Carol Brighton

Featuring #sustainablesolutions in #Virginia & beyond. #ClimateWise #NaturalInfrastructure #CleanEnergy #SustainableDesign #EcoTransport #Hemp #Seaweed #Fungi

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@WNRNradio How about playing Kendall Street Company’s “Truckin Trees for Christmas?

[Carol Brighton @twcurrent]

#ClimateWise: #Decarbonization: #Seaweed to #Biochar operation to lock carbon away.

https://t.co/kYae46cNYn

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@OCEARCH I like Alice too

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#OffshoreWind: Dominion Energy’s plan for #RightWhale safety. Advocate notes that “offshore wind is crucial to countering an overarching threat to whales: the warming of oceans caused by climate change.”

https://t.co/Idzf5Ny4vw

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#Whale #Shipstrikes: “almost all of the #humpback strandings that have occurred in New York and New Jersey this winter had clear signs of vessel strike”

https://t.co/vppnsu8UC4

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#CitizenScience: Training satellites to monitor effects of human disturbance on #ChesapeakeBay water quality. NASA Citizen Science’s Chesapeake Water Watch project asks volunteers in MD & VA to take water samples and use HydroColor, a free smartphone app. https://t.co/MAPe2UYL4X

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#BlueCarbon: Good read on Virginia’s #Seagrass restoration from the California Academy of Sciences @bioGraphic magazine. https://t.co/AVBZJv9u9p

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#ChesapeakeBay #BlueCrabs. One factor considered in dwindling numbers are invasive species like #BlueCatfish. https://t.co/TSdLWPnGJ1

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#ChesapeakeBay #Invasives: Maryland applies for disaster relief. “One of the things that disaster relief could be used to do is encourage the development of fisheries for #bluecatfish.”

https://t.co/eInjORHtAM

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#SavingWhales:#RightWhales
Underwater gliders deployed by University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography are tracking the critically endangered species and notifying ships of their whereabouts.

https://t.co/iVUakeX1tC

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#Trash2Treasure: Creating markets for menacing #algae and #seaweed blooms.

https://t.co/jtyTpUVMSl

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#ClimateWise: #Decarbonization: #CarbonMarket. Austin based @FungaPbc is developing the loblolly pine fungal network for #carbonoffsets. “Its first microbiome restoration project recently launched in Lexington, Georgia.” https://t.co/hXsa5huXJT

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#SavingWhales - #WorldWhaleDay: This @IFAWUK vessel is sailing up the East Coast with #RightWhales. “Song of the Whale” will follow mothers and their calves and act to protect them from #shipstrikes in dangerous areas. They are making a public port of call in DC Feb. 27.

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#Seaweed Sunscreens

https://t.co/c4iGx4w3kA

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#Kelpon: A #Seaweed Tampon.
https://t.co/70Yhwux0ST

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#CarbonMarket: Looks like #seagrass meadows in coastal bays on Virginia’s #EasternShore are about to be approved #bluecarbon stores verified by Verra’s carbon credit standards.
https://t.co/QRbnT0vR9x

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Dominion Energy & Virginia’s #OffshoreWind development featured in this piece published by the World Economic Forum. https://t.co/6fbKBmPtDU

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#Hemp for #Decarbonization in the Building Industry. “Like wood, hemp stores carbon. However, …Hemp can be cultivated in 90 to 120 days, 100 times faster than oak trees. The plant also sequesters four times more carbon than a similarly sized forest.”

https://t.co/cZQNjSkNvo

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#Floodproofing / #EcoEngineering /#RegenerativeInfrastrucure:
#PermeablePavement and landscape design that includes innovative #greeninfrastructure like #treenetworks.

https://t.co/is31bCWq13

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#Decarbonization: #Seaweed formulation a drop in replacement for fossil based plastic film manufacturing.

https://t.co/x6DYVgh1mZ