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Meet John D. Liu, the Indiana Jones of Landscape Restoration

03/07/2016

RI recently sat down with ecosystem restoration researcher John D. Liu. Liu explains that when humans work with nature, degraded landscapes can be restored in a matter of years, and economies can be regenerated, putting food security and climate change mitigation within our reach.

A Message from Paris: We Can Reverse Global Warming

12/17/2015

Twenty-three years after the first United Nations Earth/Climate Summit in 1992, in the wake of a savage terrorist attack on November 13 that traumatized Europe, a multinational contingent of activists and stakeholders are gathered here for the COP 21 Climate Summit. A growing number of us here in Paris are determined to change the prevailing gloom and doom conversation on climate, and instead focus on practical solutions.

IFOAM Organics International: Why the French “4 Per 1000” Initiative?

12/15/2015

France officially launches the "4 per 1000 Initiative" to combat climate change and feed the world through regenerative agriculture.

Ronnie Cummins: A Message of Hope From Paris COP21

12/15/2015

An interview with Ronnie Cummins International Director of the Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International, from the 2015 UN World Climate Summit. Ronnie explains how consumers and farmers can unite to launch a global regeneration movement.

Organics and Soil Carbon: Increasing Soil Carbon, Crop Productivity and Farm Profitability

11/20/2015

Soil carbon is one of the most neglected yet most important factors in soil fertility, disease control, water efficiency and farm productivity.

Mother Earth Day 2015: Regenerating the Soil and Reversing Global Warming

11/19/2015

Starting today April 22, embracing what the United Nations has designated as the “Year of the Soil,” let’s look at our planetary crisis from an entirely different, and more hopeful perspective. By practicing regenerative organic agriculture we can reverse climate change and heal the planet.

From ‘Sustainable’ to ‘Regenerative’—The Future of Food

10/30/2015

The word “sustainability” is meaningless to consumers and the public. It’s overused, misused and it has been shamelessly co-opted by corporations for the purpose of greenwashing. Andre Leu and Ronnie Cummins propose a new term - a Regeneration Revolution. And it goes well beyond “sustainability.”

Regeneration: Global Transformation in Catastrophic Times

10/30/2015

A growing number of climate, food, environment, health and justice advocates are embracing and promoting a world-changing concept: regeneration.

Which Future of Food and Farming

10/15/2015

During the last half-century, agriculture and food systems lost their way, in the darkness and fog created by corporations that made chemicals for warfare, through myths and paid propaganda - that poisons and synthetic chemicals are necessary to feed the world.

Meet the ‘Regenerators’

10/13/2015

"What we are talking about, is regenerating a new democracy, regenerating new economies, regenerating agriculture which is at the heart of the problem, but can be heart of solution," says Dr. Vandana Shiva

Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century

09/20/2015

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The climate, energy, and political catastrophe we are facing is mind-boggling and frightening. Yet there is still time to save ourselves, to move beyond psychological denial, despair, or false optimism.

Food Fight 2015: Taking Down the Degenerators

09/04/2015

Welcome to Degeneration Nation. After decades of self-destructive business-as-usual—empire-building, waging wars for fossil fuels, selling out government to the highest bidder, lacing the environment and the global food supply with GMOs —we’ve reached a new low, physically and morally.

The Crisis: Regeneration or Degeneration?

08/11/2015

‘If governments won’t solve the climate, hunger, health, and democracy crises, then the people will.‘ - Dr.Vandana Shiva, speaking at the founding meeting of Regeneration International, La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica, June 8, 2015.