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Monetizing Sustainability: The business case for carbon sequestration

Cropaia

Monetizing carbon sequestration through carbon farming is an emerging concept that has the potential to provide economic incentives for farmers to adopt this climate-friendly practice. Carbon farming involves techniques such as cover cropping, reduced tillage, and the use of organic matter like compost.

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These Manure Digesters Incorporate Food Scraps. Does That Make Them Better?

Civil Eats

A bright blue tanker truck rumbles up the road to Longview Farm, a dairy operation in western Massachusetts. The waste grease, collected from a local pizzeria, a Mexican restaurant, and a pub, will be mixed with manure in the dairy farm’s anerobic co-digester and converted into renewable energy. Photo by Meg Wilcox.

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Rurbanization: It's Time To Make Cities More Rural

Agritecture Blog

The garden, atop a building near the Denver Coliseum, was purpose-built for Bousselot’s brand of research in an up-and-coming scientific field: rooftop farming. But certain crops, like lettuces, tubers, and cucumbers, had yields up to four times higher when grown in cities.