These cannabis companies appear to have some answers for the climate change crisis

Global consumers, nearly 80 percent of them, care about the environment and they want companies to care about it, too. The findings, released last year, were part of The Conference Board Global Consumer Confidence Survey , conducted in collaboration with Nielsen.“The production and distribution of pot in America emits as much carbon as 3 million cars,” as per the March/April 2014 issue of Mother Jones magazine. Additionally, U.S.-wide, “the electricity used by indoors grows is enough to power 1.

Jeanette VanderMarel, a co-CEO and director of 48North Cannabis Corp., agrees, “Cannabis plants only moved indoors because it was illegal. There’s no reason to grow it indoors.” Adds VanderMarel, “I am a farmer at heart, and I think we need to change our processes. It’s important to be cognizant of our impacts, because yields are not the only things that matter, anymore.

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To begin with, crops at B.C.-based Good Buds Company Inc. are grown in recycled living organic soil in raised beds. This practice involves “adding organic material to the soil,” Royal Queen Seeds explains. To support this, Good Buds is growing cover crops. Back-up plans when the outdoors is not so greatThis year, the outdoor planting season for Ontario farmers and others across Canada was delayed due to the rains. At times like these, companies need to have a contingency plan.

TheGrowthOp Well increased co2 levels stimulate plant growth resulting in larger crop yields. A bonus for agriculture in many regions, specially Northern regions.

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