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Three Ways Buying Organic Helps the Planet

Intent | Posted 11.14.2012 | Home
Read More: Top Soil, Organic Agriculture, Organic Food, Industrial Agriculture, Water Pollution, Organic, Organic Produces, Home News
Intent

It's easy to get disheartened when confronted with the overwhelming and often depressing statistics we have about climate change, obesity and food shortage today. But think of the power all of us have to make a change.

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Farm to Fork Across America: What's the Dirt?

Julie Ann Fineman | Posted 01.14.2012 | Home
Read More: Organic Farming, Top Soil, Wheat, Ocean Dead Zones, Soil Errosion, Kernza, Perennial Crops, Biodiversity, Kansas Prairies, Ecosytems, Gulf of Mexico, Conventional Farming, Annual Crops, The Land Institute, Wes Jackson, Home News
Julie Ann Fineman

There's a revolution brewing on the plains of Kansas. For the past 30 years Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute, has been working to correct a major step in the wrong direction by the founding fathers of farming -- when they chose annual grain crops instead of perennials.

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A Win-Win Policy: Conserving Lands and Mitigating Climate Change in a Public-Private Partnership

Steven Apfelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Climate Change, Soil, Greenhouse Gases, Western Climate Initiative, Bush Administration, Top Soil, Carbon Emissions, Energy Bill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News
Steven Apfelbaum

A group of scientists, NGOs, and policy makers has been working on developing technical standards designed to allow soils to be put to work right now to sequester carbon.

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