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Cummins Employees Improve Environment One Mussel and Bee at a Time

3BL Media

Small, flexible, colored, plastic tags were applied to the shell of the mussels, which included an individual number for each mussel to be identified and measured. Some mussels were also outfitted with Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags glued onto their shells.

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Good for Consumers, Good for the Planet

3BL Media

That’s why Griffith Foods is proud to partner with International Agriculture Group, an organization focused on reducing food waste by striving to use the entire crop of peeled green bananas to produce NuBana™ Green Banana Powder. Your browser does not support the video tag. About Griffith Foods. Griffith Foods. Date and Time are ET.

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Podcast: Is Helium full of hot air?

Stacey Higginbotham

Then we talk about Apple’s Air Tags and their potential use to track thieves and suitcases. My suitcase and obligatory Air Tag so I can track it through today’s luggage hell. Our guest this week is Jim Ethington, CEO of Arable , a precision agriculture company. Image courtesy of A.

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Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain

GreenBiz

Food and Agriculture Organization. Even before Dang was infiltrating the foodservice industry of the North Atlantic region, he had a deep understanding of the agricultural supply chain from growing up on a small Connecticut farm. Because source reduction has such strong economic benefits, the sustainability aspect gets to tag along.

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Rewilding British farms is bringing back threatened species, storing carbon and growing hope

Corporate Knights

If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. Rewind 23 years and this place was a debt-ridden, subsidy-dependent farm, its already poor soil made worse by intensive agricultural practices. The birdsong is unreal. And above it all, a stork wheels.

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Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

Corporate Knights

In 2021, United Airlines used jet fuel made from agricultural waste such as corncobs and corn stalks in a normal passenger flight. Unlike with waste oils, the infrastructure transition isn’t as seamless and supply chains aren’t set up to source and deliver on this in a big way, he adds.

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SDSN Commemorates International Year of Millets

Sustainable Development Network

The United Nations declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets (IYM 2023) and named the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as the lead agency for celebrating the Year in collaboration with other relevant stakeholders. Each submission must include a caption with (at minimum) the location (e.g., finger millet).