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The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone (McKibben) DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/GETTY IMAGES/FILE 2015 A view of the Kronebreen Glacier in northern Norway.

Key Issue Ignored by Presidential Candidates: Food ‘Presidential candidates should seize the opportunity to improve the nation’s food and farm system for the benefit of

Whole Foods Partnering with Urban Farming Project to Improve Food Security in Chicago Neighborhood In 2013, Whole Foods Market announced that it would be opening

Carbon Farming Gets A Nod At Paris Climate Conference This week, world leaders are hashing out a binding agreement in Paris at the 2015 U.N.

A Soil Pilgrimage http://www.asianage.com/columnists/soil-pilgrimage-994 GMO backlash threatens beet farmers as foodmakers swap sugars http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N12C0Z520151029?rpc=401& World’s “appetite” for renewables is growing, but faster transition is needed,

Pope Francis would love the obscure theories of this dead Romanian economist http://qz.com/510096/pope-francis-would-love-the-theories-of-this-dead-romanian-economist/ THE NEED FOR A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM: PART 9 http://www.countercurrents.org/avery220815.htm   Brazil

The Soil Story (4 minute video) http://thesoilstory.com The Soil Story, created by Kiss the Ground, is a five-minute film that shares the importance of healthy

Making the transition to a circular economy will not be a walk in the park http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150731/opinion/shift-to-circular-economy.578683 After what might be perceived as a rather wobbly

Circular economy more than just an opportunity Now that EU parliament has given its support to a report on the circular economy, it’s up to

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

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,

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