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A Return to the Roots of the Organic Method

https://www.eliotbarbara.com/read-our-books/the-self-fed-farm-and-garden/

Keep Compost Local: A Roadmap for Public-Private Partnerships (December 9, 2025)

https://ilsr.org/article/composting-for-community/keep-compost-local-2025/

Kern County, California, celebrates compost facility opening

The new facility is expected to divert 100,000 tons of organic waste from landfills annually.

https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/kern-county-california-celebrates-compost-facility-opening/

Researchers make stunning discovery after studying farmland treated with organic fertilizers for years: ‘This is the first direct evidence’

It could prompt changes in the agricultural industry.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/soil-carbon-storage-agricultural-study-fertilizer-benefits/

California Legalizes On Ranch Composting for Livestock Mortalities and Butcher Waste

https://www.sierradailynews.com/state/california-legalizes-on-ranch-composting-for-livestock-mortalities-and-butcher-waste/

The Campus Community and Composting

https://www.tntechoracle.com/2025/10/22/the-campus-community-and-composting/

Green ways to discard leftover pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns

https://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/stories/green-ways-to-discard-leftover-pumpkins-jack-o-lanterns,38290

Valley Bounty: Serving sustainability: Deerfield Academy relies on local farms to feed students 

https://gazettenet.com/2025/10/24/valley-bounty-serving-sustainability-deerfield-academy-relies-on-local-farms-to-feed-students/

The power of worms: Meet farmers transforming organic waste into wealth

https://nation.africa/kenya/health/the-power-of-worms-meet-farmers-transforming-organic-waste-into-wealth-5242820

A new interactive map, released today by the national environmental group Food & Water Watch, paints a first-ever comprehensive picture of all factory farm biogas projects making money off of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/10/28/new-map-catalogues-nationwide-ca-funded-factory-farm-gas-network/

 

Amid SNAP Turmoil, These Options Can Help Fill the Food Gap

https://civileats.com/2025/11/05/amid-snap-turmoil-these-options-can-help-fill-the-food-gap/

Why Climate Action Must Start on Our Plates 

Rebalancing industrial animal farming cuts emissions, limits disease risk, protects biodiversity, and strengthens food security, reminding us that human, animal, and planetary well-being are inseparable.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/climate-action-food-systems

 

Topsoil leads the way

Lana and Dan Nicholson’s Topsoil Organics won the Excellence in Large Business gong at the NSW (Australia) Business Awards. NSW Business award for visionary Forbes business.

https://www.forbesadvocate.com.au/news/business/topsoil-leads-the-way-maiye3jz

Community Farmers Markets Address Food Waste and Food Security With a Drawdown Georgia Grant

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/community-farmers-markets-address-food-141000102.html

Sowing Tomorrow: Land Access and the New Generation of Farmers

https://foodtank.com/news/2025/10/sowing-tomorrow-land-access-and-the-new-generation-of-farmers/

What the World’s Farmers Can Teach Us About Climate Resilience (audio)

As climate change transforms how we grow and eat, we look abroad for lessons in adaptability — and what they reveal about protecting our global food system.

https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/10/29/what-the-worlds-farmers-can-teach-us-about-climate-resilience

 Have the environmental benefits of insect farming been overstated? A critical review

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.70076

Agriculture Organic Farming: 7 Sustainable Ways 2026

https://farmonaut.com/blogs/agriculture-organic-farming-7-sustainable-ways-2026

Farm Aid 40 By the Numbers

https://www.farmaid.org/blog/farm-aid-40-by-the-numbers/

Mill and Compost Crew launch food scrap recycling service

The service is available to customers across Maryland, northern Virginia and the DMV.

https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/mill-and-compost-crew-launch-food-scrap-recycling-service/

Student-led compost project aims to build community and fight landfill waste

https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2025/10/21/student-led-compost-project-builds-community-fights-landfill-waste/86802858007/

 

Biodegradable Techniques Boost Farm Waste Composting Efficiency

https://bioengineer.org/biodegradable-techniques-boost-farm-waste-composting-efficiency/

Circular Economy in Agriculture

https://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/836815

Collaborations to encourage composting in the county

https://newfalconherald.com/collaborations-to-encourage-composting-in-the-county/

Cow Dung Compost: Top 5 Sustainable Benefits for 2026

https://farmonaut.com/blogs/cow-dung-compost-top-5-sustainable-benefits-for-2026

Animal Farming Is ‘World’s Biggest Cause Of Food Waste,’ Says Report 

If the industry stopped using grain to feed farm animals, the food system could accommodate an extra 2.5 billion people 

https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/animal-farming-biggest-cause-food-waste/

University recognised for plan to cut food waste

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/university-recognised-plan-cut-food-171314947.html

US farmers issue warning as critical crop becomes harder to grow: ‘It’s kind of scary

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-farmers-issue-warning-critical-001500910.html

How depackaging is radically changing the organics recycling market in Vermont 

Depackagers rerouted significant amounts of organic waste from composters when they arrived in the state several years ago. Regulators now wonder if they can claw back a clean stream.

https://www.wastedive.com/news/depackaging-impact-vermont-compost-organic-waste-recycling/804433/

Dining’s efforts to reduce waste go beyond the clean plate club

https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2025/11/05/dinings-efforts-reduce-waste-go-beyond-clean-plate-club

With SNAP in crisis, America’s epic food waste problem has become a lifeline 

The U.S. throws away enough food to help tackle its hunger problem. The government shutdown is proving it.

https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/snap-in-crisis-food-waste-problem-has-become-a-lifeline/

Reduce, reuse, recycle this Oklahoma holiday season

https://www.oklahomafarmreport.com/okfr/2025/11/07/reduce-reuse-recycle-this-holiday-season/

Earthworms – the ‘biological machine’ of green agriculture

KHANH HOA, Vietnam;  From agricultural waste, earthworms become a ‘biological machine’ that helps form a circular agricultural model, creating clean agricultural products, increasing value, and protecting the environment.

https://www.vietnam.vn/en/trun-que-co-may-sinh-hoc-cua-nong-nghiep-xanh

Soup kitchen crusades against food waste

https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2025/11/08/soup-kitchen-crusades-against-food-waste/

A Sample Grant Proposal on “Innovative Solutions to Reduce Food Waste Globally”

https://www.fundsforngos.org/all-proposals/a-sample-grant-proposal-on-innovative-solutions-to-reduce-food-waste-globally/

Cornell’s Tech Farm II boosts food and ag innovation in the Finger Lakes 

https://rbj.net/2025/11/10/cornell-tech-farm-ii-expands-food-ag-innovation-geneva/




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GEME Breaks New Ground in World’s First Bio Waste Composter Machine

 https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/marketers-media/geme-breaks-new-ground-world-s-141031169.html#ixzz8fQMtYr81

 

How major food manufacturers are cutting food waste 

Food manufacturers are prioritising food-waste reduction at all stages of production, and in doing so, are reducing costs too. 

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2024/07/03/How-Mondelez-and-Kraft-Heinz-are-cutting-food-waste 

Ways for food retailers to reduce waste

Independent retailers can lead the charge on slashing single-use plastics and reducing the amount of food waste being sent to landfill – here’s how

https://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/ways-for-food-retailers-to-reduce-waste

 

Nature Fresh Farms using AI technology to help develop more sustainable farming

https://www.am800cklw.com/news/nature-fresh-farms-using-ai-technology-to-help-develop-more-sustainable-farming.html

 

Lineage unveils a Global Food Chain Innovation Challenge to combat food waste

https://www.foodanddrinktechnology.com/news/53727/lineage-unveils-a-global-food-chain-innovation-challenge-to-combat-food-waste/

 

City of Sonoma awards 10-year waste disposal contract to longtime local partners

Waste disposal provider Sonoma Garbage Collectors will increase rates by 20% and update practices to comply with state regulations

https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/sonoma-local-garbage-collectors-contract

A robot is helping turn food waste into compost in Detroit 

https://www.bridgedetroit.com/a-robot-is-helping-turn-food-waste-into-compost-in-detroit/

Using crop waste to develop biobased plastics 

https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/using-crop-waste-to-develop-biobased-plastics/

Coming full circle
Momentum for composting is growing – will the buck(et) stop in Durango?

https://www.durangotelegraph.com/news/top-stories/coming-full-circle/

Phoenix’s food waste reduction program supporting local restaurants enters 2nd phase

https://www.kjzz.org/news/2024-07-08/phoenixs-food-waste-reduction-program-enters-its-second-phase

Food Scraps Recycling Drop-off at the West Community Market Begins on July 20, 2024

https://www.cityofmadison.com/news/2024-07-08/food-scraps-recycling-drop-off-at-the-west-community-market-begins-on-july-20-2024

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Green Mission News – May, 2021

Class ConsciousnessCan’t Combine View: We must understand relationship between economy and ecology https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-evoke/view-we-must-understand-relationship-between-economy-and-ecology/articleshow/81876857.cms Changing our ways? Behaviour change and the climate crisisThe report of the Cambridge

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2021

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

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Green Mission News – December, 2020

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

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Green Mission News – July 2020

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

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Green Mission News – May 2020

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,

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Green Mission News – Earth Month 2020

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

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Green Mission News – March 2020

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/  

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Green Mission News – February, 2020

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

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Green Mission News – January 2020

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

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Green Mission News – October 2019

‘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

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Green Mission News – September 2019

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

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Green Mission News – July 2019

  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

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Green Mission News – June 2019

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

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Green Mission News – May 2019

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

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Green Mission News – March 2019

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

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Green Mission News – October 2018

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

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