Green Mission News June 2015
What’s in the News… [break] USDA Develops New GMO-Free Certification And Label For Foods http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/usda-gmo-label_n_7284544.html What Happened After One Family Went Organic For Just Two
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http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2021-02/23/c_139761725.htm
https://packagingeurope.com/new-initiative-launched-to-promote-place-of-mono-pet-flexibles/
Brussels-based soft drink association foresees boost in PET recyclability.
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/unesda-pet-plastic-beverage-bottle-recycling-europe/
If you’re going to use more recycled content, you’re going to use alternative materials for packaging, you have to be ready to make the capital investment needed in your infrastructure in your factories.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/nestle-and-microsoft-financing-circular-innovations
https://www.miragenews.com/new-funding-to-create-innovative-products-and-517254/
Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm – is a deeply energy intensive process
What’s in the News… [break] USDA Develops New GMO-Free Certification And Label For Foods http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/usda-gmo-label_n_7284544.html What Happened After One Family Went Organic For Just Two
What’s in the News… Soil & Carbon: Soil Solutions to Climate Problems http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/reports/3846/soil-and-carbon-soil-solutions-to-climate-problems# An excess of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere is warming
A new theory why bees are dying off The summary of the article linked to below is this. It’s not one thing. It’s a great
(Reuters) – Almost one in 10 of Europe’s wild bee species is at risk of extinction because of threats from the spread of farms and
The bold headline of a recent Los Angeles Times editorial by the hydrologist Jay Famiglietti starkly warned: “California has about one year of water left.
How Ecodesign can Drive a circular economy in Europe http://www.eeb.org/index.cfm?LinkServID=EB5DE6FD-5056-B741-DBB2EBDF0E6E0AC5
The Huffington Post | By Kate Bratskeir Kraft Singles, a type of processed cheese that comes individually wrapped in a thin, plastic film, is the
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Thursday committing the federal government to cutting its own emissions 40 percent by 2025 and
Bigger Than Science, Bigger Than Religion We’re closer to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new story for our relationship with the Earth,
Executive Summary Since 2012, the agrichemical and food industries have mounted a complex, multifaceted public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaign in the United States,
The mission of the Chemical Footprint Project is to transform global chemical use by measuring and disclosing data on business progress to safer chemicals. It
In the past twenty years, the emphasis of the waste and resource management sector has moved from landfill to recycling, and there is now a
A compost experiment that began seven years ago on a Marin County ranch has uncovered a disarmingly simple and benign way to remove carbon dioxide
First published in October 2011 newsletter of the Northern California Recycling Association ExtendedProducer Responsibility (EPR) is the extension of the responsibility ofproducers for the environmental impacts
If gas were $10/gallon, would we die? Posted by Tom Wright on December 6, 2012 at 3:15 PM In order to run the industrial economy
https://progressivegrocer.com/giant-cos-rodale-institute-team-regenerative-organic-agriculture
Recompose, located outside of Seattle, has turned its first customers into soil after years of development.
https://www.spie.org/news/getting-ahead-of-climate-change
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2021/02/pesticide-threatens-future-for-key-pollinator-u-of-g-study/
Composed of farm, environmental, and food retail groups, FACA was an early advocate of using voluntary and incentive-based programs to mitigate climate change.
https://vtdigger.org/2021/02/23/michael-shank-usda-far-more-open-now-to-sustainability-practices/
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_845118_en.html
Regenerative grazing can store more carbon in soils in the form of roots and other plant tissues. But how much can it really help the fight against climate change?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/climate/regenerative-grazing-cattle-climate.html
https://tomdispatch.com/biden-climate-change-and-china/
The real scapegoat here is the Green New Deal, proposed legislation—not actual law — that begins re-envisioning who we are as a nation and what our relationship is to the future.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/26/windmills-new-scapegoat
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2AL0AA
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts say the full extent of the damage won’t be realized for weeks.
https://today.tamu.edu/2021/02/19/arctic-conditions-deliver-frigid-blow-to-texas-agriculture/
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/22/naomi_klein_texas_green_new_deal#transcript
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2KO0FZ
https://thehumaneleague.org/cage-free-eggspose
https://explore.panda.org/newdeal
Published ahead of a crucial United Nations biodiversity summit scheduled for May 2021, The World’s Forgotten Fishes details the “dazzling diversity” of freshwater fishes; their importance to food security, jobs, and ecosystems;
threats posed by current human behavior; and how scientists suggest tackling the extinction crisis.
https://wwfint.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/world_s_forgotten_fishes__report_final__1.pdf
Regenerative agriculture practices can sequester carbon in soil,
but for companies with complex supply chains, the logistics
of moving to such practices can be complicated.
https://ensia.com/features/regenerative-agriculture-carbon-sequester-soil-emissions-farm-food-dairy/
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063724069
https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-drilling-the-arctic-refuge-will-release-a-double-dose-of-carbon
Smithfield is pushing a massive greenwashing campaign to dupe consumers into thinking its products are environmentally friendly. It is actually one of the U.S.’ biggest polluters, and is now partnering with the gas industry instead of cleaning up its act.
https://www.mysteinbach.ca/blogs/10511/the-water-cycle/
We need to begin changing our fundamental ethic, from “I’m getting mine. Screw you,” to “We’re all in this together.” Because we are.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/20/texas-freeze-illustrates-failed-economic-system
As the saying goes, though, a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on.
Microbiologist, climate scientist and founder of Healthy Soils Australia Walter Jehne discusses climate and soil health.
https://www.ecofarmingdaily.com/supporting-the-soil-carbon-sponge/
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2021-02/23/c_139761725.htm
https://packagingeurope.com/new-initiative-launched-to-promote-place-of-mono-pet-flexibles/
Brussels-based soft drink association foresees boost in PET recyclability.
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/unesda-pet-plastic-beverage-bottle-recycling-europe/
If you’re going to use more recycled content, you’re going to use alternative materials for packaging, you have to be ready to make the capital investment needed in your infrastructure in your factories.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/nestle-and-microsoft-financing-circular-innovations
https://www.miragenews.com/new-funding-to-create-innovative-products-and-517254/
Bitcoin mining – the process in which a bitcoin is awarded to a computer that solves a complex series of algorithm – is a deeply energy intensive process
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