All About Organics
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Organic food is pure food. It's safer, more nutritious and free of chemical additives. Organic crops are grown without chemical pesticides or fertilizers and organic livestock are raised without antibiotics, growth hormones or other drugs. Organic food isn't genetically modified or irradiated.
There’s a buzz around regenerative organic agriculture, says Elizabeth Whitlow, executive director of the Regenerative Organic Alliance (ROA). Farmers, scientists, big food companies, and even the U.S. government are paying keen attention to soil—its health, its availability, and its huge potential to repair a “broken” agricultural system and help alleviate the dire impacts of global warming.
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A scheme that sets down strict grazing plans to benefit the environment and generate revenue for local people was highlighted at Cop27 as a future model
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Some argue that a carbon credit scheme is an essential form of climate financing for developing countries, others argue that it could easily fall prey to green-washing.
Agreements over a global carbon credit scheme have been slow to develop.
Last week, United States climate envoy John Kerry was heckled when he unveiled a new carbon credit scheme at a packed COP27 event.
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In regenerative agriculture, the physical, biological and chemical integrity of the soil is preserved through minimal disturbance.
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Mezcal, Mexico’s traditional agave spirit, has enraptured palates across the country and abroad. But as demand soars, a more bitter note emerges: the amount of waste its production generates and the risks that poses for the very environment that sustains it. Like tequila, mezcal is a distilled beverage produced from agave, a plant native to the arid and semiarid zones of the Americas.
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George Monbiot recently tweeted that he was “excited to announce the upcoming launch of a radical new campaign I’ve been working on with RePlanet, called Reboot Food”. That campaign draws heavily on ideas in Monbiot’s latest book Regenesis, which champions “precision-fermentation” as a techno-fix for feeding the world on animal-free protein and fats while
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I recently visited Gaza, where I work with partners on transdisciplinary research called Gaza Foodways with over 160 women farmers and processors (members of the Urban Women Agripreneur Forum – UWAF). After two years of working together, I was finally able to meet some of these women and the team in person.
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Living soils are fundamental to the interconnected health of ecosystems, to agroecological farming, to cohesive communities, and to human well-being. Soil Sisters’ regard this as ‘whole health’ and we refer to the art and knowledge involved in the preparation and eating of good food that is created from whole health systems as ‘ecological gastronomy’.
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Choosing a carton of eggs isn't as simple as grabbing the lowest-priced option on a grocery store's shelves. You've got a few decisions to make. Here's what you need to know about choosing eggs, understanding egg carton labels, and picking the best option for your needs.
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Chemical companies are dodging a federal law designed to track how many PFAS “forever chemicals” their plants are discharging into the environment by exploiting a loophole created in the Trump administration’s final months, a new analysis of federal records has found.
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