Showing posts with label Carbon Smart Farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carbon Smart Farming. Show all posts
Climate Change is Helping Northern European Farmers by Forming More Arable Land
Danish Wine, Anyone? How Climate Change Is Helping Farmers
This OZY original series takes you to the New Frontiers of Climate Change, where some of the most vulnerable nations are coming up with the most innovative solutions. Fredrik Andersson's family has run a farm in Arboga, Sweden, for three generations.
Careful Measurement of Environmental Trends and Progress Provides a Foundation for Effective Policymaking
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Careful measurement of environmental trends and progress provides a foundation for effective policymaking. The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality. These metrics provide a gauge at a national scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals.
Chatham County Farmer Sees Climate Changing
A North Carolina farmer sees the climate changing
Tandy Jones I have lived and farmed in Chatham County for 36 years and come from a continuous line of farming families. With that background, I've always known that a farmer's livelihood is susceptible to the weather, that's nothing new.
Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming
Massive Forest Restoration Could Greatly Slow Global Warming
We have heard for years that planting trees can help save the world from global warming. That mantra was mostly a statement of faith, however. Now the data finally exist to show that if the right species of trees are planted in the right soil types across the planet, the emerging forests could capture 205 gigatons of carbon dioxide in the next 40 to 100 years.
A 15-Trillion Opportunity for Farmers to Fight Climate Change
This is a $15 trillion opportunity for farmers to fight climate change
Indigo Agriculture believes capturing carbon dioxide from agricultural soil is an effective way to reduce global warming on a massive scale. On Wednesday it launched the Terraton Initiative that includes a carbon market that gives farmers incentives to implement regenerative practices that remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing Climate Change
Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing Climate Change
CORQUÍN, Honduras - The farmer stood in his patch of forlorn coffee plants, their leaves sick and wilted, the next harvest in doubt. Last year, two of his brothers and a sister, desperate to find a better way to survive, abandoned their small coffee farms in this mountainous part of Honduras and migrated north, eventually sneaking into the United States.
How Self-Driving Tractors, AI, and Precision Agriculture Will Save Us from the Impending Food Crisis
How self-driving tractors, AI, and precision agriculture will save us from the impending food crisis | ZDNet
This article was originally published as a TechRepublic cover story. Marcus Hall was nine years old when he first drove a tractor on his family's sprawling Iowa farm, eschewing Tonka trucks and Matchbox cars for long rides on heavy machinery.
Edward Osborne Wilson, Oracle for Our Times
Oracle for Our Times
Pardon me for taking the part of a latter-day Thomas Malthus, a party pooper if there ever was one. Let's play one more time the "most urgent book to read" game. Construct your most devastating characterization of the perils of our times, then ask: what one book should you take with you to the proverbial...
Carbon Loophole: Why Is Wood Burning Counted as Green Energy?
Carbon Loophole: Why Is Wood Burning Counted as Green Energy?
A loophole in carbon-accounting rules is spurring a boom in burning wood pellets in European power plants. The result has been a surge in logging, particularly in the U.S. South, and new doubts about whether Europe can meet its commitments under the Paris accord.
Rethinking Humans' Relationship to Nature
Is culture missing from conservation? Scientists take cues from indigenous peoples.
When you hear the word "ecosystem," what do you imagine? Maybe you picture a grizzly bear pawing at salmon breaching a frigid stream, or a kaleidoscopic seascape of fish and coral. But you may have missed one critical element of the natural world: humans.
Drawdown Solutions List for Reducing Greenhouse Gases by Avoiding Emissions and/or Sequestering Carbon Already in the Atmosphere
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Drawdown maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, we describe its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works.
How the Foods We Eat Affect Climate & the Planet
Chew On This For Earth Day: How Our Diets Impact The Planet
The foods we choose to put on our plates - or toss away - could have more of an ecological impact than many of us realize. On Earth Day, here are some ways to consider how our diet impacts the planet. Waste not, want not You've heard the numbers on food waste.
Climate Change is Changing Farmers' Lives
Climate Change Is Ruining Farmers' Lives, But Only A Few Will Admit It
When Christina Carter started growing vegetables 12 years ago, she looked forward to winters because they offered her the chance to recover from the strenuous growing and harvesting seasons. That's no longer the case. Summers are hotter and stormier than they used to be, and fall never seems to come.
Carbon Smart Farming: Cutting Conventional Fertilizers by 50 Per Cent
Interview of Missouri farmer JR Bollinger on his 2015 experiences growing corn, soybeans and milo by principles and practices of Carbon-Smart Farming. In his first year of commitment to Biological Agriculture, JR cut conventional fertilizers 50%! Use the "Pop-Out" option to expand the article to full zize.
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