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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

Corporate Knights

Nestlé is paying ranchers for regenerative grazing practices that get sold as carbon credits. General Mills makes a regenerative-beef protein bar that it claims offsets 80% of its greenhouse gas emissions through regenerating soil practices.” Walmart Canada stocks 2.5 The practice of branding meat as climate-friendly isn’t new.

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The Brief: Mainstreaming impact investing in Japan, regenerative animal farming, converting light into energy, chief Opportunity Zone officers

Impact Alpha

Sustainable investing assets under management quadrupled from 2016 to 2018 to 18% of managed assets. The The post The Brief: Mainstreaming impact investing in Japan, regenerative animal farming, converting light into energy, chief Opportunity Zone officers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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America is hungrier than ever for sustainable food systems. Can we build them?  

GreenBiz

If a farmer wants to transition a farm from conventional practices to organic or regenerative ones, costs are associated with that transition. These factors are different for organic and regenerative farmers, so the numbers often don’t work, resulting in loans being denied or unaffordable. These farms accounted for 5.5

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A New Year’s resolution for Bill Gates

GreenBiz

As it happens, I met Naam — in his role as a radical energy analyst — at a VERGE event in San Jose, California, in 2016. . The idea here is to turn every lens we have — periscopes, microscopes, telescopes — onto the emerging regenerative economy. Scanning for what’s working, what isn’t (yet) and what needs to be tried next.

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Pitney Meadows Community Farm Adds New Irrigation System Thanks to Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Grant

3BL Media

PMCF was incorporated in 2016 specifically for the purpose of acquiring and managing a historic 166-acre family farm as a community farming and agricultural resource center. Pitney Meadows Community Farm was founded in 2016 to preserve the last operating farm in Saratoga Springs. About Pitney Meadows Community Farm.

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

For any company operating in or with significant supply chain exposure to China, building an understanding of the national and local regulatory landscape and best practices related to VOC mitigation recently has become a vital step to reducing the risk of business interruption arising from environmental enforcement that began in 2016.

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Startup Allotrope Raises $6.7 Million to Make Batteries from Trees

ESG Today

Founded in 2016, UK-based Allotrope has developed technology enabling major improvements in the capability of high-rate carbon anodes for energy storage applications allowing for significantly faster charge times, similar to fueling an internal combustion engine vehicle, while reducing safety hazards associated with other lithium-ion technologies.