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Sustainable Planet

Seawater Farming: one salty solution to the impact agriculture has on climate change

Scotland-based non-profit Seawater Solutions helps communities turn underutilised land into wetland ecosystems for food production and climate resilience.

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Sustainable Planet

How Kenya is ‘harvesting the sun twice’ to boost crop yields

Trials with agrivoltaic energy systems that combine solar power, crop production, and rainwater harvesting on the same land area have boosted…

3 mins
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Good Stuff

How producing our food sustainably helps restore our planet’s biodiversity

Prof. Dr. Louise Vet suggests that instead of spreading produce all over the world, we should have a more localised production,…

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Good Stuff

Meet the Mayan beekeeper who beat Monsanto

Leydy Pech, winner of the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize for North America, is the beekeeper who defended Mexican Maya land against…

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Inspiring People

Dutch bulb fields like you’ve never seen them before!

20,000m2 artwork GROW highlights the beauty and importance of agriculture by turning a field of ordinary leeks into a dazzling light-show…

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Sustainable Planet

Wildlife, nature and the climate to benefit from England’s biggest overhaul of farming in 50 years

£1.6bn subsidies for farming land in England to end, to be slowly replaced with a scheme that pays for public goods…

5 mins
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Sustainable Planet

Five Reasons Why Everyone Should Start Home Composting

Maybe you think about composting but don't know how to start. Perhaps you heard compost piles are smelly... Despite what you…

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Good Stuff

‘Madman’ digs for two decades to bring water to his parched Indian village

Using nothing but traditional hand tools, a 70-yo man spent twenty years singlehandedly carving out a 3-km-long canal to bring rainwater…

4 mins
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Sustainable Planet

U.S. report bumper bee bonanza — Honeybee numbers on the increase in multiple U.S. states

Recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that many States across the nation are experiencing a healthy growth in…

6 mins
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Sustainable Planet

How Crushed Volcanic Rock Sprinkled on Farm Soil Could Help Slow Climate Change and Boost Crops

New study suggests topping soil with rockdust could suck billions of tons of CO2 from the air and increase crop nutrients.

5 mins
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Seawater Farming: one salty solution to the impact agriculture has on climate change

How Kenya is ‘harvesting the sun twice’ to boost crop yields

How producing our food sustainably helps restore our planet’s biodiversity

Meet the Mayan beekeeper who beat Monsanto

Dutch bulb fields like you’ve never seen them before!

Wildlife, nature and the climate to benefit from England’s biggest overhaul of farming in 50 years

Five Reasons Why Everyone Should Start Home Composting

‘Madman’ digs for two decades to bring water to his parched Indian village

U.S. report bumper bee bonanza — Honeybee numbers on the increase in multiple U.S. states

How Crushed Volcanic Rock Sprinkled on Farm Soil Could Help Slow Climate Change and Boost Crops

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Seawater Farming: one salty solution to the impact agriculture has on climate change

How Kenya is ‘harvesting the sun twice’ to boost crop yields

How producing our food sustainably helps restore our planet’s biodiversity

Meet the Mayan beekeeper who beat Monsanto

Dutch bulb fields like you’ve never seen them before!

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Wildlife, nature and the climate to benefit from England’s biggest overhaul of farming in 50 years

Five Reasons Why Everyone Should Start Home Composting

‘Madman’ digs for two decades to bring water to his parched Indian village

U.S. report bumper bee bonanza — Honeybee numbers on the increase in multiple U.S. states

How Crushed Volcanic Rock Sprinkled on Farm Soil Could Help Slow Climate Change and Boost Crops