Regeneration In The News

The Disturbing Ways America Keeps Up With Its Demand For Meat

10/30/2015

Sonia Faruqi, author of “Project Animal Farm,” joins ProPublica on a podcast, where she pulls back the curtain on how America keeps up with its insatiable demand for meat, dairy and other products, often with little regulation or concern for the external costs.

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.

Sam Kass Wants to Put the Climate on the Menu Before it’s Too Late

10/30/2015

“If we can build a global network of chefs who are engaged and have an elevated voice because they’re on this kind of stage, we can start to inform how these [climate] policies are developed country-by-country,” Sam Kass says.

France’s Plan to Increase its Soil Carbon is an Example to the World

10/30/2015

"A relative increase of four parts per thousand per year in the stocks of organic matter in soils would be enough to compensate for the sum of greenhouse gas emissions across the planet. On the other hand, a relative loss of four parts per thousand would double our emissions," said French agriculture minister Stéphane Le Foll.

On World Food Day, Celebrating the Power of Regenerative Organic Farming

10/30/2015

As environmentalists, humanitarians, and farmers from around the globe celebrate the 35th annual World Food Day on Friday, sustainability advocates are heralding the capacity of organic regenerative agriculture and agroecology to address wide-ranging challenges from climate change to public health to hunger.

Why Not Start Today? Backyard Carbon Sequestration Is Something Nearly Everyone Can Do

10/23/2015

Anyone who owns or rents a little land on which plants grow can, him or herself, sequester carbon, and may even be doing so at this very moment without even realizing it. It’s not hard.

Linking Agricultural Biodiversity and Food Security: The Valuable Role of Agrobiodiversity for Sustainable Agriculture

10/16/2015

There is a growing realization worldwide that biodiversity is fundamental to agricultural production and food security, as well as a valuable ingredient of environmental conservation.

Bren Smith’s Vertical Ocean Pasture, The Wave Of Future Farming

10/15/2015

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Why would you plant acres of land when you can build a farm of the same size vertically in the sea? “The idea was to just grow things that are restorative and grow naturally in the water, which means they have zero impact,” says Smith, who runs his 40-acre farm off the Long Island Sound.

Biochar: The Oldest New Thing You’ve Never Heard Of: Wae Nelson at TEDxOrlando

10/15/2015

Wae Nelson was employed as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace and defense industries for many years, working both as a designer and as a manager in manufacturing. Now he publishes the magazine beloved by local gardeners, Florida Gardening, and pursues his passion for biochar — a diy, scalable technique to both improve horticultural yields and sequester carbon simultaneously.

Organic Regenerative Agriculture Can Ease World Hunger and Reverse Global Warming

10/15/2015

On World Food Day, International Experts Say Fossil Fuel Reduction Isn’t Enough; Survival Requires that We Also Restore the Capacity of the World’s Soils to Sequester Carbon and to Feed Vulnerable Populations

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.