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November 4, 2006: International Day of Climate Action
Join OCA and our allies for the International Day of Climate Action on November 4, 2006. OCA will be hosting house parties, film screenings and demonstrations in conjunction with worldwide actions prior to the United Nations Climate Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, where delegates from more than 175 countries will be meeting from November 6-November 17.
Food, Farming, & Climate Change
Industrial agriculture and long-distance food transportation generate somewhere between 20-25% of all climate destabilizing greenhouse gases in the U.S., Canada, and other industrialized nations.
The average food item in an American grocery store, whether conventional or organic, has traveled 1500 miles from farm to market, usually in a diesel-belching tractor-trailer. Multi-ingredient processed foods add up to even more food miles and greenhouse gases. Food processing, packaging, and waste disposal (i.e. throwing millions of tons of uneaten foods into landfills instead of composting them, burning crop wastes instead of composting them) adds up to further energy use and greenhouse gas pollution.
Read more: Ronnie Cummins: Organics & Climate Chaos: Can the Organic Community Save the World?