Regeneration In The News

Humans Cause Erosion 100x’s Faster Than Normal

10/05/2015

Citing a specific scientific study that was released earlier this year, Alexander Montoro writes that before the European colonization of the Americas, the soil was healthier. After colonization, our soil degraded more than 100 times faster as a result of timber clearing and agricultural tillage. Both actions attributed to wind and water erosion that stripped the land of natural minerals, elements, and biodiversity.

Let’s Talk About Soil

10/02/2015

This animated film tells the reality of soil resources around the world, covering the issues of degradation, urbanization, land grabbing and overexploitation; the film offers options to make the way we manage our soils more sustainable.

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.

Regenerative Agriculture: Sowing Health, Sustainability and Climate Stability

09/07/2015

In his opening address to the Savory Institute global conference in London on August 1, Alan Savory said that while agriculture is the foundation of civilization and of any stable economy, it is also, when poorly practiced, the most destructive industry—even more so than coal mining.

Nature Wants Her Carbon Back

09/04/2015

Here's a little known fact about climate change: According to NOAA, if we could magically cut all current CO2 emissions worldwide to zero today (a feat even Merlin couldn't achieve) it would do nothing to stop climate change from continuing to get worse for centuries. Unless we actually draw some of the carbon already emitted back down to earth we are simply telling a 400-pound patient to gain weight a little more slowly.

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.

Why Are Climate Groups Only Focused on 50% of the Solution?

09/03/2015

Did you know that even if we could magically cut all current CO2 emissions worldwide to zero today, the earth would continue to warm for decades or even centuries to come? Emissions reduction alone is simply inadequate.

The Soil Story

08/20/2015

Learn how we can “sequester” (store) carbon from our atmosphere, where it is harmful, and pull it back into the earth, where it belongs, through regenerative agriculture, composting, and other land management practices.

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.

Scientists, Business and Farmers from 21 Nations Launch Movement to Feed the Planet and Reverse Climate Change via Regenerative Agriculture

06/08/2015

FINCA LUNA NUEVA, Costa Rica—Representatives from organizations as diverse as Texas A&M University, the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Patagonia, Greenpeace and The Millennium Institute are participating in a three-day conference in Costa Rica. The participants are working together to develop and promote a significantly different approach to food production, land use and climate change, by harnessing natural systems to solve each issue in a related manner.