Environment & Climate
The Organic Revolution: Change the System, Not the Climate
What if there were an organic technology that could cut greenhouse emissions in half and literally suck down and sequester carbon dioxide in living soil - bringing the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm - the level scientists warn us we must acheive in order to avert a climate catastrophe?
Cook Organic, Not the Planet. Boycott Factory-Farmed Foods.
Over the past couple of years, the volume of such activism seems to have been turned down. Massive marches and demonstrations have given way to smaller gatherings in Washington, D.C. and New York; some activists have shifted from sit-ins and chanting to working for think tanks or environmental NGOs.
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Alex Cardenas, J.B. Hamby, Jim Hanks, Javier Gonzalez, and Norma Sierra Galindo are the elected directors of the Imperial Irrigation District, which provides water to the desert farm fields of California’s Imperial Valley. They control 3.1 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — roughly one-fifth of all the Colorado River water rights in the U.S.
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DESPERATE TIMES — How bad is California's drought? Bad enough to make farmers turn to tequila. About 40 farmers and distillers gathered last week at an inaugural agave symposium at the University of California, Davis, to explore the prospects of growing agave in California and making alcohol from it.
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Food supplies have shifted rapidly from surplus to shortage, and the United Nations has again warned about the heightened risks of world hunger. Since the time of the Pharaohs, governments have intervened to balance food supplies. But right now, those policies are making things worse.
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An organic dairy producer in California made headlines last fall after receiving approval from regulatory agencies to conduct a trial of a new seaweed-derived feed additive called Brominata.
Brominata is made of a red seaweed belongs to a class of feed additives that, when given to dairy cows, helps to reduce the amount of methane.
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In 2019, I wrote a cover story about how La Paloma Ranch along the Gaviota Coast was growing agave in order to turn the drought-tolerant, firebreak-ready plant into booze. There’s been a smattering of news since then, particularly in parts of Northern California, where Craig Reynolds is considered a sort of godfather in this movement toward a truly domestic agave spirit industry.
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NOAA reports its Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Hawaii measured CO2 levels averaging 420.99 parts per million (ppm) in May, an increase of 1.8 ppm over levels at this time last year, while scientists at
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Many countries have embraced a climate target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, but Finland is taking it further.
Finland’s parliament passed a new Climate Change Act committing itself to achieving net-zero emissions by 2035 and negative emissions by 2040. The act also makes Finland the first country to make a legally-binding climate negativity pledge.
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The UN Secretary-General warns that the climate crisis is a “code red” warning for humanity. Yet multinational development banks (MDBs) that have pledged to align their lending with the Paris Agreement continue to pump tons of public money into industrial animal agriculture.
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Forests cover 31 percent of the world’s land surface, just over 4 billion hectares (10 billion acres). The US and Canada have 3.2 billion acres of forest (1.3 billion hectares). Adding about 10% more global forest using Empress Splendor trees would offset all of the CO2 generated by human civilization each year.
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