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How green was my vertical farm?

By 2050, 80% of the earth’s population will live in cities and 3 billion more people will need to be fed. The simple fact is we are running out of available land to grow enough food to feed them. If we can’t grow our cities outward to find more arable land, the only solution is to grow them upwards. This may change the way we design cities forever. The problem is real and ...

Jul. 21, 2008

By GLOBE SERIES

Sizing up livestock farming’s carbon footprint

A new and interactive tool released by FAO allows farmers, policy makers and scientists to calculate meat, milk and eggs production as well as greenhouse-gas emissions from livestock to make the sector more productive and more climate-friendly. GLEAM-i, the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Modelinteractive, provides answers to a ...

Aug. 22, 2016

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Neiker-Tecnalia presents the results obtained in the evaluation of environmental strategies on livestock farms

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker-Tecnalia) has coordinated the European BATFARM project, which is seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of technologies and practices used on livestock farms in the European Atlantic region in order to reduce their environmental impact on the air, water and soil. In this project a detailed study has been made of the ...

May 15, 2014

By Elhuyar Fundazioa - Basque Research

Muckbuster Changes Runoff from Problem to Profit

Free-range pig farms near coastal regions are an example of a farming practice, which has resulted in a change in the local ecosystem, which can be dangerous to humans. When the slurry from free-range pig farms is not contained and moves into the streams, which empty into the rivers, and finish in the sea, the enormous increase in nutrients in the water creates a huge population of seaweed, and ...

Nov. 1, 2010

By SEaB Energy Ltd.

Forget the carbon tax. Do we need a cow tax?

Forget idling cars and fossil fuels. Accordingly to Dina Cappiello in an associated press article on June 21, 2009, what comes out of the front end of America’s 170 million cattle, sheep, and pigs produces about a quarter of the methane released each year in the United States, making it the largest source of greenhouse gas in the country. But the very effective farm lobby in the U.S. has ...

Jun. 22, 2009

By GLOBE SERIES

Less agricultural phosphorus could be key to cleaner Baltic Sea

Reducing the amount of phosphorus used in agriculture could go a long way in meeting the Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP)1 targets. A Swedish evaluation of measures for reducing agricultural phosphorus suggest phosphorus inputs to the sea could be cut by 180 tonnes per year, or about two-thirds of Sweden's target. The nations surrounding the Baltic Sea have established the BSAP to restore the ...

Feb. 4, 2010

By Science for Environment Policy - European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service

How to go green without buying a Toyota Prius

The evidence is clear-as a society, we need to be more environmentally conscious. Whether one believes in all the claims of global warming or not, it is an indisputable fact that we need to take better care of our environment. In the last 10 years, ...

Sep. 13, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

Beef pollutes more than pork, poultry, study says

Raising beef for the American dinner table does far more damage to the environment than producing pork, poultry, eggs or dairy, a new study says. Compared with the other animal proteins, beef produces five times more heat-trapping gases per calorie, puts out six times as much water-polluting nitrogen, takes 11 times more water for irrigation and uses 28 times the land, according to the study ...

Jul. 21, 2014

By Associated Press

Farmers could cut emissions while boosting production

Farmers could earn more and protect the environment by using technologies and practices that reduce the global warming gases that livestock emit, according to a report by the UN Food ...

Oct. 31, 2013

By SciDev.Net

New Material to Enhance Soils using Manure Waste

The results of the research group of Valuation of resources from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid suggest an optimal solution to manage the manure from chicken and cattle. Biochar, a material obtained after thermal treatment of this waste through pyrolysis, is an organic fertilizer that applied in ...

May 5, 2015

By Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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