Agritecture Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Associate professor of Horticulture, Neil Mattson, teaches a student in one of Cornell’s on-campus greenhouses. Credit: Greenhouse Product News. A student applies skills learned in a campus greenhouse at Stockton University. Credit: Cornell Chronicle. With the global population expected to reach 9.7 Credit: Stockton University.

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Hartwood Farm

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Last year we had something around 700 plantings total, of over 150 crop varieties, and each was handled slightly differently at each stage (seed starting, greenhouse water and heat, planting, cultivation, harvesting, and post-harvest). In 2021, we took out a loan to build a shiny new heated greenhouse.

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The Counter

MAY 19, 2022

Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse gas methane, which gets released when livestock operations pool manure in open-air lagoons. million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, a standard unit for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, from being emitted annually by the end of this year.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 7, 2024

Thanks in part to Dale’s experience in construction, the Boles were able to adapt their poultry barns into greenhouses. She has leaned into growing flowers under the name Grace Chapel Greenhouses. Right: The Boles’ former chicken barn was converted into a greenhouse. Left: Paula Boles.

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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Caff

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Streamlining the Harvest Process Traditionally, harvesting onions involves collecting them in bins and then transferring them to a drying location (typically laid out in a greenhouse with shade cloth and a single layer)—a process that typically requires handling the produce multiple times.

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Food Tank

MAY 1, 2024

Approximately 2 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from nitrogen fertilizers , according to a study in Nature. For example, the agrochemical company, Yara, is constructing a CCS plant with ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies next to its ammonia plant.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

We've done a lot of analysis comparing our farming costs to traditional farms and greenhouses, and we are close in all categories. HGS: What is the largest farm you have constructed using the container methodology? HGS: What is the largest farm you have constructed using the container methodology?

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 15, 2024

Exactly how far inland the salt encroaches will depend partially on how effective humans are at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as rising temperatures and melting ice sheets are the main contributors to the ocean’s expansions. Chris Miller in the greenhouse.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Torres had been a city boy, raised in Guadalajara, and he was the son of a construction worker. And after the group had fixed the farm up, putting up a greenhouse, and breathed new life into its rows of red raspberries, the owner wanted it back. Chilcayote and nopal seedlings in a Tierra y Libertad greenhouse.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

An underground greenhouse currently under construction in Pine Ridge. As these communities grapple with climate change and historical inequities, they create innovative solutions, such as these underground greenhouses. This is an underground greenhouse, or walipini, and the harvesters are members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

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Agritecture Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This umbrella term includes topics such as biophilic design, an approach to architecture that seeks to connect building occupants more closely to nature; net-zero buildings , constructing new or retrofitting existing buildings for energy efficiency , passive house design ; and so on and so forth.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Last year, the foundation supported the production of a report on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture , which played a significant role in the national conversation around regenerative agriculture. What’s more, deforestation is one of the main drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in animal agriculture.

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OECD: Environment

MAY 30, 2023

Both total and per capita greenhouse (GHG) emissions have decoupled slowly from GDP growth, mostly due to the rapid replacement of coal by natural gas in the energy mix. It includes bulky waste and excludes construction waste and sewage waste. At the same time, Israel has raised its climate ambitions in recent years.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jordan Macknick from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory—which conducts agrivoltaics research in California—includes solar combined with specialty and commodity crops, solar with livestock, solar with land providing pollinator habitat or ecosystem services, and solar-integrated greenhouses in the list of approaches.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

Focus on Solutions Although there are clear, negative impacts for agriculture, the agriculture chapter effectively lays out the ways in which agriculture can respond constructively to increasing challenges. However, the most important change will continue to be the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

The most expensive EQIP grant an individual farm can receive is for the construction of a methane digester, which is over $280,000 on average. From this dishonorable top 10 list, at least eight could be considered industrial, with practices targeted toward large-scale, animal or commodity crop operations.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moving from transplanted puddled rice cultivation to direct-seeded rice can help farmers to reduce water use by up to 40 percent, greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by up to 45 percent and reduce farmers’ dependence on scarce and costly manual labor by up to 50 percent. The construction of the 720,000 sq.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Though one study by the Common Sense Institute, a conservative think tank, predicts Superior’s closure would actually increase emissions from the construction of a new slaughterhouse and longer trucking routes, experts largely agree that transport accounts for a tiny proportion of meat’s emissions.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 14, 2024

In the book, Jackson tells stories of measuring both the staggering greenhouse gas emissions gas stoves produce and the dangerous levels of air pollutants home cooks breathe in as they sauté and roast (even long after the burners are off). So, I think we need to favor reach codes that require future construction to be all electric.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels, and expects to supply up to 13 million electric vehicles annually. But the winner of the 2024 election can determine how badly climate change batters the food supply in the long run — primarily by controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

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