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Conference Asks What the Future of Food Should Look Like
Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
WHAT DOES THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAVE TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?The Chamber is controlled by Big Polluters, poisons politics with its dirty money and opposes every single effort to curb climate pollution.
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Petitions, Sustainable Agriculture on February 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Bill McKibbon: Together we’ve accomplished an awful lot in the last two years—we’ve built the first mass movement around climate change, with thousands of rallies around the country and around the world. We’ve put the basic science out where it can’t be ignored, and built a coalition of poor and affluent people around the [...]
FLOUR TO THE PEOPLE How to make sure there will be enough food
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Health Issues, News Articles, Peak Oil, Sustainable Agriculture on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today there are three sources of growing demand for food: population growth; rising affluence and the associated jump in meat, milk, and egg consumption; and the use of grain to produce fuel for cars. Population growth is as old as agriculture itself. But the world is now adding close to 80 million people per year. Even [...]
The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?
Posted in Articles, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Genetic Engineering, Health Issues, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” - Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation’s 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America’s organic consumers [...]
La Vía Campesina Declaration in Cancun No to market-based business deals proposed by the governments of industrialized countries and transnational corporations, the thousands of solutions to the climate crisis are in the hands of the people
Posted in Agroecology, Articles, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Sustainable Agriculture on January 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The members of La Vía Campesina, coming from 29 Mexican states and 36 countries from all over the world, and hundreds of national and international organizations, join our thousands of struggles in Cancun to demand of the United Nations Conference of the Parts on Climate Change, (COP 16), environmental justice and respect for Mother Earth; [...]
Jeff Moyer — Championing organic no-till
Posted in Agroecology, Articles, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture on January 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Preserving the health in the soil while eliminating weeds. Jeff Moyer has been farm manager/director at the Rodale Institute for more than 28 years, has served as chair of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board, and is a founding board member of Pennsylvania Certified Organic. He has also been working on perfecting an organic no-till [...]
Videos from Carrot Mob: People powered change
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Health Issues, Organic Foods, Video on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the January 5th post below, Eliot Coleman, the Maine farmer, educator and author of seminal books on organic farming, gave this parting advice: ”Vote with your dollars.” He firmly believes that the entire agricultural cycle begins with individuals deciding what they will and won’t eat. ”You’re in charge.” Here’s an organization that is taking [...]
Peak Oil and a Changing Climate: An Introduction (Video)
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, Peak Oil, Video on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world’s supply of oil runs out? Peak Oil is the point at [...]
Powered by Nature
Posted in Agroecology, Climate Change, Environment, Farm Issues, News Articles, Organic Foods, Sustainable Agriculture on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So far, the world has always managed to meet the challenge of food productivity. In fact, today we have 25% oversupply measured in calories after losses. The challenge is to provide access to food for the poor. The strategy of ecological intensification using organic principles and practices is a new paradigm to feed the world [...]
Video: Greenpeace: Climate Justice Movement Must Intensify Efforts Ahead of 2011 Climate Talks in South Africa
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Video on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
While the U.N. climate talks in Cancún are reaching a critical stage, many delegates have begun looking toward the 2011 U.N. climate summit scheduled to take place in Durban, South Africa. Democracy Now!’s Mike Burke speaks with one of the leading South African climate change activists, Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International. See the video.
