Source: greenfuture.io Published: January 19, 2017 How do you teach your kids about the importance of the environment when many leaders of the free world have bitten their thumb at climate change? Well, you could take a hatchet to the television and move your family...
Source: fastcompany.com Published: March 13, 2017 Illustration: Oliver Munday Paul Hawken’s new book Drawdown claims to have made a definitive list of the most effective global strategies for lowering our emissions. Don’t despair: they’re all totally achievable. BY...
Source: yaleclimateconnections.org Published: April 27, 2016 By Bud Ward North Carolina farmer Suzanne Nelson has this thing about farming as a regenerative rather than an extractive business. She also has a thing for cows. Nelson says people should do what they love...
Source: newhope.com Published: December 5, 2015 Steven Hoffman As delegations from throughout the world gather this week and next at the COP21 Global Climate Summit in Paris to discuss how to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and increase availability of renewable...
Source: alternet.org Published: March 9, 2017 Written by Alexis Baden-Mayer There are three interrelated challenges facing agriculture over the next 50 years. The first is soil loss. In the United States, soil is swept and washed away 10 times faster than it is...
Source: alternet.org Published: December 12, 2015 Written by Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins France, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the U.K., Germany and Mexico are among more than two dozen countries that have signed on to an agreement that one day may be recognized...
Source: gracelinks.org Published: March 10, 2017 By Catherine Elliott Lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide to a level that will avoid catastrophic climate change requires massive shifts across all industries. While industrial agriculture is responsible for high levels...
Source: thrivemarket.com Published: August 31, 2016 When industrial agriculture took over in India around the 1940s, many traditions related to farming and wildcrafting tulsi, also known as holy basil, were lost. But regenerative agriculture ushers in a return to...
Source: scotsman.com Published: December 19, 2015 NOTE: Requires a Scotsman registration to read. The Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. Picture Allan Milligan SCOTLAND’S first national park has received nearly £250,000 of new funding for vital work that will...
Source: news.wisc.edu Published: November 26, 2013 Agricultural buffers, like the one placed adjacent to Black Earth Creek on a farm in western Dane County, could filter runoff, sequester greenhouse gases, and provide habitat for beneficial insects while also...