Category: Project Green
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How Farmers Accidentally Killed Off North America’s Locusts
SciShow talks about locusts and how they pretty much have disappeared in North America. Locusts are a huge agricultural pest…except in North America. What happened to the Rocky Mountain locusts that once swarmed this continent? Researchers think that the colonization of the North American West might have had something to do with their disappearance.
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Power Knot Food Waste Digester Now Available in Japanese
FREMONT, Calif., April 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Power Knot LLC, the market leader for onsite organic waste management solutions, announced today that it released complete support for the Japanese language for the LFC biodigester family. The LFC® biodigester is a machine that digests food waste. These machines are usually installed in a commercial kitchen and reduce the expense,…
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2022 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books presents The Trouble with Nature: Freedom Tree
A Race of Bees And Wasps — Friendship, Love, and Compassion LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, April 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Author Robert J. Morris will be one of the featured authors at the upcoming Los Angeles Festival of Books 2022 with his published book titled The Trouble with Nature: Freedom Tree. A story that…
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New study and interactive map point to environmental justice disparities (and solutions) in land conservation
Newswise — A new study in Environmental Research Letters shows striking disparities in the distribution of conserved land across multiple dimensions of social marginalization in New England – and creates a tool to help address them. In a New England-wide analysis, the researchers found that communities in the lowest income quartile, and communities with the highest proportions of people…
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Upgrade Sustainability Practices by Upcycling
(Family Features) Virtually everyone knows recycling helps promote more sustainable living. A lesser known but effective way to keep materials out of the landfill is upcycling. When items get recycled, they’re generally broken down and the materials are used to create other products. For example, glass can be melted to create new glass containers, milk…
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Saint-Laurent Granted Nearly $1 Million to Protect Parc Marcel-Laurin Woodland
SAINT-LAURENT, QC /CNW Telbec/ – Arrondissement de Saint-Laurent is delighted with the grant of up to $1 million received from the Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques to restore and create wetlands and bodies of water in Parc Marcel-Laurin woodland. “Our government is redoubling its efforts regarding environmental matters in Montréal. Whether we are talking about public transit, soil…
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It Pays to Give: 5 ideas for investing in the world around you
(Family Features) In a world fraught with social, political and environmental strife, a mindset that involves a more community-driven approach can make a meaningful difference. Each person’s contributions to improve the earth can send a ripple effect that ultimately transforms communities and the people who live within them. Consider these examples of actions you can…
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Statement by President Biden on Electric Vehicle and Battery Manufacturing Investments in North Carolina
Today’s announcement that the electric vehicle maker VinFast will build an electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facility in North Carolina – $4 billion to create more than 7,000 jobs and hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles and batteries – is the latest example of my economic strategy at work. It builds on recent announcements from…
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Energypark Haringvliet – a combination of wind, solar and batteries
Energypark Haringvliet in Netherlands is inaugurated today. It is Vattenfall’s first power plant that combines wind, solar and batteries. By combining these technologies, it will be able to produce energy at a lower cost, make a more efficient use of available grid capacity, with less impact on the environment. Therefore, Haringvliet will serve as a…
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Vattenfall enables fossil-free parcel delivery for Instabox
Vattenfall and the delivery company Instabox have started an international collaboration to provide charging infrastructure for Instabox’s electric vehicle fleet. By the end of 2022, Vattenfall will operate approximately 400 charge points on Instabox’s terminals in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. Instabox is an international last-mile delivery company that delivers packages for a large number…