Reducing emissions from the dairy industry
The dairy company 'Arla Foods' is making a promise to cut its carbon emissions to the point of being carbon neutral by 2050; this change will affect 2,000 farms and will trial new technologies such as producing energy from waste manure
Bans on cars waiting outside schools
The government has released new recommendations that suggest cars should be banned from idling outside school gates and that it should be made easier for children to walk or cycle to school; there are concerns over the impact of car emissions on air quality and the affect this can have on children's respiratory health
Industrial farms take over rural America
As large scale farming becomes ever more economically viable, the small scale, family farms of America are being lost to the big corporations; what were once diverse, successful, community-based farmsteads are now remotely-controlled industrial pastures that produce corn and soya to make animal feed for other farms
The dairy company 'Arla Foods' is making a promise to cut its carbon emissions to the point of being carbon neutral by 2050; this change will affect 2,000 farms and will trial new technologies such as producing energy from waste manure
Bans on cars waiting outside schools
The government has released new recommendations that suggest cars should be banned from idling outside school gates and that it should be made easier for children to walk or cycle to school; there are concerns over the impact of car emissions on air quality and the affect this can have on children's respiratory health
Industrial farms take over rural America
As large scale farming becomes ever more economically viable, the small scale, family farms of America are being lost to the big corporations; what were once diverse, successful, community-based farmsteads are now remotely-controlled industrial pastures that produce corn and soya to make animal feed for other farms