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