Tree Planting News
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CNH Industrial kicks off A Sustainable Year story series on World Environment Day
On World Environment Day, CNH Industrial announces the first in a series of stories to be featured in its latest A Sustainable Year publication. This annual magazine charts the Company’s major social and environmental activities as well as its strategic sustainability targets. It follows the publication of our latest Sustainability Report. The story follows CNH Industrial’s ...
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Serving Your Community, Protecting Our Environment
ChlorTainer is looking forward to a productive year in 2019. We look forward to our expanding program to help clean and serve communities across the country. In conjunction with the trade shows ChlorTainer will be attending, we will participate in environmental cleanups in the local communities. This can be a cleanup of a river or a park or other natural resource most in need of help. “As ...
By ChlorTainer
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Former Chief Forester and leading Canadian forestry expert joins Drax
Diane Nicholls, a Canadian forester with over 25 years’ experience in forestry and sustainability will lead Drax’s North American biomass sustainability strategy. The former Chief Forester for British Columbia is joining the renewable energy company and will work with its teams to ensure the biomass it supplies meets the highest sustainability standards and expectations – ...
By Drax Group
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Damaging Human Impact on the Land ‘Unsustainable’
A new UN report examining how land resources such as water, soil and biodiversity are being managed around the world has found that human activity is damaging and degrading the earth in an unsustainable way. The second edition of the Global Land Outlook – which has taken five years to compile – indicates that up to 40 per cent of terrain worldwide has already been devalued, ...
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Avirtech precision seed shooter drones accelerate reforestation
Reforestation has long been recognized as an essential strategy for creating a sustainable future and reducing carbon emissions. It is critical to maintaining biodiversity habitats and necessary for climate change mitigation and adaptation plans in the long term. One of the most popular and essential uses of reforestation is carbon credits, which are becoming increasingly crucial for businesses ...
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The power of EAVISION Technology Changes the Mode of Agricultural Production
The main reason for the change of agricultural production mode is the reduction of rural labor force and the older age of workers. Xishuangbanna is in a rainforest climate, frequent precipitation shortens the spraying time, low labor efficiency and poor effect. The use of drones can complete the operation within the short spraying time in the rainy season, and achieve better control effects. ...
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How to transplant trees with Oenosan
The municipality of Damme in Belgium is using Oenosan to transplant trees. When it is the time of the year for new plantings or when we are in need to transplant trees, it is primordial not to have any los. Oenosan is the ideal partner to prevent this loss. How do we use Oenosan in this particular case? Oenosan is sprinkled directly on the root structure and thus ...
By Oenosan
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Aviro D16, the World's First Gimbal Spraying For Pest Control
SINGAPORE, December 14, 2021 -- Precision spraying has never been in higher demand, dwindling human resources and pushing for more sustainable practice. Overuse of pesticides has long plagued the industry, not just for cost but also for a more significant ecosystem impact. Avirtech introduces the world's first gimbal-based spraying for high precision, accurate up to a spray radius of 10 cm. ...
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Blockchain will track 50 million trees through Investancia and EcoMatcher partnership
Leading agro-research company Investancia has teamed up with EcoMatcher to track a large-scale reforestation project using EcoMatcher’s blockchain-enabled digital tree-planting platform. Over the next ten years, 50 million trees will each receive a unique QR code in Investancia’s tree nursery. Once the trees are planted, each QR code is scanned with EcoMatcher’s TreeCorder app ...
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Launching Covid-19 recovery plan for UK food, farming and land use
This week, Boris Johnson is expected to give more details on the UK Government’s ten-point green recovery plan. Ahead of this, we are launching our “Grow Back Better” manifesto, a ten-point plan for a post-Covid-19 recovery. Our Grow Back Better manifesto is a new route-map setting out how recovery efforts post Covid-19 must invest in areas focus on the interconnected nature of ...
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Woodlands Trust Tree Initiative
Woodland Trust has launched an initiative to plant 50 million trees over 5 years to fight climate crisis. Unfortunately COVID has impacted the rate in which trees have been planted, resulting in a downfall. Therefore the conservation charity has made this pledge, which includes 600,000 free trees being sent to community groups and schools in November this year. The Woodland’s trust Darren ...
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Water UK and Friends of the Earth call on Government to act on tree planting
Water UK has partnered with Friends of the Earth to call on the Government to do more to promote tree planting in England. The two organisations have written to Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment, to call for the introduction of targets to increase tree planting across the country. The letter urges the Government to use the England Tree Strategy to set a target ...
By Water UK
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Healthy soils are paramount in the fight against climate change
The paramount importance of healthy soils as a means to fight climate change is a key message in the UN landmark report published by Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2019. The report was a leading force in highlighting nature’s dangerous decline and acceleration rates of extinction. However, despite its clear message that echoes ...
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Beyond Your Backyard: Little Things That Make the World Go ‘Round
June 22-28 is National Pollinator week. One week to celebrate the little things that make the world go round. What’s all the buzz? Pollinators are a huge group of insects with species that have different life histories, biologies, and needs. They boggle the mind at all that they’re doing right under our noses and we don’t even know a quarter of what that is. Here’s what ...
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The EasyOne FlowTube is a carbon neutral product
In 2017, we introduced into the market our spirometer EasyOne Air and its disposable mouthpiece, the EasyOne FlowTube. From the start, FlowTubes have been produced and distributed in a carbon neutral fashion. For every EasyOne FlowTube we sell, we make a valuable contribution towards a more sustainable future by supporting a project in Madagascar committed to the production and sale of efficient ...
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How does tree planting help the environment?
Planting over one trillion trees could be the cheapest and most effective way of mitigating the current crisis facing our planet, according to one study published earlier this year. As part of their natural life cycles, trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and replace it with oxygen. Not only is this essential for us to live, but it could also alleviate global warming. The ...
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Instead of ‘Black Friday’, why not do ‘Buy Nothing Day’?
Black Friday is a blight for the environment. Why not do something different, like buy nothing or go on a pleasant outing with family or friends, suggests Nick Meynen. Black Friday is that day of the year when marketeers, primarily in America but also increasingly in Europe, can finally sit back, relax and get high on watching the buying spree unfold. In addition to the iconic stampede of ...
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Schiller Grounds Care makes the cut with Pennypack Trust
Schiller Grounds Care, a Southampton, PA manufacturer of lawn and garden equipment has announced a new partnership with the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust of Huntingdon Valley. In addition to encouraging staff to volunteer at the Pennypack Trust, Schiller will be donating equipment to help the Trust maintain its extensive grounds, starting with a BOB-CAT 52” AirFX™ mower. As ...
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Prague Boats Composts - Ecology Matters
Prague Boats have been operating on the Vltava River for 25 years, offering sightseeing cruises, lunches, dinner and boat rental for company events. Prague Boats have implemented many green initiatives to achieve a sustainable operation by: Making their fleet more environmentally friendly All cruisers meet the strictest European standards and some boats are powered by hybrid or electric ...
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Volunteering at annual landscape industry service event at Arlington National Cemetery
On July 15, Classen, a brand of Schiller Grounds Care, Inc. and a member of the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP), joined forces with hundreds of other lawn and landscape professionals from across the country to volunteer at Renewal & Remembrance, an annual day of service at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The event, organized by NALP, marks the 23rd year ...
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