A new film about Regenerative Farming and (judging by the trailer) a very appealing plea for revolutionary agriculture. From Hoyt's Synopsis:"Film director and Actress Rachel Ward is not the first person you’d expect to join a farming revolution. In this triumphant film, Rachel voyages from wilful ignorance about the ecological impacts of conventional agriculture on her own rural property, to embracing a movement to restore the health of Australia’s farmland, food and climate"Launched at the Sydney Film festival, this film is touring country cinemas and should be on wider (streaming) distribution soon.https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainment/2023/08/01/rachel-ward-farm/https://www.madman

Do you remember the REDcycle Fiasco where the supermarkets stockpiled warehouses of soft plastics that couldn't be recycled? Well, there's now an environmentally friendly way to recycle them.Plastic Back has developed an environmentally friendly technology for converting plastic waste back into crude oil and other valuable chemicals. Based on this technology, Plastic Back has created a conversion unit that enables waste treatment and disposal sites to reduce the amount of waste put in landfills. The company's solution also provides waste producers such as factories, agriculture operations, and hospitals with an alternative to costly waste removal and treatment service.

It's hard to build a net-zero building, producing more energy than it consumes, in the middle of a city. But United Therapeutics has, in Maryland USA: "You cannot achieve net-zero as an afterthought,” said Thomas Kaufman, director of the company, which develops rare treatments. “It has to be a mandate at the beginning that drives every single decision.”And the building employs a range of amazing new thinking, including 52 deep heat-exchange wells, drilled 500ft into the earth below.“The technology is off the shelf....we didn’t invent anything new. It just required the mindset to make it happen.”https://qz.com/1771906/the-innovative-design-of-one-of-the-worlds-largest-net-zero-buildings

Oil majors have, in the recent past, rolled out pledges to decrease oil and gas production and slash emissions, concerned about the climate crisis.And yet, amid record-shattering heat-waves, BP has scaled back an earlier goal of lowering its emissions by 35% by 2030, ExxonMobil quietly withdrew funding for a heavily publicized effort to use algae to create low-carbon fuel. And Shell announced that it would not increase its investments in renewable energy this year, This article exposes the fossil-fuel industry approach to ignore the future for the sake of short-term profitability.Al Gore is right.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel