Global hunger is a serious issue while food waste is simultaneously filling landfills. Approximately 1 in 7 people worldwide are hungry while 1/3 of the world's food is wasted each year, amounting to $250 billion worth. An anaerobic digestion system utilizes organic waste from resort restaurants to generate biogas through microbial breakdown, which can then be used to produce electricity and heat on-site through a combined heat and power unit, with the remaining digestate used as fertilizer. Such systems provide multiple benefits including reduced carbon footprint, waste disposal costs, and fossil fuel usage while improving community relations.
Palo Alto's proposed anaerobic digestion facility would process 60,000 tons per year of organic waste from yard trimmings, food scraps, and sewage sludge to generate renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20,000 tons per year, and save the city $1,000,000 annually. The 10-acre facility would be located at the landfill next to the wastewater treatment plant and require dedicating a portion of the 126-acre Byxbee Park, though an equal amount of parkland could be replaced elsewhere.
How Much Waste an Average Person Generates EverydayFred Hoffman
This document discusses the importance of recycling and reducing waste. It provides statistics showing that while 75% of solid waste is recyclable, only 30% is actually recycled. If recycling is not done properly, it can lead to issues like wildlife endangerment, water and land pollution, and infectious diseases. The document recommends ways to reduce waste such as buying items with less packaging, bringing reusable bags and bottles, and always using recycle bins. It also provides recycling facts and statistics about materials like aluminum cans and scrap metal. The overall message is that reducing waste and recycling can help create a cleaner, healthier environment.
This document provides many tips for living more sustainably and reducing one's environmental impact, such as using energy efficient light bulbs, low-flow shower heads, solar panels, wind turbines, hybrid cars, programmable thermostats, air drying clothes, reusable water bottles, homemade cleaners, and choosing reusable items over disposables. It notes that the average American uses 80 gallons of water per day compared to just 2.5 gallons for most of the world. Adopting these green practices can save money on utilities while helping the planet.
Organica is a proposed residential development that would revolutionize waste management and food production through an integrated system. Residents would have their food waste and faeces processed into organic fertilizer to be used in an on-site urban farm, where crops would be grown and sold back to residents. This closed-loop system aims to reduce pollution, save land and resources, while promoting healthy living. The development would include residential units, an agricultural farm, and a market area, with waste transported through pipes to fertilize crops and minimize food transportation needs.
HOMEBIOGAS is a household system that converts organic waste into cooking gas and liquid fertilizer. It turns waste into value by reducing carbon emissions while producing biogas and fertilizer from food scraps and animal waste. A single HOMEBIOGAS unit can reduce 6 tons of carbon emissions per year providing energy and fertilizer to homes from organic waste.
Oil Recycling (5h Romano Garcia Vega Porfiri)isfaschool
The document discusses the benefits of recycling used cooking diesel into biofuel, including generating a recyclable fuel, decreasing water contamination, reducing clogged pipes, and replacing fossil fuels to decrease emissions. It notes that in Argentina, the Bio Plan has recycled over 200,000 liters of cooking diesel by collecting it from fire stations and transforming it at recycling plants into less environmentally harmful biofuel. The document encourages recycling used diesel by taking it to a fire station for collection and processing into biofuel.
The document contains information from a permaculture design project, including sector and water maps. It discusses sources of pollution, water access and flow on the property. Key sources of pollution are a nearby road and trail traffic. Yearly rainfall is 47 inches and the soil is sandy, with wet areas. Water enters the site from a spigot and well located on the west side of the house. Rainwater flows down hills and pools in swales.
Global hunger is a serious issue while food waste is simultaneously filling landfills. Approximately 1 in 7 people worldwide are hungry while 1/3 of the world's food is wasted each year, amounting to $250 billion worth. An anaerobic digestion system utilizes organic waste from resort restaurants to generate biogas through microbial breakdown, which can then be used to produce electricity and heat on-site through a combined heat and power unit, with the remaining digestate used as fertilizer. Such systems provide multiple benefits including reduced carbon footprint, waste disposal costs, and fossil fuel usage while improving community relations.
Palo Alto's proposed anaerobic digestion facility would process 60,000 tons per year of organic waste from yard trimmings, food scraps, and sewage sludge to generate renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20,000 tons per year, and save the city $1,000,000 annually. The 10-acre facility would be located at the landfill next to the wastewater treatment plant and require dedicating a portion of the 126-acre Byxbee Park, though an equal amount of parkland could be replaced elsewhere.
How Much Waste an Average Person Generates EverydayFred Hoffman
This document discusses the importance of recycling and reducing waste. It provides statistics showing that while 75% of solid waste is recyclable, only 30% is actually recycled. If recycling is not done properly, it can lead to issues like wildlife endangerment, water and land pollution, and infectious diseases. The document recommends ways to reduce waste such as buying items with less packaging, bringing reusable bags and bottles, and always using recycle bins. It also provides recycling facts and statistics about materials like aluminum cans and scrap metal. The overall message is that reducing waste and recycling can help create a cleaner, healthier environment.
This document provides many tips for living more sustainably and reducing one's environmental impact, such as using energy efficient light bulbs, low-flow shower heads, solar panels, wind turbines, hybrid cars, programmable thermostats, air drying clothes, reusable water bottles, homemade cleaners, and choosing reusable items over disposables. It notes that the average American uses 80 gallons of water per day compared to just 2.5 gallons for most of the world. Adopting these green practices can save money on utilities while helping the planet.
Organica is a proposed residential development that would revolutionize waste management and food production through an integrated system. Residents would have their food waste and faeces processed into organic fertilizer to be used in an on-site urban farm, where crops would be grown and sold back to residents. This closed-loop system aims to reduce pollution, save land and resources, while promoting healthy living. The development would include residential units, an agricultural farm, and a market area, with waste transported through pipes to fertilize crops and minimize food transportation needs.
HOMEBIOGAS is a household system that converts organic waste into cooking gas and liquid fertilizer. It turns waste into value by reducing carbon emissions while producing biogas and fertilizer from food scraps and animal waste. A single HOMEBIOGAS unit can reduce 6 tons of carbon emissions per year providing energy and fertilizer to homes from organic waste.
Oil Recycling (5h Romano Garcia Vega Porfiri)isfaschool
The document discusses the benefits of recycling used cooking diesel into biofuel, including generating a recyclable fuel, decreasing water contamination, reducing clogged pipes, and replacing fossil fuels to decrease emissions. It notes that in Argentina, the Bio Plan has recycled over 200,000 liters of cooking diesel by collecting it from fire stations and transforming it at recycling plants into less environmentally harmful biofuel. The document encourages recycling used diesel by taking it to a fire station for collection and processing into biofuel.
The document contains information from a permaculture design project, including sector and water maps. It discusses sources of pollution, water access and flow on the property. Key sources of pollution are a nearby road and trail traffic. Yearly rainfall is 47 inches and the soil is sandy, with wet areas. Water enters the site from a spigot and well located on the west side of the house. Rainwater flows down hills and pools in swales.
Westside has environmental concerns with litter ending up in local waterways and paper towel waste contributing thousands of tons to landfills daily. Installing energy efficient hand dryers could minimize trash in restrooms while saving trees and energy. Recycling was also mentioned as a potential solution but not elaborated on.
CoCo San Sustainable Farm is a non-profit urban farm project on sanitary district buffer land, using recycled water and sustainable farming practices that reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration in soil. This project focuses on reducing nutritional poverty. It's four goals are: Food Equity; Environment; Education; and Economic Development.
Thaddeus Owen discusses permaculture and sustainable food systems in Traverse City, Michigan. He notes that over $32 million leaves the county each year to purchase food from elsewhere. His plan is to capture this money by encouraging more local farming and sales of produce, creating a commercial kitchen for value-added products, and using food waste for biofuels and compost to create a closed-loop system. This would stimulate the local economy, create jobs, improve health, and build resilience for the community.
The Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute and Asheville Independent Restaurants are launching an initiative to make Asheville the nation's greenest dining destination starting in summer 2012. Several restaurants in Asheville have achieved 3-star and 2-star certification through sustainable practices like installing solar thermal systems to preheat water, implementing water conservation measures, educating staff on energy efficiency, and performing lighting retrofits. This green restaurant initiative was presented at the WNC Culinary Expo on April 16, 2012.
The document outlines plans to reestablish vegetation on a property in Kos covered by degraded garigue vegetation. Seeding using seed bombs containing local garigue plant seeds is proposed instead of planting due to limited water and the massive irrigation system that would be required. The plans also include details on perimeter planting modules and landscaping around the house.
This document provides tips from The Green Landlady for making rental properties more sustainable through simple steps like installing water butts, composting and recycling waste, adding solar panels to produce energy, switching to heat pumps and LED bulbs to reduce pollution, and contacting RQT Property Investments Ltd. at 07816 122177 or raquelqueral@hotmail.com to discuss standing up and enacting these changes.
Zeze, an integrated village level approach to Community Based Adaptation to C...Janet Chapman
This document outlines an integrated village development approach in Tanzania based on agriculture, including upstream and downstream activities from irrigation to food processing. It discusses problems addressed like lack of water access, firewood needs, and lack of financing, and solutions implemented such as boreholes, tree planting, and microfinance. Further needs are identified like expanding irrigation, cold storage, and stove production training. Funding is requested to scale up these solutions to benefit more families through increased incomes and employment. Partnerships and climate funding advice are also sought.
Examining the Shape of the Agricultural IndustryCarl Casale
Carl Casale, a resident of West St. Paul, Minnesota, has worked in the agricultural industry in several roles. The former CEO of one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in the United States, Carl Casale keeps an eye on the future of the industry.
The future of agriculture will see a rise in hemp production, especially with the changes made in the farm bill in 2018, which allow farmers to grow and sell hemp. Hemp has a variety of uses around the world, so this product will see a major period of growth.
With environmental protection and preservation at the top of the world agenda, water will be a major topic of conversation in the near future. Agriculture uses more water than any other industry, so water conservation efforts will be front and center as farmers and the agriculture industry try to find ways to reduce their water usage.
Reimbursement for tariffs is also a big concern for the agricultural industry. As tariffs around the globe increase, farmers lose money on their crops.
Global Green New Orleans: Reinvention 2010globalgreenusa
Global Green USA New Orleans initiatives: green schools, Built It Back Green, Holy Cross Project, Lower Ninth Ward, Holy Cross Neighborhood, Resource Center
The document discusses recycling statistics and tips. It notes that 75% of waste is recyclable but only 1% is actually recycled. It provides examples of how much paper and plastic is wasted every hour in the US. The document encourages recycling and provides ways to recycle common items like plastic bottles, bags, and cardboard. It concludes that if everyone started recycling, it could save significant amounts of landfill space, trees, water, oil and energy each year.
The document provides eco-friendly tips to save money and help the environment. It suggests taking shorter showers, repairing leaky faucets, and turning off tap water when not in use to conserve water. It also recommends changing light bulbs to energy savers, turning off lights when not in use, unplugging appliances, and getting homes insulated to conserve energy. Additionally, it advises using a toaster oven more, eating less meat, using a pressure cooker, and cooking with residual heat for smart cooking. Finally, it says to ditch disposable dishes, make a habit of recycling, go paperless, and use cloth napkins to reduce waste.
Dear inhabitants on planet earth june 2013Søren Ejlersen
Change the way we eat
Dear inhabitants on
planet earth
The next generation is coming soon
9 billion people – maybe more -
and guess what – we all need food
At the same time nature
and climate need to stay
in balance
Rethink food systems and change our Globalagricultural behavior
Local & Small is beautiful
And we find that there is a way forward that takes care of the three threats:
Climate change – environmental degradation - human health
Each person uses the equivalent of one 100-foot Douglas fir tree annually for paper products. Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and enough energy to power the average Indian home for 9 months; it also generates 74% less air pollution and uses 50% less water than producing paper from raw materials.
The document provides 10 tips for reducing one's environmental impact on Earth Day, including parking the car and using public transit or biking, shutting off lights and electronics when not in use, eating less meat and more plant-based foods, composting food waste, setting thermostats efficiently, replacing light bulbs with CFLs, recycling, and encouraging others to participate as well. The tips encourage low-effort lifestyle changes that collectively can significantly help the environment through reductions in emissions, waste, and energy and resource usage.
Pisticci 125 La Salle is a restaurant in New York City that is certified as green by the Green Restaurant Association. It recycles or composts all waste, uses biodegradable food containers, and powers its operations entirely with renewable energy from ConEd. The restaurant also measures its carbon footprint and purchases carbon offsets to achieve carbon neutrality. It supports the local community through various arts and music events.
Lesson 4 How Has Farming Changed The Landscapegeographypods
Farming has significantly changed the British countryside over the past 60 years. Mechanization replaced manual labor, with tractors and machines replacing crop collection by hand in the 1940s. Hedges that once divided fields and held soil are now fewer, leading to increased risks of soil erosion from wind and rain. Fewer hedges also means less habitat for birds and insects. While hedges provide benefits like attractive scenery and natural field divisions, their removal has impacted the landscape and environment.
The document provides tips and recommendations for creating an environmentally friendly and energy efficient kitchen. Some key points discussed include the benefits of a green kitchen such as energy savings and reduced waste. It also outlines ideas for making existing kitchens more sustainable, such as using natural light and efficient appliances. Specific guidance is given on choosing energy efficient fridges and freezers as well as tips to optimize the efficiency of existing appliances. The document emphasizes that following its recommendations can help reduce carbon footprint and energy bills.
South Africa suffers from frequent droughts that negatively impact its economic development and population health. Desalination could help address South Africa's water shortages by providing a sustainable source of fresh water for drinking, industry, and agriculture. Desalination plants near Cape Town, Durban, and Port Elizabeth could produce fresh water, stimulate regional economic growth, and reduce water-borne diseases. Specialist companies could build and operate the facilities, creating local jobs and attracting foreign investment through municipal bonds.
Here is the final presentation deck for the User Interface Design class at UC Berkeley. Our app served to provide homeowners with information about their water usage in an effort to help water conservation efforts.
Westside has environmental concerns with litter ending up in local waterways and paper towel waste contributing thousands of tons to landfills daily. Installing energy efficient hand dryers could minimize trash in restrooms while saving trees and energy. Recycling was also mentioned as a potential solution but not elaborated on.
CoCo San Sustainable Farm is a non-profit urban farm project on sanitary district buffer land, using recycled water and sustainable farming practices that reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration in soil. This project focuses on reducing nutritional poverty. It's four goals are: Food Equity; Environment; Education; and Economic Development.
Thaddeus Owen discusses permaculture and sustainable food systems in Traverse City, Michigan. He notes that over $32 million leaves the county each year to purchase food from elsewhere. His plan is to capture this money by encouraging more local farming and sales of produce, creating a commercial kitchen for value-added products, and using food waste for biofuels and compost to create a closed-loop system. This would stimulate the local economy, create jobs, improve health, and build resilience for the community.
The Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute and Asheville Independent Restaurants are launching an initiative to make Asheville the nation's greenest dining destination starting in summer 2012. Several restaurants in Asheville have achieved 3-star and 2-star certification through sustainable practices like installing solar thermal systems to preheat water, implementing water conservation measures, educating staff on energy efficiency, and performing lighting retrofits. This green restaurant initiative was presented at the WNC Culinary Expo on April 16, 2012.
The document outlines plans to reestablish vegetation on a property in Kos covered by degraded garigue vegetation. Seeding using seed bombs containing local garigue plant seeds is proposed instead of planting due to limited water and the massive irrigation system that would be required. The plans also include details on perimeter planting modules and landscaping around the house.
This document provides tips from The Green Landlady for making rental properties more sustainable through simple steps like installing water butts, composting and recycling waste, adding solar panels to produce energy, switching to heat pumps and LED bulbs to reduce pollution, and contacting RQT Property Investments Ltd. at 07816 122177 or raquelqueral@hotmail.com to discuss standing up and enacting these changes.
Zeze, an integrated village level approach to Community Based Adaptation to C...Janet Chapman
This document outlines an integrated village development approach in Tanzania based on agriculture, including upstream and downstream activities from irrigation to food processing. It discusses problems addressed like lack of water access, firewood needs, and lack of financing, and solutions implemented such as boreholes, tree planting, and microfinance. Further needs are identified like expanding irrigation, cold storage, and stove production training. Funding is requested to scale up these solutions to benefit more families through increased incomes and employment. Partnerships and climate funding advice are also sought.
Examining the Shape of the Agricultural IndustryCarl Casale
Carl Casale, a resident of West St. Paul, Minnesota, has worked in the agricultural industry in several roles. The former CEO of one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in the United States, Carl Casale keeps an eye on the future of the industry.
The future of agriculture will see a rise in hemp production, especially with the changes made in the farm bill in 2018, which allow farmers to grow and sell hemp. Hemp has a variety of uses around the world, so this product will see a major period of growth.
With environmental protection and preservation at the top of the world agenda, water will be a major topic of conversation in the near future. Agriculture uses more water than any other industry, so water conservation efforts will be front and center as farmers and the agriculture industry try to find ways to reduce their water usage.
Reimbursement for tariffs is also a big concern for the agricultural industry. As tariffs around the globe increase, farmers lose money on their crops.
Global Green New Orleans: Reinvention 2010globalgreenusa
Global Green USA New Orleans initiatives: green schools, Built It Back Green, Holy Cross Project, Lower Ninth Ward, Holy Cross Neighborhood, Resource Center
The document discusses recycling statistics and tips. It notes that 75% of waste is recyclable but only 1% is actually recycled. It provides examples of how much paper and plastic is wasted every hour in the US. The document encourages recycling and provides ways to recycle common items like plastic bottles, bags, and cardboard. It concludes that if everyone started recycling, it could save significant amounts of landfill space, trees, water, oil and energy each year.
The document provides eco-friendly tips to save money and help the environment. It suggests taking shorter showers, repairing leaky faucets, and turning off tap water when not in use to conserve water. It also recommends changing light bulbs to energy savers, turning off lights when not in use, unplugging appliances, and getting homes insulated to conserve energy. Additionally, it advises using a toaster oven more, eating less meat, using a pressure cooker, and cooking with residual heat for smart cooking. Finally, it says to ditch disposable dishes, make a habit of recycling, go paperless, and use cloth napkins to reduce waste.
Dear inhabitants on planet earth june 2013Søren Ejlersen
Change the way we eat
Dear inhabitants on
planet earth
The next generation is coming soon
9 billion people – maybe more -
and guess what – we all need food
At the same time nature
and climate need to stay
in balance
Rethink food systems and change our Globalagricultural behavior
Local & Small is beautiful
And we find that there is a way forward that takes care of the three threats:
Climate change – environmental degradation - human health
Each person uses the equivalent of one 100-foot Douglas fir tree annually for paper products. Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water, landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and enough energy to power the average Indian home for 9 months; it also generates 74% less air pollution and uses 50% less water than producing paper from raw materials.
The document provides 10 tips for reducing one's environmental impact on Earth Day, including parking the car and using public transit or biking, shutting off lights and electronics when not in use, eating less meat and more plant-based foods, composting food waste, setting thermostats efficiently, replacing light bulbs with CFLs, recycling, and encouraging others to participate as well. The tips encourage low-effort lifestyle changes that collectively can significantly help the environment through reductions in emissions, waste, and energy and resource usage.
Pisticci 125 La Salle is a restaurant in New York City that is certified as green by the Green Restaurant Association. It recycles or composts all waste, uses biodegradable food containers, and powers its operations entirely with renewable energy from ConEd. The restaurant also measures its carbon footprint and purchases carbon offsets to achieve carbon neutrality. It supports the local community through various arts and music events.
Lesson 4 How Has Farming Changed The Landscapegeographypods
Farming has significantly changed the British countryside over the past 60 years. Mechanization replaced manual labor, with tractors and machines replacing crop collection by hand in the 1940s. Hedges that once divided fields and held soil are now fewer, leading to increased risks of soil erosion from wind and rain. Fewer hedges also means less habitat for birds and insects. While hedges provide benefits like attractive scenery and natural field divisions, their removal has impacted the landscape and environment.
The document provides tips and recommendations for creating an environmentally friendly and energy efficient kitchen. Some key points discussed include the benefits of a green kitchen such as energy savings and reduced waste. It also outlines ideas for making existing kitchens more sustainable, such as using natural light and efficient appliances. Specific guidance is given on choosing energy efficient fridges and freezers as well as tips to optimize the efficiency of existing appliances. The document emphasizes that following its recommendations can help reduce carbon footprint and energy bills.
South Africa suffers from frequent droughts that negatively impact its economic development and population health. Desalination could help address South Africa's water shortages by providing a sustainable source of fresh water for drinking, industry, and agriculture. Desalination plants near Cape Town, Durban, and Port Elizabeth could produce fresh water, stimulate regional economic growth, and reduce water-borne diseases. Specialist companies could build and operate the facilities, creating local jobs and attracting foreign investment through municipal bonds.
Here is the final presentation deck for the User Interface Design class at UC Berkeley. Our app served to provide homeowners with information about their water usage in an effort to help water conservation efforts.
This document discusses various methods for conserving water, including:
1) Engineering practices like modifying plumbing fixtures and water supply operations and behavioral practices like changing water use habits.
2) Regularly detecting leaks to save money and prevent property damage.
3) Conducting water audits to identify large water users and opportunities to improve efficiency.
4) Reducing water pressure using valves to decrease water usage.
5) Recycling and reusing water for uses like landscape irrigation and industrial processes after appropriate treatment. Proper planning is needed to identify reuse opportunities and required water quality.
This document summarizes various methods for water conservation including rainwater harvesting and watershed management. It defines rainwater harvesting as collecting rainwater through various methods to minimize surface runoff. Key methods discussed include storing rainwater below or in the ground. Watershed management aims to maintain water quality and regulate flows through techniques like contouring and crop planning. The document provides tips for conserving water in daily activities and concludes by emphasizing the importance of water conservation.
This presentation provides a comparison between the the agriculture and irrigation practices between India and Israel. Israel being a desert country is one of the most efficient country in terms of water management.
Rain water harvesting involves collecting and storing rainwater for beneficial use. It can be collected from rooftops or on land surfaces and stored in tanks, reservoirs, or recharged into groundwater. Properly implemented rooftop rainwater harvesting provides a sustainable water source, recharges groundwater, and has many environmental benefits. An effective system includes gutters and downpipes to collect water and direct it into a storage tank with filters to remove debris. Excess water can be recharged into the ground to further augment groundwater supplies.
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Evolving Lifecycles with High Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) and 3-D...Joshua Orris
The incorporation of a 3DCSM and completion of HRSC provided a tool for enhanced, data-driven, decisions to support a change in remediation closure strategies. Currently, an approved pilot study has been obtained to shut-down the remediation systems (ISCO, P&T) and conduct a hydraulic study under non-pumping conditions. A separate micro-biological bench scale treatability study was competed that yielded positive results for an emerging innovative technology. As a result, a field pilot study has commenced with results expected in nine-twelve months. With the results of the hydraulic study, field pilot studies and an updated risk assessment leading site monitoring optimization cost lifecycle savings upwards of $15MM towards an alternatively evolved best available technology remediation closure strategy.
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
2. 80% of water
is used by
Agriculture in
California.
the drought lost:
2014: $2.2 billion 17,100 jobs
2015: $1.84 billion 10,100 jobs
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4. Pros of IndoorVertical Farming:
LESS SPACE and soil
USE 95% LESS water
NO PESTICIDE=NO pollution water & Air
Harvest as often as EVERY 2 WEEKS:
Traditional twice a year
5. MORE Pros :
NO POLLUTION from tractors
46 TONS OF O2 is produced daily
667 PEOPLE can be fed PER SINGLE
SQUARE FOOT.
Bad weather don’t effect productions