Agriculture

The climate activists who don’t call themselves activists

/ Adaptation, Agriculture

by Padmini D. In the flood-prone districts of southern Bangladesh (Pirojpur, Barisal, Gopalganj), farmers have spent roughly two centuries building something they’d never think to call climate infrastructure: floating gardens. When monsoon water swallows their fields for months at a time, they layer water hyacinth, bamboo and rotting plant matter into rafts, sometimes 180 feet

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Best practices for agrivoltaics land-use planning and regulations

/ Agriculture, Land Use

by Michael Buza, Mike Carberry, Larry Gosselin, Julie Lowe and Richard Rollins We are in the midst of a global transition to clean energy. In the United States, although not receiving regular coverage in mainstream news, recent federal legislation and incentives are accelerating renewable energy development in every state. In rural areas, agricultural lands are

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Agrivoltaics combines production of agriculture and solar power

/ Agriculture, Energy, Land Use

by Larry Gosselin, Julie Lowe, and Richard Rollins Agrivoltaics, which pairs solar panels (photovoltaics) with agriculture, is a double-duty climate solution that yields benefits to farmers while minimizing the Nation’s need to use undeveloped natural lands for solar energy development. By putting aside the historical practice of devoting land to a single purpose, this approach

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