Organic farming and organic food and drink production play a distinctive, though still relatively small, role within England’s wider agricultural sector, accounting for around 3.4% of the utilised agricultural area. It nevertheless represents an increasingly important component of the food system. UK organic retail sales reached £3.9 billion in 2025, sustaining the growth trajectory that has seen the market expand by 4.2% in the preceding year alone. 
1. Increase and manage organic supply through targeted support for existing and new organic producers and processors.
2. Realignment of existing and emerging domestic supply and demand; increase proportion of sales met by domestic production.
3. Increase demand for English organic produce through increasing consumer awareness and stimulating demand from the public sector.

Following the recent release of Limiting Overshoot, which signals a greater emphasis on climate adaptation and resilience, I speak with Mirey Atallah, UNEP's Chief of Adaptation and Resilience, about the report's findings, the significance of UNEP's Shift towards adaption, and the urgent need for governments, businesses, and communities to build resilience going forward.

It's a repost from the other sub. Basic question about carbon calculation.

I work on the manufacturing side at Betoper, so I spend quite a bit of time around stage lighting.
Something I've noticed with schol auditoriums is that there's often a push to ad more lighting efects before fixing the basics. A lot of these spaces are mainly used for asemblies, graduations, and the ocasional school play, so reliable, even lighting maters more than having a flashy setup.
If the lighting is uneven or people lok washed out on camera, adding more fixtures won't necesarily solve the problem. It might make more sense to improve what's already there, especialy if the existing equipment can stil be used.
I also wonder how often schols consider energy use, maintenance, and how long new fixtures will last before spending their budget. Buying more equipment isnt always the best option if a simpler upgrade can do the job.
For those who have worked with schol auditoriums, how do you decide whether to upgrade existing lighting or invest in new equipment? Do energy eficiency and long term maintenance factor into those decisions, or does the initial budget usually win out?

Hi everyone! I’m working on a university research project exploring fashion sustainability and social media, and I’m looking for people to complete my survey.

I’d really appreciate hearing perspectives from this group. If you have a few minutes to share your views, it would be a big help with my research.

Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccxCtWcs9i-6d4O8c-TmcobcIQp7X2n4miZA4q5nV-Wht8RA/viewform?usp=header

Thank you for your time and support!

Would appreciate your assistance

Toastmasters is a proven way to improve your public speaking and leadership skills. Ed Tivinan and I are seeking to form a Toastmasters club centered on the circular economy. It would meet by Zoom. Once we have a number of people interested then we will hold a demonstration meeting. If you are interested then complete the form from the QR code or https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r7oHHkh-80kz00YYhfpiRqaho2vi5sfObjPz8b7E4MQ/viewform

City council has long sought to dismantle the citizens idling complaint program to allow truck idling again in the city for the sake of big business. Intro 561-A is their latest attempt. Please sign the petition to fight against this wasteful habit and to tell Speaker Menin that NYC deserves clean air!

LifeQuest World Corp (OTCID: LQWC) October 14, 2026 Blog

The world's biggest construction sites rarely come with sewers attached. Oil and gas basins, mining operations, pipeline corridors, and infrastructure megaprojects are increasingly served by temporary "workforce housing" — camps that can range from fifty workers to more than thirty thousand, built wherever the project is, not wherever the utility grid happens to reach. Industry coverage of this sector notes that in New Mexico's Permian Basin alone, regulators have cited more than 140 housing installations in a single county as noncompliant, a symptom of sanitation infrastructure that hasn't kept pace with how fast these camps get built — and how often they move. Operators in Chile's mining sector face an added constraint: they're legally barred from drawing on traditional freshwater sources at all, forcing a rethink of both water supply and wastewater handling on-site.

The core problem is structural, not just regulatory. Conventional options are a bad fit for a site that may not exist in five years: trenching a pipeline to the nearest municipal plant is slow and expensive to build (and to later abandon), while local systems sized for a town's steady population can be overwhelmed by a camp's load. Worse, camp populations swing hard — rotating shifts, project phases ramping up or winding down — and most package plants and activated-sludge systems need roughly 80% of their rated capacity flowing through them to treat effectively. Drop below that and performance degrades; that mismatch is a big part of why noncompliance shows up so often in camp settings.

This is precisely the load profile BioPipe Global's in-pipe biological treatment technology was built for. Wastewater moves horizontally through pipe modules colonized by bacteria, with passive aeration replacing blowers and no chemicals or sludge produced to haul off a remote site — a meaningful cost difference when the nearest sludge disposal facility is hours away. Because treatment doesn't depend on a fixed minimum flow, BioPipe systems keep working efficiently from roughly 10% of capacity up to full load, tracking a camp's actual headcount instead of requiring it. The containerized, modular format also means a plant can be relocated along with the camp itself, rather than written off as stranded infrastructure when a project phase ends.

BioPipe is already active in this exact use case: on September 10, 2026, the company announced purchase orders for two 15,000-liter-per-day containerized sewage treatment plants for labor camp installations — a combined 30,000 liters per day of decentralized capacity delivered in the compact, relocatable format this sector needs. It's a smaller order than some of BioPipe's municipal and resort-scale projects, but it's a direct commercial foothold in a global market — temporary worker housing — that conventional wastewater infrastructure has struggled to serve well.

About LifeQuest World Corp

LifeQuest World Corp (OTC Markets: LQWC) is a global technology company focused on low-cost, low-maintenance, eco-friendly decentralized wastewater treatment, alongside solid waste compaction and recycling solutions, through subsidiaries including BioPipe Global and Compaction and Recycling Equipment Inc. (CARE). Learn more at www.lifequestcorp.com.

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What are the most effective current technical solutions for Ocean Pollution? Looking for real-world examples [Student Project]

Hi all,
I am a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate from India (RIT Kottayam), working on a project related to Ocean Pollution.

I have studied the main problems: microplastics, oil spills,and chemical runoff. But I am struggling to find which *technical solutions are actually working at scale* right now.

I would love to discuss:

*1. Prevention Tech:* Are solutions like The Ocean Cleanup, Seabins, river interceptors

*2. Detection / Monitoring:* What tech is used to track microplastics or oil spills? (Drones, satellite imaging, AI models, sensors?)

*3. Material / Engineering side:
alternatives to fishing nets, better filtration systems on ships, or waste-to-value tech.

*My specific questions:*
- Which solution do you think has the highest real impact?
- Are there any open-source projects or research papers you recommend?
- What is the biggest engineering challenge that is still unsolved?

I want to understand the gap between theoretical ideas and what actually works in the ocean. Any links, experiences, or technical insights would be a huge help for my project.
Thanks in advance!

Hi!

For my bachelor’s thesis in Marketing, I’m researching how consumers evaluate packaged food products, including the environmental claims made by brands.

I’m desperately looking for people who buy or consume packaged food to complete my survey about their perceptions and purchasing decisions.

The aim of this research is not only to understand consumer behaviour, but also to generate insights that may help companies make better decisions about their environmental practices and communicate their environmental claims more transparently in the future.

Survey: https://forms.gle/aWRySXbshUcoGgEM9

Time required: Approximately 10 minutes

Eligibility: Any age, any nationalities. People who consume or buy packaged food.

Thank you for your time and contribution!