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The Climate Emergency: Regenerate or Perish

06/17/2019

Transitioning a small proportion of global agricultural production to regenerative agriculture and regenerative grazing systems will sequester enough CO2 to reverse cli-mate change and restore the global climate.

The New Plan to Remove a Trillion Tons of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere: Bury It

06/14/2019

It sounds like an idea plucked from science fiction, but the reality is that trees and plants already do it, breathing carbon dioxide and then depositing it via roots and decay into the soil. That’s why consumers and companies often “offset” their carbon emissions by planting carbon-sucking trees elsewhere in the world.

Restoring Depleted Soils with Cattle

06/14/2019

Adding grazing back into the equation increases soil organic matter, doubles forage production.

How Regenerative Land and Livestock Management Practices Can Sequester Carbon

06/10/2019

Properly managed cows can help sequester carbon: as herds graze, dung, urine and old plant matter are trampled into the ground where they can decompose and enrich the soil’s network of microbial life.

Growing Healthier Soil, Food and Profits: Minnesota Farm Is Classroom for Upcoming Regenerative Agriculture School

05/29/2019

Redwood Falls farmers Grant and Dawn Breitkreutz are hosting a three-day Soil Health Academy school Aug. 13-15 at their 400-acre farm so others can learn how to breathe new life into their own farming operations.

One Solution to Climate Change No One Is Talking About

05/27/2019

There is movement away from industrial agriculture toward regenerative farming methods, as evinced by the “4 per 1000” initiative launched by the French in the wake of the Paris Climate Conference in 2015. The overarching thrust of this initiative? That an increase by 0.4 percent a year in soil carbon content would “halt the increase in the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere related to human activities.”

Regeneration 2019: State of the Movement

05/22/2019

People are concerned, alarmed and ready to listen to our message. Now is the time for the Regeneration Movement to step forward and help mobilize our millions of allies and would-be allies. We know what to do. The best practices and practitioners in alternative energy, infrastructure rebuilding and regenerative food and farming are already visible in our local communities. Our moral and existential imperative is to mobilize politically and scale up these practices, raising the banner of a Regenerative Green New Deal in every community, region and nation.

Big Food Turning to Regenerative Agriculture to Meet Sustainability Goals

05/22/2019

Companies such as General Mills and Hormel Foods are embracing the practice to help their businesses and respond to consumers who consider environmental stewardship in their buying habits.

Letter from U.S. Farmers & Ranchers to Congress: We Need a Green New Deal

05/20/2019

Are you a farmer or rancher? Or a farmer- or rancher-member…

Exposing the Dirty Business Behind the Designer Label

05/20/2019

At the current rate of pollution, the apparel sector’s carbon emissions will balloon by 60 percent by 2030, amounting to about a quarter of the global carbon budget.

From Despair to Repair

05/17/2019

I belong to an online climate discussion group that today asked three questions: what is the state of the movement, do we need climate change or system change, and do we need a meta-movement? Keying off the insights from the Earth Repair Conference, I wrote the following – and have added a post-script to include a week of research on the state of the movement for Earth Repair.

The Next Regeneration

05/16/2019

While it’s not easy to restore degraded soil, that hasn’t stopped Dobson and other farmers from trying. He’s part of a worldwide “soil health revolution” with New York state at the forefront, according to a recent report by New York Soil Health. Some call the practice “carbon farming”; others know it as “regenerative agriculture.” Dobson likes to call it “real organic farming” because of his focus on building organic matter (58 percent carbon) in the soil. But the underpinning philosophy is more important to him than the name.

Ohio Soil Health Pioneer’s Farm is Classroom for Upcoming Regenerative Agriculture School

05/16/2019

Ohio soil health pioneer’s farm is classroom for upcoming regenerative agriculture school.

How Weeds Help Fight Climate Change

05/13/2019

Climate change and land clearing have driven soaring temperatures and extreme weather events in Australia. Re-establishing vegetation, with weeds if necessary, is a crucial part of natural sequence farming

A Green New Deal Must Prioritize Regenerative Agriculture

05/10/2019

We are at a radically new stage in our fight for the planet. The Green New Deal proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youth-led Sunrise Movement, and hundreds of other climate justice leaders and organizations has given us a new holistic framework for tackling both the climate crisis and structural inequality.