Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
WWF Report: Global Wildlife Populations Down by Half Since 1970
CBC News
Opportunity to 'develop sustainably' must be seized, says the Director of the World Wildlife Fund. Details here.
Opportunity to 'develop sustainably' must be seized, says the Director of the World Wildlife Fund. Details here.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Alberta Ranchers to Conserve Huge Tract of Native Grassland
Canadian Press
CALGARY - Southern Alberta ranchers have banded together to preserve a huge swath of almost untouched native grassland that some call a prairie Serengeti. Story here.
Cause of California Drought Linked to Climate Change
National Science Foundation
Extreme atmospheric conditions responsible for drought more likely to occur in current global warming. Story here.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Tell the Environmental Protection Agency (US): Stop Dow’s Deadly Duo of Agent Orange and Roundup Herbicides
Organic Consumer's Association
Crop-duster in Manitoba. P in P photo.
What’s more poisonous than Dow’s 2,4-D “Agent Orange” herbicide or Monsanto’s Roundup? Story here. (See related, below:)
Real Solutions From Agriculture at the People's Climate March
CommonDreams
On the day before the People’s Climate March—what’s being billed as the largest mass climate demonstration in history—the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) hosted a day of workshops as part of the NYC Climate Convergence. The final workshop was entitled “Now that the U.S. supports Climate-Smart Agriculture, is reform of our climate-dumb food system possible?” Story here.
P in P photo.
OCA’s message? Industrial agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions—and its counterpart, organic regenerative farming and ranching, offers not only a way to reverse global warming, but a way to have better soil, better health, more justice for farmers, and a proven path for feeding the world.
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