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Organic cotton accounts for less than 1 per cent of all cotton production. Fashion can help change that.
The trend for pre-loved clothes has reached the childrenswear market, discovers Rosanna Falconer.
https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/pre-loved-chldrenswear
2020: Deadliest Year Ever in US
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/2020-deadliest-year-ever-in-us/
https://www.catholicnews.com/vatican-city-state-is-pesticide-free-imports-green-energy/
The Quapaw Nation’s Casino Farms Its Own Food A stone’s throw from the blackjack tables, bison are grazing, beehives are buzzing, crops are growing—and nature
For sustainable business, ‘planetary boundaries’ define the new rules https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/for-sustainable-business-planetary-boundaries-define-the-new-rules/ What could a good green recovery plan actually look like? What do governments across the
Humility, caring and wisdom make a better future possible (David Suzuki) For many, the pandemic has renewed our innate appreciation for and connection to nature.
Regenerative Agriculture and the Soil Carbon Solution The climate crisis is here, but regenerative agriculture can help fight it. Our newest white paper explores regenerative
Amazon ‘women warriors’ show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand Keeping forests standing is one of the most effective and important ways to
UK Environmental Agency Post-Covid Recovery Plan This Action Plan sets out how we will build on our past achievements to accelerate to a fair,
A greener economy: how we make sustainability central to business https://theconversation.com/a-greener-economy-how-we-make-sustainability-central-to-business-139086 The Path Beyond Extinction and Escape: Return to Earth, Regenerate and Share Message for
Only One Earth Nature is sending mankind a message, specifically that mankind is on the verge of a breakdown. It is time to wake up.
From Emergency to Emergence. The pandemic has also exposed extreme vulnerabilities in the global market economy, including its long and highly specialized linear supply chains,
Ecological Reflections on the Corona virus From the forests, to our farms, to our gut microbiome https://navdanyainternational.org/one-planet-one-health-connected-through-biodiversity/ Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air
Al Gore promotes carbon markets, regenerative agriculture at D.C. conference https://thefern.org/ag_insider/al-gore-promotes-carbon-markets-regenerative-agriculture-at-d-c-conference/ How to support your children in turning climate angst into climate action https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/how-support-your-children-turning-climate-angst-climate-action/
Banking on Climate? https://www.ran.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Banking_on_Climate_Change_2019_vFINAL1.pdf Hundreds of workers defy Amazon rules to protest company’s climate failures Employees ‘needed to stand up for what’s right’ despite policy
Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon https://theconversation.com/statistic-of-the-decade-the-massive-deforestation-of-the-amazon-128307 Greta Thunberg named Time magazine’s person of the year Teen activist lauded by magazine
If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop
How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind As renewable energy sources move mainstream, electricity generation and distribution systems are getting
‘Genius’ Grant Goes To Marine Scientist Who Embraces Flash Mobs And Comic Books https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/09/25/763456317/genius-grant-goes-to-marine-scientist-who-embraces-flash-mobs-and-comic-books Is Compost the Secret to Making Ag Climate Friendly? A new
Greta Thunberg’s Transatlantic Sailing Trip Is Seriously Carbon-Neutral https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/22/greta-thunbergs-transatlantic-sailing-trip-is-seriously-carbon-neutral/ Walter Jehne – The Soil Carbon Sponge, Climate Solutions and Healthy Water Cycles (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=123y7jDdbfY
The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller has just launched a new website: https://www.buckminsterfuller.net. The Green New Deal Must Include Regenerative Agriculture and an
A new generation of leaders understands that individual actions won’t fix our environmental problems By defining environmental citizenship as responsible consumption, sustainability advocates downplay
Climate change and biodiversity should be top headline news (David Suzuki) http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/05/climate-change-and-biodiversity-should-be-top-headline-news We’re Not the Class of 2019. We’re the Class of 0000. Deliver a
A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaaw2869 AND New paper proposes a science-based ‘Global Deal for Nature’ https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/new-paper-proposes-a-science-based-global-deal-for-nature/ Why Is Going
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient People taking the training are often surprised to find out that sustainable ecological farming—and healthy soil—actually
US Youth Climate Strikes https://www.youthclimatestrikeus.org/ Becoming Greta: ‘Invisible Girl’ to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps Along the Way https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/climate/greta-thunburg.html THIS IS A CRISIS FACING UP
Leonardo DiCaprio’s foundation just announced a bold new plan to curb climate change The One Earth Climate Model says we can curb temperature rises without
We don’t have enough organic farms. Why not? Organic food sales in the U.S. doubled over the last decade, but organic farming hasn’t kept pace.
FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change
Turn your food scraps into soil BECOME A SOIL MAKER, OR FIND ONE NEAR YOU. MakeSoil.org A Record Number of Scientists Are Running for Congress,
California Climate Strategy An Integrated Plan for Addressing Climate Change http://www.climatechange.ca.gov New study finds incredibly high carbon pollution costs – especially for the US
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change The first suggestion to Rafe Pomerance that humankind was destroying the conditions necessary for its own
A California City That’s Taking Beauty Seriously Vallejo is working on conserving open space and beautifying the city as part of a national campaign to
Spending time alone in nature is good for your mental and emotional health Today Americans live in a world that thrives on being busy, productive
Moving from sustainable to regenerative farming For those still catching up with sustainable farming, a new trend is on the horizon. The idea of regenerative
Closing the Loop, the world’s first feature-length documentary film on the circular economy. “Unless we go to Circular it’s game over for the planet; it’s game over
This Georgia rancher might be our best hope for a sustainable future Ride shotgun on this game-changing farm in “One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts,” streaming
World’s first plastic-free aisle opens in Netherlands supermarket Campaigners hail progress as Amsterdam store offers dedicated aisle of more than 700 products, with plans for
Will People Eat Relish Made from ‘Waste’ Ingredients? Drexel Study Finds They May Even Prefer It A new Drexel University study found strong potential for
https://civileats.com/2020/12/10/the-quapaw-nations-casino-farms-its-own-food/
Carbon markets are already providing income to Australian and some Canadian and US farmers for trapping carbon dioxide in their soil and reducing carbon emissions on the farm. How are these markets expected to grow and when will European farmers begin cashing in?
Another year of climate-fueled extreme weather revealed the imminent dangers we face, the urgent need to act, and the role agriculture plays in both. Here is our best climate reporting.
https://civileats.com/2020/12/29/our-best-climate-stories-of-2020/
“This is a disaster,” a San Carlos Apache tribal leader said of one drilling project the administration is pushing forward
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/to-save-life-on-earth-consult-this-new-map/
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-12-08/bioregional-regeneration-for-planetary-health/
This commentary is by Stephen Leslie, co-owner of Cedar Mountain Farm and Cobb Hill Cheese, both located at Cobb Hill Co-housing in Hartland. He is an author at Chelsea Green Publishing.
https://vtdigger.org/2020/12/20/stephen-leslie-why-vermont-needs-a-healthy-soils-act/
Family Forest Owners Could Champion Carbon Drawdown
New forest carbon programs could fuel the transition to carbon-smart forestry.
https://www.sightline.org/2020/12/03/family-forest-owners-could-champion-carbon-drawdown/
https://cires.colorado.edu/news/no-country-immune-health-harms-climate-change
https://www.fastcompany.com/90584184/new-york-state-is-divesting-its-pension-fund-from-fossil-fuels\
https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2020/research/microplastics-molluscs-highest-levels/
Amazon must stop flooding our oceans with plastic waste.
Amazon’s apparent embrace of plastic packaging is hindering
its commitment to help the fight against climate change.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/12/16/amazon-must-stop-flooding-our-oceans-with-plastic-waste
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/plastic-blowing-wind
The environment is polluted by microplastics worldwide. The tiny particles enter food chains, and thereby the digestive systems of animals and humans; moreover, they can be inhaled. Instead of being excreted, small microplastics can be incorporated into the body tissue. A research team at the University of Bayreuth has now discovered that microplastic particles find their way into living cells more easily if they were exposed to natural aquatic environments, i.e. fresh water and seawater. Biomolecules occurring in the water are deposited on the microplastic surfaces, which promote the internalization of the particles into cells.
https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/university/press/press-releases/2020/173-microplastics/index.html
Navigating Plastic Alternatives In a Circular Economy.
This work unpacks the opportunities and challenges within
the industry’s move toward these alternative materials, considering
sustainable sourcing of feedstocks and end-of-life recovery pathways.
With 11 million metric tons of plastic waste entering our
oceans every year, the proliferation of single-use plastics across the globe has reached a tipping point. Market pressures and regulations are spurring a rapid and, at times, haphazard shift away from petroleum-based, single-use plastics bound for landfill.
Many companies are exploring bio-based plastics,
biopolymers and compostable alternatives to align their products and packaging with waste reduction and climate impact goals, after pursuing strategies to reduce, reuse and recycle plastics. Yet with new materials already outpacing the capacity of our existing recovery infrastructure,
there is a critical need to address the misalignment between production and end-of-life to ensure that compostable packaging does not end up in landfill.
https://www.closedlooppartners.com/research/navigating-plastic-alternatives-in-a-circular-economy/
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/hope-and-peace-bison-return-to-the-rosebud-reservation/
https://www.marinij.com/2020/12/12/marin-moves-to-broaden-coalition-in-war-on-greenhouse-emissions/
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/opinion/close-to-home-a-trillion-trees-to-save-the-earth/
Demand for batteries is increasing rapidly and is set to increase 14 fold by 2030.
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/homepage/title_830589_en.html
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/12/12/tim-cook-urges-un-to-move-to-a-carbon-neutral-economy
https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/14991-opinion-seize-a-bipartisan-bioeconomy-agenda
The company’s new “Buy Less, Demand More” campaign prompts customers to consider secondhand alternatives to new gear.
https://www.snewsnet.com/gear/patagonia-buy-less-demand-more-campaign
STATE of KNOWLEDGE of SOIL BIODIVERSITY
Status, challenges and potentialities
Summary for policy makers
http://www.fao.org/3/cb1929en/CB1929EN.pdf
https://www.mortonarb.org/news/researchers-estimate-nearly-one-third-oaks-are-threatened-extinction
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/11/north-carolina-hog-industry-lagoons-pipeline
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/hope-and-peace-bison-return-to-the-rosebud-reservation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/12/09/trump-air-pollution/
As we prepare to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, governments trying to mitigate the effect of COVID-19 are digging us deeper into the climate crisis.
Human exploitation of Planet Earth has reached a point where what we do and how we live reverberates across the circle of life—and could destroy it, for every species, for all life.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/10/embracing-ecological-realism
https://www.mortonarb.org/news/researchers-estimate-nearly-one-third-oaks-are-threatened-extinction
The environment is polluted by microplastics worldwide. The tiny particles enter food chains, and thereby the digestive systems of animals and humans; moreover, they can be inhaled. Instead of being excreted, small microplastics can be incorporated into the body tissue. A research team at the University of Bayreuth has now discovered that microplastic particles find their way into living cells more easily if they were exposed to natural aquatic environments, i.e. fresh water and seawater. Biomolecules occurring in the water are deposited on the microplastic surfaces, which promote the internalization of the particles into cells. The researchers have presented their results in the journal “Science Advances”.
https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/university/press/press-releases/2020/173-microplastics/index.html
https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2020_109_climate-change-exacerbates-biodiversity-loss.php
António Guterres tells Climate Ambition Summit more must be done to hit net zero emissions
Small-scale farmers in Ithaca respond to hunger through nimbleness, innovation, and mutualism. If the recently introduced FEED Act passes Congress, the model could spread nationwide.
https://civileats.com/2020/12/08/the-new-york-farmers-responding-to-food-insecurity/
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/brazil-beef-giants-linked-to-illegal-amazon-deforestation/
https://www.reuters.com/article/climate-change-greta-idUSKBN28L1L2
https://www.idiv.de/en/news/news_single_view/1878.html
https://uwaterloo.ca/stories/news/restoring-wetlands-near-farms-would-dramatically-reduce
Four sessions throughout January 2021 offer learning opportunities
Organic cotton accounts for less than 1 per cent of all cotton production. Fashion can help change that.
The trend for pre-loved clothes has reached the childrenswear market, discovers Rosanna Falconer.
https://www.vogue.co.uk/mini-vogue/article/pre-loved-chldrenswear
2020: Deadliest Year Ever in US
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/2020-deadliest-year-ever-in-us/
https://www.catholicnews.com/vatican-city-state-is-pesticide-free-imports-green-energy/
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