Utrecht, a city in Holland, has given a remodel to its 316 bus stops,  providing  them with "green roofs,"  The roofs are covered with sedum flowers and other plants, which act as a hub for bees. The beautiful greenery and flowers  added have a host of  other positive environmental effects. The plants will  absorb rain, capture dust or  toxins from the air, and regulate temperatures. Also,  adding plants in urban spaces has plenty of other benefits, including: reducing noise pollution, reducing stress,  absorbing carbon, making the city more beautiful and improving air quality.

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Farming is difficult … and farming under water even more so! This helps to explain why the oyster industry has remained stagnant for nearly 40 years as mitigating factors of tides, barnacles, weather, and disease, have turned oyster farming into an alchemy difficult to teach, and even more difficult to scale. Now an oyster farmer with 15 years’ experience under his waders, Ewan McAsh, has launched SmartOysters, an app-based platform for oyster farmers to streamline their own unique aquaculture practice and scale production to unprecedented levels, lower the price of oysters to consumers and maximise export capabilities.   https://smartoysters.com/

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AmpleHarvest.org is a unique  American resource that is eliminating the waste of food using the internet. This enables 61 million Americans who grow food to easily donate their excess harvest. They bring their fresh food to one of 8,731 registered local food pantries nationwide. These food pantries help nourish one out of six Americans (including a quarter of all kids under six).Read more here: https://ampleharvest.org

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