BlogNews (August 8, 2019) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Special Report on Climate Change and Land on August 8. While the report is academic in tone, the warnings coming out of it could not be clearer. Our current agricultural and forestry practices, and the resulting climate emissions, are already having devastating impacts on the planet:
The climate crisis is already…
BlogNews (July 11, 2019) Amazon Prime Day is full of deals, but those deals come at a big cost to people and the planet. So, before you click on that deal that sounds like a steal, check out Green America's 10 Reasons to pass on Prime Day.
Amazon…
Exploits workers and fights unions. This article from The Guardian discusses how Amazon has surppressed unions in its warehouses and how unions could help…
BlogNews (July 10, 2019) Summer is underway and Green America’s work is in high gear! Thanks to our members' generous support, every day our programs are advancing the policies and systems needed for safe food, clean energy, responsible finance, and fair labor on which the health of people and the planet depends.
Whether we are taking our message to the streets, to legislators, to consumers and investors…
BlogNews (July 8, 2019) This article was written by Matt and Kara Rutter, founders of Project Victory Gardens, an agritherapy program in Aiken, South Carolina that brings together and supports veterans and a sustainable food system. They are also Climate Victory Gardeners, excited to share insight about how they identified and got started on their project.
Dig on for Victory
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BlogNews (July 1, 2019) Plantain, known as Plantago major, grows all over North America and around the world. It is commonly found in yards and gardens where pesticides aren’t used. Chances are, if you’re a Climate Victory Gardener, you’ve come across this plant. And, while we’re often tempted to pull weeds to make space for fruit and veggies to grow, biodiversity and keeping plants like the plantain…
BlogNews (June 24, 2019) The United States uses over a billion pounds of pesticides each year, many that contain chemicals banned in other countries. These toxic chemicals have major impacts on both people and the planet. US regulation has fallen behind other major agricultural producers to side with the agrochemical industry at the risk of our health.
Brazil, China, the European Union, and the United…
BlogNews (June 18, 2019) On June 4, 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Scripps Institute for Oceanography released their latest findings on atmospheric carbon dioxide. While past reports have been increasingly sobering and distressing, as a global community we can no longer ignore the alarm bell:
Average atmospheric carbon dioxide reached as high as 414 parts per…
BlogNews (June 12, 2019) In June 2019, the Washington Post published a damning expose on child labor in cocoa, an issue that is still persistent in West Africa. Over 2 million children engage in hazardous child labor in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, the two largest producers of cocoa. You may or may not have known this, but the chocolate companies definitely did – and have not done much to address this issue in…
BlogNews (June 11, 2019) A recent Vox piece by NRDC staffer Mary Annaise Heglar starts with a bold headline, “I Work in the Environmental Movement. I don’t care if you recycle.” The author says that when she meets people and tells them she works at an environmental organization their first reaction is to express guilt for their poor environmental performance. The article then makes the argument that…
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