, we find out more about the finalists. …
Regenerative farming, an agricultural approach that promotes healthy, mineral-rich soil by fostering biodiversity, is trending now, and not just among the sustainability-minded set. Even the business and finance sectors are buying in. “Investing in regenerative agriculture has the potential to …
Washington D.C., Oct 4, 2019 / 06:00 pm (CNA).- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is asking houses of worship to eliminate mercury products, while at the same time saying that restrictions on mercury emissions at power plants are no longer …
Opinion Climate change As the climate collapses, we can either stand together – or perish alone Tim Hollo Collective action is our only hope for enduring climate breakdown. Calls for survivalism will only hasten catastrophe Climate survivalism will only hasten …
The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) says it is set to control the circulation of adulterated seeds in Plateau which has been impeding bumper yields by farmers. Dr Philip Ojo, the Director General of …
By H Pexton and K Nagato. First published in Water e-Journal Vol 4 No 3 2019. DOWNLOAD THE PAPER The water industry has always been at the forefront of liveability in Melbourne, managing safe water supply and sewage disposal, and as shown …
David Herring, executive director of Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment addresses the crowd Wednesday at the launch of the new OpenTEAM platform. (Hannah LaClaire/The Times Record) FREEPORT— Wednesday morning, Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment …
Black farmers in the Eastern Cape are running commercial entities – exporting some of their produce – and have created jobs for a number of people, says the writer. (Photo: Gallo Images / Rapport / Deon Raath) The Eastern Cape …