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Blog/News (January 8, 2018) Industrial agriculture. Exposed fields that reach the horizons alternate with endless rows of corn that blur like a flip-book as you drive by. If you were to stop and touch it, the dirt in these fields would fall through your fingers like sand. This type of food production relies on synthetic chemicals and heavy mechanization. These fields are inhospitable; the only life likely to…
Blog/News (January 2, 2018)
Tired of making the same generic New Year’s resolutions every year that, let’s be honest, you never stick to anyway? Roughly half (45%) of Americans make New Year’s resolutions, with the most common being vows to lose weight, get organized, and save more. (Sound familiar?) Unfortunately, only 8% of people are actually successful in attaining their goals.
So, how can we avoid…
Blog/News (December 27, 2017) There is no denying this year has been heartbreaking. But this post isn't about tragic headlines or our political system.
Instead, we want to share the extraordinary progress we've made have made together, despite the chaos in Washington. Together, we are healing America and moving forward.
We are curbing the climate crisis, getting the dirtiest corporations to make clean energy…
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…
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