Promoting sustainable agriculture-based solutions for local farmers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province

ByThe Circular Economy Team July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

Promoting sustainable agriculture-based solutions for local farmers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Muhammad Farooq, a small-holder farmer from Ambar Tehsil of District Mohmand in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province lives jointly with his seven children and extended family. With 30 people of the family living under the same roof, Farooq took up beekeeping and small-scale vegetable production to help meet the increasing household expenses. Illicit crop cultivation was common practice in the mountainous terrain of district Mohmand, an area situated in the heart of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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Tyson and EDF partner on sustainability

ByThe Circular Economy Team December 29, 2019

Tyson Foods Inc. announced on Jan. 15 that it is working with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to enhance sustainability initiatives by the company and its producer partners. “If the largest US food company can prove the viability of farming practices that are good for the…

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Battery storage boom shows UK is charting course for net zero energy

ByThe Circular Economy Team December 14, 2020January 17, 2022

The rapid rise of battery storage projects shows UK is already building clean, flexible energy system of the future, argues RenewableUK’s Luke Clark. The speed of transformation in the energy sector is one of the things which makes it one of the most exciting places to work right now. On a personal level, it has meant that my job has changed radically….

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Natural Sciences Professor and Alums Publish Research in Peer-Reviewed Urban Ecology Journal • Natural Sciences • Marymount Manhattan College

ByThe Circular Economy Team November 14, 2022

Marymount Manhattan College (MMC) Biology Professor Matt Lundquist, Ph.D. and alums Madison Weisend ’20 and Hope Kenmore ’20 recently co-published a research paper in the peer-reviewed journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. The paper “Insect biodiversity in urban tree pit habitats” was the culmination of a faculty-student collaborative project examining the biodiversity of insects within street tree pit habitats in Manhattan.