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Texas A&M Board of Regents approves controlled environment agriculture greenhouse construction project in Dallas

AgriLife Today

The post Texas A&M Board of Regents approves controlled environment agriculture greenhouse construction project in Dallas appeared first on AgriLife Today. Modern technology in new facility to help lead ‘CEA’ research across southern U.S.

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Walmart’s ‘Regenerative Foodscape’

Civil Eats

His mom, Christy Walton—widow to Sam’s son John—has a net worth of about $11 billion, which she has used to fund restaurants, large ocean aquaculture projects, and a 40,000-acre ranch that offers a “regenerative experience” to tourists and has acted as a site for research on land and livestock management.

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The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Implications for Agriculture

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

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. Ranching decisions frequently exclude climate change-related information.

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California Decides What ‘Regenerative Agriculture’ Means. Sort of.

Civil Eats

and 8 percent of Californias greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from croplands, industrial vehicles, and livestock. She says she sees this definition as a starting point, as someplace from which to constructively move forward. percent of Californias farms are certified organic.

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The Fate of Denver’s Last Slaughterhouse Is on the Ballot

Civil Eats

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. It’s not formed with the neighborhood.”