Category: Agriculture

The Interconnected Crises of Agriculture and Extreme Heat: A Call to Address the Climate and Ecological (Green) Emergency

This post is based on two separate climate news articles I read over the weekend... The recent headlines highlighting a study on climate change's impact on agriculture and the unseasonable extreme heat events in the western United States are not isolated incidents. They are deeply interconnected manifestations of the ongoing Climate and Ecological (Green) Emergency.... Continue Reading →

We are facing a deteriorating state of public and personal health, a collapsing ecosystem as evidenced by the alarming rate of species extinction—and the clear failure of government agencies and politicians to address any of these emergencies. Should we throw up our hands and declare the situation hopeless? Definitely not. On the contrary, now is precisely... Continue Reading →

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Project Drawdown: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #11 23.15 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $57.2 BILLION NET COST $1.93 TRILLION NET SAVINGS Regenerative agriculture practices restore degraded land. They include no tillage, diverse cover crops, in-farm fertility (no external nutrient sources required, no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, and multiple crop rotations, all of which can be augmented by managed... Continue Reading →

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Original Post Date: 1.21.21 - Not all books age the same! We are facing a deteriorating state of public and personal health, a collapsing ecosystem as evidenced by the alarming rate of species extinction—and the clear failure of government agencies and politicians to address any of these emergencies. Should we throw up our hands and declare... Continue Reading →

Borrowing a page from the fossil fuel industry’s playbook, meat’s “merchants of doubt” are funding questionable research and lobbying to keep meat reduction off the table. For years, meat producers have worked furiously behind the scenes to keep meat reduction out of discussions on climate policy. The first draft of the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on... Continue Reading →

How the Meat Industry Undermines Effective Climate Policy

A climate scorecard provides a picture of how marine life will fare as oceans become warmer, which is projected to continue over the 21st century For 20 years, captain Gail Atkinson fished out of Nova Scotia’s Cape Sable Island, just southwest of Canada’s lobster capital, Barrington Passage. Lobster Fishing Area 34, as it’s known, is... Continue Reading →

Laying the groundwork for climate-smart fisheries

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