Farmers in India cut their carbon footprint with trees and solar power

Good News Notes: “In 2007, 22-year-old P. Ramesh’s groundnut farm was losing money. As was the norm in most of India (and still is), Ramesh was using a cocktail of pesticides and fertilizers across his 2.4 hectares in the Anantapur district of southern India. In this desert-like area, which gets less than 600 millimeters of…

Tellurian to Donate $25 Million to the National Forest Foundation for Nationwide Reforestation; Includes the Planting of 300,000 Trees in Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest

Good News Notes: “Tellurian Inc. (Tellurian) (NYSE American: TELL) announced today it has begun a partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF) on a five-year, $25 million plan for reforestation and other projects across the United States. One of the first projects will be to re-plant 300,000 trees in the Kisatchie National Forest (Kisatchie), located…

Nativa, Quantis Partner for Responsibly Sourced Wool Farming Initiative

Good News Notes: “Nativa, a Chargeurs Group brand, announced its partnership with Quantis, a sustainability consulting group, to launch its Regenerative Agriculture wool farming program centered on responsibly sourced Merino wool. Over the coming years, Nativa will tap Quantis’ carbon footprinting expertise within the wool sector to help identify and reduce CO2 emissions related to farming, the companies said. Nativa offers nature-focused sustainable solutions…

Automate The Farm With Acorn

Good News Notes: “Farming has been undergoing quite a revolution in the past few years. Since World War 2, most industrial farming has relied on synthetic fertilizer, large machinery, and huge farms with single crops. Now there is a growing number of successful farmers bucking that trend with small farms growing many crops and using…

Ex-Reddit CEO raises $30M to offer ‘reforestation in a box’

Good News Notes: “Over the past 4.5 billion years (give or take a few hundred million), the Earth has cultivated many perfect examples of circular economy principles — including the natural patterns through which water is withdrawn from rivers, springs, streams, lakes (and so forth) through evaporation and returned through rainfalls both gentle and stormy. …

Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative Plants 500,000th Tree

Good News Notes: “The Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative (HLRI) today announced the planting of its 500,000th native tree in Hawaii.  More than 1,200 acres of former pastureland on both Oahu and Hawaii Island have been reclaimed and returned to native forest.  ‘It’s wonderful to witness the birth of a forest, but there is much more…