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 [...]
‘Stock’ up for the world’s biggest food fight
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, clean seed capital, Marvelle media, soil erosion, vesco agricultural technologies on June 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The global population is rising – it’s expected to top eight billion by 2030. As a result, demand for everyday essentials is soaring, too. No doubt you’ve heard the debate about how the world is striving to find adequate energy resources and beefing up aging infrastructures in order to handle the strain. But what [...]
No-till farming offers a quick fix to help ward off host of global problems
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, green house gas emissions, carbon sequestration, vesco agricultural technologies, soil erosion, carbon credits, capital markets, clean seed capital on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Increase no-till farming practices across the planet or face serious climate, soil quality and food production problems in the next 20 to 50 years. That warning from scientists appeared in the journal Science this week. No-till farming helps soil retain carbon. Healthy topsoil contains carbon-enriched humus – decaying organic matter that provides [...]
Clean Seed Capital Group poised to facilitate progress in sustainable agriculture.
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged Marvelle media, agriculture, carbon sequestration, soil erosion, carbon credits, capital markets on June 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Vancouver based Clean Seed Capital Group is positioned to play a meaningful role in the growth of sustainable agriculture. Clean Seed Capital’s focus is to identify solution-driven, sustainable, environmentally responsible, agricultural based companies that need a strategic partner to facilitate progress. Agriculture has changed dramatically, post World War II food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, [...]
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 [...]
“Sustainable agriculture is a space that looks as big or bigger than clean tech,”
Posted in Agriculture, Business, tagged agriculture, capital markets, carbon credits, carbon sequestration, green house gas emissions, Marvelle media, soil erosion, vesco agricultural technologies on April 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Sustainable agriculture is a space that looks as big or bigger than clean tech,” said Paul Matteucci, a venture capitalist with U.S. Venture Partners in Menlo Park, Calif. “Historically, we have not seen a ton of entrepreneurial activity in agriculture, but we are beginning to see it now, and the opportunities are huge.” A [...]
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 [...]
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