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Evendale Commons Stream Restoration- Case Study
ERC was hired as the General Contractor for the restoration of the Mill Creek by the Village of Evendale. The scope of work included the construction of one (1) riffle, rock toe, buried grade control, grading, and all site restoration. After mobilizing to the site ERC cleared and grubbed the entire site and then excavated 2,900 CY of earth. In order to align the stream and to slope the stream ...
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Stream restoration - Case study
ERC was hired as the General Contractor for the stream restoration of Mill Creek in South Western Ohio. Our scope of work included the construction of one (1) riffle, rock toe, buried grade control, grading, and complete site stream restoration. After mobilizing to the site ERC cleared and grubbed the entire site and then excavated 2,900 CY of soil. In order to align the stream and to slope the ...
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Take Care of Business, and More With Custom Metrics
“If You are not Keeping Score, you are just practicing” Carbon-And-More announces a new release featuring custom metrics. Now organizations subscribing to the SMB or Enterprise editions can set and share additional metrics as they see fit. Custom metrics are completely configurable, hence an organization can now augment the out-of-the-box metrics with their own ideas or targets. ...
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Hydrological effects of revegetation on hillsides - Case Study
Project Hydrological effects of revegetation on hillsides in the Baviaanskloof, South Africa Carried out by Marjan Sommeijer Country South Africa Background research Marjan Sommeijer travelled to Baviaanskloof in South Africa in 2010 to conduct research for her placement as part of her Bachelor’s degree in International Land and Water Management at Wageningen University. The ...
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Evaluating the role of vegetation on the ventilation performance in isolated deep street canyons
Vegetation is generally considered as an essential component for a sustainable city as it helps improve its microclimate environment and reduce greenhouse gases emissions. However, there is some evidence suggesting that adverse effects may be caused by tree–planting in shallow urban street canyons. Accordingly, we intended to investigate whether similar observations are found for different canyon ...
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Planting trees and managing soils to sequester carbon
As of 2007, the shrinking forests in the tropical regions were releasing 2.2 billion tons of carbon per year. Meanwhile, expanding forests in the temperate regions were absorbing 0.7 billion tons of carbon annually. On balance, a net of some 1.5 billion tons of carbon were being released into the atmosphere each year, contributing to global warming. The tropical deforestation in Asia is driven ...
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When planting trees does more harm than good
Note to anyone who thinks planting trees is the bees’ knees: Grasslands are important, too. With forests disappearing at record rates and the carbon sequestration and other benefits of vegetation getting increasing visibility, tree-planting has become almost an iconic “environmentally friendly” activity. But in some cases it could do more harm than good, according to Iowa State ...
By Ensia
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To everyone’s surprise, forests are returning to Malawi. Here’s why.
The East African country of Malawi epitomizes the global problem of deforestation. Now, there are signs it could epitomize the solution, too, as government, community members and grassroots organizations tackle the problem together. Some 95 percent of rural Malawian households depend on wood for necessities such as cooking, clean water and sanitation. Many Malawians also depend on the money they ...
By Ensia
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The Idrica Forest
Idrica Forest, which has 176 trees, helps to reduce the carbon footprint, as well as promoting the repopulation of an area in danger of deforestation. Idrica has always been committed to sustainability and respect for the environment. These values are materialized in the digital transformation of water utilities, reducing both their water and energy footprint. The company wanted ...
By Idrica
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Wilderness Center Stream Mitigation- Case Study
ERC was hired by the Akron-Canton Airport to install a meandering stream adjacent to an existing stream. Once we excavated and shaped the new meandering stream the soil from the excavation was used to fill in the existing stream after we tied them together. We installed various in stream structures; rock vanes, step pools, log sills, log vanes, root wads and j-hooks. We seeded and used erosion ...
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Forests, health and climate change
Forests are essential to our survival and well-being. Forests clean our air, our water, our soil and they regulate our climate, amongst many other things. Trees and forests are not always associated with urban landscapes. However, there too they provide invaluable, often invisible, services. Simply by acting as 'green oasis' in our concrete jungles, they offer recreation and health services for ...
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Ohio slope erosion, Cleveland, Ohio - Case Study
Every day, over 100,000 vehicles drive on I-480, a six lane Interstate highway around Cleveland, Ohio. To improve the appearance and correct some heavily eroded areas, the Ohio Department of Transportation decided to landscape 3.5 miles (5.6 km) of both cut and fill slopes on the north side of I-480. Their plans called for regrading, draining, and planting trees, shrubs and various plants. ...
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Tal-Ya Featured as Company which Fights World Hunger
Tal-Ya was covered in NoCamels as one of four technologies in an article titled “These Israeli Companies Fight World Hunger with Innovative Technologies” by Roseanne Tabachnik. While water scarcity has plagued desert countries for decades, it is no longer an inevitable concern for Israel’s desert thanks to technologies like Tal-Ya Agriculture Solutions. The Israeli firm has ...
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RMDF Case Study - Compost Mulch a Plum Choice
ReMaDe Kent and Medway is managing a series of WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) funded trials on top fruit and other horticultural crops in Kent, the ‘Garden of England’, in order to develop the market for compost as a soil improver, and in this trial, as a mulch for young fruit trees. Twelve farms are taking part in the trials growing a wide range of crops, including ...
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Ground Control Points for Precision Imagery
With any form of data collection, there is uncertainty. For instance, today’s Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled smartphones are typically accurate to within a 4.9 m (16 ft.) radius under open sky. This radius matters in precision agriculture, when growers often want to consistently monitor thousands of plants week after week, year after year! To address this issue, we at Pollen ...
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Goldman Prize winners fight and inspire
Every April around Earth Day, six remarkable people from each of the world’s habitable continents travel to San Francisco to receive “the Nobel of grassroots environmental activism,” the Goldman Environmental Prize. Created by San Francisco philanthropists Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989, the prize recognizes individuals who are overcoming strong corporate and government ...
By Ensia
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Koi pond problems: Keeping predators away
Owning and maintaining a koi pond is a rewarding yet challenging feat. Koi pond problems are many – from finding the right location and the perfect amount of sunlight, to managing the filtration and algae levels. The last koi pond problem you want to deal with is pest birds or predatory animals. Koi, or nishikigio, are really just an ornamental variety of common carp. However, their ...
By Bird-X Inc.
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Is Tree Plantation Sustainable?
According to, say oxford dictionary, Sustainability is that capacity or ability of something that enables it to maintain itself. It includes taking some initiative today that might have long-term benefit. If something you are doing is said to be “sustainable”, it should have the ability to continue forever. So is tree plantation sustainable? Living sustainability refers to us, the ...
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Climate Change Interview with Burts Potato Chips
Burts Potato Chips is a small crisp maker with big ideas on climate change. Its action plan shows you can do a lot with a small budget by investing in projects that contribute directly to your bottom line. Here, Jonty White, Director of Burts Potato Chips, tells us how about the business case behind his company’s response. White will be speaking on this topic along with representatives from ...
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Project - Pasumai Tamil Nadu (Tamil Nadu)
Every year farmers in Tamil Nadu suffer crippling debts due to severe crop loss caused by acute shortage of water during non-monsoon seasons. The situation becomes grave when farmers get trapped in debts for not repaying loans on time. Since agriculture is the main source of income of rural farmers in Tamil Nadu, the adversities of failed harvest makes many of them to even commit suicide. ...
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