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Blog/News (December 18, 2017) Everyone’s familiar with the typical holiday waste we’re left with every year after the festivities end — wrapping paper, uneaten food, disposable cutlery, among other things. But something we often don’t consider is that as purchasing skyrockets from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, so do paper receipts.
The size of receipts doesn’t easily convey the massive environmental or health…
Blog/News (December 7, 2017) Today, Ryan Zinke, the Secretary of Interior, announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will institute a two-year delay of the implementation of its 2016 methane rule to regulate emissions on public and tribal lands. The delay is just the first step in watering the rule down. Despite an outpouring of support from the public for the rule, including in the states that would…
Blog/News (December 7, 2017) Climate change is not a purely environmental issue, and neither is the fight for a sustainable food system. Diversity and environmental justice play a major role in navigating the future of these intertwined issues.
Climate change is having immense direct and indirect effects on individual human health and the stability of our societies and systems at large. It is a complex…
Blog/News (December 6, 2017) On Monday, the President made an unsettling move and reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah – Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Combined Trump reduced the area of these parks by 2 million acres, decreasing the size of Bears Ears by 85% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 46%. This is a direct assault on our public lands.
The fight to protect our public lands…
Blog/News (December 5, 2017) View a larger version of the infographic here.
This is an exciting time in the worlds of sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation, when these two fields have the opportunity to collaborate and reinforce one another. This partnership is in its early stages, and terminology is constantly evolving. Regenerative agriculture is a new term that is still being…
Blog/News (December 4, 2017) Local and organic foods have some climate benefits, but choose local, organic, AND regenerative for the greatest impact!
Our food choices are important. They affect our personal health, the wellbeing of farmers and rural communities, and the state of the environment. Increasingly, we’re coming to understand the major impacts food and agriculture have on the most pressing and…
Blog/News (December 3, 2017) Christmas trees in the United States are a big deal. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, 25-30 million are sold every year. Many environmentalists cringe at this thought, but there are lots of options for making this once-a-year practice more sustainable.
Rent a Tree!
Yes, you read that right. Find a local business that grows live potted trees, delivers them…
Blog/News (November 30, 2017) ACT NOW: 5 Reasons the Senate Tax Bill is Bad for People and the Planet
The tax bill is moving forward fast in the Senate. If it passes, it will dramatically lower taxes for corporations and the wealthy, but could raise taxes for many middle class Americans by 2021, and cut programs many of us rely on, while adding up to $1.5 trillion to the deficit.
The President has told the…
Blog/News (November 28, 2017) After decades of destructive industrial agriculture, we need to revolutionize farming. Regenerative organic agriculture* uses practices that grow healthy crops, restore rich agricultural soils, and reverse climate change by absorbing and storing atmospheric carbon (carbon dioxide, CO2).1 Farmers, consumers, and the planet all benefit.
What do we mean by Regenerative Agriculture…
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