Developing emissions markets to encourage farmers in poor countries to store more carbon dioxide in soil should be a key topic on the U.N. climate talks agenda, global warming activist Al Gore said. “I think that soil carbon conservation and recarbonizing of soil must be the next stage in this negotiating process,” former U.S. Vice [...]
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Storing CO2 in soil should be on U.N. agenda: Gore
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged vesco, agriculture, green house gas emissions, no till farming, carbon sequestration, vesco agricultural technologies, soil erosion, carbon trading, carbon credits on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Government of Canada Makes Major Investment to International Climate Change and to enhance sustainable agriculture
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, carbon sequestration, green house gas emissions, no till farming, soil erosion, vesco agricultural technologies on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – June 23, 2010) - Today, the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, announced that the Government of Canada is delivering on its commitment under the Copenhagen Accord to help the poorest and most vulnerable countries with their efforts to fight climate change. As promised as part of the Copenhagen Accord, Canada will [...]
Carbon credits offer opportunities for farmers
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, carbon sequestration, clean seed capital, green house gas emissions, Marvelle media, no till farming, soil erosion, vesco agricultural technologies on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No-till fields store carbon in the form of soil organic matter, which can be sold by farmers, providing them with an additional source of income. As the United States looks to become more green, a program to trade carbon credits from farmland could play a role. When carbon is emitted into the atmosphere, by vehicles [...]
Kwantlen U steps closer to unique degree in sustainable agriculture
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, carbon sequestration, green house gas emissions, no till farming, soil erosion, vesco agricultural technologies on May 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
METRO VANCOUVER — The Kwantlen Polytechnic University Senate last week approved in concept a new bachelor’s degree program in sustainable agriculture with an eye to starting classes in the fall of 2011. The four-year program will combine a course load focused on human-scale and urban interface agriculture with intensive hands-on training and research, literally, in [...]
NewSeed Advisors Says Sustainable Agriculture is the New Cleantech Source:
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, capital markets, carbon credits, carbon sequestration, carbon trading, green house gas emissions, no till farming, soil erosion, vesco, vesco agricultural technologies on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Clean Seed Capital Group is pleased to announce it will be attending the Agriculture 2.0. conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California. A flurry of activity among Bay Area investors points to surging interest in sustainable agriculture investment. On March 24, hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts will convene at the Four Seasons Hotel [...]
The Topsoil Crisis
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, carbon sequestration, no till farming, soil erosion, vesco agricultural technologies on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Topsoil Crisis By Chris Mayer Gaithersburg, Maryland “All life is a process of breaking down,” the great F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. “But the blows that do the dramatic side of the work…don’t show their effect all at once.” These other blows you don’t feel until it is too late to do anything. Fitzgerald [...]
“Clean Seed Capital Ltd” is identifying and developing solution-driven, sustainable, environmentally responsible, agricultural based companies.
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, carbon sequestration, green house gas emissions, Marvelle media, no till farming on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Initiative Our primary initiative is predicated on identifying solution-driven, sustainable, environmentally responsible, agricultural based companies that need a strategic partner to facilitate progress. As a value added group, CleanSeed Capital Group provides strategic capital, business advisory services, and marketing strategies that yield both positive impact and significant investor returns from this rapidly growing [...]
Eye on Agriculture – No Till Farming
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, carbon sequestration, green house gas emissions, Marvelle media, no till farming, soil erosion, vesco agricultural technologies on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Technology driven world of Agriculture, Zero-till or No-till farming has been the direction many producers in the state have been heading. (Alan Ness, Manitoba-North Dakota Zero Tillage Association) “Zero Till used to be a practice that you’d do on an annual basis now zero till has really turned into a system.” A system that started [...]
What is Carbon Trading all about and how can Vesco play a role?
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, carbon credits, carbon sequestration, carbon trading, green house gas emissions, Marvelle media, no till farming, vesco, vesco agricultural technologies on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carbon Offsets: The UN-administered Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows companies and governments to meet part of their emission reduction targets by financing carbon-cutting projects in the developing world, accounted for a further 947 million tons of carbon trading in 2007, valued at approximately US$18.7 billion (Point Carbon, 2008). This Kyoto sanctioned carbon offset protocol [...]
Vesco Agricultural Technologies…Setting a new standard in No-Till farming equipment. (Part 3) Soil erosion
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, Marvelle media, no till farming, soil erosion, vesco, vesco agricultural technologies on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Marvelle Media continues to feature this company. Today we are focusing on Soil erosion and how Vesco can play its part. Soil erosion: The world is facing an agricultural crisis of pandemic proportions: the catastrophic loss of topsoil. After covering the earth for thousands of years, the world’s topsoil is being lost at an alarming rate. In [...]
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