Sentences with phrase «scale farming systems»

First, the Rodale Institute farm is comprised of both large - scale and small - scale farming systems (acres of agronomic field crops and pasture planted alongside hand - managed demonstration gardens) to show farmers, researchers and the general public ways in which the NOP Certification Standards can be employed and met on both scales.

The proposal to allow cattle feedlots of up to 1,000 cattle in the Farming Zone without a permit nor a setback from neighbours, while 100 pigs or 450 poultry in highly mobile systems trigger the notice and review process, suggests that there may not merely be ignorance of small - scale farming systems, but something more sinister at play.

Not exact matches

GEM Energy, a subsidiary of the broader Rudolph Libbe Group that also own Rudolph Libbe Inc., has built 50 MW worth of solar farms — some of them First Solar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar system).

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

We call on Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford and Minister for Planning Richard Wynne to explain why small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms are to be subjected to greater scrutiny and compliance costs than cattle feedlots, instead of being treated under the law like other grazing systems that rely on supplemental feed such as the majority of Victorian beef and dairy cattle.

«This is a system designed to encourage huge intensive poultry farms and make it much harder for small scale, sustainable farms.

After this successful pilot project, which attracted investments from a regional power company and Google, researchers are now looking to help other farms follow suit and expand the market for waste - to - energy systems on a national scale.

Creating demonstration farms would help, as would carrying out system - scale research to evaluate what works best to adapt specific practices to general principles in different settings.

But urine recycling may never become a part of large - scale farming in industrialized countries, because implementing it would mean drastically remodeling sewage systems in order to collect and transport liquid waste.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

A system of «mini-fields» has also been explored with pupils scaling down their farming operations to a mini-field of just 1m2.

«We actually have had to scale back a lot of our plans for farm automation, so it might not be as much of a balancing act anyway,» he said about a planned system for farm automation.

There are a number of other indoor and countertop grow units on the market, all of which make similar claims, but what seems to set the Hexagro Living Farming Tree apart is its modular nature, which lends itself well to not only customization, but also to scaling up the size of this vertical gardening system.

GEM Energy, a subsidiary of the broader Rudolph Libbe Group that also own Rudolph Libbe Inc., has built 50 MW worth of solar farms — some of them First Solar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar system).

Tarleigh Park Solar Farm would be a 90MW utility - scale solar PV park, the development of which is currently being investigated by UK - headquartered developer RES (Renewable Energy Systems), in Blighty, a small development 23 km southeast of the nearest «big» town, Delinquin (population: around 8,000).

Some people still question whether the U.S. government is capable of creating and effectively enforcing farming practice standards that support truly sustainable, environmentally sound farming systems at both the large and small scale.

Small - scale (under 5 MW), distributed solar falls into three categories: residential rooftops, nonresidential systems under 500 kW (think commercial rooftops), and nonresidential systems between 500 kW and 5 MW (think small, ground - mounted solar PV farms, like community solar projects).

This morning, South Australia's premier Jay Weatherill announced that Tesla's utility and industrial scale Powerpack systems deployed for the project at Hornsdale Wind Farm will be «energised for the first time in the coming days».

Wind energy is great for small scale low intense needs, but large wind farms are just plain ugly, and putting them to a grid system not the most efficient use and also not the best way to harness the energy delivered to Earth from our free and safe distant fusion reactor that has zero maintenance costs.

WHAT: A utility - scale offshore wind farm paired with an energy storage system.

SolarCity has chosen Tesla to supply a 52MWh utility - scale energy storage system, which will make the output of a solar farm in Hawaii dispatchable.

Further, the capabilities of key decision makers vary greatly in different PV market segments, spanning utility investors for large - scale PV farms to home owners contemplating whether to install roof - top PV systems.

This includes, for example: making sustainable, healthy diets the norm, with more fruit, veg and plant - based proteins; eliminating food wastage from farm to fork; reducing reliance on antibiotics in livestock farming; scaling up sustainable animal feed and aquaculture systems; improving smallholder livelihoods; and rolling out restorative agriculture approaches, such as agroecology, agroforestry and soil carbon farming.

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All these natural systems of modified farming can draw down a lot of CO2 given enough scaling up and enough time for the process to work, which takes significant time.

A large - scale storage system co-located at a German solar farm by the PV plant's developer Belectric, has been given the green light to operate in the grid - balancing frequency response market.

Donna Rachel Edmunds — Breitbart.com — Sept. 12, 2014 Germany's flagship Bard 1 offshore wind farm has been described as «a faulty total system» as technical problems continue to plague the project, casting major doubts on the feasibility of large scale offshore projects.