What a 40-year experiment can tell us about organic food.
Takeaways from Rodale Institute’s Farming Systems Trial.
https://peeled.substack.com/p/what-a-40-year-experiment-can-tell
Transform school meals to nourish kids and create opportunities for farmers
This chef had to close her restaurant because of COVID, but kept the brand alive via online retail
Wisdom the albatross, the world’s oldest known wild bird, has another chick at age 70
Regenerative Agriculture part 3 | Working With Nature, Not Suppressing It
Mexico to Ban Glyphosate, GM Corn Presidential Decree Comes Despite Intense Pressure from Industry, U.S. Authorities
Fossil Fuel Companies Benefit from Inefficient Pricing on Climate and Health Consequences
Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist
https://news.sky.com/story/human-penises-are-shrinking-because-of-pollution-warns-scientist-12255106
Cleaner Air, Less Soil Pollution: Unintended but Beneficial Side Effect of Clean Air Act-
http://english.iap.cas.cn/home/News/202103/t20210302_263980.html
The hidden $25 trillion cost of the planet’s energy and transport systems
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/54819
We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide
Scaling up tree nurseries is key to unlocking U.S. reforestation potential
Climate Change Damaging North America’s Largest Temperate Rainforest, Harming Salmon – CU Denver News
Study explores link between forestry management practices and pesticides in aquatic species
We sampled tap water across the US – and found arsenic, lead and toxic chemicals
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap-water-samples-forever-chemicals
Economic Benefits of Protecting Nature Exceed Value of Exploiting it, Global Study Finds
The Possible Meat: A Brazilian farmer shows ranching can regenerate the Cerrado
Global obsession with economic growth will increase risk of deadly pandemics in future
How to Fix the Recycling System: An Open Letter
https://www.rcdpackaging.com/post/how-to-fix-the-recycling-system-an-open-letter
Torrential Rains Drench Hawaii
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148045/torrential-rains-drench-hawaii
Study shows stronger brain activity after writing on paper than on tablet or smartphone
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00168.html
Researchers harvest energy from radio waves to power wearable devices
Butterfly numbers plummeting in US west as climate crisis takes toll
Sounds of Silence: Extinction Is Erasing the Earth’s Music
Writer Kathleen Dean Moore turns her ear to nature’s sounds and what we’re losing as species disappear.
https://therevelator.org/earths-music-moore/
Carnegie Mellon Research Shows How Wildfires May Have Larger Effects on Cloud Formation and Climate Change than Previously Thought
https://www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-events/2021/0224_sullivan-atmospheric-aging-bba.html
The hidden $25 trillion cost of the planet’s energy and transport systems
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/54819
Coffee for the birds: connecting bird-watchers with shade-grown coffee
https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/cnre-birds-and-coffee.email.html
Small-scale fisheries offer strategies for resilience in the face of climate change
Study explores link between forestry management practices and pesticides in aquatic species
‘Canary in the mine’ warning following new discovery of the effects of pollutants on fertility
https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/canary-in-the-mine
Welcome to the New Earth911
Every product should come with recycling instructions
https://earth911.com/earth-watch/welcome-to-the-new-earth911/
The dangers of eco-fascism and why it’s a ‘veneer for racist beliefs’
Alaska Costco Shoppers Say Ravens Steal Their Groceries
“They know what they’re doing; it’s not their first time,” a shopper said. “They’re very fat so I think they’ve got a whole system there.”
Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity (Erin Brockovich)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/18/toxic-chemicals-health-humanity-erin-brokovich
‘Climate facts are back’: EPA brings science back to website after tRump purge.
Move reverses former president’s order to drop all references to the climate emergency on government websites.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/20/epa-climate-facts-joe-biden-trump-purge
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels Is Possible. These State-Level Plans Show How.
https://truthout.org/articles/phasing-out-fossil-fuels-is-possible-these-state-level-plans-show-how/
I Accidentally Joined A Playgroup Full Of QAnon Moms. Here’s What Happened.
“It wasn’t until the onset of COVID-19 that it became apparent most of my new friends were either Trump supporters and/or entangled in QAnon conspiracy theories.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/qanon-trump-supporters-homeschool-texas_n_60512898c5b605256ebefb0f
WATER IS LIFE. CAN WE PROTECT IT?
Americans will have to fight hard to protect their water from corporate greed.
They can learn a lot from El Salvador.
https://otherwords.org/water-is-life-can-we-protect-it/
Give Nature a Right to Self-Defense
(By Jim Hightower)
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/03/21/give-nature-a-right-to-self-defense
Brazil’s ‘Upside-Down’ Forest Is Facing Devastating Destruction
The Cerrado is the most biologically rich savanna in the world
and a huge carbon sink, but it’s being razed to produce soy and beef.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brazil-cerrado-upside-down-forest-destruction_n_603502f6c5b6cc8bbf3e8c55
POV: The great seed robbery (video)
Most seed laws that are trying to be imposed in the world are based on a convention called UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants). Most people or organisations don’t know about UPOV, and its contents and implications for our seeds are very hard to understand.
To help you understand UPOV, we have a short animated video for you. It explains in a simple way how UPOV tries to appropriate and privatise seeds that have been developed over thousands of years by communities around the world, and why we should resist it and demand that it be dismantled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O7cmwIKuEQ
Leaders for Climate Accountability
is a national network of public officials who support holding corporate polluters accountable for their outsized role in creating and perpetuating the climate crisis.
https://l4ca.org/
TEXAS: A STUDY IN PRIVATE GAIN AT PUBLIC EXPENSE
My family spent the Texas freeze cold and dirty and parched
while utilities bilked us and politicians fled to resorts.
It’s unavoidable: we must ban fossil fuels to save our planet. Here’s how we do it
Twice before, humanity has mitigated severe global environmental threats.
In both cases we did this not with ‘cap and trade’ systems, taxes, or offsets, but with bans.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/09/its-unavoidable-we-must-ban-fossil-fuels-to-save-our-planet-heres-how-we-do-it
“So please don’t patronize me by telling me that the oil and gas industry doesn’t have any special tax provisions.”
https://truthout.org/articles/rep-katie-porter-refutes-claim-that-oil-industry-doesnt-get-special-tax-breaks/
“A Big Deal”: Bill McKibben on Rutgers Fossil Fuel Divestment
& the Future of Climate Justice.
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/10/rutgers_university_fossil_fuel_divestment
Wildfires Will Keep Getting Worse — Even in “Best Case” Climate Scenarios
https://truthout.org/articles/wildfires-will-keep-getting-worse-even-in-best-case-climate-scenarios/
Changes in fire weather climatology under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abe675
Understanding the Arctic Polar Vortex
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex
Legume trees support tropical forest growth by releasing nutrients from ancient soils.
Researchers have found that nitrogen-fixing legume trees can support themselves and surrounding trees not only with increased access to nitrogen but with other key nutrients through enhanced mineral weathering.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sustainable-food/news/legume-trees-support-tropical-forest-growth-releasing-nutrients-ancient-soils
Is this the end of forests as we’ve known them?
Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning.
Climate change is taking a toll on the world’s forests –
and radically changing the environment before our eyes.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/10/is-this-the-end-of-forests-as-weve-known-them
Agroecology vs. climate chaos: Farmers leading the battle in Asia
https://grain.org/en/article/6632-agroecology-vs-climate-chaos-farmers-leading-the-battle-in-asia
Ecosocialism and the Climate Crisis.
https://systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/ecosocialism-and-climate-crisis
Welcome to the New Earth911
https://earth911.com/earth-watch/welcome-to-the-new-earth911/
Floating solar farms could help reduce impacts of climate change on lakes and reservoirs
Study Finds Plants Would Grow Well in Solar Cell Greenhouses
https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/03/plants-solar-cell-greenhouses/
Not just CO2: Rising temperatures also alter photosynthesis in a changing climate
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1834613107#image-5
EU chemicals need stable, strong regulatory framework to grow – execs
UMass Lowell researchers work toward a greener economy
$1.8m DOE grant will help develop sustainable plastics
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uoml-ulr031221.php
Global ‘wind atlas’ propels sustainable energy
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/02/global-wind-atlas-propels-sustainable-energy
Wanted: unresolved packaging problems
https://www.freshplaza.com/article/9300500/wanted-unresolved-packaging-problems/
Researchers discover intact plant fossils beneath Greenland’s ice sheet for the first time
Landfills full of dangerous pollutants: Missouri researchers can tell you which ones are worst
EV Turning Point: Momentum Builds for U.S. Electric Vehicle Transition
https://e360.yale.edu/features/ev-turning-point-momentum-builds-for-u.s.-electric-vehicle-transition
Can California’s Organic Vegetable Farmers Unlock the Secrets of No-Till Farming?
Reducing tillage—which often relies on herbicides—has long been out of reach on organic farms. Now, a group of veteran growers are undertaking a soil
health experiment with implications for California and beyond.
Regenerative Agriculture Plays a Significant Role in the Future of Sustainable Food—Here’s Why
It’s being billed as the “new organic.” But it could be much, much bigger.
https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/food/regenerative-agriculture
Coastal Roots Farm Educates Community through New Mini-Film.
https://foodtank.com/news/2021/03/coastal-roots-farm-educates-community-through-new-mini-film/
Four Abbotsford companies receive $1.6 million in agritech grants
Projects include regenerative organic farm and nutrient recovery.
https://www.abbynews.com/news/four-abbotsford-companies-receive-1-6-million-in-agritech-grants/
New Book Details The Purpose-Driven Supply Chains Of Popular Soap Brand.
Regenerative ag is a growing, dynamic movement has potential for
tremendous climate reversal and healthy food production. When even
Neil Young says, “Put the carbon back in the soil,” you know it’s time
to get on board.
Regenerative Agriculture Holds Opportunity for Investors
The earth’s soil holds more than 3 times the amount of carbon in our
atmosphere and 4 times the amount stored in all living plants and
animals.
Solar Swells as Coal Collapses: Analysis Shows Rapid Shift to Renewables Underway
“Cleaner and lower-cost wind and solar, coupled with battery storage, will drive fossil fuels out of the market.”