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Global Warming Organic News
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| Will clean energy spending escape the bottom of the list? | Blogger Andy Revkin observes that the federal defense expenditures for research and development practically dwarf all non-defense spending, let alone those dollars going to investment in clean energy. | Dec 18, 2008 |
| Meat production now subject to emissions scrutiny | As meat production makes it onto the global radar of problematic emissions sources, the Netherlands leads the way in reducing emissions while using the methane byproducts of livestock production to generate power. | Dec 18, 2008 |
| Huffington Post Column Lauds Rodale Carbon Solution | Carl Pope: Thinking Big is Getting Big
| Dec 05, 2008 |
| UK forces all major national planning decisions to address climate mitigation | The British government will now require that all national planning strategies make it clear how they will mitigate climate change. | Dec 04, 2008 |
| Carbon offsets at a distance can have unintended consequences, plans to protect forests could do the opposite | In their recent report, the group Friends of the Earth argue that current international proposals to protect forests as a way of tackling climate change could displace millions of indigenous people and fail to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. | Dec 04, 2008 |
| Total energy renewal | In an op-ed, George Monbiot argues that “The planet is now so vandalized that only total energy renewal can save us.” | Dec 04, 2008 |
| Industry-wide carbon standards move beyond organic agriculture | A group known as the Agricultural Carbon Sequestration Standard Committee met for the second time in late October—hosted by Monsanto—to further develop a protocol to document carbon sequestration in agriculture for purposes of carbon crediting. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Cultivating tradition and taste in a changing climate | New Hampshire’s Eero Ruuttila of Nesenkeag Farm not only grows organically for high-end Boston restaurants, he’s also constantly experimenting to find the best taste, most striking appearance, and superior performance in an increasingly unpredictable climate. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Green prisons farm, recycle, retrofit and grow organic foods | Inmates of minimum-security prison in Washington raise bees, grow organic tomatoes and lettuce, compost 100 percent of food waste and even recycle shoe scraps into playground turf. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Local pollution makes for a global problem | A 3-kilometer thick blanket of smog, stretching from the Arabian Peninsula to the Pacific Ocean has been found by UN scientists to darken vast areas of Asia. | Nov 20, 2008 |
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