Environmental Resources
Conserving natural resources, landscapes and wildlife for use by future generations.
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09-02-20
‘Kiss the Ground:’ Netflix Movie Features Soil Health Pioneers Ray Archuleta, Gabe Brown
The movie features a lineup of some of Hollywood’s most recognizable names and faces, but two of its stars fly a little closer to the ground.
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08-31-20
Cotton & Covers: Southeastern Farmers Share Their Soil Health Journey
The Soil Health Institute (SHI), the non-profit charged with safeguarding and enhancing the vitality and productivity of soils, has introduced a new video series Cotton & Covers. The series follows three Southeastern cotton producers as they discuss their individual journeys to build profitable ...
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08-27-20
Supporting the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem in the Southeastern U.S.
The longleaf pine ecosystem once covered more than 90 million acres across the Southeastern coastal plain and piedmont.
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08-27-20
ACRE Investment Management Pledges to Plant 100 Million Trees by 2030 in the Newly Launched 1t.org US Initiative.
ACRE Investment Management is proud to extend its partnership with 1t.org U.S. to advance the United States leadership in the global 1t.org platform and initiatives by planting 100 million trees by 2030. As a global leader in reforestation and carbon credit origination, the ACRE platform is designed...
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08-25-20
Bakers Island Light Station Celebrates New Solar Array and Battery System
Solar panels are becoming an increasingly popular choice for nonprofit organizations looking to reduce their carbon footprint. On Monday, Essex Heritage flipped the switch on a new solar array during a virtual event at Bakers Island Light Station. The system is designed to run their facility on 100 ...
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08-25-20
Rooftop Solar Array at Global Links Headquarters Funded by Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Goes Live August 27
Pittsburgh-based medical relief and international development nonprofit Global Links and Green Mountain Energy Sun Club will flip the switch on a 63.2 kilowatt (kW) solar array to celebrate Global Links’ 30th anniversary. The new 10,000 square-foot array on the rooftop of the Global Links warehouse ...
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08-25-20
How Family and Private Forests Can Help Companies Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
The American Forest Foundation (AFF), a national conservation organization, has released a new white paper Family-owned Forests: How to Unlock the Carbon Potential in America’s Backyard aimed at the corporate community interested in enacting natural climate solutions as part of their comprehensive c...
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08-21-20
Enabling Landscape and Community-led Natural Resource Management
Launched in January 2019, the Kakum Cocoa Agroforestry Landscape Program in Ghana is an exciting new partnership between Hershey, the Nature Conservation Research Centre, Ghana’s Forestry Commission, the Ghana Cocoa Board and our supplier, Ecom Agrotrade Ltd. The purpose of the program is to transfo...
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08-20-20
Adobe Joins Forces With the United Nations Environment Programme and The Ocean Agency to Create Change in Ocean Conservation
Our oceans are facing a perfect storm of pollution, overfishing, and climate change, and these threats have pushed ecosystems such as coral reefs to the tipping point of collapse.
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08-20-20
International Paper and The Nature Conservancy Expand Work to Scale Natural Climate Solutions in North America
The Nature Conservancy and International Paper Company, one of the world’s largest packaging, pulp and paper companies, recently completed the first of a two-phase effort to develop a suite of state-of-the-art forestry practices that others can use to create long-term solutions to global climate cha...
