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From Sustainable to Regenerative: Bold Business Moves to Transform the Agriculture System

01/17/2020

The 2020s herald a pivotal chance to deliver on our great climate, environment and development challenges, and the scale and pace of change will require truly transformative thinking. We will need to move beyond efficiency and doing less harm, and base strategies on new goals that ensure business success also meets the needs of people and the planet. It’s time to step up a gear or three on our journey toward a sustainable future. But what does this mean for how we do business?

Soil Health Hits the Big Time!

01/13/2020

Since the UN climate summit in Paris in 2015 and the resulting plan to improve food security and fight climate change with soil carbon called the ‘4 For 1000 Initiative’, a number of legislative bills have been passed and signed into law around the nation giving momentum to the soil health movement. Hopefully, more states (and eventually Congress) will join this exciting wave of initiatives that encourage soil health – on which all life on earth depends.

Sue Lani Madsen: Investing in Soil Health Is an Investment in the Future

01/07/2020

We’ve been treating soil like dirt for too long. Dirt needs to be fed in order to produce. Healthy soil contains tens of thousands of microbes pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and turning it into food for themselves and for us. Focusing on common ground over food is a healthy way to start the new year. It’s a place where government is, as is often the case, both the problem and part of the potential solution.

2020 Vision: A New Year’s Regeneration

01/03/2020

There is a practical, shovel-ready solution to our impasse, powered by a massive leap in grassroots consciousness, a youth-led climate movement and a 2020 ballot box revolution.

The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet

01/03/2020

The bottom line is that saving the planet from environmental destruction is not only achievable, but that by focusing on regenerative agriculture and tapping up the central bank for funding, the climate crisis can be addressed without raising taxes and while restoring our collective health.

'Mother Nature Recovers Amazingly Fast': Reviving Ukraine's Rich Wetlands

12/30/2019

In the Danube delta, removing dams and bringing back native species have restored ecosystems.

Why Fake Meat and Eliminating Livestock Are Really Bad Ideas

12/23/2019

Our chemical and fossil fuel-intensive system of industrial agriculture is belching out 43 to 57 percent of the greenhouse gas pollution that has dangerously destabilized our climate. CAFOs are primary drivers of deteriorating public health as well. Filthy, inhumane, polluting factory farms mass produce approximately 90 to 95 percent of the meat and animal products consumed in America today. To end this degenerate food system, join the growing movement and consumer boycott of all factory-farmed meat, dairy and poultry products, not just at the grocery store, but in restaurants as well — and not just occasionally, but every day.

This New Food Label Will Mainstream Whole Foods’ Biggest Trend For 2020

12/23/2019

The Certification— Regenerative Organic (ROC)— will be applied to foods made of organic agricultural ingredients, sourced from farms that embrace pasture-based animal welfare, provide fair labour and economic stability for farmers and communities, and prioritise soil health, biodiversity, land management and carbon sequestration.

How Regenerative Agroforestry Could Solve the Climate Crisis

12/23/2019

Farming is responsible for almost 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture is the root cause of 80% of tropical deforestation. Regenerative agroforestry, an agricultural method that mimics natural ecosystems, could help reverse these trends.

Letter from Santiago: Regeneration Now

12/17/2019

An intrepid band of North and South American farmers, food activists and climate campaigners, under the banner of Regeneration International, came together in the Chilean capital of Santiago to share experiences and ideas, and to develop a common strategy for reversing global warming and resolving the other burning issues that are pressing down on us.

Small-But-Mighty Delegation Carries the Regeneration International in Madrid

12/17/2019

Our Madrid delegation carried the Regeneration International banner at the official COP25 event, participating in official events, representing Regeneration International at the 4 per 1000 Initiative meeting and strengthening our network and partnerships. Though our Madrid delegation was small, Precious Phiri, steering committee member and director of our work in Africa, said it generated “amazing synergy” and was able to have a presence at all the right events and to serve as a bridge between the meetings in Chile and those in Madrid.

Constelación Semillas Agroecológicas: A Seed Takes Root in Argentina

12/17/2019

We have a conversation with Alex Edleson, director of Constelación Semillas Agroecológicas (Constellation Agroecological Seeds), an argentinean organization launched in 2019 that produces and sells organic, biodynamic and agroecological seeds.

David Bronner on the Importance of Regenerative Organic Certification

12/17/2019

Regenerative systems are needed in more than just agriculture–energy, construction, wild ecosystems, packaging and distribution systems need them as well. Here's how soap company Dr. Bronner's is making a difference.

The Essential Element: Carbon is Key to Life and Hope

12/17/2019

Since all that carbon in the ground below our feet originated in the atmosphere, the potential exists for soils to ‘soak up’ lots and lots of the excess CO2 contributing to global warming. In fact, degraded and carbon-depleted soils – which describe the majority of agricultural lands in America – could be ‘recarbonized’ to their original, pre-tilled levels which could have a huge impact on climate change.

Levels of Biodiversity

12/14/2019

Biodiversity is a key factor in the earth’s provision of ecosystem services — including biomass production, nutrient and water cycling, and soil formation and retention — but the ongoing, mounting losses to biodiversity are not simply an environmental issue; current negative trends in biodiversity and ecosystems will undermine progress towards 80% of the Sustainable Development Goals, related to poverty, hunger, health, water, cities, climate, oceans and land.